| 1. | Have any of you been to the Black Hills? Did the setting affect how much you liked the book? |
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| 2. | Is the story realistic? Believable? The professor says there’s a ‘world of Difference between ‘impossible’ and ‘improbable’” (p. 69). How would you define these words? What in the book would you consider ‘improbable’? Is anything ‘impossible’? |
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| 3. | What does ‘Go Big or Go Home’ mean? Why did the author choose it for the title? |
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| 4. | How did you feel about the way Brady and Quinn talked/some of their sayings (“That’s so sick, it’s weak”)? Do you and your friends have sayings like this? What are they? |
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| 5. | Do you have cousins you’re close to? If so, what’s sorts of things do you do together? |
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| 6. | Brady and Quinn drink a lot of coffee from “Grabba Java” – do you like coffee? Energy drinks? |
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| 7. | One element to the story is Quinn’s dad’s struggle to find a job – how does this affect the story/Brady and Quinn? |
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| 8. | Brady and Quinn take a 30 mile bike ride – what’s the most extreme challenge or test of endurance you’ve ever completed? |
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| 9. | How do Brady’s Asthma and Allergies affect the story? |
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| 10. | Brady’s mom worries about the boys when they get together. Would your parents do the same? |
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| 11. | What do you think about the Carvers? Does your opinion of them change over the course of the book? |
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| 12. | Brady & Quinn get soaked in their cheap tent. Do you have any good camping stories or examples of poor planning? |
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