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Alan Mendelsohn, the Boy from Mars Study Guide

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by Daniel Pinkwater
About 13 pages (3,918 words)
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Topics for Discussion

1. Why do the Waka-Wakians fall for the hoax of the Nafsulians?

2. The word Nafsulian contains an anagram of the word snafu. What other examples of wordplay are there in Alan Mendelsohn, the Boy from Mars?

3. Does reading Alan Mendelsohn, the Boy from Mars make going to school more bearable?

4. How well developed are the characters in Alan Mendelsohn, the Boy from Mars? Are they mostly just jokes, or are they fleshed out?

5. When did you realize that Alan Mendelsohn, the Boy from Mars was not going to be just another book about a lonely kid who does not like school?

Were you surprised with the direction the plot took?

6. "It's a work of art," he said. "You don't have to know what it means.".....

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Alan Mendelsohn, the Boy from Mars from Beacham's Encyclopedia of Popular Fiction and Beacham's Guide to Literature for Young Adults. ©2005-2006 Thomson Gale, a part of the Thomson Corporation. All rights reserved.



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