Book Club novel guides provide all the support you need to get your students reading and talking about great books. The books have been carefully selected as suitable for students' book club discussions—each one has plenty of content to sustain meaningful conversations. Novel guides provide information for the teacher including book summaries, thematic links, and related readings. Each novel guide also places the teaching of the novel in the context of a larger thematic unit. Daily lesson plans include reading assignments, detailed lessons tied to the language arts curriculum, and journal-writing prompts for students. Blackline masters range from student goal setting and self-assessment to support for novel-related writing assignments.

Novel guides are available as bound books and in downloadable PDF format.

• Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
• Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis
• Holes by Louis Sachar
• The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
• In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson by Bette Bao Lord
• Missing May by Cynthia Rylant
• Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
• Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse
• Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor
• Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
• Sing Down the Moon by Scott O'Dell
• The View from Saturday by E. L. Konigsburg
• The Watsons Go to Birmingham–1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis

(Many more to follow!)

Additional Online Resources
To support our novel guides and online discussions, we've assembled a list of Internet resources to help you teach the units. Resources include web sites dealing with relevant topics as well as sites that publish theme-related literature (e.g., short stories and poems).

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