What kind of challenges does Daphne and Sabrina encounter in their foster homes?
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QOTD #1: The Fairy-Tale Detectives
Have you ever read a re-telling of fairy-tales? What fairy-tale is your favourite, and what is your favourite re-telling of that story?
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The Fairy-Tale Detectives by Michael Buckley
Do you love fairy-tale re-tellings? Get ready for this week’s new Kids Reading Club title, The Fairy-Tale Detectives by Michael Buckley!
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Orphaned sisters Sabrina and Daphne are sent to live with their mysterious grandmother, Relda Grimm, who lives in a town in rural New York State that experiences an extraordinary number of unexplained and unusual crimes. In this book, the girls are pitted against a giant who has been rampaging through town. But who set the giant loose?
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QOTD #4: The Graveyard Book
As Bod grows older, he becomes more curious about the outside world, and starts interacting more with the living. Do these interactions influence his relationships with the dead? How does these occurrences colour his understanding of the living world?
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QOTD #3: The Graveyard Book
Through out the book, is there one theme that stands out to you as central? What is that theme, and how is it played up with the different characters, and Bod’s adventures?
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QOTD #2: The Graveyard Book
As he grows and becomes more adventurous, Bod explores different creatures in the graveyard, and even some in the living world. His parents and guardians all warn him against the different creatures around him, yet he continues to seek them out. Do they turn out to be as described by the ghosts in the graveyard?
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QOTD #1: The Graveyard Book
The book starts of with a tragedy, and a coming together of different characters. Why do you think Silas agreed to become guardian to Nobody Owens?
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The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
Are you excited to start the next book club title? Our next title comes from one of the most well-known authors of kids lit, Neil Gaiman. His unique stories and suspenseful tales are well known, and The Graveyard Book is one of his must-reads.
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Bod is an unusual boy who inhabits an unusual place-he’s the only living resident of a graveyard. Raised from infancy by the ghosts, werewolves, and other cemetery denizens, Bod has learned the antiquated customs of his guardians’ time as well as their timely ghostly teachings-like the ability to Fade.
Can a boy raised by ghosts face the wonders and terrors of the worlds of both the living and the dead? And then there are things like ghouls that aren’t really one thing or the other.
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QOTD #4: Camp Rolling Hills
After lashing out at his cabin mates during the dance, and not participating in the talent show, Smelly gets back into his friends’ good graces by participating in some bonding. Why do you think taking part in the cabin raids was important in bringing Smelly closer to the other boys?
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QOTD #3: Camp Rolling Hills
During the dance, Smelly and Smiley admit how they feel about each other, but it ends in disaster. What influences impacted their new relationship? Why did Bobby react so strongly and lash out?
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