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Comprehension Questions – A Never Girls Adventure: Finding Tinker Bell #1 Beyond Never Land

Beyond Never Land

by Kiki Thorpe

Grades 1-4; Genre - Fantasy; GRL N; AR pts. 1.0

When Tinker Bell sets out on a trip beyond Never Land and disappears, it’s up to the Never Girls—Kate, Mia, Lainey, and Gabby—to find their missing fairy friend. But Tink’s mission has taken her farther from Pixie Hollow than any fairy has ever gone before. Can the Never Girls, along with their fairy friends Silvermist, Fawn, Rosetta, and Iridessa, track Tink down before she’s lost forever?

Comprehension Questions

Chapter 1

  1. Why was the wooden boat special? It was the girls’ great grandfather’s p.8

Chapter 2

  1. What’s Tink’s problem in this chapter? She’s tired of the same thing each day and feels like she’s missing something; she’d like to go on an adventure p.19

Chapter 3

  1. What’s excitement in this chapter? A snake was threatening to attack a fairy in the orchard; Kate threw an apple and distracted it; other fairies swooped in and saved the fairy; everyone else made noise and the snake left p.28

Chapter 4

  1. What did Tink do in this chapter? She found the girls’ boat and thought it was for her; she magically brought it into her workshop and fixed it up; she told her friends what she was doing; she copied the map so she could take it with her; her shadow drew things on the map she couldn’t see p.35

Chapter 5

  1. Why would Gabby rather have her father mad at her than be disappointed in her? She’d really let her dad down p.54
  2. Have you ever felt this way? Explain. Listen to your child’s answer.

Chapter 6

  1. Summarize this chapter. Gabby and the girls couldn’t find the boat; Tink had taken it sailing that morning; Tink sailed next to flying fish and lost sight of the island; a cloud came and rained on her; she turned around but couldn’t see land p.61

Chapter 7

  1. Why was it rude to take the map out of Tink’s workshop? Gabby shouldn’t have taken it without permission; she shouldn’t have snooped around Tink’s office without permission; you should always have permission to go into someone else’s space and ask permission to take their things p.80

Chapter 8

  1. Why is Gabby worried about her friend and the boat? Nothing that has ever gone to the island has ever come be back p.92

Chapter 9

  1. Why was Tink disheartened and nervous at the end of this chapter? She wasn’t in Never Land and she wasn’t alone p.101

Chapter 10

  1. How does this story end? The girls and fairies left to go find Tink; they saw a small black cloud p.104

Comprehension Questions – The Never Girls #13 Under the Lagoon

#13 Under the Lagoon

by Kiki Thorpe

Grades 2-3; Genre - Fantasy; GRL N; AR pts. 1.0

The fairies in Never Land think that mermaids are nothing but trouble. When Gabby befriends a mermaid, Kate, Mia, and Lainey warn her to stay away, but Gabby doesn't want to lose her new friend.

Comprehension Questions

Chapter 1 

  1. Explain what happened to Gabby in this chapter? She stayed back on the beach while the other girls went on the raft to visit Sunny; she made a sand castle but water kept splashing her; the water swallowed up her barrettes and her sand castle; she thought she saw someone hiding on the rocks in the water p.8
  2. Predict who you think that someone is. Listen to your child’s answer. 

Chapter 2

  1. What saved Gabby from drowning in the cauldron? A mermaid came in and with magic lowered the water level p.25
  2. What did Gabby make that day? A friend p.25
  3. What evidence shows you she made a friend? They enjoyed being together; they played games and talked; they were happy to find out they had many things in common p.27

Chapter 3

  1. Who saw Gabby playing with a mermaid and why did she think it strange? Rosetta; mermaids don’t like humans p.40
  2. Do you think it’s strange that Gabby and Yooni want to be friends? Why, or why not? Listen to your child’s answer. 

Chapter 4

  1. Define the word grudge. to be unwilling to give or admit: give or allow reluctantly or resentfully p.45
  2. What happened when the fairies told and retold what Rosetta saw? The story got more elaborate with each telling and started to be misleading and not true and turned into gossiping p.46
  3. Explain a time when you have experienced something like this. Listen to your child’s answer. 

Chapter 5

  1. Why did the other girls assume Yooni was bad? The fairies assumed she was since she was a mermaid and had told them so p.54
  2. Why was Gabby sad in this chapter? The other girls had been mean and scared Yooni away p.59

Chapter 6

  1. Why did Rosetta agree to take the sea rose to the mermaids? Gabby missed Yooni and she felt guilty she had let the rumor get out of hand p.65
  2. What attitude did both the mermaids and fairies have toward each other? They thought they were better than the other p.71

Chapter 7

  1. Was Gabby making a good choice to go see Yooni or follow her to the mermaid party? Why, or why not? No; she has been sneaky and didn’t tell her sister p.74
  2. Why will Gabby’s sister be upset she went to the mermaid party? She can’t trust the mermaids; she’ll worry that Gabby’s in danger; Gabby should have told her where she was going p.80
  3. From what you’ve learned about mermaids in this story, predict what will happen at the party. Listen to your child’s answer. 

Chapter 8

  1. Why was Rosetta in angst this chapter? She realized she’s having a hard time always knowing what to do and when to talk about things p.88
  2. Have you ever felt this way? Listen to your child’s answer.
  3. Why are the fairies worried Gabby’s with the mermaids? They’re singing their most powerful song which can turn fairies into bats, and they don’t know what it’ll do to humans p.90

Chapter 9

  1. Summarize what happened in this chapter. The fairies and girls went to the mermaid lagoon to find Gabby; they got there and found they were in the eye of the storm; they saw Gabby and she saw them; she fell from the rock into the water p.101

Chapter 10

  1. Were the fairies right to believe that something bad can happen during the mermaids’ powerful music? Yes p.108
  2. What did Gabby learn in this chapter? That’s not all mermaids are bad, but she needs to listen to her sister and the other fairies p.108
  3. What did the mermaids and fairies learn in this chapter? That they can be nice to each other and be friends p.109