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Students who enjoy fantasy, ghost stories, and supernatural stories will enjoy Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, which is a good read aloud, small group discussion text, or independent study for an advanced reader. This guide includes: • 14 menu-style reading response guides that include vocabulary words for students to define while reading, space to summarize the reading, three "required" questions to answer and between six and nine other questions to answer regarding the text.

The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate is an engaging, challenging text for middle school and high school readers. The narrative, about a spry, thoughtful young girl growing up in 1899 in Texas, who struggles to understand nature, the theory of evolution, her place in the world, and her future. As a read aloud or literature discussion, this text will challenge high-level middle school readers and engage high school readers. Incoporate a reader response journal with this literature guide, which includ

PRETTIES is the dramatic sequel to Westerfield’s UGLIES, a science fiction/dystopian novel series that explores ideas of self-determination, identity, and survival. This novel guide addresses Common Core ELA, speaking and listening, and language standards as students write about and discuss the development of the plot, how language is used, and the overarching themes and lessons about individuals and society. This literature guide includes: • 26 Reader Response Sheets • A rubric to assess st

The third installment in Laurie Halse Anderson's trilogy about the Revolutionary War, Ashes is a historical novel that middle schoolers love for the drama of war and the love story between Isabel and Curzon. This guide focuses on 7th grade CCSS standards for using text, drawing inferences, using vocabulary, and having discussion (but could be used with 6th, 8th, or 9th graders). Guide includes: vocabulary and questions for every chapter formatted so that each reading is on one page (though stude