Discussion Guide—The Girl with 500 Middle Names

Questions that can be used in classrooms and book groups

• Would you want to be called by a different name? Why or why not?
  
  
• Come up with your own reason to explain why someone might wear a personalized sweater with the wrong name on it.
  
  
• Kimberly thinks that Janie is poor, and then she changes her mind. What do you think?