a few ideas...

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a few ideas...
By klperry

I did this with a group of sixth graders several years back and they loved it!

As an above poster said, there aren't very precise descriptions of the minor characters. I had the kids look through magazines and find
pictures of what they think the characters looked like and write the descriptions next to them, they created a detective's clue book with the descriptions.

Next, they took a huge sheet of bulletin board paper and created a map of Sunset Towers, who lives where, etc. They really got into this activity.

I also used this book as an opportunity to use predicting, but

elaborated to explain how to check and correct predictions if your initial predictions were incorrect, simple T chart is what I used.

Long ago in the mailbox magazine was a matrix of all the characters and you had to write clues for each character, I can check and see if I have that at school.

You picked an excellent book, good luck!!