Ribsy cover

Ribsy

by Beverly Cleary

LOST at shopping center: mongrel dog, blac,white, brown. Answers to Ribsy. Shakes hands with lef paw. No collar. AT 7-4139. Reward. That's the advertisment Henry Huggins has been running in the newspaper for three weeks. But so far it hasn't brought Henry's dog, Ribsy, back home. And despite his father's kind offer, Henry doesn't want to get another dog. He wants only Ribsy--the friendliest and most companionable dog in the whole world. Ribsy wants to come home, too. People have been nice to him, and he's having lots of adventures--from a violet-scented bubble bath to being mascot of a second-grade class. But poor Ribsy is tired of bein lost. Won't one of his escapeades lead him back to the family he misses so much? --back cover

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  1. Which character stayed with you after you turned the last page, and why?
  2. Was there a moment where you disagreed with a character’s choice? What would you have done?
  3. What theme did this book keep circling back to — and did it earn its ending?
  4. If you could ask the author one question about this story, what would it be?
  5. Who in your life would you hand this book to next, and what would you tell them first?