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Literature Circles are a great way to improve students’ critical thinking skills and get them excited about books at the same time. Arrow offers special editions of acclaimed titles featuring questions and activities at the end of each book. Written by teachers, they’re guaranteed to spark energetic discussions in your classroom! Students can buy individual copies to use in small reading groups, or you can build a library with your own collection of 6-book sets at special value prices.
Look for Literature Circle editions every month in the Arrow Book Club catalog. Then check here for support materials, including plot summaries, author biographies, and suggested answers to the questions to help guide student discussion. Start using Literature Circles in your classroom today!
Click on the links below to print questions for these titles and Teacher’s Guides including questions and answers, author information, plot summaries, and activities! The titles below are available as 6-book sets at special value prices!
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Breadwinner
Deborah Ellis 176 pages
Under Taliban rule, Parvana must disguise herself as a boy to support her family. Parvana's determination to survive is the force that drives this novel set against the backdrop of an intolerable situation brought about by war and religious fanaticism. A powerful story! (Quality literature for older readers. Contains mature themes and subject matter that may be considered objectionable.)
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Heroes Don’t Run
Harry Mazer 128 pages
To honor his father who died during the Japanese invasion of Pearl Harbor, seventeen-year-old Adam eagerly enlists in the Marines in 1944, survives boot camp, and faces combat on the tiny island of Okinawa. This gripping conclusion of Adam's story, which began in A Boy at War: A Novel of Pearl Harbor and continued in A Boy No More.
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Ruby Holler
Sharon Creech 320 pages
Florida and Dallas long to escape the horrible orphanage. But who will give these trouble-making twins a home? Filled with humor, poignancy, cookies, and treasure maps, Newbery Medal winner Sharon Creech's Ruby Holler is a delightful book about a special place where it's never too late to be loved.
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The Whipping Boy
Sid Fleischman 96 pages
A bratty prince and his whipping boy inadvertently change places after becoming involved with dangerous outlaws. The award-winning author of The Midnight Horse blends the comic with the compassionate in this easy-to-read, highly memorable novel. 1987 Newbery Medal Book.
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