Appendices

These are the websites that provided valuable information for this project:

1.    This link will take you to the CSUN Common Reading website:
http://www.csun.edu/afye/CommonRead.html

2.    The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) provides good background information on Asperger Syndrome.
http://www.nami.org/Content/ContentGroups/Helpline1/Autism_Asperger_Syndrome_Fact_Sheet.htm

3.    Teachers, the CSUN website has a helpful page with tips for getting reluctant readers to read:
http://www.csun.edu/afye/When-Students-Do-Not-Do-the-Reading.html

4.    Read a curiously interesting interview with author Mark Haddon:
http://www.powells.com/authors/haddon.html

5.    The friend of one of our teachers keeps a blog about her day-to-day life with her son who has Autism. 
http://autismdaybyday.blogspot.com/

6.    Christopher shows many signs of having Aspergers Syndrome.  Read here to learn more about it.
http://www.asperger-institute.com/aspergers-syndrome-characteristics.htm

7.    For more information, see the website of the Autism Help Organization.
http://www.autism-help.org/

8.    Christopher has a great love for numbers and math.  In fact, in writing his book, he chose to use only prime numbers to identify his chapters.  Are you good with numbers too?  Check your skills by playing this math guessing game.
http://www.theproblemsite.com/games/secretnumber.asp