Describe Melody’s extreme range of emotions as she tries to tell her mother that Penny is behind the car. How would you have coped with the same situation?ġ6. Describe Melody’s feelings before the trip to the airport, while she is there, and after she gets home. What is ironic about the events at the restaurant after the competition? How does this scene foreshadow the events that led up to the airport fiasco?ġ5. What does Melody learn about friendship and the relationships of children working together as she practices and competes with the quiz team? What does she learn about herself?ġ4. Why does Melody decide to enter the quiz team competition? What obstacles must she face and overcome just to get on the team?ġ3. How does Melody’s computer change her life, her outlook on life, and her potential? Why does she name it Elvira?ġ2. What does Melody learn about friendship during the trip to the aquarium? Make a comparison between Ollie’s life, the life of the fish in the aquarium, and Melody’s life.ġ1. Describe Melody’s deep, unrealized need for a friend.ġ0. How does the inclusion program change Melody’s school experiences? Describe both positive and negative results of the program. Analyze Melody’s complicated feelings about her little sister.ĩ. Describe how the introduction of Penny as a character changes the family dynamics. What is significant about the story of Ollie the fish? How does Ollie’s life mirror Melody’s? Describe Melody’s feelings when she is unable to tell her mother what really happened.Ĩ. What role does she play in Melody’s development? Why is she a necessary addition to Melody’s life?ħ. What does this say about her school system, or about attitudes at her school about teaching children with special needs?Ħ. Discuss Melody’s teachers since she began going to school. How does Melody feel about school? How does she fit in with her classmates and what makes her different from the rest of the children in H-5? What would be Melody’s ideal school situation?ĥ. How do they learn to communicate with Melody and help her to overcome everyday problems? Why are those efforts sometimes a complete failure?Ĥ. In a world that does not work for her, what seems to cause the biggest frustrations for Melody?ģ. How does this help capture the reader’s attention? What predictions can the reader make about the narrator of the story? What inferences can be made about the thought processes of the narrator’s mind?Ģ. The novel opens with a powerful discussion of the power of words and language.
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