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Grow Team Grow Resources for Youth

Photo of Georgie the cat featured in Angela LaCarrubba's books.

Questions For Young Readers to ask Themselves about Grow Team Grow

Hello Young Readers, I’d like to help you get ready for this story before you read it. So, ask yourself the first question after you look at the cover of the book.

Q.  Read the book’s title and look at the cover illustration. Tell yourself what you think the story will be about.


Q.  Why are Todd and Sam upset at the beginning of the book?


Q.  What does the word team mean to Todd?


Q.  After watching Georgie what does Todd plan to do for his team?

Cooperation is the thorough conviction that nobody can get there unless everybody gets there.
— Virginia Burden

Q.  After many practices, how does the Cougar team change?


Q.  What does the coach do to show he respects each teammate in the same way?


Q.  Why are Todd’s team members in his basement at the end of the story?


Q.  What is the lesson of the story?

Meet Georgie!

Photo of Georgie the cat featured in Angela LaCarrubba's books.

At the age of one year Georgie, the cat, was left by his first owners on the streets of a small city in New Jersey. He wandered around and was taken in by a kind resident. She in turn gave him to a family who agreed to give him a home. When Georgie decided he was the boss of the other cats in that home he went to Angela’s house where he has been residing in glory ever since. He loves people, ham, chasing the deer in the nearby woods from inside his house, and eating flowers, fresh or silk. But, hey, nobody’s purr-fect, love him anyway!

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