Ready Player One By Ernest Cline

Ready player One is recommended for grades 5 and up. I think that this could be used as great critical thinking exercise to ask the class what they could do if this happened in the real world. Depending on if they get the refrences, middle and high school students might enjoy it as well. I really enjoyed the pop culture references. I was born in 1985, but I vaguely remembered some of them. I love classic arcade games (even though I am terrible at them) but they are fun to play. The pop culture references might count as a weakness because I don't know if teenagers would get them. I got a few, but not all. A movie version was made is the only special consideration I can think of. I wanted to go see it, but I never found the time. I would recommend adding it to a middle and high school selection, because it will encourage kids to not give in evil corporate overlords (no, I do not all of them are evil, but you get the picture.)