Book Guide

As you read your book, think about the following questions and write your responses to them.

Journal #1
What were your feelings after reading the first chapter of the book? What gave you this impression?
 

Journal #2
What details did the author use to show the setting of the story and give you a sense of what the characters were like?
 

Journal #3
What were the main problems the characters faced in the story? How did they attempt to solve them?
 

Journal #4
What surprised or confused you in the book?
 

Journal #5
What was the passage that seemed most real to you?
 

Journal #6
What did the characters or their families, communities, or governments do to help people recover from the event?
 

Journal #7
What effects did the event have on the characters' lives and on their communities?
 

Journal #8
What lessons did you learn from the way people handled the event?
 

Journal #9
What questions would you like answered about the event?
 

Journal #10
What changes would you have made in the story?