Everything you need to understand or teach The Court of the Stone Children by Eleanor Cameron.
The Court of the Stone Children addresses philosophical questions, such as the nature of time and reality, that have occupied thinkers through the ages. It is also a lively, entertaining story that presents its thought-provoking ideas clearly and concretely, in a simple, readable style that never "talks down" to the reader.
On the one hand, there is a fascinating two hundred-year-old murder mystery to be solved. Clues are found in dreams, in an...