Novel Study You will pick a book. It will be checked out to you through the library. You will have...

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Novel Study You will pick a book. It will be checked out to you through the library. You will have

assigned reading each week and it will be due each Friday.

1. Discussion directors: come grab some titles for your group.

2. Read the summary on the back. 3. Read the first page

4. Switch books and vote for you!

A Christmas Carol

• Challenge Novel – due to old English and hidden themes

• Fiction

• Section 1: pages 1-41• Section 2: pages 42-83• Sections 3: pages 84- end

Dragon’s Gate

• Challenge Novel – due to themes, vocabulary and length.

• Historical Fiction

• Section 1: pages 1-110• Section 2: pages 111- 221• Sections 3: pages 222- end

The Ballad of Lucy Whipple

• Historical Fiction

• Section 1: Chapters 1-6• Section 2: Chapters 7-12• Section 3: Chapters 13-19

Shades of Gray

• Historical Fiction

• Section 1: Chapters 1-6• Section 2: Chapters 7-12• Section 3: Chapters 13-19

Surviving the Applewhites

• Fiction • 216 pages (short chapters) • Section 1: chapters 1-10• Section 2: Chapters 11-21• Sections 3: Chapters 22-30

The Dark is Rising

• Challenge Novel – due to vocabulary and length.

• Fantasy

• Section 1: pages 1-81• Section 2: pages 82-163• Sections 3: 164- 244

Lyddie

• Historical Fiction

• Section 1: Chapters 1-8• Section 2: Chapters 9-16• Section 3: Chapters 17-23

Bull Run

• Historical Fiction

• Each chapter is told from a different person’s point of view

• Section 1: pages 1-34• Section 2: pages 35-67• Section 3: pages 68- 102