1. Frost’s mother says, “You find your people and you protect each other from the wolves” (p. 249). How well do Frost, Bench, Deedee, and Wolf fit this description? How does their group change in the course of the book?
2. What other tribes exist at your school? Relate the idea of friend groups to your own experience of school life.
3. Explain the nicknames that Frost and his initial group of friends have, where they came from, and why they matter. What does each nickname tell you about the boy?
4. What event pushes the school to forbid students from bringing phones to school? How do the students react to this?
5. When Rose Holland comes to school as a new student, what impact does her presence have on Frost and his friends? What happens when she joins them at their lunch table?
6. Have you ever been in a situation where someone outside of your friend group wants to join in? What happened?
7. Find examples of how Frost compares middle school to a war zone and specifically how he describes the use of sticky notes as a war. In what ways do the comparisons ring true?
8. What effect does catching the football and making a touchdown have on Bench’s life? When Bench and Frost are talking about why Bench changed lunch tables, Bench says, “It’s not even about you!” (p. 331). What does he mean?
9. How did you feel while reading the scene in which Cameron and his friends threaten Deedee and Frost in the bathroom?
10. Do you think something like that has or could happen at our school? What might you do if it did happen here?
11. Why do you think Rose makes the bet with Cameron? Why do you think it was so important to her?
12. Describe the Gauntlet and how the kids at the middle school use it, including Evan. Why does Rose ride it?
13. After the bathroom bullying incident, Rose says to Frost that “telling the principal won’t work” (p. 271). Why does she believe that?
14. Discuss the meanings of the words “I’m sorry” that Rose makes Cameron wear. Why does Frost say the note is perfect?
15. What is the significance of the phrase “Total Roman” on Wolf ’s locker? Who wrote them there, and why? Talk about why Wolf, after he sees the locker, goes home and destroys his models.
16. After the words appear on Wolf ’s locker, both Bench and Frost do tell the principal. Why do you think they decided to do so? What were the consequences, and was it a good decision?
17. In the end, Wolf decides to go to another school. Why does he make that choice? How does Frost feel about it? Give reasons that it might or might not be a good move for Wolf.
18. “Words are ghosts that can haunt us forever,” reads a sticky note on Jason’s locker (p. 340). Who put it there, and why? What does it mean?
19. What are your favorite details in the book? Do you like the book ending? If you were the author, how would you end the story?
20. From 1 to 5, how many stars would you rate the book?
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