Teacher Guide: I Have an Olive Tree by Eve Bunting

[Originally published in Ready Readers: Children’s Literature, Vol. 2]

For her seventh birthday, Sophia’s grandfather gives her an unusual gift: an olive tree, growing on the Greek island where her mother was born. When Grandfather dies a year later, he asks Sophia to take her Grandmother’s beads back to Greece and to hang them in her special tree. As Sophia and her mother make their journey through Greece, Sophia learns about her heritage.