Sfcms Feb 2

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Did it seem wrong to go to court against your own father, some judge running his finger down the pages of a law book, looking for all the things your daddy was doing wrong?

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Chicken Boy by Frances O'Roark Dowell

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will a man only buy Chevrolets?

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Summer of My German Soldier by Bette Greene

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does a character think he'll be lucky if he makes it to twenty-one with all the fools running around with AK-47s?

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Bronx Masquerade by Nikki Grimes

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Does a character sell rifles to pay for calves and a new bull?

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Peak by Roland Smith

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Is a boy tied to a boiler in a cellar?

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Freak the Mighty by Rodman Philbrick

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does a character wonder, "Why hasn't somebody censored death?"

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Bronx Masquerade by Nikki Grimes

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does beauty survive a kind of life where pamper is a noun, not a verb?

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Bronx Masquerade by Nikki Grimes

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is there a dark, powdery tracing on a concrete slab from rust?

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Flush by Carl Hiassen

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does a character comment on a nifty magnetic sign for the side of your car?

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Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt

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is there a small brown volume called Accidents and Emergencies: A Manual of the Treatment of Surgical and Other Injuries in the Absence of a Physician?

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Storm Warriors by Elisa Carbone

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is a character too deep into the Look magazine to hear something?

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Summer of My German Soldier by Bette Greene

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is almost every trading post run by white men?

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Code Talker by Joseph Bruchac

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Does a character have a sore throat and felt like the muscles and joints inside his skin had been replaced with broken glass?

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Peak by Roland Smith

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is someone shown a work called The Book of Faith?

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Just Ella by Margaret Peterson Haddix

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does a character leave a glass slipper behind?

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Just Ella by Margaret Peterson Haddix

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Are the camps made from leftover scraps from other campers?

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Peak by Roland Smith

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does an old neighbor woman cackle, "Now, there's one who will live happily ever after"?

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Just Ella by Margaret Peterson Haddix

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is a mother's love as certain as the firmness of the sacred earth beneath a character's moccasins?

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Code Talker by Joseph Bruchac

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Do ten characters claim to work for one member of their group in order to live together in their DA?

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Invitation to the Game by Monica Hughes

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Is lunch Stroganoff and an energy bar for dessert?

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Peak by Roland Smith

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doe a character nail a solo?

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Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie by Jordan Sonnenblick

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Does a boy wear an altimeter watch?

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Peak by Roland Smith

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does a grandmother say that if her grandson does something again, she'll take his hands and sew them over his ears?

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Dicey's Song by Cynthia Voigt

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does a man have a Stone Age stereo system with an actual turntable?

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Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie by Jordan Sonnenblick

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would a lawyer rather go to trial than accept a plea?

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Peak by Roland Smith

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Does a character find it unusual that four young people display true courtesy to one another?

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View from Saturday by E.L. Konigsburg

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does a girl jump into the sea?

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Peter and the Starcatchers by Dave Barry & Ridley Pearson

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do cousins turn the sidewalk into a dancefloor when salsa or la bamba spills from a third-story window?

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Bronx Masquerade by Nikki Grimes

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is the question asked, "Did you perchance remember that you have a bell to call your servants?"

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Just Ella by Margaret Peterson Haddix

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Does a character steal a quad bike?

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Storm Breaker by Anthony Horowitz

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is it said, "Women were created to be like flowers, providing color and beauty to the world"?

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Just Ella by Margaret Peterson Haddix

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Is a character’s husband murdered in Europe?

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Chasing Vermeer by Blue Balliet

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Does a character fall through a trapdoor into a black plastic tunnel?

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Storm Breaker by Anthony Horowitz

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Does the family doctor “bleed” a character because he believes his seizures are caused by too much blood?

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Phineas Gage by John Fleischman

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Had a son not seen his father in seven years?

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Peak by Roland Smith

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Does a character, when expressing her desire to change out of a uniform, say. “If we can’t be workers, at least we’ll be decorative non-workers”?

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Invitation to the Game by Monica Hughes

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does a character work on a really complicated Latin rhythm?

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Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie by Jordan Sonnenblick

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is a character told in a letter to turn her attention to more ladylike pursuits?

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Airborn by Kenneth Oppel

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does a character die after falling over the edge of a cliff?

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Castaways of the Flying Dutchman by Brian Jacques

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does a grandma finger her diamond and platnium bar pin at her neck?

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Summer of My German Soldier by Bette Greene

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Does a nun leave food for a character on the bedside table?

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Lottery Rose by Irene Hunt

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Is a character given a glass of orange juice?

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Lottery Rose by Irene Hunt

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does a school make a real ceremony of report cards?

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Dicey's Song by Cynthia Voigt

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does a flower child talk about changing the world?

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Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt

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Does a character use an x-ray to look through a door?

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Storm Breaker by Anthony Horowitz

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Do characters communicate for one whole day using nothing but drawings?

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Chasing Vermeer by Blue Balliet

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does a man take his fishing boat down to South America on some sort of job and never comes back?

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Flush by Carl Hiassen

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is it said that it's just plain stupid to pay two dollars more for clothing with a famouis label?

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Summer of My German Soldier by Bette Greene

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Does a character prefer fishing to farming because she got tired of dirt?

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Chicken Boy by Frances O'Roark Dowell

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Do all the smart-aleck remarks being made about a character bounce off his buzzing arms and legs and speed off into the universe?

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Chicken Boy by Frances O'Roark Dowell

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Does a character say that he doesn’t go to the beach because he would look like an albino walrus wearing sunglasses?

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Freak the Mighty by Rodman Philbrick

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does a maid tell all her boss's secrets?

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Castaways of the Flying Dutchman by Brian Jacques

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are there fishracksfor drying fish?

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White Fang by Jack London

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does a character get out of bed, tiptoe to the bathroom, pee, then do his usual slow-motion Ninja walk to get down the squeaky stairs without waking the 'rents or his brother?

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Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie by Jordan Sonnenblick

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Does a character realize that he does not want to be just like his father?

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Peak by Roland Smith

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Is a glassblower a pompous fellow?

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Just Ella by Margaret Peterson Haddix

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are beds jim-jammed together?

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Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis

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are fish caught in a lagoon and then slow-cooked in great pits in the sand?

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Airborn by Kenneth Oppel

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Does the story begin in the year 2154?

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Invitation to the Game by Monica Hughes

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Does a character’s personality change from being an efficient and capable foreman one moment to being pigheaded, stubborn and wishy-washy the next?

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Phineas Gage by John Fleischman

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Does a character need lots of attention for many different injuries?

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Lottery Rose by Irene Hunt

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Does a character pull five of her hairs and braid them into a fishing line?

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Invitation to the Game by Monica Hughes

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Does a character explain that knights were like the first robots, because their armor exceeded the design limitations of the human body?

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Freak the Mighty by Rodman Philbrick

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did it take nearly a year for a character to recuperate from an injury caused by a fall?

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Peak by Roland Smith

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Does a robot think that living wherever you want is an absurd thing to ask?

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Invitation to the Game by Monica Hughes

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do somehow none of the dozens of black rock band t-shirts a character owns match any of his three identical pairs of Old Navy jeans?

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Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie by Jordan Sonnenblick

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Does a boy look like a pint-sized Darth Vader?

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Freak the Mighty by Rodman Philbrick

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Do the characters build a kiln so they can bake bricks?

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Invitation to the Game by Monica Hughes

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Does a policeman find the flowerbush for a character?

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Lottery Rose by Irene Hunt

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Does it take a character several months to recover from seasickness?

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Phineas Gage by John Fleischman

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Has a character been wearing jeans every since he had gotten remarks about having bird legs in gym?

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Chicken Boy by Frances O'Roark Dowell

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does a character say that something is the "real 411"?

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Bronx Masquerade by Nikki Grimes

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do people have a stack of pretty sunset pictures?

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Flush by Carl Hiassen

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do angry women tell a character that he is worthless and will come to an evil end?

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White Fang by Jack London

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Does a character fall into an aquarium?

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Storm Breaker by Anthony Horowitz

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does a character pass a row of giant Christmas trees planted on the side of the building?

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Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis

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are bikes propped against the trunk of a gumbo limbo tree?

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Flush by Carl Hiassen

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does a character glug down some milk and head to the basement to practice on a tragic day?

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Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie by Jordan Sonnenblick

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Does a nun want some boys to try out for the choir?

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Lottery Rose by Irene Hunt

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does a character come into contact with Victor Hugo the famous writer?

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Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman

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Is a character having trouble finding a place to put his prize?

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Lottery Rose by Irene Hunt

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are slippers presented to someone on a velvet pillow?

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Just Ella by Margaret Peterson Haddix

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Does a character receive a letter printed on expensive stationery?

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Chasing Vermeer by Blue Balliet

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is a character seriously tempted to rush home and break a television?

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Flush by Carl Hiassen

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Is a trustworthy person called sirdar?

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Peak by Roland Smith

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is a character arrested by NYPD?

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Peak by Roland Smith

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Does a police station now stand where a prison was once located?

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Castaways of the Flying Dutchman by Brian Jacques

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Does a character find an embroidered pillow with a big tear in it?

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Chasing Vermeer by Blue Balliet

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does a character plan to put a man on his junk and cut it adrift and let him float out to sea?

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Kite Rider by Geraldine McCaughrean

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Does a character find herself picturing a rectangle inside a triangle?

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Chasing Vermeer by Blue Balliet

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Does a character break into a home to steal clothing?

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Just Ella by Margaret Peterson Haddix

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is the worst thing about a day that a boy first feels relief when he hears that someone has leukemia?

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Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie by Jordan Sonnenblick

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does a character save up all his babysitting money and buy two tickets to a clinic?

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Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie by Jordan Sonnenblick

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does someone tell a boy, "The sooner your have a new father to beat you regularly, the better!"?

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Kite Rider by Geraldine McCaughrean

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is a substance poured into an old man's chest in an effort to save him?

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Peter and the Starcatchers by Dave Barry & Ridley Pearson

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Did a character start singing “This Land is Your Land” to a bird

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Chicken Boy by Frances O'Roark Dowell

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Is a boy showing the character around the new school?

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Lottery Rose by Irene Hunt

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Is it stated that a character “didn’t know that she didn’t know until she did know?”

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View from Saturday by E.L. Konigsburg

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Does a character return to school with black eyes?

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Lottery Rose by Irene Hunt

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does the main charcter jump in and out of his hometown 7 times?

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Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis