Sfcms January 12

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Does a rat float in midair?

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Peter and the Starcatchers by Dave Barry & Ridley Pearson

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Is a character told he can’t get his butt kicked over a woman and then not do his homework for her?

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Chicken Boy by Frances O'Roark Dowell

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Does a character answer a question not by speaking but rather by nodding his head repeatedly, resembling a bobble-head animal seen in a car rear window?

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View from Saturday by E.L. Konigsburg

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Does the main character realize that she and her friends have “won a certain level” and have “automatically bumped up to the next and harder level”?

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Invitation to the Game by Monica Hughes

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is a large group of people forced to walk hundreds of miles to a strange and faraway place?

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Code Talker by Joseph Bruchac

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Does debris cause a problem for characters to pass—some of the chunks were as big as school buses?

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Peak by Roland Smith

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Is a character’s mother crying over him?

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Lottery Rose by Irene Hunt

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does a squirrel chatter back savagely at a character?

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White Fang by Jack London

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does a couple drive their 40 foot, gas-hogging motor home all the way from Michigan and are too cheap to rent space at an RV park, so they park along the highway?

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Flush by Carl Hiassen

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is a girl's skirt daringly short, just below the knees?

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Airborn by Kenneth Oppel

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does a mighty flash stun the bugs of the forest into a momentary silence?

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Airborn by Kenneth Oppel

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does a character feel unimportant as he sits carving a slab of bacon?

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Storm Warriors by Elisa Carbone

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is there a menorah with orange light bulbs on a window?

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Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt

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Does a mother’s work uniform consist of sweatpants, a baggy T-shirt and moccasins?

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Chicken Boy by Frances O'Roark Dowell

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Does a character motivate people to getting moving even though he is sick?

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Peak by Roland Smith

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does a character talk about eyes filled with murder?

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Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt

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does a character sign his work with a little squiggling picture of a hook?

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Kite Rider by Geraldine McCaughrean

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does a character read books in a hiding place underneath a building?

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Storm Warriors by Elisa Carbone

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Does a character balance a little ivory monkey on each of its four limbs?

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View from Saturday by E.L. Konigsburg

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do hollows under fallen trees seem to attract a character?

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White Fang by Jack London

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Are pizza and Cokes sent to a team practicing late after school one day?

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View from Saturday by E.L. Konigsburg

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Does a character own a small box made of dark wood, its corner covered with inlaid silver vines?

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Chasing Vermeer by Blue Balliet

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Are unemployed graduates provided with sufficient credits for meals and shelter by the Government?

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Invitation to the Game by Monica Hughes

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does a character say, "When God went and parted the Red Sea for the Israelites, that was a miracle too"?

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Summer of My German Soldier by Bette Greene

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Does a character scrape her fingertips on a razor-sharp rock causing them to bleed, only to awaken to discover her fingertips smooth and unscarred?

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Invitation to the Game by Monica Hughes

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Is a boy advised to be selfish?

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Peak by Roland Smith

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do people believe they will be happy if they go and live somewhere else but learn that it doesn’t work that way?

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Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman

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Did a character ride a train for the 1st time?

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Invitation to the Game by Monica Hughes

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does a character blush in shame at the lack of rice cakes?

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Kite Rider by Geraldine McCaughrean

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Does a character wear a six-shooter strapped around his waist?

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Peak by Roland Smith

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Is a character served smoked salmon?

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Storm Breaker by Anthony Horowitz

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Does a character visit a facility that has four blocks?

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Storm Breaker by Anthony Horowitz

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Does a character sneak out of his room?

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Lottery Rose by Irene Hunt

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Do the characters discover after locating the Milky Way in the night, they are on a planet in another galaxy?

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Invitation to the Game by Monica Hughes

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Does a governess complain that she and her charge are placed on a “sea going dirt bucket?”

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Peter and the Starcatchers by Dave Barry & Ridley Pearson

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Does a character have a tamping iron made to order by a blacksmith?

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Phineas Gage by John Fleischman

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Does a character have a couple of Rice Krispies stuck in her hair?

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Chasing Vermeer by Blue Balliet

Front 38

Is the following message written on a leather book bag: “I am a passenger on Spaceship Earth”?

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View from Saturday by E.L. Konigsburg

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Do two characters decide that the blue M&M symbolizes secrecy?

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Chasing Vermeer by Blue Balliet

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is the electricity from the power company flickering on and off all day?

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Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt

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would heavy equipment be used to move a bolder?

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Peak by Roland Smith

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is a character told to act remorseful?

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Peak by Roland Smith

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Is a character a “club sandwich of cultures?”

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Chasing Vermeer by Blue Balliet

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Is a character kidnapped at gunpoint?

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Storm Breaker by Anthony Horowitz

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Do the main character’s classmates graduate to work on a family farm?

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Invitation to the Game by Monica Hughes

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does a character believe that some of the bleach someone had used to dye their hair had seeped right into his brain?

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Bronx Masquerade by Nikki Grimes

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does the word 'medium' sound like the sweet chink of money to a man?

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Kite Rider by Geraldine McCaughrean

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does a country feel that it is its destiny to rule its part of the world?

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Code Talker by Joseph Bruchac

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is there a single atomic bomb that destroys a whole city?

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Code Talker by Joseph Bruchac

Front 50

does a character hear his dog speaking to him “like a spirit inside his head”?

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Castaways of the Flying Dutchman by Brian Jacques

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Do three people hear the doorbell ring and upon answering, find an envelope propped up outside?

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Chasing Vermeer by Blue Balliet

Front 52

does a boy feel sorry for a starving dog, feed it, and then decide to keep it?

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Castaways of the Flying Dutchman by Brian Jacques

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Do six renegades think they have permission to steal from the rich and give to the poor?

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Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan

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Does lighting the stove take ten or fifteen minutes due to the oxygen level?

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Peak by Roland Smith

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Does the main character awaken to find themselves in the middle of a desert?

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Invitation to the Game by Monica Hughes

Front 56

Does a character get upset because he couldn’t find his prize?

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Lottery Rose by Irene Hunt

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would it not surprise a character to start getting MTV from Krygyzstan?

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Flush by Carl Hiassen

Front 58

Is bread broken into pieces for the ducks?

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Lottery Rose by Irene Hunt

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does a girl see a drab-olive, canvas-covered truck pass by?

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Summer of My German Soldier by Bette Greene

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Is it stated “the special cargo this ship carries for the queen must not fall into our enemy's hand, the consequences would be dire?”

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Peter and the Starcatchers by Dave Barry & Ridley Pearson

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does a silver haired man slurp black coffee?

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Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman

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Does a character say he and his wife made a deal with the devil when they moved into their neighborhood, and they were obliged to keep it?

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Chicken Boy by Frances O'Roark Dowell

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was a letter found under a loose floorboard?

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Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman

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Is a young boy falling face down into the water?

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Lottery Rose by Irene Hunt

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does a character want to teach someone using phonics?

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Dicey's Song by Cynthia Voigt

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are there caves called the Dragon’s Den?

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Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman

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Do friends run into a pond to escape a gang of thugs?

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Freak the Mighty by Rodman Philbrick

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does a boy know that he'd squash the cockroach who messed a girl up if she were his girlfriend?

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Bronx Masquerade by Nikki Grimes

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Does a girl jump off the sofa like it's on fire?

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Bronx Masquerade by Nikki Grimes

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Does a character read a book that describes toads dropping from the sky?

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Chasing Vermeer by Blue Balliet

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Is a character sleeping in a garden?

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Lottery Rose by Irene Hunt

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was there a box of mildewed hymn book?

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Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman

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does a character dig out his old rap lyrics from a dresser drawer?

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Bronx Masquerade by Nikki Grimes

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Does a character fall asleep under a clump of palmetto?

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Lottery Rose by Irene Hunt

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Does one of the characters describe the cynical attitude of the Roman authorities toward the common people as “bread and circuses”?

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Invitation to the Game by Monica Hughes

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do two men plod into the surf to save people?

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Storm Warriors by Elisa Carbone

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does a character ask what chillblains are?

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Dicey's Song by Cynthia Voigt

Front 78

is a heavy timbered door that leads to the ancient execution site difficult to open?

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Castaways of the Flying Dutchman by Brian Jacques

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Does a grandmother call the Department of Social Services on her son in law because she doesn’t like his child rearing methods?

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Chicken Boy by Frances O'Roark Dowell

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are a group of people warned there might be savages around?

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Peter and the Starcatchers by Dave Barry & Ridley Pearson

Front 81

does a woman say that as a girl, a character would as soon bite your head off as smile at you?

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Dicey's Song by Cynthia Voigt

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Does a nun cry over a book?

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Lottery Rose by Irene Hunt

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does a character think he's handsome?

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Bronx Masquerade by Nikki Grimes

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does a character cook breakfast to the accompaniment of his partner's snoring?

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White Fang by Jack London

Front 85

does a character do rolls on the surface of a dime without moving the coin?

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Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie by Jordan Sonnenblick

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Does a character expect to become the first bionically improved human?

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Freak the Mighty by Rodman Philbrick

Front 87

Does a young boy love ducks?

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Lottery Rose by Irene Hunt

Front 88

does a character say, "Call me Zorro, all swash and buckle while the cameras roll"?

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Bronx Masquerade by Nikki Grimes

Front 89

Were terms used like bachman, bowline, butterfly, figure eight, and double fisherman?

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Peak by Roland Smith

Front 90

does boarding school make a boy more determined to never forget his language?

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Code Talker by Joseph Bruchac

Front 91

Does a character lie, saying he is going to an insurance convention?

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Storm Breaker by Anthony Horowitz

Front 92

Are regions of a state named for bodies of water located in them?

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View from Saturday by E.L. Konigsburg

Front 93

Do the main characters change out of their dull uniforms into something real bright?

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Invitation to the Game by Monica Hughes

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does a boy wheel a girl's bicycle for her?

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Dicey's Song by Cynthia Voigt

Front 95

is a fairy given to someone to watch over them?

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Peter and the Starcatchers by Dave Barry & Ridley Pearson

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Does a character want to plant his flower bush in someone else’s garden?

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Lottery Rose by Irene Hunt

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Does a character live in a basement room in his grandparents’ house?

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Freak the Mighty by Rodman Philbrick

Front 98

Does a savage tell how he learned to speak English when he was “pressed into service” by the navy

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Peter and the Starcatchers by Dave Barry & Ridley Pearson

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Does a boy take on the characteristics of an older man?

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Lottery Rose by Irene Hunt