Beyond the Bright Sea

The daughters are now almost halfway through 7th grade and decided they wanted to make some changes.

Super understandable that things can't (and shouldn't!) stay the same since 3rd grade.

The changes we made:

• The blog is too overwhelming to keep up with with all their other responsibilities.  One of the moms will take over posting and it truly will be more of a log-- just the book we read + 3 questions
• Instead of a different girl leading the entire discussion (which includes prep), each girl will come with 1 question to ask each month.
• We will shift from the moms choosing most of the books for the throwdown to the daughters choosing about 75% of the books for throwdown.  Each daughter will suggest 3-4 books every November.

On to the book!

Questions

Norah:
What do you think this means: “Because that’s what people do when they think something doesn’t belong to you. Like taking the treasure because it was buried on a state land, even if it belonged to someone else before that. And claiming a little island that nobody else could have thought of wanting, until someone else wanted it.”

Kaia:
Why do you think the author made the choice for Crow to never meet her brother?

Zoe:
On page 209, Osh said "People don't want much until they have plenty, then they want more and more." Where do we see this in society?