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In which book is a boy sent from London after the Luftwaffe dropped a breadbasket with 72 bombs? | #In which book is a pocketknife carved by the Sergeant Major given as a gift? | ||
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#In which book is a novice only allowed to eat food that is offered to him by others? | |||
In which book has the pagoda long been the meeting place of the workers? | #In which book is a railroad built in leapfrog style? | ||
#In which book is it dangerous for Hannibal to get agitated? | |||
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In which book is a novice only allowed to eat food that is offered to him by others? | |||
In which book is a railroad built in leapfrog style? | |||
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===Notes from the Midnight Driver=== | ===Notes from the Midnight Driver=== |
Latest revision as of 15:11, 28 April 2011
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Building Questions
Below is a heading for each title. Please add your question to the appropriate title. Remember answers to all questions should be just a title/author of a book.
The Boy Who Dared
The Boy Who Dared by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
- In which do some boys aged 10-14 join the Jungvolk?
- In which book does the main character resent finding Hugo sitting at their table every morning?
- In which book does a student write an essay for school that he does not believe in?
- In which book does a boy start a detective agency called "Lord Lister Detective Agency?"
- In which book is dust "verboten?"
- In which book does a mother admit to her disgusted and pained son, "Silence is how people get on sometimes."
- In which book is it against the law to listen to foreign radio broadcasts?
- In which book is a radio obtained on the black market?
- In which book is Brother Worbs arrested for telling how he feels?
- In which book are Karl and Rudi named as accomplices?
- In which book is a printing press considered good fortune?
- In which book are pamphlets used to get information out to people?
Shark Girl
Shark Girl by Kelly Bingham
- In which book is a brother credited with saving his sister's life?
- In which book does a girl get tired of hearing that she is a hero?
- In which book is Justin a fan of Legos, Superman, and a dog named Spot?
- In which book is the narrator used to winning the art contest at school?
- In which book is it difficult to decide if Chuck is helpful or more in the way?
- In which book is a girl haunted by people whispering "did you see the video"?
The Compound
The Compound by S.A. Bodeen
- In which book does the main character tend a hydroponic garden? John Gillette 22:48, 9 February 2011 (UTC)
- In which book does the mother discover the flour in their pantry has gone rancid? John Gillette 22:50, 9 February 2011 (UTC)
- In which book is the main character currently reading a Stephen King novel?
- In which book does the main character have a stash of Snickers in his room?
- In which book was the mother a cellist in the symphony before her marriage?
- In which book does the main character play the trumpet?
- In which book was the name of the family dog Cocoa?
- In which book was the newest member of the family named Finnegan?
- In which book does the grandmother live in Hawaii?
- In which book was the father obsessed with nuclear war?
- In which book is the brother of the main character named Eddy?
- In which book was turducken the food for the traditional family Christmas?
Airman
Airman by Eoin Colfer
- In which book are Connor and Isabella so adventurous that they are "often so daubed with mud, blood, and nothing good that (they are) barely distinguishable"?
- In which book did King Nicholas show a young boy how sunlight passing through a lense can start a fire?
- In which book do two children use a flag to fly to safety?
- In which book does Sir Hugo Bonvilain hide Conor Broekhart in the prison on Little Saltee?
- In which book are the letters P.A.I.N. tattooed on a man's knuckles, and a menu of beatling tattooed on his chest?
- In which book are a salsa garden and coronation balloons part of an escape?
- In which book does a man live and work in a cylindrical Mortello tower?
- In which book are boys paid in diamonds and hot chocolate to get the cargo to St. Patrick's Bridge before dark?
- In which book does Linus Wynter seem to come back from the dead?
Waiting for Normal
Waiting for Normal by Leslie Connor
- In which book does a trailer burn down?
- In which book does the main character refer to her mother as Mommers?
- In which book does the main character's neighbor have "everything from marshmallows and onion soup mix to sunglasses and disposable diapers"?
- In which book does a stolen flute cause a girl terrible guilt and shame?
- In which book are "toast dinners" a specialty when made with sliced tomatoes, cheese, and canned soup?
- In which book is Elliot Rick's boyfriend and Soula's best friend and sometimes hero?
- In which book is the pet hamster named Piccolo?
- In which book does the main character have spatial relationship problems that causes words to slide around on the page?
- In which book did Addie not play in the orchestra concert because she was afraid of her old music teacher in the audience?
- In which book does a girl's home burn down when the leftovers from Fiesta Night start a kitchen fire?
Shooting the Moon
Shooting the Moon by Frances O'Roark Dowell
- In which book does the main character’s brother volunteer for the medical corps in Vietnam?
- In which book is the main character a 12-year old girl from a military family?
- In which book does the main character call her dad “The Colonel?”
- In which book does the main character receive undeveloped rolls of film from her brother?
- In which book did the main character write articles for her school paper?
- In which books was there a gin rummy card competition?
- In which book did Jamie give pictures to the moon to Cindy?
- In which book is the setting Fort Hood, TX, in the summer of 1969?
- In which book does the main character volunteer at the Army base’s rec center?
- In which book does the main character become friends with a soldier named Private Hollister?
- In which book does a sister discover that her pictures fit with the pictures taken by her brother?
Football Genius
Football Genius by Time Green
- In which book did Tate, Nathan, and Troy walk the tracks of "The Midnight Express"?
- In which book was Jamie Renfro the antagonist?
- In which book did Seth Halloway mention that his dad was a cop and got killed at a bank robbery when Seth was only three?
- In which book did the main character squeeze through a break in a concrete wall to get into the country club?
- In which book did Krock have a plastic, right ankle with a shiny, metal bolt?
- In which book did the main character jump off the bridge, landing 30 ft. below in the Chattahoochee River?
- In which book was Coke drank and mentioned in many of the chapters?
- In which book did the main character get to ride in a yellow H2?
Scat!
Scat! by Carl Hiaasen
- In which book is the Florida Panther one of the characters?
- In which book is a boy assigned a "five-hundred-word essay about pimples"?
- In which book does an angry boy take a bite out of a pencil and swallow it in one gulp?
- In which book are pink flags rearranged to spell out a word?
- In which book is the Red Diamond Energy Company the source of a forest fire?
- In which book does Bunny Starch drive a blue Prius?
- In which book is Wendell Waxmo a ridiculous sub that sings the Pledge of Allegiance and teaches the same page of the book every Monday?
- In which book is Squirt a very protected cub?
La Linea
La Linea by Ann Jaramillo
- In which book was the boy named after the authors his papa liked?
- In which book was there a man named Don Clemente?
- In which book is the boys family in California?
- In which book does the main character kill a goat for a fiesta?
- In which book is there a train called "the people killer"?
Frankie Landau-Banks
The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart
- In which does a small ceramic dog become the center of an argument?
- In which book is there a Geek Club Conglomerate?
- In which book is Trish the roommate?
- In which book does the narrator compare society to living in a panopticon?
- In which book is the narrator infatuated with words that are the "neglected positive"?
- In which book does the quad get "forket" spelling out BEWARE THE BASSETT?
- In which book does the Night of a Thousand Dogs end in the statement "Folk music sucks"?
Magic Thief
Magic Thief by Sarah Prineas
- In which book is the main character given a hand-knitted sweater?
- In which book is a thief a lot like a wizard?
- In which book is a boy interesting to Nevery because the boy did not die when he attempted to take a stone?
- In which book are messages written in the runic alphabet?
- In which book is Benet a bodyguard that bakes bisquits and knits sweaters?
- In which book does a cat barely escape a rumble with three rats?
- In which book do misery eels ropple like a black silken scarf?
The Alchemyst
The Alchemyst: the Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel by Michael Scott
- In which book is one of the opening scenes in a bookstore?
- In which book does a woman go by the name of Perry Fleming to protect her identity?
- In which book is the Codex missing The Final Summoning?
- In which book does the smell of sulfur mean that bad things are about to happen?
- In which book does Hekate of the Elder Race read auras?
- In which book is a woman held captive on Alcatraz?
- In which book has a man been " a physician and a cook, a bookseller, a soldier, a teacher of languages and chemistry, both an officer of the law and a thief".
- In which book is Josh jealous of his twin sister for being Awakened?
Elephant Run
Elephant Run by Roland Smith
- In which book is the setting on a teak plantation?
- In which book is a boy sent from London after the Luftwaffe dropped a breadbasket with 72 bombs?
- In which book is a pocketknife carved by the Sergeant Major given as a gift?
- In which book has the pagoda long been the meeting place of the workers?
- In which book does a servant stare at the wall for clues to a mysterious disappearance?
- In which book is a novice only allowed to eat food that is offered to him by others?
- In which book is a railroad built in leapfrog style?
- In which book is it dangerous for Hannibal to get agitated?
Notes from the Midnight Driver
Notes from the Midnight Driver by John Sonnenblick
- In which book did a boy steal a car?
- In which book was a lawn gnome decapitated?
- In which book is there a character named Alexander Gregory?
- In which book was the boy driving drunk?
- In which book does a boy suffer a concussion?
- In which book does a boy play the guitar?
- In which book is Laurie Flynn the main character's best friend?
- In which book is the boy's sentence to work with Solomon Lewis?
- In which book was yiddish spoken?
- In which book did the man have emphesima?
- In which book is there a group called the Cha-Kings?
- In which book is "gotcha" a big part of the book?
Runaway
Runaway by Wendelin Van Draanen
- In which book is a girl sometimes confined to a laundry room?
- In which book does a girl make a home out of a box?
- In which book does a mother overdose on heroin?
- In which book does Mrs. Leone believe that writing is a way of working through issues?
- In which book does a young girl hop on trains and stowe away in a Greyhound luggage compartment to travel west?
- In which book is a student assigned to write a cinquain poem to describe an embarrassing moment?
- In which book does Venus steal something from the main character?
- In which book does a girl shoplift a swimming suit?
- In which book does a girl wish to be a sea gypsy in California?
- In which book do a mother and daughter eat Kentucky Fried Chicken and canned spiced peaches for Thanksgiving instead of turkey?
- In which book does a girl refuse to refer to herself as homeless?
- In which book does the main character imagine running along the beach with a dog that is wearing a bandana?