Nightbird (Hoffman)

Discussion Questions
Use our LitLovers Book Club Resources; they can help with discussions for any book:

• How to Discuss a Book (helpful discussion tips)
• Read-Think-Talk (a guided reading chart)

Also use LitLovers generic Teen Discussion Questions to help get a discussion started for Nightbird:

1. Overall, how did you feel reading this book? Did the book hold your interest? Did it make you angry, sad, laugh?

2. What do you think of the main characters? Do you admire or disapprove of them? What are they like? Think about fairness, honesty, respectfulness, loyalty, bravery, kindness, intelligence, strength or weakness.

3. Can you find a sentence or paragraph that describes a main character really well—or in which a  character says or does something that strikes you?

4. What motivates the main characters—makes them do what they do? Do you think their actions are right or wrong, fair or unfair, or what?

5. Who in the book would you most like to meet? What would you say or ask?

6. If you could be a character in the book—or a totally new character—who would you like to be? Would you make changes? What or how?

7. Does a character remind you of someone in your family, or a friend? Have you ever felt the same way as one of the characters?

8. What is the central problem, or conflict, in the story? What is the root cause of the conflict?

9. What is the defining moment in the story—the climax? How did you feel when it happened? Were your frightened? Sad? Relieved? Angry?

10. Has something like this happened to you? How do you think you would react if something like it ever did happen?

11. Do you like the way the story ends? If so, why. If not, what would you change?

12. Did you expect the ending—or were you surprised?

13. Do the characters learn anything by the end of the story? Do they grow or develop a new outlook on life. Are they smarter or wiser?

14. What do you think we can learn from this book? What insights can we gain. What can we take away to make us wiser?

15. Were you sad to see the story end, to say goodbye to the characters? Or were you ready for it to end?

16.. Overall, how do you like the book? Would you tell another friend to read it?

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