Sfcms January 12-2Nd Set

Front 1

Does a character see a submarine surface?

Back 1

Storm Breaker by Anthony Horowitz

Front 2

does a captain throw precious barrels of fresh water overboard in hopes of gaining speed?

Back 2

Peter and the Starcatchers by Dave Barry & Ridley Pearson

Front 3

Does a character wish that her mother wouldn’t put baba ghanoush in her lunch box?

Back 3

Chasing Vermeer by Blue Balliet

Front 4

is there a shiny new van from Channel 10 parked outside a station?

Back 4

Flush by Carl Hiassen

Front 5

do passengers sip cocktails and chilled fruit juices on the beach?

Back 5

Airborn by Kenneth Oppel

Front 6

does a character paint symbols of her own invention on the wall with ash from the stove and a broken chopstick?

Back 6

Kite Rider by Geraldine McCaughrean

Front 7

Are all expenses for a year of schooling paid for a character?

Back 7

Lottery Rose by Irene Hunt

Front 8

does a sister advise her brother to head to California?

Back 8

Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt

Front 9

is there a pile of stacked wood under a window?

Back 9

Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis

Front 10

does a boy confess to being somewhere he wasn't supposed to be in order to corroborate the story about the flying rat?

Back 10

Peter and the Starcatchers by Dave Barry & Ridley Pearson

Front 11

does a woman clasp her ankles and rock to and fro, her eyes darting this way and that, truculent, mutinous, like a cornered animal?

Back 11

Kite Rider by Geraldine McCaughrean

Front 12

Is a young girl’s father killed by bandits?

Back 12

Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan

Front 13

Is a person taken to JDC?

Back 13

Peak by Roland Smith

Front 14

Is the first thing a character learns one morning is that if you eat a big breakfast the bus won’t make you feel so sick and the second thing is that school ain’t a half-bad place to be sometimes?

Back 14

Chicken Boy by Frances O'Roark Dowell

Front 15

does a character fall into a bed of compost?

Back 15

Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman

Front 16

does a character get brought a paperback book about chess?

Back 16

Flush by Carl Hiassen

Front 17

does a boy say he needs moatmeal to warm up his parts?

Back 17

Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie by Jordan Sonnenblick

Front 18

Does a character start running through the woods behind the shiny new neighborhoods that kept sprouting up like fields of mushrooms after a big rain?

Back 18

Chicken Boy by Frances O'Roark Dowell

Front 19

Is a character beaten with the leg of a chair?

Back 19

Lottery Rose by Irene Hunt

Front 20

Is each character given a code name?

Back 20

Storm Breaker by Anthony Horowitz

Front 21

does someone think that a “blue-eyed boy had been sent to aid him by some mysterious power.”?

Back 21

Castaways of the Flying Dutchman by Brian Jacques

Front 22

does a dog have “a wit and sense of humor that any intelligent being would envy?”

Back 22

Castaways of the Flying Dutchman by Brian Jacques

Front 23

does a woman open up her husband's study so two character's could search for clues?

Back 23

Castaways of the Flying Dutchman by Brian Jacques

Front 24

Does a character run a fever for five days?

Back 24

Lottery Rose by Irene Hunt

Front 25

Do small pools of icy slime collect in the mouthpiece valve?

Back 25

Peak by Roland Smith

Front 26

Does a young girl have to leave her injured Grandmother for another country?

Back 26

Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan

Front 27

Is a character disappointed that his grandmother didn’t get jail time for pulling her truck up on the sidewalk of his middle school because he looked forward to visiting her in jail?

Back 27

Chicken Boy by Frances O'Roark Dowell

Front 28

Did a character wear a cherry red jumpsuit?

Back 28

Invitation to the Game by Monica Hughes

Front 29

does a man ask, "How many of you sheep herders know how to swim?"

Back 29

Code Talker by Joseph Bruchac

Front 30

Do characters develop a routine of taking an early walk, eating breakfast, watching the TODAY SHOW, and going for a swim?

Back 30

View from Saturday by E.L. Konigsburg

Front 31

does a trunk filled with sand trick everyone into thinking that it was the greatest treasure ever sent to sea?

Back 31

Peter and the Starcatchers by Dave Barry & Ridley Pearson

Front 32

Do characters create a contest out of pulling off strips of old paper from a bedroom wall?

Back 32

View from Saturday by E.L. Konigsburg

Front 33

Does a new pair of smoke-gray shoes with black stripes make a character feel like a streak of lightning?

Back 33

Chicken Boy by Frances O'Roark Dowell

Front 34

Is a character wishing a play would go on longer?

Back 34

Lottery Rose by Irene Hunt

Front 35

Do two characters fall into the habit of discussing articles from the National Geographic while driving to and from family therapy?

Back 35

Chicken Boy by Frances O'Roark Dowell

Front 36

Does a mother move with her daughter to a northern state because she needs some autumn in her life?

Back 36

View from Saturday by E.L. Konigsburg

Front 37

Is a character’s mother Canadian?

Back 37

Chasing Vermeer by Blue Balliet

Front 38

Does a character live with a housekeeper?

Back 38

Storm Breaker by Anthony Horowitz

Front 39

is a moose seen as meat and life?

Back 39

White Fang by Jack London

Front 40

Is a character given a yo-yo, zit cream, and a Game Boy?

Back 40

Storm Breaker by Anthony Horowitz

Front 41

Does a man swear on the Bible that he did not kill a boy’s mother?

Back 41

Freak the Mighty by Rodman Philbrick

Front 42

have they never had to close a beach before one business arrived on the scene?

Back 42

Flush by Carl Hiassen

Front 43

is there a little model of the Golden Gate Bridge?

Back 43

Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman

Front 44

Does a character wish that her left ear didn’t stick out farther than her right?

Back 44

Chasing Vermeer by Blue Balliet

Front 45

could a man smell the scent of roses before he ever saw a woman?

Back 45

Storm Warriors by Elisa Carbone

Front 46

does a character have trouble climbing a tree because her skirts kept getting in the way?

Back 46

Airborn by Kenneth Oppel

Front 47

Is yellow band referring to sandstone that breaks off?

Back 47

Peak by Roland Smith

Front 48

Is a school nurse going to a character’s home?

Back 48

Lottery Rose by Irene Hunt

Front 49

does the pain in a man’s back disappear in an instant?

Back 49

Peter and the Starcatchers by Dave Barry & Ridley Pearson

Front 50

does a black dog save a boy's life?

Back 50

Castaways of the Flying Dutchman by Brian Jacques

Front 51

does a captain surrender in hopes of bargaining for the lives of his crew?

Back 51

Peter and the Starcatchers by Dave Barry & Ridley Pearson

Front 52

do men try to earn their fortune from Canada geese, brant, and duck?

Back 52

Storm Warriors by Elisa Carbone

Front 53

does an author thank three authors for leading the way?

Back 53

Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie by Jordan Sonnenblick

Front 54

is someone lowered down into a well?

Back 54

Castaways of the Flying Dutchman by Brian Jacques

Front 55

Does a woman break her back and shatter her hip falling thirty feet up.

Back 55

Peak by Roland Smith

Front 56

Does a character want to talk to the owner of a beautiful flower garden?

Back 56

Lottery Rose by Irene Hunt

Front 57

Is a character not exactly fat, but considered to be pretty close to the line?

Back 57

Chicken Boy by Frances O'Roark Dowell

Front 58

Does a class take a field trip to the art museum?

Back 58

Chasing Vermeer by Blue Balliet

Front 59

does a character roar in fury because he has lost his hostage?

Back 59

Peter and the Starcatchers by Dave Barry & Ridley Pearson

Front 60

Does it take a character three days to build a wedding cake?

Back 60

View from Saturday by E.L. Konigsburg

Front 61

does a character start to wash a dish instead of smashing it because nothing in his house was the way it was supposed to be?

Back 61

Chicken Boy by Frances O'Roark Dowell

Front 62

Does a character wear a camouflage outfit that fits him badly?

Back 62

Storm Breaker by Anthony Horowitz

Front 63

Does a character say that she injured her arm when the lights went out in her house and she fell?

Back 63

Chasing Vermeer by Blue Balliet

Front 64

IWB do two stowaways give a porter a silver sixpence for letting them ride in the baggage car of a train?

Back 64

Castaways of the Flying Dutchman by Brian Jacques

Front 65

is a character learning to calculate his own muscular movements, to know his physical limitations, to measure distances between objects, and between objects and himself?

Back 65

White Fang by Jack London

Front 66

will people put a dollar every week in a jar to save for school?

Back 66

Storm Warriors by Elisa Carbone

Front 67

are three emeralds accepted as payment for a delivery?

Back 67

Castaways of the Flying Dutchman by Brian Jacques

Front 68

is a car ride so quiet a character imagines he can hear the tire treads rubbing against the road?

Back 68

Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie by Jordan Sonnenblick

Front 69

Does the first officer on a ship get angry after seeing two boys talking to two “lovely ladies” in the first class section of the ship?

Back 69

Peter and the Starcatchers by Dave Barry & Ridley Pearson

Front 70

Does a character brag to a cop that a special guard had to be put on him last year at school?

Back 70

Chicken Boy by Frances O'Roark Dowell

Front 71

Does a character find themselves unemployed?

Back 71

Invitation to the Game by Monica Hughes

Front 72

does a character learn to omit preliminaries of battle?

Back 72

White Fang by Jack London

Front 73

Does a character refuse to take a class because of the teacher?

Back 73

Lottery Rose by Irene Hunt

Front 74

Is a character thinking of ways to break some long nails?

Back 74

Lottery Rose by Irene Hunt

Front 75

is there a boy with a crooked smile who was an efficient shoplifter and an occasional thug?

Back 75

Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman

Front 76

is a character's fear of the unknown an inherited distrust, and it has now been strengthened by experience?

Back 76

White Fang by Jack London

Front 77

Does a woman throw a plant onto a playground?

Back 77

Lottery Rose by Irene Hunt

Front 78

Is an opposing group called the “Localizers?”

Back 78

Phineas Gage by John Fleischman

Front 79

has a person been told that a story is built like a stone wall, some will fit, some will not.

Back 79

Peak by Roland Smith

Front 80

does a character realize she is in a dungeon?

Back 80

Just Ella by Margaret Peterson Haddix

Front 81

were there three magpies perched in a hawthorn tree?

Back 81

Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman

Front 82

Are diapers and other clothes scrubbed out in a washtub using a washboard?

Back 82

Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan

Front 83

Was a boy questioning his father’s motives for rescuing him?

Back 83

Peak by Roland Smith

Front 84

does a father say that it hurts to talk about his dead wife, so his daughter has had very little in the way of even second-hand memories?

Back 84

Just Ella by Margaret Peterson Haddix

Front 85

do a character's sanguinary methods and remarkable efficiency make others pay for their persecution of him?

Back 85

White Fang by Jack London

Front 86

Is a character in first grade for the second time and still could not read?

Back 86

Lottery Rose by Irene Hunt

Front 87

does a character not want to spend the rest of her life hauling ashes?

Back 87

Just Ella by Margaret Peterson Haddix

Front 88

is there a metal biscuit tin filled with envelopes and cards and slips of paper?

Back 88

Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman

Front 89

did characters think of beating people’s brains out with a rock and when the brain had rotted they would eat them?

Back 89

Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman

Front 90

do characters have to learn a new alphabet?

Back 90

Code Talker by Joseph Bruchac

Front 91

does a character toss his head back and laugh as sheets of rain pour from the sky?

Back 91

Peter and the Starcatchers by Dave Barry & Ridley Pearson

Front 92

does a character live in a trailer park on an old road that runs parallel to a highway?

Back 92

Flush by Carl Hiassen

Front 93

does a girl remember changing her brother's diapers and feeding him and watching him sleep until their mother got home?

Back 93

Dicey's Song by Cynthia Voigt

Front 94

does a character remember thinking, "Wow! A protector. Not everybody gets to be a protector"?

Back 94

Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie by Jordan Sonnenblick

Front 95

did characters leapfrog over dustbins?

Back 95

Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman

Front 96

does a character have eyes like black pools?

Back 96

Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman

Front 97

is a character being asphyxiated by a teacher's perfume?

Back 97

Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie by Jordan Sonnenblick

Front 98

is a soccer player described as a great clod of living earth?

Back 98

Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt

Front 99

is it said that a boy with his face turned up to the sky looses all the stale vapors from his body?

Back 99

Kite Rider by Geraldine McCaughrean

Front 100

Is a character allowed to check out a book as many times as needed?

Back 100

Lottery Rose by Irene Hunt

Front 101

does a character say, "Sweetie, the only sewage I ever saw was the human kind"?

Back 101

Flush by Carl Hiassen

Front 102

Do the characters discover an egg that once had drogue parachutes attached to it?

Back 102

Invitation to the Game by Monica Hughes