Middle School: Mallory in Full Color 🌈 Novel Study

Introducing an exciting novel study based on Mallory in Full Color by Elisa Stone Leahy! 🌈

Novel studies are printable companion workbooks to popular books that you can borrow at your local library. They add to a student’s experience of reading a book by providing thought-provoking discussion questions and writing prompts, engaging enrichment activities, and opportunities to build vocabulary.

This novel study is a companion to Mallory in Full Color by Elisa Stone Leahy and can be printed right at home!

What the book is about:

Mallory Marsh is an expert at molding into whatever other people want her to be. Her true thoughts and feelings only come out in her sci-fi web comic, a story about finding your voice which she publishes anonymously as Dr. BotGirl.

But juggling all the versions of herself gets tricky, especially when Mal’s mom signs her up for swim team. Instead of being honest about hating competitive swim, Mal skips out on practice and secretly joins the library’s comic club. There Mal meets Noa, a cute nonbinary character who is very sure of who they are. As Mal helps Noa plan a drag queen story time, she tries to be the person she thinks Noa wants her to be—by lying about her stage fright.

Then Mal’s web comic goes viral, and kids at school start recognizing the unflattering characters based on Mal’s real-life friends. With negative pushback threatening the drag queen story time and Dr.BotGirl’s secret identity getting harder to hide, Mallory must reckon with the lies she has told.

If she reveals her full self, will her friends, her parents, and her new first crush accept the real Mallory Marsh?

Why you’ll ❤️ our novel studies:

You’ll love our novel studies because they:

• Foster an authentic love of books and help create life-long readers.

• Enable kids to see themselves and the diversity of the world in what they read by centering books written by Black and other authors of color. 

• Build vocabulary and help students develop other important language arts skills.

• Provide fun and educational activities that complement an amazing book and deepen understanding of the story.

• Develop critical thinking skills by pushing students to analyze themes and issues presented in the book.

• Spark important discussions and allow students to express their perspectives.

• Strengthen writing skills through extensive practice.

• Provide multimedia enrichment to engage students and extend learning.

• Supplement what kids are learning at school or in their homeschool curriculum. 

• Were developed by a certified teacher and are AI-free.

Plus, our novel studies are easy-to-use, digital resources that can be printed right at home 📚.

We also give 25% of each purchase to mutual aid 🫶🏾.

Please note that the physical book is not included in this purchase. It can be borrowed for free from your local library or the Libby App.

Digital purchase of this unit is copyright limited to students in one household or classroom.