Reading Guide Q & A

OPENING CHAPTERS

1. What are the three things Kat Cruz longs for as a twelve-year-old tween?
2. How does she think she will feel when she becomes a teenager?
3. How does she react to her brother in the initial scenes?
4.  How does she interact with her mother in the initial scenes?
5.. How does she deal with Maria’s bullying at school?
6.. What is her first reaction to Will Morris? 
7.. What is her first reaction to the burglar?
8. What stereotypes does she have about boys and relationships?
9. What stereotypes does she have of her parents?
10. What’s the one thing she does stand up for from the start?


MIDDLE CHAPTERS

1. How does Kat stand up for herself at the talent show?
2. How does she change her perspective towards her mother and Mrs. Morris afterwards? 
3. How does she move from a childish fantasy of what Will should be to the reality of what     he is?
4. How does she begin to change her attitude toward Max in the eclipse scenes?
5 How does she take charge in the 7/11 scene?
6. When does her father realize that she is maturing?


FINAL REALIZATIONS

1. When does Kat begin to walk in other people’s shoes and see other points of view?
2. When does she stop wishing for things to happen and start making them happen?
3. What stereotypes from fairytales does she let go of? 
4. When does Kat realize that coming-of-age is a process and not just a period, a bra, or the number thirteen?
5. When does her mother finally accept that her daughter is growing up?



 DISCUSS HOW KAT BECOME A A ROLE MODEL FOR GEN Z GIRLS.