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The Great Turkey Walk

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1998

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Content Warning: This section of the guide includes discussion of racism.

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How does Miss Rogers’s influence on Simon show up in multiple ways throughout the story? How does this influence connect to the novel’s themes?

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How do Simon’s and Samson’s approaches to money differ? What message is the book sending about the role of money in people’s lives?

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Samson and Cleaver are bad people, but they are also comic figures. How do the characterizations of Samson and Cleaver function as an element of the novel’s satire of the society Simon lives in?

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