Book Resources

• The Great Gatsby Discussion Questions
• Guiding Questions for Big Read Lakeshore’s 2024 Book Set

Resources for previous books

2023 – Homecoming

• NEA resources for Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing
• Yaa Gyasi’s Facebook page

2022 – Circe

• NEA resources for Madeline Miller’s Circe
• Madeline Miller’s author webpage

2021 – An American Sunrise

• About Joy Harjo
• Overview of An American Sunrise
• Teacher’s Guide for An American Sunrise
• Discussion questions

2020 – In the Heart of the Sea

• Nathaniel Philbrick
• Support Materials
• Readers’ Guide
• Teachers’ Guide

2019 – In the Time of the Butterflies

• Support materials
• Reader’s Guide
• Guía del Lector
• Teacher’s Guide

2018 – Station Eleven

• Discussion guide
• Important quotes
• Storyline threads
• Emily St. John Mandel

2018 – The Giver

• Reading guide
• Lois Lowry

2018 – Blackout

• Support materials
• John Rocco

2017 – When the Emperor Was Divine

• Read alikes
• Discussion guide

2016 – Brother, I'm Dying

• “Haitian Narratives” presentation by Karen F. Dimanche Davis (PDF)
• NEA Big Read Reader’s Guide
• Brother, I’m Dying Discussion Guide (PDF)
• Children’s Books about the Refugee/Immigrant Experience
• Interview with Danticat on Brother I’m Dying (video)
• Food in Every Country: Haiti
• Medical Glossary (PDF)

2015 – The Things They Carried

• The Big Read Reader’s Guide
• Writing Vietnam
• Vietnam War Literature
• ‘How to tell a true war story’: Metafiction in ‘The Things They Carried.”
• National Veterans Art Museum
• Vietnam Online

2014 – To Kill a Mockingbird

• About the book and discussion questions