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Now THIS is the type of ask I love to get!
(contains spoilers) 

• After he wakes up, Viola teaches Todd to read properly. At first he’s kind of reluctant. He doesn’t have time to read anyway, right? They have an entire planet full of settlers to rebuild.  But Viola isn’t going to give up so fast. She digs up some ebooks for him that she read when she was little, and they read them together, little by little. Ben likes to sit in the room next to them and listen to Todd’s Noise reading. It makes him proud. And little by little Todd advances until he’s able to read pretty much by himself.  Until one day Viola comes home and hears some very frustrated Noise. She runs in and finds Todd sitting on the floor, clutching the E-reader with wide eyes.
  “What’s wrong?”
  “It just stops. How can it just stop? There’s gotta be more -”
  Viola sighs and helps him download Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.

• They’re both really sick of living in a city so they decide to go back to Todd’s old plan and start a new settlement in Old Prentisstown. But it takes a lot of time because they have to hang around in New Haven where the majority of the population is gathered. They spend their days working and helping wherever they can.
•  Viola especially tries to keep the new settlers from bugging Todd too much. They are nice people, and they’re very interested in him, but they freak him out a little. They’re just so different. And they keep stealing Viola’s attention with all this tech talk that only they understand. Eventually, with Viola’s help, he starts spending more time with them. Todd is trying to learn as much as he can from the settlers about agriculture and machinery.
• But then there’s this one girl, Steff Taylor. Todd doesn’t understand why Viola keeps ushering him away whenever she’s around. She won’t say more than, “I don’t like her very much.”
  Then one evening, Steff shows up on their doorstep uninvited. The most awkward dinner in New World’s history ensues. 
• Ben is a really crappy cook. Cillian was the household chef. But Bradley and Mrs. Lawson come over for dinner a lot, and the three of them bond over teaching Ben to cook. Todd asks Ben (very sheepishly) if he could help him bake a cake for Viola’s birthday. They end up making a huge mess. But at least it’s a delicious mess. Even if Todd misspelled “happy birthday” in frosting.