Discussion Guides

Enrich your book discussion group with these guides written by leading educators. Most guides contain introductions and summaries, explorations of the theme, setting, characterizations and plot, discussion points, group activities, and interdisciplinary connections. The guides can be used in various settings-whether in a classroom, library, bookstore, or at home.

These guides are free, and may be printed out and photocopied. New guides will be added as they become available.

Avi
Perloo the Bold
Midnight Magic

James Bennett
I Can Hear the Mourning Dove

Edward Bloor
Tangerine

Tonya Bolden
And Not Afraid to Dare

Kevin Brooks
Martyn Pig, Lucas and Kissing the Rain

Alden Carter
Dogwolf

Joanna Cole and Bruce Degen
Ms. Frizzle's Adventures in Ancient Egypt

Suzanne Collins
Gregor the Overlander

Kate Constable
Chanters of Tremaris Trilogy, Book 1: The Singer of All Songs

Bill Cosby
Little Bill Books:
The Best Way to Play
The Meanest Thing to Say
Money Troubles
One Dark and Scary Night
Shipwreck Saturday
Super-Fine Valentine
The Treasure Hunt

Kevin Crossley-Holland
The Seeing Stone, At the Crossing Places and King of the Middle March

Christopher Paul Curtis
Elijah of Buxton

Paula Danziger
Amber Brown books

Dear America
Guides to each book

First Person Fiction series
Flight to Freedom Behind the Mountains, The Stone Goddess and Finding My Hat

Cornelia Funke
Inkheart
The Thief Lord

Nancy Garden
Dove and Sword

Virginia Hamilton
The novels of Virginia Hamilton
Cousins
Plain City
A White Romance

Craig Isabella Hatkoff
Owen & Mzee: The True Story of a Remarkable Friendship (PDF)

Karen Hesse
Just Juice
Out of the Dust
Witness

Alice Hoffman
Aquamarine and Indigo
Green Angel

Anne Isaacs
Torn Thread
Pancakes for Supper

Angela Johnson
Humming Whispers

Barbara Kerley
Greetings From Planet Earth

David Klass
California Blue
Danger Zone

Kathryn Lasky
Beyond the Burning Time
True North
Guardians of Ga'Hoole

Julius Lester
Othello

Liz Levy
America's Horrible Histories

Ann M. Martin
Belle Teal
A Corner of the Universe
Here Today

Jim Murphy
Desperate Journey

My America
Guides to each book

My Name Is America
Guides to each book

Walter Dean Myers
The Beast

Donna Jo Napoli
Song of the Magdalene

Jenny Nimmo
Charlie Bone and the Time Twister
Midnight for Charlie Bone

Joanne Oppenheim
Dear Miss Breed

Rodman Philbrick
Freak the Mighty
Max the Mighty
Young Man and the Sea

Tamora Pierce
Circle of Magic Quartet
The Circle Opens Quartet

Guillaume Prevost
The Book of Time

Sally Prue
Cold Tom

Philip Pullman
The Firework-Maker's Daughter

Katherine Roberts
The Echorium Sequence Trilogy

Royal Diaries
Guides to each book

Pam Muñoz Ryan
Riding Freedom, Esperanza Rising, and Becoming Naomi León

J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter books
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Lisa Ann Sandell
Song of the Sparrow

Jeff Smith
BONE: Out From Boneville

Gary Soto
Jesse

Mark Teague
Dear Mrs. Larue: Letters from Obedience School

Eleanor Updale
Montmorency: Thief, Liar, Gentleman?

Cynthia Voigt
Jackaroo
Wings of a Falcon

Sylvie Weil
My Guardian Angel

Walter Wick
Can You See What I See?

Elvira Woodruf
The Ravenmaster's Secret

Jacqueline Woodson
From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun

Jane Yolen
The Wild Hunt