Research Guides: Bearkats Read to Succeed 2014: Ready Player One: About the Book

Curriculum Infusion Guide

Ready Player One Curriculum Guide

Activity & Discussion Ideas
for you & your classes
using Ready Player One!

Welcome!

Here is a sampling of resources
for the 2014-15

Bearkats Read to Succeed (BRTS)
Common Reader

Video Intro of Ready Player One

Meet the Book

Ready Player One is "part quest novel, part love story, and part virtual space opera" (from Ernest Cline's synopsis).

This book is an exciting romp through realities virtual and future, peppered with 80s references, and current day issues.

Need more detail? Here are reviews & excerpts of the book from The New York Times, The Guardian, The Wall Street Journal, & more blurbs on the Amazon site.

Meet the Author

Ernest Cline is an author and screenwriter. Ready Player One received the Alex Award from the American Library Assoication and the Prometheus Award, both in 2012. He is writing the screen play for Ready Player One which is in deveopment. You can hear him discuss his book here: