Julia Walton. (2017). Words on Bathroom Walls. Random House Children's Books.

Julia Walton. 2017. Words On Bathroom Walls. Random House Children's Books.

Julia Walton, Words On Bathroom Walls. Random House Children's Books, 2017.

Julia Walton. Words On Bathroom Walls. Random House Children's Books, 2017.

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   • bioText: JULIA WALTON received her MFA in creative writing from Chapman University. When she’s not reading or baking cookies, she’s indulging in her profound love of Swedish Fish, mechanical pencils, and hobbit-sized breakfasts. Julia lives in Huntington Beach, California, with her husband and daughter. Follow her on Twitter at @Jwaltonwrites.
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Now a Major Motion Picture starring Charlie Plummer, AnnaSophia Robb, and Taylor Russell!
Fans of More Happy Than Not and The Perks of Being a Wallflower will cheer for Adam in this uplifting and surprisingly funny story of a boy living with schizophrenia.
When you can't trust your mind, trust your heart.
Adam is a pretty regular teen, except he's navigating high school life while living with paranoid schizophrenia. His hallucinations include a cast of characters that range from the good (beautiful Rebecca) to the bad (angry Mob Boss) to the just plain weird (polite naked guy).
An experimental drug promises to help him hide his illness from the world. When Adam meets Maya, a fiercely intelligent girl, he desperately wants to be the normal, great guy that she thinks he is. But as the miracle drug begins to fail, how long can he keep this secret from the girl of his dreams?
"Echoing the premise and structure of Flowers for Algernon, this [is a] frank and inspiring novel." —Publishers Weekly, starred review
Don't miss Just Our Luck, another stunning book by Julia Walton. Coming in 2020!

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   • source: Publishers Weekly, starred review
   • content: "Creates a psychologically tense story with sympathetic characters while dispelling myths about a much-feared condition."
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   • source: Kirkus Reviews
   • content: "A welcome novel that doesn't treat schizophrenia as an unavoidable sentence of doom and that allots friendship and romance equal weight with mental illness."
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   • source: The Hub, YALSA
   • content: "Despite heavy subject matter, Adam is hilarious and infinitely lovable, and the ending is hopeful and realistic rather than happily-ever-after and contrived."
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   • source: VOYA
   • content: "Imaginative writing and beautiful storytelling make this book an upbeat tale, but the message [of acceptance] is still driven home."
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   • source: Jennifer Longo, author of Up to This Pointe
   • content: "A brutal, beautiful book that sits right beside The Perks of Being a Wallflower and I'll Give You the Sun."
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   • source: Peter Brown Hoffmeister, author of This Is the Part Where You Laugh
   • content: "This book reminds me of A Monster Calls. I saved the final twenty pages for the next day because I didn't want Adam's story to end."
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     Starred review from May 15, 2017
     Echoing the premise and structure of Flowers for Algernon, this frank and inspiring novel shows how a teen’s life changes after he is given an experimental medication to treat symptoms of schizophrenia. Since age 12, Adam has been tormented by voices and hallucinations. He’s lost friends, as well as the hope that he’ll ever be normal. Now that he’s 16 and has started a clinical trial for miracle drug ToZaPrex, things are changing. Adam still hears voices and hallucinates, but for the first time, he can delineate what’s real and what’s not, and that makes all the difference. His journal entries, written to his therapist during the drug trial, draw readers into the mind of an intelligent, witty young man as he embraces the pleasures of finding a new friend, being accepted on an academic team, and winning a girl’s heart. But as the quality of Adam’s life improves, so do his anxieties. First-time author Walton creates a psychologically tense story with sympathetic characters while dispelling myths about a much-feared condition. Ages 12–up. Agent: Heather Flaherty, Bent Agency.

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     May 1, 2017
     It's 2012, and a 16-year-old boy with schizophrenia starts fresh, with a new drug trial and at a new high school.Adam's old friends didn't stand by him when they became aware of his schizophrenia, though he's been experiencing symptoms since he was 12. Maybe the experimental (fictional) drug he's taking will allow him to control his symptoms enough to make new friends who don't know his history. Through journal entries he's writing for his therapist, Adam details both his changing symptoms and his experiences as a new student at a Catholic school. At first school seems OK despite the provocations of a bully. Adam befriends "impossibly pale...blindingly white" Dwight and starts dating beautiful Filipina Maya. (Adam is Italian-American with no identified race so likely white.) Though the medication works at first, visual hallucinations still plague him. Adam nearly always recognizes his surprisingly coherent, sometimes-helpful hallucinations as not real, and his executive function is generally unimpaired; he can keep his illness hidden from his classmates. But the drug starts failing, and in the anti-mental-illness culture of fear immediately after the Sandy Hook school shooting, Adam's in-school episodes go over poorly. Despite this turn, it's a welcome novel that doesn't treat schizophrenia as an unavoidable sentence of doom and that allots friendship and romance equal weight with mental illness. Readers will find a refreshingly measured look at schizophrenia, but they won't come away with medical facts. (Fiction. 13-17)

     COPYRIGHT(2017) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

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     April 1, 2017
     Gr 10 Up-Refusing to talk to his psychologist, Adam Petrazelli records answers to the doctor's questions in a running diary. The result is a startling, humorous, and painstakingly honest account of 10 months in the life of a high school boy who has schizophrenia. While Adam participates in an experimental drug trial, his recurring hallucinations appear to fade as the levels of the drug increase. He enrolls at a new school; befriends Dwight, a quirky fellow student; and pursues a romantic relationship with feisty, intelligent Maya. When his life finally begins to resemble that of a typical 11th grader, Adam learns that his miracle treatment is losing its effectiveness. As circumstances spiral out of his control, he desperately attempts to make sense of his illness and accept that his world will never be normal. Walton has crafted a character with unparalleled likability, a boy whose endearing, witty, introspective commentary allows readers to get inside the head of a person with a debilitating mental illness. Through journal entries that catalogue the details of Adam's daily life, including his drug dosage and extraordinary visions of imaginary people, the author brings the gritty details of a complex mental disorder to light. Though the realistic depiction of the disease may be disconcerting to some teens, it succeeds in giving an unfiltered, true-to-life picture of one person's struggle with schizophrenia. VERDICT A heartfelt, gripping story that demystifies an illness too often ignored. Highly recommended for older teens and adults.-Karin Greenberg, Queens College, NY

     Copyright 2017 School Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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      July 1, 2018
      Through journal entries to his therapist, Adam chronicles his harrowing battle with schizophrenia, which makes his fantasies indistinguishable from reality. A "miracle drug" is life-changing...at first. With a new girlfriend, Adam is desperate to hide his secret, but his illness is more powerful than he is. Highlighting the stigma surrounding mental illness, Adam's poignant (and often humorous) story is powerful and important.

      (Copyright 2018 by The Horn Book, Incorporated, Boston. All rights reserved.)

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Fans of More Happy Than Not and The Perks of Being a Wallflower will cheer for Adam in this uplifting and surprisingly funny story of a boy living with schizophrenia.
When you can't trust your mind, trust your heart.
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An experimental drug promises to help him hide his illness from the world. When Adam meets Maya, a fiercely intelligent girl, he desperately wants to be the normal, great guy that she thinks he is. But as the miracle drug begins to fail, how long can he keep this secret from the girl of his dreams?
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