Battle for the Nether: Book Two in the Gameknight999 Series

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xiV MARk chEVERTon the digital realm together building towers fighting with zombies and dodging creepers He loved playing Minecraft so much that we bought a server for him the next Christmas He spent months building things on his server cas tles bridges underwater cities factories every thing and anything his imagination could conceive Next he brought in his friends from school to build some really gigantic structures Of course I helped too partially to monitor what was going on but also because I’m a big geek and like playing the game I was overwhelmed with how proud he was about his creations He made videos showing off his creations and posted them on YouTube Well one day some other kids were able to get onto the serv er probably because my son or one of his friends gave out the IP address These new kids destroyed everything that he’d built griefed everything until only a crater was left They leveled everything to the ground obliterating months of work The next time my son logged on he saw his creations de stroyed and was crushed Then to make matters worse these kids posted the video of their griefing his server on YouTube This was the ultimate teachable moment to talk about cyber-bullying I tried to answer my son’s questions about why someone would do this what kind of person would take pride in destroy ing someone else’s creation but my answers just fell flat That was when I came up with the idea of teaching my son through his favorite thing Mine craft I wrote the first book called Invasion of the Overworld and it taught kids about cyber-bully ing and how it affects others as well as hammer ing away at the importance of friendships using