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Zinny gets upset when her father refers to from her Newbery Award-winning novel Walk her mission to clear the trail as “the trail thing” Chasing Redbird is a complex and exciting work Two Moons, Sharon Creech tells a beautifully (p.119). Have you ever had the experience of of fiction, that explores real issues teenagers are crafted story about a young girl discovering that someone’s underestimating or belittling a project dealing with, including death, identity, and life is a tangle of mysteries, surprises, and everyday about which you felt very strongly? How did you relationships. This guide is intended to spark occurrences—a journey that often needs unraveling feel when this happened? discussion on this thought-provoking and and that sometimes must be traveled alone. fascinating new novel from Sharon Creech. 7. Constantly being referred to as an anonymous “pumpkin,” a “tadpole,” or worst of all, the FOR DISCUSSION: “strangest and stingiest dirt-daubing doodlebug” ABOUT THIS BOOK: 1. Throughout Chasing Redbird Zinny experiences (p. 52), Zinny strikes out to clear the trail. By the Thirteen-year-old Zinny Taylor lives in Bybanks, conflicting and confusing feelings about the end of the novel, do you think Zinny has Kentucky, with too many brothers and sisters— people who are special to her—Uncle Nate, successfully set herself apart from her brothers a mess of “tadpoles” and “pumpkins” is what her Jake, even her parents. Give some examples of and sisters by creating the trail? Has her identity uncle Nate calls them. When Zinny discovers a Zinny’s confusion about these characters and changed in the eyes of her family, the public, mysterious overgrown trail that begins on her explain why she feels so conflicted. Jake? Does Zinny think she has changed herself family farm, she thinks she’s finally found a place by the end of the story? How can you tell? of her own, a place she can go, away from her 2. How does the natural world of the woods 8. Zinny often talks about missing her friend Sal, family, to hear herself think. But what Zinny play a part in Zinny’s story? Do the other who is the main character in Walk Two Moons. comes to realize is that the mysteries of the trail members of Zinny’s family share her enthusiasm For those who have read Walk Two Moons: How are intertwined with her own unanswered for nature? is Zinny’s mission to clear the trail similar to Sal’s questions and family secrets, and that the trail— 3. Throughout the novel Zinny continually race to retrace her mother’s steps? Compare and her passion to uncover it—is leading her on explains her life as a “bowl of spaghetti” (p.1). how these two main characters deal with the a journey home. Discuss this metaphor and how it works within losses in their lives. the story. 9. Both Zinny’s cousin Rose and Aunt Jessie fall 4. Why do you think Jake steals the dog, the to untimely deaths, and throughout the novel ring, and the car? Is it all because he’s “sweet Zinny feels much guilt about the loss. Consider on” (p.100) Zinny, or are there other reasons this quote from Zinny: “Why did people get old? for his stealing? From the clues that Sharon Why did people get sick? Why couldn’t the hand Creech gives you about Jake’s life, what kind of of God fix whooping cough? Why couldn’t it relationship do you think Jake has with his parents? snatch a woman back from a drawer? Why Does he share the kind of closeness Zinny has couldn’t it fix Uncle Nate? I couldn’t stand it. I with her parents? wanted answers to my questions, and I wanted 5. There are many supernatural events in them immediately” (p.179). How does this Chasing Redbird. Does the ghost of Aunt Jessie quote help explain Zinny’s feelings about her actually wander through the woods? 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