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.
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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
Meg Cabot
Allie Finkle's Rules for Girls
Alden Carter
Dogwolf
Joanna Cole and Bruce Degen
Ms. Frizzle's Adventures in Ancient Egypt
Suzanne Collins
Gregor the Overlander
The Hunger Games
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
Dear America
Guides to each book
Sharon M. Draper
Sassy: Little Sister is Not My Name!
First Person Fiction series
Flight to Freedom Behind the Mountains, The Stone Goddess and Finding My Hat
Cornelia Funke
Inkheart
Inkheart Trilogy
The Thief Lord
Nancy Garden
Dove and Sword
Elly Berkovits Gross
Elly: My True Story of the Holocaust
Kathryn Gibbs Davis
Wackiest White House Pets
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
Anthony Horowitz
Gatekeepers #4: Necropolis
Barbara Kerley
Greetings From Planet Earth
David Klass
California Blue
Danger Zone
Gordon Korman
The 39 Clues, Book Two: One False Note
Soinbhe Lally
A Hive for the Honeybee
Kathryn Lasky
Beyond the Burning Time
True North
Guardians of Ga'Hoole
Peter Lerangis
39 Clues #3: Sword Thief
Julius Lester
Othello
Liz Levy
America's Horrible Histories
Sarah MacLean
The Season
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
Michael Northrop
Gentlemen
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
Rick Riordan
The 39 Clues series
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
James L. Swanson
Chasing Lincoln' Killer: The Search for John Wilkes Booth
Shaun Tan
Tales from Outer Suburbia
Mark Teague
Dear Mrs. Larue: Letters from Obedience School
Eleanor Updale
Montmorency: Thief, Liar, Gentleman?
Siobhan Vivian
Same Difference
Cynthia Voigt
Jackaroo
Wings of a Falcon
Sylvie Weil
My Guardian Angel
Suzanne Weyn
Distant Waves
Kate Wild
Firefight
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
Patricia Wrede
Frontier Magic #1: Thirteenth Child
