9. Role-play a conversation between Archie, Hachi, Fergus, Clyde, and Kitsune in which each discusses why he or she agreed to be part of the League of Seven and their feelings about the group.
10. Help Archie and his friends find their next League member by creating an early chapter for the next League of Seven novel. Select your favorite historical time and place and research at least two real people, events, or important objects from this time to include in your chapter. Invent and name a new fictional League member and decide what abilities he or she will have. Write a 3–6 page chapter in which Archie or Hachi meets this new League member.
11. In the last century, philosopher and essayist George Santayana (1863–1952) wrote: “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” How does this relate to Archie’s observation that people sometimes “want to forget” horrible experiences? Is forgetting dangerous? Write an essay explaining how Santayana’s quotation can be understood in terms of the novel.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Alan Gratz is the author of Samurai Shortstop, an ALA 2007 Top Ten Book for Young Adults. He began writing The League of Seven by listing all the things that ten-year-old Alan would have thought were awesome, including brass goggles, airships, tentacle monsters, brains in jars, windup robots, secret societies, and superpowers. (In fact, he still thinks all those things are awesome.) When he’s not writing books like The League of Seven, Samurai Shortstop, The Brooklyn Nine, and Prisoner B-3087, he’s usually reading other people’s books or creating an awesome new costume for science fiction/fantasy conventions. Visit his website at www.alangratz.com, or sign up for email updates here.
BY ALAN GRATZ
The League of Seven
The Dragon Lantern
The Monster War (forthcoming)
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CONTENTS
Title Page
Copyright Notice
Dedication
Frontispiece (The League of Seven Characters)
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Chapter 32
Chapter 33
Chapter 34
Chapter 35
The League of Seven Characters Frontispiece
Acknowledgments
Excerpt from The Monster War
Reading & Activity Guide
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By Alan Gratz
Copyright
This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.
Copyright © 2015 by Alan Gratz
Reader’s Guide copyright © 2015 by Tor Books
The Monster War excerpt copyright © 2015 by Alan Gratz
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Cover art and interior illustrations by Brett Helquist
Map by Jennifer Hanover
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