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If you are a teacher or a group of friends and families searching for a great book to read as a group, you've come across a great place here. The library owns sets of books (20-30 copies) that can be checked out all at once! If you are a teacher you can check them out for an extended loan period with a teacher loan. In conjunction with these excellent titles, our librarians have compiled questions to help read, understand and discuss what you've chosen.

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Reading List Books with guides

	Title	Synopsis
	Because of Winn Dixie	Ten-year-old India Opal Buloni describes her first summer in the town of Naomi, Florida and all the good things that happen because of her ugly dog Winn Dixie. Newbery Honor Book
	Belle Prater's Boy	When Woodrow's mother suddenly disappears, he moves to his grandparents' home in a small Virginia town where he befriends his cousin and together they find the strength to face the terrible losses and fears in their lives
	The Book of Three	Taran, Assistant Pig-Keeper to a famous oracular sow, sets out on a hazardous mission to save Prydain from the forces of evil.
	Bud, Not Buddy	Ten-year-old Bud, a motherless boy living in Flint, Michigan, during the Great Depression, escapes a bad foster home and sets out in search of the man he believes to be his father--the renowned bandleader, H.E. Calloway of Grand Rapids.
	Ella Enchanted	In this novel based on the story of Cinderella, Ella struggles against the childhood curse that forces her to obey any order given to her.
	Heaven	Fourteen-year-old Marley's seemingly perfect life in the small town of Heaven is disrupted when she discovers that her father and mother are not her real parents.
	Hoot	Roy, who is new to his small Florida community, becomes involved in another boy's attempt to save a colony of burrowing owls from a proposed construction site.
	Maniac Magee	After his parents die, Jeffrey Lionel Magee's life becomes legendary, as he accomplishes athletic and other feats which awe his contemporaries.
	Mrs. Frisbee and the Rats of NIMH	Having no one to help her with her problems, a widowed mouse visits the rats whose former imprisonment in a laboratory made them wise and long lived.
	Sammy Keys and the Hotel Thief	Thirteen-year-old Sammy's penchant for speaking her mind gets her in trouble when she involves herself in the investigation of a robbery at the "seedy" hotel across the street from the seniors' building where she is living with her grandmother.

***JUST SO YOU KNOW*** All of the posts in our book discussion series contain questions and reviews that could possibly reveal parts of the plot you may rather discover by reading the book. Proceed with caution!***

The Book Discussion Series enhances the reading experience by providing a list of interpretive questions compiled by librarians of the Cleveland Heights Univeristy Heights Public Library