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We’ve put together discussion questions for Born a Crime by Trevor Noah that you can use with a book club or a class at school. We include sample answers, book club activities that will help you get more out of what you’ve read, and recommendations for more reading if you like this book. Book Synopsis Born a Crime is Trevor Noah’s memoir about growing up in South Africa during and after apartheid. The title refers to the fact that Noah was born in 1984 to a black Xhosa mother and a white Swiss-German father at a time when such a

We’ve put together discussion questions for Hillbilly Elegy by JD Vance that you can use with a book club or a class at school. We include sample answers, book club activities that will help you get more out of what you’ve read, and recommendations for more reading if you like this book. Book Synopsis Hillbilly Elegy is JD Vance’s 2016 memoir chronicling his upbringing in the white working-class Appalachian culture of Middletown, Ohio, and Jackson, Kentucky. Vance describes growing up amid poverty, family instability, and dysfunction—including his mother’s struggles with drug addiction and a revolving door of father figures. Despite

We’ve put together discussion questions for The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls that you can use with a book club, a class at school, or a team at work. We include sample answers, book club activities that will help you get more out of what you’ve read, and recommendations for more reading if you like this book. Book Synopsis The Glass Castle is a memoir by Jeannette Walls about her unconventional and often chaotic upbringing. Walls recounts growing up with brilliant but deeply dysfunctional parents: her father Rex, an alcoholic dreamer who filled his children’s heads with grand plans (including

We’ve put together discussion questions for I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai that you can use with a book club or a class at school. We include sample answers, book club activities that will help you get more out of what you’ve read, and recommendations for more reading if you like this book. Book Synopsis I Am Malala is the memoir of Malala Yousafzai, a Pakistani activist who was shot by the Taliban when she was fifteen years old for advocating for girls’ education. The book chronicles her childhood in Pakistan’s Swat Valley, where she grew up in a family