Words on Bathroom Walls by Julia Walton (English) Paperback Book

Description: Words on Bathroom Walls by Julia Walton Recently diagnosed with schizophrenia, Adam journals to his therapist about family, friends, and first loves as he undergoes a new drug trial for the mental illness that allows him to keep his secret for only so long. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Now a Major Motion Picture starring Charlie Plummer, AnnaSophia Robb, and Taylor Russell!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 cant trust your mind, trust your heart.Adam is a pretty regular teen, except hes 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 ofFlowers for Algernon, this is a frank and inspiringnovel."--Publishers Weekly,starred reviewDont miss Just Our Luck, another stunning book by Julia Walton. Coming in 2020! Author Biography Julia Walton received an MFA in creative writing from Chapman University. When shes not reading or baking cookies, shes indulging in her profound love of Swedish Fish, mechanical pencils, and hobbit-sized breakfasts. Julia lives with her husband and daughter in Huntington Beach, CA. Follow her on Twitter at @JWaltonwrites. Review An ALA-YALSA Best Book for Young Adults * A Bank Street Best Childrens Book of the Year * Kansas National Education Association Reading Circle Catalog Selection Book of the Year * Rhode Island Teen Book Award Nominee * A CBCs 2 Teen Choice Book Awards Nominee "Creates a psychologically tense story with sympathetic characters while dispelling myths about a much-feared condition." —Publishers Weekly, starred review"A welcome novel that doesnt treat schizophrenia as an unavoidable sentence of doom and that allots friendship and romance equal weight with mental illness." —Kirkus Reviews"Walton does a brilliant job of giving a voice to a population that is often silenced." —Booklist"Despite heavy subject matter, Adam is hilarious and infinitely lovable, and the ending is hopeful and realistic rather than happily-ever-after and contrived." —The Hub, YALSA"Imaginative writing and beautiful storytelling make this book an upbeat tale, but the message [of acceptance] is still driven home." —VOYA"A brutal, beautiful book that sits right beside The Perks of Being a Wallflower and Ill Give You the Sun." —Jennifer Longo, author of Up to This Pointe"This book reminds me of A Monster Calls. I saved the final twenty pages for the next day because I didnt want Adams story to end." —Peter Brown Hoffmeister, author of This Is the Part Where You Laugh Review Quote An ALA-YALSA Best Book for Young Adults A Bank Street Best Childrens Book of the Year 2018 Kansas National Education Association Reading Circle Catalog Selection A CBCs 2018 Teen Choice Book Awards Nominee 2019 Rhode Island Teen Book Award Nominee "Echoing the premise and structure of Flowers for Algernon , this frank and inspiring novel shows how a teens life changes after he is given an experimental medication to treat symptoms of schizophrenia." -- Publishers Weekly, STARRED REVIEW " 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. . . . Highly recommended." --SLJ "Like Chboskys Perks of Being a Wallflower, Vizzinis Its Kind of a Funny Story, and Shustermans Challenger Deep, Adam struggles with the regular challenges of being a teen . . . as well as the injustice of a life complicated by mental illness." --VOYA "Adam is hilarious and infinitely lovable, and the ending is hopeful and realistic rather than happily-ever-after and contrived." --The Hub , YALSA "Imaginative writing and beautiful storytelling make this book an upbeat tale, but the message [of acceptance] is still driven home." --VOYA, Teen Reviewer "A welcome novel that doesnt treat schizophrenia as an unavoidable sentence of doom and that allots friendship and romance equal weight with mental illness." --Kirkus Reviews "Adams witty voice will resonate. . . . Walton does a brilliant job of giving a voice to a population that is often silenced." --Booklist Promotional "Headline" Now a Major Motion Picture starring Charlie Plummer, AnnaSophia Robb, and Taylor Russell! Excerpt from Book 1 INITIAL DOSAGE: 0.5 mg. Adam Petrazelli, 16 years old, is a subject of the clinical trial for ToZaPrex. He is reluctant to engage during therapy sessions. Nonverbal communication only. Not uncommon, given his reluctance to participate in therapy aspect of the drug trial. August 15, 2012 My first doctor said it was unusual for the symptoms to manifest in someone so young. Schizophrenic males are more commonly diagnosed in their early to late twenties. I remember thinking, Well, shit, thats awesome. Im unusual. Im probably not supposed to swear in these entries. Shit. But you did say to treat them as confidential and that they would never be used against me, so I dont see any reason why I shouldnt use whatever language Im comfortable with. Im also not going to worry about ending sentences with a preposition. Or starting sentences with a conjunction. If this is, as you put it, "a safe space for me to express myself," then Im going to write what Im thinking exactly as Im thinking it. Ill answer your questions, but I wont do it during our sessions. Ill do it here, on paper, where I can look at what I write before I hand it over to you. So I can edit what you see, and avoid saying anything that might get me kicked out of the drug trial. I dont always say the things I mean to say when I talk to someone. Its impossible to swallow words after letting them out, so its better for me not to speak at all if I can help it. Youll just have to deal with that. But I get that you have questions about my illness. Once people find out, its all they can talk about. You probably know that its the reason my mom and stepdad picked you. Because you have experience. Fair enough. Ive got to say you handled it pretty well. There were maybe two minutes of silence before you handed me a notepad and told me to write about our sessions afterward if I didnt want to talk, which I dont. And its not because I dont want to get better--its because I dont want to be here. More specifically, I dont want this to be real. Id like to treat therapy the way I treat everything else Id like to ignore. Like it doesnt exist. Because I already know that being here isnt going to fix anything. The drug might, though. You asked me when I first noticed that something was not quite normal. A change of some kind. In the beginning I thought it was my glasses. No, not glasses. Spectacles. I like that word better. I got them when I turned twelve because I couldnt stop squinting and it drove my mom nuts. Dr. Leung is the one doctor I actually like, because he fixed a problem by giving me something fairly simple. Spectacles. Problem solved. I could see and my mom was happy. But that was also when I realized I was seeing things other people couldnt see. I was the only one jerking my head or squinting my eyes to get a better look. Everyone else was looking at me, not the birds that flew through the open window or the strange people who just sort of appeared in the living room. So I stopped wearing my spectacles and told my mom Id lost them. For a while that worked and I could pretend, but eventually, she bought so many pairs there was no excuse. I was screwed. I didnt tell her I was seeing things for a long time. Shed just married my stepdad and they were happy. When I did finally tell her, it was because I didnt have a choice. The principal called, and when Mom hung up the phone, she looked at me as if she were seeing me for the first time. "Mrs. Brizeno said you looked up in the chemistry lab, started screaming, and fell to the floor." I remember how calm she was. My mom has this Jedi voice that sort of washes over you when shes trying to get information. "What did you see?" I didnt answer her right away. I took off my spectacles and tried to pretend she wasnt there, that she had faded out of the room after asking the question. Im good at making myself believe these things, but it was harder this time. She just stood there, waiting for an answer. "Bats," I said, looking down at my shoes. "Huge black bats." I didnt tell her that they were twice the size of regular bats or that they had human eyes or that their tiny fangs hung like needles from their mouths. When she started crying, I wished the bats had been real. That the creepy little bastards had eaten me in the chemistry lab and Id never had to see the way my mom looked at me in that moment: like I was crazy. I really didnt want to be crazy. Nobody wants to be crazy, but now that I know whats happening to me, now that I understand whats going on in my head, I dont want to think about what it means to know youre crazy. To know that your family knows youre crazy. My stepdad, Paul, is a nice guy. Hes good for my mom. They dated for years before they got married, and he always made the effort to keep up with my life, ask me about school, etc. Hes an attorney who can give her the things shes had to do without since my dad left. Now that he knows about me, about the illness, things are different. He doesnt know what to do with me anymore. Well still sit and watch TV, but I can almost hear him thinking when Im in the room. The weirdest feeling, aside from seeing things that arent actually there, is sitting on the couch next to a grown man who is suddenly afraid of me. He didnt used to be afraid. Its hard not to take that personally. What am I afraid of? Pass. Im sure youll figure it out soon enough. The good thing is that he actually does love my mom. And since my mom loves me, he makes an effort. He was the one who suggested the new private school instead of tossing me back into a school where all the kids knew there was something wrong with me. In two weeks, I start my junior year at St. Agathas. Its a K-12 school. My mom and Paul made the staff aware of my "condition," and because its Catholic, they cant exactly turn me away. That would be pretty hypocritical. From what I know about the guy, Jesus wouldnt turn me away. Paul also made sure that my new school knows not to talk about my illness. As a lawyer, he explained that legally they arent allowed to tell anyone what I have, which I appreciate. Its hard starting as a junior in a new school. Its significantly more difficult to make friends when people know you see things you shouldnt be able to see. 2 Dosage: 0.5 mg. Same dosage. Adam still unwilling to speak. August 22, 2012 I became an expert on my condition the second I was diagnosed. I can tell anyone who wants to know all the drugs, the most recent studies, the positive and negative symptoms. When I say "positive" and "negative," I dont mean "good" and "bad." It basically all sucks. "Positive" refers to symptoms caused by the disorder. Like delusions. "Negative" symptoms are reduced by the disorder. Like lack of initiative and motivation. There really is no clear path for the disease to travel. Some people have visions. Some people hear voices. And some people just get paranoid. My mom would also want me to take a minute to tell you about the huge strides in medicine to help people cope with the side effects. Shes a glass-half-full kind of woman. The whole seeing and hearing things that other people cant is like something straight out of Harry Potter. Like in The Chamber of Secrets when he heard the voice through the walls. Keeping it a secret made me feel privileged, like waiting for my letter from Hogwarts to arrive. I thought maybe it would mean something. But then Ron ruins that possibility when he says, "Hearing voices no one else can hear isnt a good sign, even in the wizarding world." Harry ended up being fine. Nobody sent him to therapy or tried to give him pills. He just got to live in a world where everything he thought hed heard and seen turned out to be real. Lucky bastard. I cant really complain about pills, though. Things have gotten better since I started the new drug. We wont know how it really affects me until Ive been on the full dosage for a while. Theyre easing me into it, which you already know. Part of the reason Im required to sit in your office once a week is so you can spot any problems and report back to the clinical trial doctors. You asked what I know about my treatment. So Ill tell you all the stuff you already know. The drug is called ToZaPrex, which, according to the label, can cause, among other things, (1) decreased white blood cell count (which hinders the bodys ability to combat disease), (2) seizures, (3) severely low blood pressure, (4) dizziness, (5) trouble breathing, and (6) severe headaches. My doctors have assured my mother that the worst side effects are really rare. And not to worry. Ha. Yeah. Dont worry. Ive experienced some of the side effects. Headaches mostly. The kind that sort of nest in your brain and throb for a while until they get bored and leave you alone. I dont feel compelled to act out everything that runs throu Details ISBN0399550917 Author Julia Walton Pages 304 Year 2018 ISBN-10 0399550917 ISBN-13 9780399550911 Language English Format Paperback DEWEY 813.6 Publication Date 2018-12-31 UK Release Date 2018-12-31 Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States AU Release Date 2018-12-31 NZ Release Date 2018-12-31 US Release Date 2018-12-31 Audience Age 12 Publisher Random House USA Inc Imprint Random House Books for Young Readers Audience Teenage / Young adult We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:131200116;

Price: 16.48 AUD

Location: Melbourne

End Time: 2025-02-06T03:35:53.000Z

Shipping Cost: 9.55 AUD