1. Seventeen-year-old Rita expects to have her romance novel published. Several real life teenagers have published books.

What kind of books have they written and have they been successful?

2. Arnold communicates with Rita through a series of postcards. Describe, or create through color copies, a series of postcards that would inform others where you are in your life at this time—geograpically and emotionally.

3. Doris Morris is in charge of a "stable" of writers churning out romances, westerns, and mysteries. Is this a common practice in book publishing? How does it apply to the world of young adult literature?

4. Is Zurich portrayed realistically in the novel? How does Switzerland compare to the United States politically, economically and culturally?

5. What is the meaning of the Yeats poem that Arnold recites to Rita? What other works by Yeats would describe their relationship...