Bookish Goodness
Modes of Transportation
Ew.
Schooled
Money Matters
100

In which book does the cover of a book include the words "Don't Panic"?

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

100

In which book does the main character’s mother die from sickness after catching a chill in a wagon?

Witness

100

In which book does a boy throw up on his brother’s sneakers?

Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie

100

In which book does word spread through town that the school teacher kissed the onion picker?

Holes

100

In which book does a team of characters invest ten thousand dollars in the stock market? 

The Westing Game

200

In which book does a boy learn of a special quote from Winnie the Pooh?

A First Time for Everything

200

In which book does a character steal a bike to get home?

A First Time for Everything

200

In which book is there a black rodent with grey and pink scars all over his body?  

 Redwall

200

In which book does a character want to attend Julliard, a famous music school in New York City?

Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie

200

In which book is there a stampede for brooms that are on sale for one penny?  

Witness

300

In which book does a character listen to an audio book of The Scarlet Letter in a soundproof room at a library?

Things Not Seen

300

In which book are Jewish villagers forced into trucks by soldiers?

The Devil's Arithmetic

300

In which book was a character so happy to find water that he licked the dirt?  

Holes

300

In which book is the beginning three years after a brown six-year-old girl entered an all-white school surrounded by armed guards? 

brown girl dreaming

300

In which book does a man have a list of prices tattooed on his chest?

Airman

400

In which book does a mother take her children to the library every Monday, and they are allowed to take out 7 books each?

brown girl dreaming

400

In which book does a character use a boat to help get away?

I Am Princess X

400

In which book does a character dump a cell phone out of an urn filled with ashes?

I Am Princess X

400

In which book can a student not attend school for the whole year because his family must move away during the dry season?

A Long Walk to Water

400

In which book does a character lie about burning stolen checks so there wouldn’t be evidence against him?

 Hoops

500

In which book does a character get moved to an honors English class because of a paper on Mark Twain?

Counting by 7s

500

In which book does a character’s father put mangoes in his bicycle spokes?

A Long Walk to Water

500

In which book do small children hide in a garbage dump?  

The Devil's Arithmetic

500

In which book does the main character stop attending the U of C lab school-the school where “the professors and the local geniuses and all the rest of the university creeps send their kids”?

Things Not Seen

500

In which book is there a species that programs computers to wake them up when the economic recession ends?

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

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