This Mother Daughter Book Club

These girls are getting SO good at discussion! They really took over the talk and explored Hazel's motivations, what would they do in her position, symbolism... WHOOHOO!

We've got four terrific 4th grade girls in our book club, and they were so thoughtful talking about the subjects that came up in Stella's story.  We talked about the KKK (they still exist!?), we talked about how unfair they made it for black people to vote (and discussed how they still find sneaky ways in 2020 to suppress the black vote), we asked if one life is more valuable than another, and the girls asked each other if they thought they'd speak up if they were in that position.  They admitted it would likely be very hard to speak up.  They decided the only wonderful thing about living "back then" was penny candy!