Chasing Peace and Acts of Loving Kindness
What inspired Gershon in the most serious way to change his bad behavior?
his love for his two children
Rose Lewis adopts a baby girl from China and they become a forever family. What is the title of the story?
I Love You Like Crazy Cakes!
What did Digger and Tiger say to Meggie Moon when they first met her and she asked to play with them?
"We don't play with girls. Girls don't know how to play!"
You give us garbage, we send you...?
MUSIC
How did Otter, Mole and Hare find happiness and laughter again after Fox died?
They planted new carrots in the garden.
They built a bench under his favorite tree so they could watch the sunset and remember stories about him.
They baked a pie and didn't burn it.
What did the two brothers, Yankel and Josef, promise their dad before he died?
They would share the farm, always take care of each other and love each other
In the story of My Name is Aviva, Aviva doesn't like her name until what happens?
Her parents share with her that she was named after her great grandmother whose Hebrew name was Aviva and that Aviva was an amazing woman.
Why were kids so cruel to Patricia Pollaco when she was young and who helped her to believe in herself?
Kids made fun of her because she couldn't read and it was Mr. Falker, her 5th grade teacher, who worked with her and helped her learn to read.
How did the gift of a goat change the life of Beatrice and her family?
They drank milk and were healthier.
They were able to sell the milk and buy things they hadn't been able to buy before.
Beatrice was able to go to school.
What did the the kids living on Seaside Place discover about Charlie Blaine once they really got to know him?
He played cello at Carnegie Hall.
He had a family that he loved.
He collected sea glass.
He had a great sense of humor.
He became a special friend to the children.
What are the two Hebrew words for chasing peace?
RODEPH SHALOM
How did Ian's sisters change the way they were acting toward their brother after he got lost in the park?
Ian's sisters were so worried when he was lost...They realized on their walk that they were expecting him to do what they wanted him to do - not what he wanted to do.
They looked at the ceiling fan with him. They let him lay down on the sidewalk and count the stones. They sniffed the bricks with him.
How did Clover and Annie figure out how to spend time with each other when they were both told NOT to go over to the other side of the fence?
They sat on the top of the fence and talked.
What was the amazing idea of Viv and her classmates to help save 100 sea turtles?
They started a project - OPERATION LIGHTS OUT - that asked everyone who had homes on the beach to turn off their lights at night so the sea turtles wouldn't confuse their light with the moonlight.
14 year old William grew up in Malawi, Africa always curious about how machines worked. When his village had no rain one year - he had an idea that would help feed people. What did he do?
He read a lot of books about electricity and wind power and then collected things that were thrown away and transformed them into a windmill that generated electricity to pump water.
Leah and Sarah were best friends until they each had their own tree houses and didn't let the other come and visit. What did they decide to do that changed everything for the better?
They invited each other over to their tree houses and made a bridge between them.
Why is it such a big day for Donovan?
His moms are getting married!
Morris Mickelwhite is teased by several classmates because he likes to dress up and wear a tangerine dress. When Becky in his class still cannot accept Morris for wearing a dress, she tells him: Boy's don't wear dresses.
What is Morris' response?
THIS BOY DOES!
Wangari Maathai noticed her country of Kenya was no longer green and too many trees were being cut down for big buildings. What was her idea to make Kenya green again?
She started planting saplings in her own backyard.
She invited women in her village to plant saplings in their yards.
She paid the women if they took care of these saplings for 3 months.
Two grandmothers. Two soup pots. Two different family traditions. Two recipes for chicken soup..
What ingredients did Sophie keep getting confused about?
How was Sophie, the granddaughter, able to bring her grandmothers together and create new memories together?
Kreplach and wonton!
Sophie invited her grandmothers over and had them mix both of their soups together for a brand new soup!
The three little wolves can't keep the Big Bad Pig away from blowing down their house until they get creative and build a house out of what?
beautiful smelling flowers
What makes a family a family?
A family loves and cares about each other.
What didn't the mother mouse know about why the gorilla kept bellowing "Stop!" and why wouldn't she stop?"
That every time he yelled STOP, he was trying to let the mother mouse know that he had her missing baby!
Luis Soriano knew most children in the villages where he lived in the country of Columbia didn't have books. What was his amazing idea? What did he name it?
Biblioburro - The Burro Library
He bought two burros and saddled them up with books each week and traveled to far away villages to bring books to children who had none.
Luis started with sharing his own books and over time many people donated books to the library.
How did Mr. Peabody teach Tommy Tittlebottom about the power of his words?
He asked Tommy to bring a feather pillow to the baseball field, slit it open, let the wind carry the feathers away, and then pick them all back up.