| 1. | Did you like Max’s voice and the way she told the story directly to the reader? Why or why not? |
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| 2. | What are Erasers? |
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| 3. | What special talents do Max and her family have? If you could have a special talent like theirs, what would you choose? |
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| 4. | What is the School? Why are Max and her family so afraid to go back? How is their perception of the word “school” different from yours? |
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| 5. | Why do you think the people at the lab could only see Angel as an experiment? |
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| 6. | What did Fang and Nudge discover on the cliff above Lake Mead? What did they learn from the ferruginous hawks? |
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| 7. | Why do you think Ella’s mom (Dr. Martinez) took Max’s wings in stride so well? Why was it so hard for Max to trust them? |
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| 8. | Why is Max the flock leader? |
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| 9. | Why do you think Nudge wanted to find her parents so badly? |
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| 10. | What is Max’s purpose, the reason she was created? How would YOU deal with that kind of destiny? |
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| 11. | Why do you think the flock decided to go east, to New York? What did they find there? How did Angel know about it? |
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| 12. | Why didn’t Iggy like New York City? Why do the rest of the flock LIKE it? |
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| 13. | How did Max discover the Voice? What, or who, do you think it is? |
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| 14. | How did Angel discover a new, and very dangerous, talent in the toy store? |
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| 15. | Do you trust Angel? Why or why not? |
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| 16. | Where did the flock finally find the Institute of Higher Living? What did they discover inside? |
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| 17. | How did Max and the flock find a new way to disguise themselves after the pictures of them flying in the restaurant went public? |
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| 18. | Why did the flock keep looking for the Institute, rather than just finding a safe place to hide away? |
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| 19. | What did Gazzy discover while Max was printing files? What happened to the other mutant kids? |
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| 20. | Do you think it’s more important to be right or to do the right thing? Discuss. |
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| 21. | Why does Ari hate Max so much? What happened to him? |
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| 22. | Why did the flock decide to go to Washington, DC? What did they learn in the files? |
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| 23. | Did you read the graphic novel or the regular novel? Why did you choose the one you did? If you read the graphic version, what did you think about it? |
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| 24. | How are the stories in the novel and the graphic novel different? The same? |
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| 25. | If you could make a novel into a graphic novel, which one would you choose, and why? |
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