Would you like to have a teacher like Ms. Hussey? Why or why not?
We are told that Charles Fort, author of Lo! does not believe coincidence. Do you believe in coincidence?
Did any one decode the "Reader's Challenge" Puzzle?
Petra says that yellow is the colour of surprise. Do you agree? Do other colours have symbolic meaning in the book? What do you think red is the colour of? Green? Blue?
At the end of the book Calder discovers twelve people have twelve letters in their names. Is there anyone else with twelve letters in their name that has a connection to the book?
Have you ever gotten a letter that you will never forget? A piece of mail that changes your life?
Petra dreams about A Lady Writing and thinks that she is getting messages, or at least encouragement, from the Lady. Have you had a dream that sent you a message?
"X the experts" becomes a slogan as people the world over respond to the letters the Vermeer thief has written. What does that mean? Can you think of examples when the "experts" got something wrong?
In what ways are Petra and Calder different? In what ways are they the same? Are you more like Petra or Calder?
Calder and Tommy communicate by a code they have invented. Have you ever made up a code?
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