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100 Cards in this Set
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does a bully challenge same one to meet him alone behind the library?
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Castaways of the Flying Dutchman by Brian Jacques
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Does a teacher’s class include four boys whose names start with the letter “J”?
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View from Saturday by E.L. Konigsburg
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is a character scrubbing the floor when an invitation comes?
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Just Ella by Margaret Peterson Haddix
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Do passengers obtain train tickets by touching a map and placing a coin in a slot?
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Invitation to the Game by Monica Hughes
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Does a boy think his father does not need a suit of armor and cannot be beaten, even by Lancelot?
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Freak the Mighty by Rodman Philbrick
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Is it important for a 14-year-old to reach a point by his birthday to be the youngest?
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Peak by Roland Smith
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Is an area enclosed by a high brick wall topped with broken glass and razor wire?
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Storm Breaker by Anthony Horowitz
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does a child not know his own birth date?
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Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
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Does an old red face man shout, “ I want a refund”?
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Peak by Roland Smith
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does an individual feel like he has a hard boiled goose egg lodged in his throat?
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Peak by Roland Smith
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do two characters try to think of a plan to rescue their friends from a group of savages?
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Peter and the Starcatchers by Dave Barry & Ridley Pearson
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does a character bribe his sister with the money he'd scrounge up returning soda bottles to the grocery store?
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Bronx Masquerade by Nikki Grimes
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Does a character hide in a treehouse?
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Chasing Vermeer by Blue Balliet
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Does a character look forward to having beef jerky that cattlemen make?
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Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan
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does someone think they see a boy and a black dog calling to them in the village square only to find no one out there?
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Castaways of the Flying Dutchman by Brian Jacques
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Does a character wear thick glasses with blue-and-purple-speckled frames?
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Chasing Vermeer by Blue Balliet
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Is weather very important?
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Peak by Roland Smith
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is it said that a cabin boy is a credit to his ship and captain?
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Airborn by Kenneth Oppel
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do people who don't know a man automatically assume he had to be drunk to do some of the things he did?
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Flush by Carl Hiassen
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Is there a place scattered with pieces of wrecked ships scaring sailors to the point where they won’t even look in that direction?
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Peter and the Starcatchers by Dave Barry & Ridley Pearson
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does a character get death threats from friends?
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Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt
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Does a mother give a credit card and an international call card from her purse?
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Peak by Roland Smith
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does a boy hear a coakroach yelling in his eardrum?
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Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis
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IWB is an old lady scared and worried because she thinks time is running out on her legal situation?
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Castaways of the Flying Dutchman by Brian Jacques
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Does a character go for a walk along the edge of a cliff?
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Storm Breaker by Anthony Horowitz
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Does a character play the role of the White Rabbit?
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Lottery Rose by Irene Hunt
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Does a woman say “It’s good luck, rubbing a dwarf on the head?”
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Freak the Mighty by Rodman Philbrick
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does a woman take a character shopping to buy new Sunday clothes?
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Castaways of the Flying Dutchman by Brian Jacques
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has a class been talking a lot about identity?
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Bronx Masquerade by Nikki Grimes
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has a wall been an irresistable attraction before a character's eyes had even opened?
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White Fang by Jack London
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Does a character impress his friends by opening his hand over a tabletop and releasing three red-and-white mints?
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View from Saturday by E.L. Konigsburg
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Does a car’s wheel axle snap with the sound of a thunderbolt?
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Storm Breaker by Anthony Horowitz
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Does a character find a tunnel completely submerged in water?
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Storm Breaker by Anthony Horowitz
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Does a character invite a woman to listen to the choir?
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Lottery Rose by Irene Hunt
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Does a character encourage his brother to take the bus to school rather than let his grandmother take him?
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Chicken Boy by Frances O'Roark Dowell
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does an individual peel of a ½” of bills and hand them to someone for a taxi?
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Peak by Roland Smith
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Does a character explain that his areas of expertise are languages and weight and measures?
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View from Saturday by E.L. Konigsburg
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Are some boys singing a song in a cemetery?
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Lottery Rose by Irene Hunt
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Does a girl learn a tough lesson about giving infants raw plums?
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Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan
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do people walk in a slow procession filling the road, five abreast?
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Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
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does a character scream with inhuman rage when he sees an empty treasure chest?
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Peter and the Starcatchers by Dave Barry & Ridley Pearson
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could a character's cabin give a character a sleep as wide as continents and deep as oceans?
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Airborn by Kenneth Oppel
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are there three entirely pragmatic books: an atlas, a physician's textbook, and a volume on plant and animal husbandry?
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Just Ella by Margaret Peterson Haddix
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is a character attacked by a little girl?
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Peter and the Starcatchers by Dave Barry & Ridley Pearson
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Was a character totally distraught when he found out that he would not be a part of the team?
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Peak by Roland Smith
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Does a character prepare for overnight guests by purchasing a carafe and matching glass for a nightstand beside a bed?
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View from Saturday by E.L. Konigsburg
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does a character talk about a frozen outhouse/garbage dump?
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Peak by Roland Smith
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is it said that a certain woman does not care about knowledge, only gossip and fashion and getting her own way?
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Just Ella by Margaret Peterson Haddix
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Is a character’s office emptied during his funeral?
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Storm Breaker by Anthony Horowitz
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Is it a character’s job to organize data collected by his class into a giant chart?
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Chasing Vermeer by Blue Balliet
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does a memory of fathers eating their newborn progeny lurk in a mother's mind?
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White Fang by Jack London
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is the owner of the new train station upset that a train is running 15 minutes late?
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Castaways of the Flying Dutchman by Brian Jacques
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do a boy's arms and legs look like mooring poles?
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Storm Warriors by Elisa Carbone
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do half a dozen snow birds flutter across someone's field of vision?
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White Fang by Jack London
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is a boy hypothermic, so his wet clothes have to be taken off him?
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Storm Warriors by Elisa Carbone
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Is a character told that he has no name?
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Storm Breaker by Anthony Horowitz
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is a Marine recruiter coming to look for volunteers?
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Code Talker by Joseph Bruchac
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does the family watch Walter Cronkite report the news?
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Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt
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has a character never tried doing a self-portrait?
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Bronx Masquerade by Nikki Grimes
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could people send battlefield messages that no one else could understand?
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Code Talker by Joseph Bruchac
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is a father's spirit trying to tell his family something?
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Kite Rider by Geraldine McCaughrean
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Is a school as new as morning but still smells exactly like every school a character had ever been in; chalk, gym socks and teachers’ bad breath?
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Chicken Boy by Frances O'Roark Dowell
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is it said that men enforce their live strength with the power of dead things?
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White Fang by Jack London
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does a character take a large blue crockery bowl and carefully ladle in steaming broth before dropping in two fat matzo balls?
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Summer of My German Soldier by Bette Greene
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does drooling in books get librarians really mad?
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Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis
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does a character make pennons with swallowtails?
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Kite Rider by Geraldine McCaughrean
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Does a character try to hide when his mother’s boyfriend comes to visit?
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Lottery Rose by Irene Hunt
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Is it more important for sisters to attend school than for the brother?
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Peak by Roland Smith
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Does a school not recognize sports as a worthy endeavor?
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Peak by Roland Smith
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do a character's knees knock like a skeleton on Halloween as he stands in front of a class?
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Bronx Masquerade by Nikki Grimes
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Does a character find a note on a refrigerator door telling her to make herself at home while other characters go for a walk?
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View from Saturday by E.L. Konigsburg
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does a ship captain and a pirate captain, both think “nobody understands how hard it is being captain”?
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Peter and the Starcatchers by Dave Barry & Ridley Pearson
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are stringy muscles like founts of inexhaustible energy?
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White Fang by Jack London
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Is it said that, “benevolence cannot be seen on the outside of the brain?”
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Phineas Gage by John Fleischman
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does a character know in his heart that it is his time to serve as a warrior?
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Code Talker by Joseph Bruchac
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does a character start dreaming about a man with a giant fiddle?
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Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis
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does a girl remember when she was 5 years old she had to hide from thieves that were outside of her house?
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Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan
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is there no money left to buy rice, and the chickens had all gone out of the coop?
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Kite Rider by Geraldine McCaughrean
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Did the main characters liken her situation as one of the “unemployed” to the Jews and Catholics and Gypsies “who went to the gas chambers in the dark years of the 20th century”
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Invitation to the Game by Monica Hughes
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Does a character always keep a dictionary in his knapsack?
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Freak the Mighty by Rodman Philbrick
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Were 25 people waiting on one man to return?
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Peak by Roland Smith
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Does a father start whistling the theme song from the 10 o’clock news while frying onions to put in the Hamburger Helper he was fixing for dinner?
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Chicken Boy by Frances O'Roark Dowell
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Does a character have a pantry with three kinds of bread, five different brands of crackers and at least two kinds of cookies?
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Chicken Boy by Frances O'Roark Dowell
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Will an Australorp give a business a fighting chance to make a profit before spring?
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Chicken Boy by Frances O'Roark Dowell
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did a young man want to know if Islands and porpoises and glaciers and mountains were there for him to visit?
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Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
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does a character spend a whole Sunday working on a boat, scraping curved planks?
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Dicey's Song by Cynthia Voigt
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Does a character hide in a dark basement?
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Chasing Vermeer by Blue Balliet
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Does a character see empty cork cells because they are dead?
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Phineas Gage by John Fleischman
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is there the kind of woman that is so wonderful that her husband would run from his ship past four inns and a gaming house, just to wrap her in his arms?
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Kite Rider by Geraldine McCaughrean
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Does the emcee look at her report card and tell herself that she’s done better than she expected?
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Invitation to the Game by Monica Hughes
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Do girls who have turned 15 have presentation parties called quinceaneras?
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Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan
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does a character open their mouth but only sounds of sadness come out?
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Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt
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does a seven year old girl have lively braids that stick out every which way?
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Storm Warriors by Elisa Carbone
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Does a woman bring flowers to a chapel?
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Lottery Rose by Irene Hunt
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does a character decide to keep a low profile which wasn’t hard because no one wanted anything to do with him?
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Peak by Roland Smith
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Does a character rescue his friend from a kidnapper by squirting a mixture of soap, vinegar, and curry powder in the kidnapper’s eyes?
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Freak the Mighty by Rodman Philbrick
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Did a character realize that you don’t get to pick your name or your parents?
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Peak by Roland Smith
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Does a character hide in a car that is going to be destroyed?
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Storm Breaker by Anthony Horowitz
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Does a character wish to be hidden in a misty green fog?
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Lottery Rose by Irene Hunt
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do characters point out the constellation Orion the Hunter with his belt of three stars?
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Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
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