Big/Small
In which book are characters practicing one of the big group numbers in a play where almost the entire cast including the chorus is on stage?
Other Words for Home
In which book does a character always pretend he's too tired to help clean the table whenever his family has dinner together at home?
Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish
In which book do characters watch old movies that they buy with their Eid and birthday money?
Other Words For Home
In which book do characters slide aside a complicated series of magnetic locks and push open a door?
Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky
In which book is the head of a hammer worn and dented, but a character keeps it polished, and it gleams in the warm sunshine?
Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky
In which book does a character look up and there's her mother in line at the register, carrying a small frozen yogurt cake?
Restart
In which book can a swimmer see nothing through dirty water even with his eyes wide open?
All Thirteen
In which book does a character offer to help someone make more cheese so she can sell it to the occupying enemy forces?
Agent Most Wanted
In which book is a classroom door always closed during little kids' recess?
Island of Spies
In which book does a woman turn off her headlights and moonlight guides the way as she pulls up beside a bridge?
Blood in the Wate
In which book does a character compare her town house to the big houses on TV design shows, dreaming of a beautiful kitchen and a full walk-in pantry?
Shark Teeth
In which book does a character have no soap for washing either herself or her clothes and sheets, and writes, "If you could ever send me a piece of soap, I should be both very happy and much cleaner"?
Agent Most Wanted
In which book does a character's grandmother buy him a PlayStation to keep at a summer home?
Blood in the Water
In which book is the opening in a room so seamless, the only way a character knows where it is are the walls on either side are covered with mementos?
The Last Cuentista
In which book does a character sit next to her cousin on a sun-soaked white leather couch and watch teenagers play detective?
Other Words for Home
In which book does receiving a small toiletry kit make a character remember how she and her mom once helped a church group assemble kits like that?
The Fire, the Water, and Maudie McGinn
In which book are a character and her dad dirty and exhausted after spending the day in a state park, but it might be the best day she can remember?
The Last Cuentista
In which book does a character go to a bookseller when he is looking for novels written by Dickens, and he is in need of 'A Tale of Two Cities'?
When We Flew Away
In which book does a character think there were no bad spots in a trip, just doors that needed to be closed and new ones he's so glad his family opened?
Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish
In which book does a character rely on a haze of moonlight to keep her from crashing straight into a wall?
Long Lost
In which book does a furry animal the size of a field mouse, but with eyes and ears as big as a chinchilla's, scurry over a character's left boot to nibble on leaves?
The Last Cuentista
In which book does a character help clean up paper and chip bags, soda cans and water bottles, paper plates and utensils, and cleaning helps keep the tears from flowing?
Shark Teeth
In which book does a character have to be sneaky and buy a plane ticket by herself?
Two Tribes
In which book does a character never open the fingers of his right hand while he is setting up a folding table and chairs?
Restart
In which book does a character wash windows for two days, sunup to supper?
Island of Spies