Monsoon Summer
Mother Daughter Book Club Guide

Mothers and daughters everywhere are choosing Monsoon Summer as a
shared reading experience. "Your book does such a nice job encouraging us to open up with each other," writes a Mom from Arlington, Virginia. Explore the joys and challenges of this unique relationship as you journey to India with Jazz Gardner and her mother.

Discussion Questions And Suggestions For Activities

• Why didn't Jazz want to go to India at first? Was there more than one reason for her reluctance?
  
  
• Why did her mother want to go? Was there more than one reason for her excitement?
  
  
• How did each member of the Gardner family change over the summer?
  
  
• Jazz and Danita help each other to take risks. Describe a friendship where each of you has helped the other to grow or change.
  
  
• What's the most risky thing you've tried when it comes to helping someone else? Did it work?
  
  
• Draw a picture of Jazz and Steve in the "Track Team Twins" photo that Jazz hated. Compare drawings. Why did Jazz have such a hard time recognizing that she was beautiful?
  
  
• Flip through some issues of National Geographic magazine and find photos of women who might be considered beautiful in their own cultures. Make a collage together of beautiful women of all shapes and sizes.

Mitali with the "daughter" half of a
Mother-Daughter Book Club

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