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Book Club Kit: The Rumor Game by Dhonielle Clayton and Sona Charaipotra

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I lead multiple book clubs through my library so these book club kits are really useful. Thank you! I highly recommend these book club kits for any group!

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I will not give a real and genuine feedback because I don't have the book.

I thought it was a full kit with a book.
Although I think this is a fun and practical guide to have in a book club.

So sorry.

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I loved the book club kit! Unfortunetly the book wasn't for me.The book club kit gave me good talking points and really made me think as I read it. I just didn't end up liking the book at all.

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I love these Book Club Kits and especially the ones that include an interview with the author. This Book Club Kit was very helpful during our book club discussion. We utilized the list of questions for a deeper discussion.

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I received this in exchange for a n honest review. This is a book club kit which is awesome. There is a table of contents which is great and easy to navigate. You also have an interview with the author. I like to see some thoughts from the author, A discussion guide with questions is always great and I love it. I love to use the questions to guide the book club discussions. The what to read next is great so you can see what else is out there.

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3.5/5
I love how this kit was set up as a phone screen such a cute idea! I also really liked how they had the guide to creating open communication with you'r teen/children.I liked how this kit included content warnings for the book but if you are looking at the kit more then likely you are past the need for the content warning since you have already read it. But in the case that you look at the kit first thus would definitely be informative. This kit is mainly an author interview which is nice but not my thing. Along with the interview it has 2 pages of discussion questions and they did include 2 questions from the author directly. I did also like the book marks that they were included.

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I really appreciated this book club kit and hope that there are more in the future! This is my first time using a book club kit and it was certainly interesting and a different way of going about reading a new book.

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This book club kit is incredible! I love all of the extras it includes (even bookmarks!) This is a wonderful resource for any educator wanting to do a book club for The Rumor Game. It really takes all of the guess work out of finding resources for the novel.

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This Book Club Kit is a valuable resource for parents and teens who might read the book.
The information is presented in a factual, heartfelt manner as it explores many current issues that teens face today including bullying, cyberbullying, sexual abuse, assault, body image, underage drinking and racism.

The authors' group interview also delves into the inspiration for the book and touches upon experiences in their lives as well as the pressures that today's teens experience. I'm sure that few parents today have experienced the pressures that their children face daily, and may not recognize the need to help their child deal with them.

I thought that the sections on creating open communication and the guide to resources for the families and teens were a valuable part of the Book Club Kit as they showed that once the problem/s was identified, there are resources to help cope with it/them.

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Lovely book club kit, I am so glad I took out the time to go through this. You won't regret it either!

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These printable book club kits really enhance and inspire any bookclub discussions.

It contains interesting questions , discussion topics and printable bookmarks, and recommendations for your next read! So useful .Thank you.

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This is such a fun, engaging book club kit! I love reading interviews with authors, and hearing about what inspired them to write their novel. The included discussion questions are perfect for encouraging deeper exploration of the book's characters and themes, and I loved how Netgalley began including this in request. Will definitely use in the near future with my very own book club.

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This book club kit is very useful and allows for deeper discussion. The book has real life situations and discussion of them can help teens navigate sticky situations in the future.

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This book club kit is well done. I really enjoyed this book club kit because it had some great conversational questions that are extremely relevant in our world today. Having both an adult and teen section makes the book club kit much more versatile.

I found the discussion questions to be thoughtful and probing. The opening discussion interviews enables the book group/reader a better understanding of how the authors developed their story and characters. I would have liked the author background to be closer to the interview because it would have helped me with some context as well. However it is there just located further back.

The follow up books and resource materials are a great supplement to the kit. Often as a book group we search for follow up books and it’s helpful to have some suggestions. The resource sites are helpful depending how the discussions develop.

Thank you the the publisher and NetGalley for the opportunity to review this material.

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This is a printable book club kit that can be an extremely valuable resource. Thank you to the publisher for giving me a copy through NetGalley.

It contains author interviews, questions, printable bookmarks, and recommendations for your next read! It also has specific questions for adult and YA age groups.

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Many thanks to NetGalley, We Are Bookish and Dhonielle Clayton for an ARC in exchange for an honest review. My thoughts and opinions are 100% my own and independent of receiving an advance copy.

The Rumor Game is written by the tag team authors Dhonielle Clayton and Sons Charaipotra. They have teamed up before on the Tiny Pretty Things series soon to become a Netflix series. This story is about girls at a fancy private school and how rumors, which catch like wildfire, affect the lives of three teens. The Book Club Kit is a companion to those who are reading the book.

This kit includes many of the things we now expect to see in these NetGalley book club kits. It has the author interview, which because we have two authors, it is more like a chat, discussion questions, bookmark, general information about the authors and what to read next. Because the book deals with bullying there are resources and a special section on creating open communication for encourage those who are being bullied to speak up and confide in someone they trust.

What I really like about this kit is that, yes, it is made for book clubs, but it accommodates for both teens and adults. There are specific discussion questions aimed at both groups and the guideline for open communication is also geared for either teens or adults. There is a long list of content warnings for this story including bullying, cyberbullying, sexual assault, body image, fat phobia, and self harm. Also beware - this kit contains spoilers so don’t read through until you’ve read the book!

All in all another successful book kit by NetGalley. Whether you are reading this in your book club or use this book kit for yourself, it will enhance your reading experience.

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The Rumor Game is a great YA book. I was hoping the book club kit would be a great addition to using The Rumor Game with my teen book club, but I really wish the kit had more discussion questions included.

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Very helpful, everyone loved it! It contained lots of wonderful resources, and was a big hit amongst the group.

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The guide is very well done, and full of things I did not expect to see -- for example, the advice to adults and teens about open communication, and the author chat. As a high school librarian, I'd look to this guide for a book discussion group, so those two features may not be something I'd use, strictly speaking, but they do add a lot of helpful background knowledge which enriches the reader's experience, I think. So, I like having them included, and I see the value, but I don't think I'd have a chance to share them with a group, unless there was an unusual amount of interest. The discussion questions are outstanding. The read alike suggestions are helpful too -- I am glad they were included, although I tend to avoid read alike lists from publishers because they are made up of books that are only from that publisher. But it is still good to get some ideas. Every book should have a guide like this, great job.

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Great for book club and is pretty useful in starting a book club especially for deeper discussions regarding books!

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