Discussion Questions
Use our LitLovers Book Club Resources; they can help with discussions for any book:
• How to Discuss a Book (helpful discussion tips)
• Generic Discussion Questions—Fiction and Nonfiction
• Read-Think-Talk (a guided reading chart)
Also consider these LitLovers talking points to help get a discussion started for Sweetwater Creek:
1. What kind of girl is Emily? Where and how does she find comfort in her lonely existence on the Sweetwater farm? Talk about her hability to train the Boykin spaniels...and her relationship to Elvis.
2. How does Emily's father Walter view the Foxworths? What is he hoping to get from them?
2. Describe Lulu Foxworth. What are her demons? In what way does Lulu change Emily and her life?
3. What does Emily come to learn by the end of this book?
4. Is what happens to Lulu inevitable?
(Questions by LitLovers. Please feel free to use them, online or off, with attribution. Thanks.)
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