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Discussion Questions for Revolution by Deborah Wiles

It’s 1964, and Sunny’s Mississippi town is full of Northerners who are coming to help people register to vote as part of the Freedom Summer. Meanwhile, Sunny has a new stepmother, a new brother, and a new sister crowding her life, giving her little room to breathe. Sunny lives in a time when everyone is choosing sides, and kids must figure out how to stand up for themselves and fight for what’s right.

1. What did you know about the civil rights 6. How does music help to set the tone of the movement before reading this book? What events in the book? What songs would you key things did you learn about it from reading include in a book about your lifetime? Revolution? 7. Why do you think some white people were so 2. Why do the Freedom Fighters, Raymond, and afraid of African Americans receiving equal many others purposefully put themselves in rights? danger? 8. How do Sunny’s feelings toward Annabelle and 3. In different circumstances do you think Gillette change throughout the book? Raymond and Gillette would be friends? Explain. 9. The importance of the events taking place around her lead Sunny to read the newspaper 4. How are Annabelle, Raymond, Jo Ellen, and and follow current events. What current events Sunny brave in different ways? do you think are important to learn more about? 5. The book explores true accounts of people important to the civil rights movement, 10. Have you ever seen anyone make unfair including Bob Moses, Emmett Till, Martin judgments about a person? What are some ways Luther King, Jr., Rosa Parks, Cassius Clay, to get people to think differently? and Polly Cowan and Dorothy Height. Which stories helped you to understand the civil rights movement more clearly? Explain. Check out Countdown by Deborah Wiles

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