Job Placement
In which book did an actor get the role he wanted on a science fiction TV show?
THEY CALLED US ENEMY
In which book does a man say he is too old to need 6 million dollars?
The Boy Who Saved Baseball
In which book does a man with a rattlesnake tattoo eat a sack of sunflower seeds each week now that he has given up smoking?
Holes
In which book is the grandfather a former soldier who fought in the Battle of Trenton during the Revolutionary War?
Fever 1793
In which book are owls important to the plot?
Hoot
In which book was one of the characters a policeman at one time?
Hush
In which book does a character always sit by the window and look out instead of getting a job?
Hush
In which book does someone have a grudge against Mother Paula and her world-famous pancakes?
Hoot
In which book did children play war with two sides: Americans and Japanese?
THEY CALLED US ENEMY
In which book does the bite of a yellow-spotted lizard lead to a slow and painful death?
Holes
In which book does the main character dislike a dentist?
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
In which book does a team of characters invest ten thousand dollars in the stock market?
The Westing Game
In which book does a character eat a boiled sorghum meal with milk poured over it?
A Long Walk to Water
In which book are boys who have lost their homes and families because of war called “Lost Boys”?
A Long Walk to Water
In which book does a goat break through a screen, enter a room, and knock over furniture?
Surviving the Applewhites
In which book is a coffeehouse a respectable business for a widow and her father-in-law to run?
Fever 1793
In which book does a character have to wave a twenty dollar bill in order to have a cab driver stop for him?
Things Not Seen
In which book is fried chicken so spicy that one character can't get enough water and another keeps shrieking?
Surviving the Applewhites
In which book do characters practice fencing with wooden swords?
The Thief
In which book does someone say his horse is so goofy he tried to change the TV channel with the remote control?
The Boy Who Saved Baseball
In which book has someone been a middle school math teacher for 20 years?
All of the Above
In which book would a character rather die than work checkout at the Super Saver?
Dairy Queen
In which book does a mother describe a program that gives poor children free breakfasts?
brown girl dreaming
In which book was a father in the Army for 14 years?
All of the Above
In which book is there a cat named Mouschi?
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl