Golden Sower

​“Wow! Shades of Fahrenheit 451 and Orwell’s 1984. Painfully real and urgent. Read this book.” —Michael Grant, New York Times bestselling author of the Gone series
Bestselling author Joelle Charbonneau’s eerily timely, high-stakes page-turner is destined to start important conversations at this particular moment in our history.
Meri Beckley lives in a world without lies. When she looks at the peaceful Chicago streets, she feels pride in the era of unprecedented hope and prosperity over which the governor presides.
But when Meri’s mother is killed, Meri suddenly has questions that no one else seems to be asking. And when she tries to uncover her mother’s state of mind in her last weeks, she finds herself drawn into a secret world with a history she didn’t know existed.
Suddenly, Meri is faced with a choice between accepting the “truth” or embracing a world the government doesn’t want anyone to see—a world where words have the power to change the course of a country and where the wrong ones can get Meri killed.

Activity 1:
If you could just save 5 books from destruction, which books would you choose? Make a case for each of the books you selected as to why that book matters to future generations.

Activity 2:
Recreate the logo that Meri designs for Gloss Magazine. How do you imagine it would look?

Activity 3:
Print off this Vocabulary Crossword Puzzle. Complete it. Return just the crossword part to Mrs. Jack. Here is a list of words that will help you out in your project:

atrium                                                                        isolationism
censorship                                                               ministration
congruent                                                                palette
corroborate                                                            radical                                                                      
deride                                                                        spearhead
diversity                                                                   revolution
extinguishes                                                          tangent
feign                                                                           verify
incontrovertible                                                  entitlement