Everything you need to understand or teach The Reality Bug by D. J. MacHale.
The Reality Bug is a young adult science fiction/fantasy story in a series of books about a fifteen-year-old boy named Bobby Pendragon and his friends. The story is set in a universe with multiple parallel worlds that can be accessed through gateways called flumes. Bobby must travel to the various worlds, known as territories, to do battle with the evil Saint Dane. Helping him are other people who can do this, called Travelers. All the Travelers have helpers, known as acolytes, on the various territories.
Bobby starts his adventures by going to the territory of Veelox, where he meets Aja Killian, a pretty and smart young woman slightly older than Bobby. He learns that the people of Veelox have become addicted to Lifelight, a computer-enabled virtual reality that gives the people very benign fantasies. Their physical bodies are kept within a high-tech pyramid in... View more of the The Reality Bug Summary