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GRIEF AND LOSS “She just got really self-centered, didn’t she?”Liz, age 15 2. Losing the only other living member of her family was a huge thing. Does going through something like that make it okay to be self-centered? What other ways might grief affect people? 3. Why didn’t Arden want people to help her?
“She shouldn’t have stopped doing her art. It would have made her happier when she got so down after he was gone.”Haylee, age 14 2. Have you ever stopped doing something you love? Why?
“I liked how she did all that hunting for him on her own. I know I’d do the same thing.”Alex, 8th grade 2.She was searching for her brother. What else was she looking for? Why did those things seem important to her? RELATED READING If you're doing a report and want to go deeper than just talking about Thin Ice, there are many terrific books about related subjects. By the end of the book Arden decides she wants to be an artistto make the stuff on the inside of frames. What's it like to have that desire? A couple of fun books on female artists are Runaway Girl: The Artist Louise Bourgois, by Jan Greenberg and Margaret Bourke White, by Susan Goldman Rubin. I researched A LOT on the subject of dead bodies and missing persons when I was writing this book. If you're interested in that area you might want to check out Crime Scene Investigation, by Cyril Wecht or Bone Detectives, by Donna M. Jackson. |
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