1. The Guardian of Isis is the second novel in a series which also includes The Keeper of the Isis Light and The Isis Pedlar. Read one or both of the other novels in this series and compare the way a character is portrayed in two of the novels. The Guardian appears in all three novels; you could explain how he changes in the approximately ninety years covered by the three books.

2. Monica Hughes has said her interest in science fiction was first aroused when she read the novels of Jules Verne. Read one of Verne's novels, and point out similarities and differences in the characters, plots, or themes. In particular, determine whether Hughes and Verne agree about technology's effects upon a society.

3. Monica Hughes's descriptions of the bleak landscape on remote planets supposedly are drawn from her original impressions of...