This document provides 15 novel project ideas for students to demonstrate their understanding of characters, themes, and events in books they have read. The projects involve creating collages, characterization discs, CD covers, maps, theme images, home pages, chat room conversations, word collages, poems, dream vacations, gifts for characters, opinion columns, analyses of characters' fears, relating current events to characters, and historical travel brochures. Examples of completed student projects are included for some of the assignment ideas.