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In which book is a brown owl cookie jar filled with packets of soy sauce?
The Fourteenth Goldfish by Jennifer L. Holm
In which book does a character throw a small stone sidearmed across the water, make it skip five skips, and think that he and a friend should have a contest?
Blood on the River by Elisa Carbone
In which book does a character set off a library alarm to create a distraction?
Ban This Book by Alan Gratz
In which book does a character realize that saying, “I don’t have any parents” would call attention to her so she made up a fake address and phone number?
Runaway Twin by Peg Cheroot
In which book did a character think he saw someone in his room through the window?
Found by Margaret Peterson Haddix
In which book do characters make lists of ways to accomplish a project including silly ideas like mailing themselves or parachuting in?
The Fourteenth Goldfish by Jennifer L. Holm
In which book does a girl say her first love was science, not the tall skinny kid from their neighborhood?
At the Bottom of the World by Bill Nye & Gregory Mone
In which book does a character say that his school’s chili isn’t as good as his mother’s but the cornbread is decent if you put a lot of butter on it?
Save Me A Seat by Sarah Weeks and Gita Varadarajan
In which book does a boy draw cartoons to illustrate the First Amendment?
Ban This Book by Alan Gratz
In which book does a character realize that a new friend is good at basketball which is surprising since he is so bookish she had assumed he would not be athletic?
The Parker Inheritance By Varian Johnson
In which book does a house have a seat to help handicapped or old people go up and down the stairs?
The Old Willis Place Mary Downing Hahn
In which book does a man hold each of five twenty?dollar bills up to the light checking to be sure they aren’t counterfeit?
Runaway Twin by Peg Kehret
In which book does a character bake secrets into pies during the Civil War?
A Snicker of Magic by Natalie Lloyd
In which book does a woman say, “All humans have large and beautiful brains. You just have to work yours, like a muscle”?
At the Bottom of the World by Bill Nye & Gregory Mone
In which book does a character list the things she can do in the afternoon while she waits for her father to come home and then list the things she can’t do?
Rain Reign by Ann M. Martin
In which book do three characters sit under the stairs in the basement because it is the safest place during a storm?
Shouting at the Rain Lynda Mullaly Hunt
In which book does a character find her friend waiting at the theater all blinged up in metallic high-tops?
Merci Suárez Changes Gears by Meg Medina
In which book does a character write about a soldier so she can remember what her dad told her?
Stella by Starlight by Sharon M. Draper
In which book does a character remember an aunt’s wedding and how she begged her brother to let her hold the velvet pillow with the rings instead of tossing out flower petals but he wouldn’t switch?
Merci Suárez Changes Gears by Meg Medina
In which book does a grandma quote Maya Angelou, “When someone shows you who they are, believe them” and say that it is true when someone shows you their bad side or their good side?
From the Desk of Zoe Washington by Janae Marks