Bookish Goodness
In which book does the cover of a book include the words "Don't Panic"?
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
In which book does the main character’s mother die from sickness after catching a chill in a wagon?
Witness
In which book does a boy throw up on his brother’s sneakers?
Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie
In which book does word spread through town that the school teacher kissed the onion picker?
Holes
In which book does a team of characters invest ten thousand dollars in the stock market?
The Westing Game
In which book does a boy learn of a special quote from Winnie the Pooh?
A First Time for Everything
In which book does a character steal a bike to get home?
A First Time for Everything
In which book is there a black rodent with grey and pink scars all over his body?
Redwall
In which book does a character want to attend Julliard, a famous music school in New York City?
Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie
In which book is there a stampede for brooms that are on sale for one penny?
Witness
In which book does a character listen to an audio book of The Scarlet Letter in a soundproof room at a library?
Things Not Seen
In which book are Jewish villagers forced into trucks by soldiers?
The Devil's Arithmetic
In which book was a character so happy to find water that he licked the dirt?
Holes
In which book is the beginning three years after a brown six-year-old girl entered an all-white school surrounded by armed guards?
brown girl dreaming
In which book does a man have a list of prices tattooed on his chest?
Airman
In which book does a mother take her children to the library every Monday, and they are allowed to take out 7 books each?
brown girl dreaming
In which book does a character use a boat to help get away?
I Am Princess X
In which book does a character dump a cell phone out of an urn filled with ashes?
I Am Princess X
In which book can a student not attend school for the whole year because his family must move away during the dry season?
A Long Walk to Water
In which book does a character lie about burning stolen checks so there wouldn’t be evidence against him?
Hoops
In which book does a character get moved to an honors English class because of a paper on Mark Twain?
Counting by 7s
In which book does a character’s father put mangoes in his bicycle spokes?
A Long Walk to Water
In which book do small children hide in a garbage dump?
The Devil's Arithmetic
In which book does the main character stop attending the U of C lab school-the school where “the professors and the local geniuses and all the rest of the university creeps send their kids”?
Things Not Seen
In which book is there a species that programs computers to wake them up when the economic recession ends?
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy