Words on Bathroom Walls

An ALA-YALSA Best Book for Young Adults * A Bank Street Best Children’s Book of the Year * Kansas National Education Association Reading Circle Catalog Selection Book of the Year * Rhode Island Teen Book Award Nominee * A CBC’s 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 doesn’t 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 I’ll 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 didn’t want Adam’s story to end.” —Peter Brown Hoffmeister, author of This Is the Part Where You Laugh

Julia Walton received an 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 with her husband and daughter in Huntington Beach, CA.