This Is Not A Werewolf Story Reading Group Guide

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This Reading Group Guide to This Is Not A Werewolf Story will help you foster an appreciation in your students for the elements of fantasy storytelling. The pre-reading activities set the stage for deeper exploration of the major plot elements. Discussion questions can be used as writing prompts or homework assignments, and center around the major characters and the secrets each one keeps. Finally, the extension cluster at the end of the guide gives students several hands-on opportunities to expand their understanding of the plot and character development.
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This Is Not A Werewolf Story
Sandra Evans

A fresh, heartwarming, and fascinating debut that two-time Newbery Honor winner Gary Schmidt calls “a journey that every reader needs to go on.”  This is the story of Raul, a boy of few words, fewer friends, and almost no family. He is a loner—but he isn’t lonely. All week long he looks after the younger boys at One Of Our Kind Boarding School while dodging the barbs of terrible Tuffman, the mean gym teacher. Like every other kid in the world, he longs for Fridays, but not for the usual reasons. The woods have secrets...and so does Raul. As soon as the other students go home for the weekend, Raul makes his way to a lighthouse deep in the heart of the woods. There he waits for sunset—and the mysterious, marvelous shapeshifting phenomenon that allows him to go home, too.

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