Cragbridge Hall, Volume 2: The Avatar Battle (36 page)

9. Abby, Derick, and Carol also learned that when they make a decision it affects the people around them. How do your decisions affect other people? What good decisions have you made that may have influenced others? Are there any decisions you are making that you want to change?

10. The Crash enjoys playing sports with their avatars. They also learned new sports. What are your favorite sports? What sports would you like to learn to play?

11. Derick experienced what it feels like to go through a difficult surgery. What difficulties have you been through? What did you learn from them? Who do you know who has had to have a surgery or other difficult challenges in their life? What do you think you could learn from them?

12. Though Abby felt afraid for much of the book, by the end, she faced her fears. What are you afraid of? What have you done to face your fears? What happened? What could you do to face your fears now?

RECOMMENDED READING

For more information about Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Sherlock Holmes:

Pascal, Janet P.
Arthur Conan Doyle: Beyond Baker Street.
New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.

Doyle, Arthur Conan; illus. Rohrbach, Sophie.
Sherlock Holmes and the Adventure of the Speckled Band.
Minneapolis, MN: Graphic Universe, 2010.

For more information about the Civil War and the Battle of Gettysburg:

McPherson, James M.
Fields of Fury: The American Civil War.
New York: Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2002.

Stanchak, John.
DK Eyewitness Books: Civil War.
New York: DK Publishing, 2011.

Vansant, Wayne.
Gettysburg: The Graphic History of America’s Most Famous Battle and the Turning Point of the Civil War.
Minneapolis, MN: Zenith Press, 2013.

Murphy, Jim.
The Long Road to Gettysburg.
New York: HMH Books for Young Readers, 2000.

For more information about the
Hindenburg
disaster:

Verstraete, Larry; illus. Geister, David.
Surviving the Hindenburg.
Ann Arbor, MI: Sleeping Bear Press, 2012.

O’Brien, Patrick.
The Hindenburg.
New York: Henry Holt, 2000.

Benoit, Peter.
The Hindenburg Disaster.
New York, Scholastic, 2011.

For more information about London and the Great Fire:

Clements, Gillian.
The Great Fire of London.
London: Franklin Watts Ltd., 2001.

Robson, Pam.
All About the Great Fire of London
. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 2002.

For more information about Socrates:

Usher, M. D.; illus. Bramhall, William.
Wise Guy: The Life and Philosophy of Socrates.
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005.

Dell, Pamela.
Socrates: Ancient Greek in Search of Truth.
Mankato, MN: Compass Point Books, 2006.

For more information about giraffes:

Helget, Nicole.
Giraffes.
Mankato, MN: Creative Education, 2008.

Parker, Barbara Keevil.
Giraffes.
Minneapolis, MN: Lerner Publishing Group, 2004.

For more information about Abraham Lincoln and his assassination:

Stone, Tanya Lee.
Abraham Lincoln (DK Biography).
New York: DK Publishing, 2005.

Cary, Barbara.
Meet Abraham Lincoln.
New York: Random House, 2011.

Denenberg, Barry; illus. Bing, Christopher.
Lincoln Shot: A President’s Life Remembered.
New York: Square Fish, 2011.