Holes/Wild Robot
In Holes, the campers are told they are digging to "build character," but the Warden is actually looking for the lost treasure of this outlaw.
Who is Kissin' Kate Barlow?
"The sun smiled down on the playground" is an example of this, where human qualities are given to non-human things.
What is personification?
This is the decimal equivalent of the fraction 85/100.
What is $0.85$?
This city is the capital of Texas and was the destination for your recent 4th-grade field trip.
What is Austin?
The Greek root "tele" found in "telephone" or "telescope" means this.
What is distant (or far away)?
In The Wild Robot, Roz survives a shipwreck on an island and must learn to adapt; this is the name of the "Wildness" she learns to mimic to survive.
What is Camouflage?
If a teacher says the test was "a piece of cake," she is using this type of figurative language that doesn't mean exactly what the words say.
What is an idiom?
If you subtract 0.4 from 1.0, this is the decimal value that remains.
What is 0.6?
The dome of the Texas State Capitol is topped by a statue known by this name.
Who is the Goddess of Liberty?
The suffix "-able" or "-ible" as found in "comfortable" or "visible" means this.
What is "can be" or "able to be"?
These two characters in Holes realize their family histories are connected when one carries the other up a mountain to drink from "God’s Thumb."
Who are Stanley Yelnats and Zero (Hector Zeroni)?
"The classroom was a zoo during the party" is this type of comparison that does NOT use "like" or "as."
What is a metaphor?
In the number 45.67, the digit 7 is in this specific place value.
What is the hundredths place?
Based in Brenham, this company survived early struggles by hand-churning just 2 gallons of dessert a day.
What is Blue Bell Creameries?
The prefix "pro-" as found in "proceed" or "propel" means to move in this direction.
What is forward (or before)?
In The Wild Robot, this group of robots arrives on the island to retrieve Roz, leading to a massive battle with the animals.
Who are the RECOs?
"The wind whistled through the trees" uses this specific device where a word mimics a sound.
What is onomatopoeia?
To add 1/3 and 1/6, you must first find a common denominator; this is the resulting sum in simplest form.
What is 1/2?
This grocery store chain started in 1905 with just $60 in Kerrville and is now a Texas favorite.
What is H-E-B?
This word uses the root "tele" and the root "graph" to describe a system for sending messages over a long distance.
What is a telegraph?
This major theme in Holes is shown when the rain finally falls on Camp Green Lake just as the curse is broken—a literary term for the ending of a long struggle.
What is Redemption (or Fate/Destiny)?
This term describes an extreme exaggeration, such as saying "I've told you a million times to clean your room!"
What is hyperbole?
This is the product of 0.5 and 100.
What is 50?
At the Bob Bullock Museum, you can see the remains of La Belle, which was a ship belonging to this French explorer.
Who is LaSalle?
Using the prefix "pro-" and the root "spect", this word describes a "looking forward" to a future event or a potential customer.
What is a prospect?