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Chapters 1 - 6

• NOTE: The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Lu, Marie. Warcross. Speak, 2017.

• The narrative of this novel is related from the first-person perspective of protagonist Emika Chen, an 18-year-old computer hacker and bounty hunter. It is related in the present tense.

• The novel begins with Emika Chen zipping through the streets of Manhattan, New York City, on her electric skateboard.

• It is an icy day as Emika, a rainbow-haired bounty hunter, looks for Martin Hamer, who is wanted for gambling on the widely popular virtual reality (VR) video game Warcross.

• Emika needs the $5,000 bounty for Hamer’s capture to pay her overdue rent.

• The city is flooded with images of Warcross as the championships for the game approach, in which two teams of “top-ranking players complete” (4).

• The criminal almost escapes before Emika captures him by using her stun gun and...

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