Title: The Other Normals
Author: Ned Vizzini
Genre: Fantasy YA, Contemporary YA, gaming
Publisher: Balzer + Bray
Release date: September 25, 2012
Source: ARC from the publisher
Summary: The Other Normals centers on 15-year-old Peregrine “Perry” Eckert, who’s seriously obsessed with an uber-dorky role-playing game called Creatures & Caverns. Concerned about his stunted social skills and need for fresh air, Perry’s parents decide to ship him off to summer camp to become a man. He anticipates the worst summer of his life until he arrives at camp and stumbles into the World of the Other Normals, a place where his nerdy childhood may serve him well — but not without connecting with the real world first.