For five weeks, students read Lois Lowry’s “The Giver” for a small group book club. Meeting weekly, we discussed main ideas, themes, and made predictions for future chapters. Students learned and reinforced how to connect ideas between other non-fiction texts, poems, images, and music. Student’s answered questions each week to guide their reading. To conclude, students created a “one pager” that displayed whole text themes and their favorite quotes. Students also enjoyed a film-viewing party to watch their favorite scenes from the book.