Around the 🌍 with Mary Jo
This state was admitted to the union in 1818 and the state bird is the Northern cardinal
What is Illinois?
This is a metonym for the cinema of the United States
Whast is HOLLYwood?
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What is Animal, Vegetable, Miracle?
This is a 3 1/2 year old red monster with whom many of our kids loved to play in their early years.
Who is Elmo?
"The master says it's a glorious thing to die for the Faith and Dad says it's a glorious thing to die for Ireland and I wonder if there's anyone in the world who would like us to live."
What is Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt?
This African country has 333 miles of coastline along the Indian Ocean
What is Kenya?
This is a hebrew word meaning "priest"
What does Cohen mean?
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What is Into Thin Air?
This is the place where we had our first Book Club Camping Trip.
What is Huddart Park?
"Your kind never sees us whole. You miss the half of it, and more. There's always as much belowground as above."
What is Overstory by Richard Powers?
This country named the Two-Toed Sloth as a national animal and symbol
What is Costa Rica?
This flower represents fertility and fruitfulness
What is HOLLYhocks?
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What is People of the Book?
These are collectible stuffed animals that many of our kids collected when they were young.
What are Beanie Babies?
"Lonely was the first flavor I had tasted in my life, and it was always there, hidden inside the crevices of my mouth, reminding me."
What is Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens? (kya)
This city had the tallest building in the world from 1973-1997
What is Chicago?
This is the German name meaning "ruler of the house"
What is Harrison?
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What is Girl With Pearl Earring?
Many of our kids became big readers with this book series about siblings Jack and Annie who travelled through time and space.
What is the Magic Tree House series by Mary Pope Osborne?
"All along the roads there are places where things happened."
What is Road from Coorain by Jill Ker Conway? (she was Smith's 1st woman pres)
This city is host to a top university in its state, and is named after a state senator's hometown in a nearby state.
What is Urbana-Champaign?
This is a word meaning "to the full or entire extent"
What is wHOLLY?
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What is Cold Sassy Tree?
This is the number of kids we have among our 10 current bookclub members.
What is 25?
"Men are wonderful but they aren't the only thing."
What is Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells?