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Discussion Guide Young Adult Book Discussion Kits Young Adult Book Discussion Kits are available to library patrons for use by home and community discussion groups, as well as teachers in the classroom setting. Each kit contains a set of thirty identical soft-cover books accompanied by a book discussion guide. The guides feature information about the author, reviews of the book, discussion questions, suggested further readings, and other pertinent information. Each kit is packaged in a canvas tote bag and may be borrowed for six weeks. A Reader’s Guide to Young Adult Book Discussion Kits may be reserved and sent Juvenile Book to the library branch of your choice for pick up. If you would like to Discussion Kit #232 reserve a kit, please stop by your local library branch or call 574- Love That Dog 1611 . The kits may also be reserved through our website By Sharon Creech www.lfpl.org . A list of all the kits may be found in the LFPL cata- log by typing Book Discussion Kit Young Adult at the title prompt. Just Good Books Just Good Books Just Good Books Children’s & Young Adult Services Just Good Books 301 York Street Louisville, KY 40203 Just Good Books 502-574-1620 Juvenile Book Information for this flyer was partially gathered from the following re- Discussion Kits sources: “Sharon Creech” Contemporary Authors . Gale Literary Databases. http://galenet.com (5/15/2003) “A Writer Who’s 13 At Heart” Time, August 27, 2001. http://www.sharoncreech.com (5/15/2003) In this novel in verse we meet What the Critics Say… Discussion Questions: Suggested Titles for Jack, a reluctant student of Further Reading “Creech has created a poignant, funny poetry. Throughout his school 1. What do you think of Jack’s po- picture of a child’s encounter with the year in Miss Stretchberry’s etry especially at the beginning of How to Be the Greatest Writer In power of poetry.” class he learns the power of the book? Do you think what he the World - Lee Bock, Booklist words and how to express writes is really poetry? by Matt Cibula (J 808.042 CIB) himself through poetry. “Not only has she [Creech] shown young 2. Where does the book’s title come Strider readers what a poem can do, she’s also from? What does it mean? by Beverly Cleary (J) About the Author shown what a novel can do.” - Meg Wolitzer, New York Times Book 3. A reviewer wrote, “Creech con- Because of Winn-Dixie Sharon Creech says, “I grew up Review veys a life truth: pain and joy exist by Kate DiCamillo (J) in a big noisy family in a Cleve- side by side.” Do pain and joy exist land suburb, with hordes of rela- “Told with insight and humor that are as side by side in this book? If so how? Harlem: a poem tives telling stories around the rare to the subject of poetry as they are to by Walter Dean Myers (J 811.54 kitchen table. Here I learned to young boys, Love That Dog is not to be 4. Did reading Jack’s verses remind M992h) exaggerate and embellish, be- missed…. Newbery Medal–winner you of any real-life experiences? cause if you didn’t, your story Sharon Creech reminds us once again Sideways Stories from Wayside was drowned out by someone that words can change lives” 5. What emotions did you feel while School else’s more exciting one.” - Courtney Williamson, Christian reading this book? by Louis Sachar (J) Creech worked in Washington, Science Monitor D. C. for several years after 6. Do you see Jack’s change of heart graduate school, but found she Other Works By the Author about poetry as believable? was not interested in writing Absolutely Normal Chaos (J) about “politics and facts”. She 7. How do you feel about poetry? Do Bloomability (J) then moved to England in 1979 you have a favorite poem or poet? Chasing Redbird (YP) where she lived for 18 years as Fishing in the Air (JP) an English teacher. She moved A Fine Fine School (JP) back to the United States in 1998 Pleasing the Ghost (J) and now lives in New Jersey. Ruby Holler (J) Walk Two Moons (YP Newbery) The author says, “Most of my The Wanderer (YP) characters bumble along in some area and feel at times less than capable, and yet they have a cer- Awards and Recognition tain sort of stubborn determina- 1995 Newbery Award for Walk Two tion, and the way they tell about Moons these failings is often humor- 2001 Newbery Honor book for The Wan- ous.” She says this includes the derer character Jack from Love That 2001 Christopher Award for Love That Dog. Dog 2003 Dorothy Canfield Fisher Award for Love That Dog .
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