Old Willis Place (Hahn)

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

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Also consider these LitLovers talking points to help get a discussion started for The Old Willis Place:

1. Were you surprised about Diana and Georgie? What are some of the clues that lead up to the discovery of who they really are.

2. Talk about how the story is told to us through two different characters—Diana's voice and Lissa's diary. What do we learn from one that we don't learn from the other?

3. What are are the rules that Diana and Georgie must follow, and why are they so strict?

4. Talk about Lissa's stealing the key from her father, urging Diana to go into the house...and unleashing the horror that follows. How do you feel about Lissa and Diana's friendship with her?

5. What happened to Old Miss Willis? Are Diana and Georgie responsible for "the bad thing that happened"?

(Questions by LitLovers. Please feel free to use them, online or off, with attribution. Thanks.)

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