Skylar Cruz still remembers the day she plugged in and joined the App World for the promise of a better life—the day she left her family behind in the Real World. Now Skylar is a virtual teenager, surrounded by glamorous apps and expensive downloads, and yet she’s never felt like she fits in. All she wants is to see her mother and sister again.

Skylar is desperate and ready to risk everything to unplug from the App World. But she soon learns that the only person she can trust—in either world, including friends and family—is herself.

In the tradition of M. T. Anderson’s Feed and Scott Westerfeld’s Uglies, Unplugged kicks off a thrilling sci-fi series for teens from the award-winning Donna Freitas.