BC Past & Present
Poetry
Popular Book Series
Esperanza Rising
Riddles
100
The grade levels taught at BC

6th, 7th, & 8th

100
When the ending of words sound similar

Rhyme

100

Main characters are dragons, humans are called "Scavengers", war

Wings of Fire

100

These people murdered Esperanza's Papa

Bandits/Thieves 

100

What did the librarian use for bait when she went fishing?

A bookworm

200

BC's Mascot

A Knight

200

The poet of " The Rose That Grew from Concrete"

Tupac Shakur
200

Main characters are cats, war, written by several different authors under the same pen name

Warrior Cats

200

Esperanza's last name

Ortega

200

I have a million stories but cannot tell them? What am I?

A library

300

BC's Address

260 N Wabash Ave

300

A 3 line Japanese poem with each line having a distinct number of syllables (5, 7, 5) 

Haiku

300

Main character is a boy, there are currently 18 books in the series, the author's initials are J.K.

Diary of a Wimpy Kid

300

Name of the Uncle who asked Esperanza's mother to marry him

Tio Luis

300

A man who was outside in the rain without an umbrella or hat didn't get a single hair on his head wet. Why?

He was bald

400

BC's Mascot in the 1980s

Red Devils

400

A poem that uses words to make a shape or picture that relates to the content of the poem

Concrete Poem

400

Graphic novels, main character's name is related to weather, 5 books in series but the BC library only has 4 right now, book 3 includes the game Dungeons & Dragons

Sunny (Sunny Side Up)

400

What did Miguel & his father secretly bring with them from the ranch to surprise Esperanza & her mother

Papa's roses

400

The more of this there is, the less you see. What is it?

Darkness

500

The year of BC's first yearbook

1982-1983

500

Name of poem & poet that ends with "But your final reward will be heartache and tears / If you've cheated the guy in the glass"

The Guy in the Glass by Dale Wimbrow

500

Graphic novels, author is George O'Conner, mythology

Olympians

500

What did Miguel "steal" from Esperanza (2 words)

Money orders
500

What book is this riddle from: Why is a raven like a writing desk? 

(Bonus 500 points if you have an answer to the riddle) 

Both can produce a few notes, though they are very flat, and it is never but put with the wrong end in front. (According to Lewis Carroll)

Poe wrote on both

Because a writing desk is a rest or pens and a raven is pest for wrens.

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