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In which book does a character plant a garden in her front yard with rows and rows of rosebushes?
Under The Mesquite
Guadalupe Garcia McCall
p. 10
In which book does a character give a friend a flat, brown-speckled shell from her collection?
Maybe He Just Likes You
Barabar Dee
p. 236
In which book does a drought become a full-blown famine?
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
William Kamkwamba & Bryan Mealer
p. 78
In which book can a character not warn others of a coming predator or announce the scent of waters that are good for feeding?
Song for a Whale
Lynne Kelly
p. 17
In which book does a character race down a hill and stop fast, like she's on the basketball court and just caught a pass?
Paper Things
Jennifer Richard Jacobson
p. 13
In which book does a character slip gracefully away from her crowd of admirers on the arm of an impressive gentleman and out into the back garden?
Etiquette & Espionage
Gail Garriger
p. 291
In which book do characters hide behind walls and trees, ambushing their opponent with hit-and-run tactics?
Alexander Hamilton: The Making of America
Teri Kanefield
p. 30
In which book is a character like hail and blizzard with his face as cold and hard as ice?
The Crossover
Kwame Alexander
p. 151
In which book do heavy rains fall for days and days, washing away houses and livestock?
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
William Kamkwamba & BRyan Mealer
p. 67
In which book does a character perish in a lake -- they say he swam to the middle, then dropped like a stone, weighed down by guilty memories?
The Screaming Stair Case
Jonathan Stroud
P. 260
In which book do noises fill the sea around a character -- dolphins chatter as they leap in arcs above the surface, waves swell and crash, water bubbles pop when a school of fish scramble away?
Song for a Whale
Lynne Kelly
p. 163
In which book will a character have one less worry during the rainy season -- she and her sister can get their drinking water straight from the sky?
The Bridge Home
Padma Venkatraman
p. 113
In which book have clouds reached a city and hang threateningly above skyscrapers, casting the evening in a gray shroud?
Cinder
Marissa Meyer
p. 327
In which book is a character more interested in native plants at a city park than the birds?
Counting by 7s
Holly Goldberg Sloan
p. 3
In which book does the plug of a volcano tower straight up from the floor of the desert, like a monument to ancient times of violence?
Deathwatch
Robb White
p. 73
In which book does a character get so skinny and weak that her family has to carry her outside on sunny days for fresh air?
I Will Always Write Back
Caitlin Alifirenka Martin Ganda
p. 103
In which book does a character think a wildlife documentary on the animals of Madagascar is the most boring thing he has ever recorded?
Counting by 7s
Holly Goldberg Sloan
p. 59
In which book does a character name moons surrounding Jupiter . . . Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto?
Song for a Whale
Lynne Kelly
p. 137
In which book does a character call the ocean Kadalamma -- Ocean Mother?
The Bridge Home
Padma Venkatraman
p. 81
In which book does a character barge through a door, the rain and wind with him, as if he is made of storm?
Beyond the Bright Sea
Lauren Wolk
p. 258
In which book do characters wade into a river and run out as their clothes cling tightly to their thin bodies?
Between Shades of Grey
Ruta Sepetys
p. 263
In which book does a character sit with her grandfather after collecting shells and driftwood scattered along a shore, and wildflowers from dunes?
Song for a Whale
Lynne Kelly
p. 1
In which book does a character build footstools out of driftwood and sand old chairs to make them look new again?
Ashes to Asheville
Sarah Dooley
p. 13
In which book are characters not at a train station, but in a wide, deep valley, surrounded by forested hills?
Between Shades of Grey
Ruta Sepetys
p. 81
In which book does a character kick dirt, and it's so rock hard, not even a tiny bit of dust comes up?
A Good Kind of Trouble
Lisa Moore Ramee
p. 98