"In the real world, Bugz's a shy and self-conscious Indigenous teen who faces the stresses of teenage angst and reserve life. But in the virtual world, her alter ego is not just confident but dominant in a massive multiplayer video game universe. Feng is a teen boy who has been sent from China to live with his aunt, a doctor on the reserve. When they meet, Bugz and Feng immediately relate to each other as outsiders and as avid gamers. But when betrayal threatens everything Bugz has built in the virtual world, as well as her relationships in the real world, she must reconcile the parallel aspects of her life: the traditional and the mainstream, the east and the west, the real and the virtual"-- Provided by publisher.
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