Words on Bathroom Walls, Walton Julia

Fans of More Happy Than Not, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, and Its Kind of a Funny Story 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--hes just 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?

An ALA-YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults Book * A Bank Street College of Education Best Childrens Book of the Year * A CBCs 2018 Teen Choice Book Awards Nominee * 2018 Kansas National Education Association Reading Circle Catalog Selection * 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

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