Title: Reality Boy Author: A.S. King Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Publication Date: October 22, 2013 ISBN-13: 978-0316222709 368 pp. ARC provided by publisher I've worked in "reality" television, so I know there's a lot of manipulation in creating what the audience sees. Sometimes it happens during production by influencing what participants are doing or saying. Sometimes in happens in post-production by changing context during editing. It's usually done to build a narrative arc, to streamline the messiness of real life into a half-hour or hour format. But at least on the shows I worked on, it was never done maliciously. Reality Boy , however, imagines a show that does. Gerald was on a Supernanny -like show when he was five years old and became known as The Crapper because he defecated all over the house, including the dining room table. Millions of television viewers think he's the problem child. What the camera doesn...
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