Look at the front and back covers.

Front cover:

• What does the phrase ‘crossing the line’ mean to you? 

• Can you think of some examples when someone ‘crossed a line’?

• Can you predict anything about the book from the design the publisher has used? Think about shapes and colours.

• Read the front blurb and look at the illustration of Erik. If you wrote a ‘thought bubble’ for him, what would he be thinking?

Back cover:

•  Read the back blurb. What catches your attention and makes you want to read the book?

•  What genre would you say this?

•  Have you heard of young people caught up in Erik’s situation in real life?