60 pages 2 hours read

Jacqueline Davies

The Lemonade War

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2007

A modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more. For select classroom titles, we also provide Teaching Guides with discussion and quiz questions to prompt student engagement.

Thought & Response Prompts

These prompts can be used for in-class discussion, exploratory free-writing, or reflection homework before or after reading the novel.

Pre-Reading “Icebreaker”

Imagine that you have been training in a sport since you were a little child. You love this sport and work very hard to get better at it. You finally make your dream team—and then you find out that your younger sibling, who just started playing and hardly trains at all, has also made the team. Would you be happy for your sibling? Jealous? How would it make you feel about your own hard work? Would you still feel proud of what you have achieved? Do you think it would become a problem in your relationship with your sibling?

Teaching Suggestion: Use this prompt to guide students to think about how competition affects relationships and how we feel when others seem to achieve things more easily than we do. You might ask them to suggest some strategies that people can use to process difficult emotions and deal with unpleasant realities. As The Lemonade War shows, an important part of maturing is learning how to take others’ perspectives and understand and regulate our own emotions so that we can resolve emotional conflicts like this, especially when they interfere with our happiness and relationships.

Related Titles

By Jacqueline Davies

Study Guide

logo

The Bell Bandit

Jacqueline Davies

The Bell Bandit

Jacqueline Davies

Study Guide

logo

The Lemonade Crime

Jacqueline Davies

The Lemonade Crime

Jacqueline Davies