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In this novel, Kira moves from her cottage into the Edifice, where she repairs the Singer's robe. She meets her father Christopher, who she thought was dead, but refuses to accompany him to a kinder society. Give the title of this second novel in Lois Lowry's Giver Quartet.
Gathering Blue
Karen Hesse set a Newbery-winning novel in Oklahoma during the Great Depression. What is the name of that novel?
Out of the Dust
In the Newbery Medal-winning Moon over Manifest, Abilene Tucker’s father sends her to live in Manifest, Kansas, while he goes to work on the railroad. Which of the following wrote Moon over Manifest?
Clare Vanderpool
Which poet wrote the poem that goes “Behold the duck. / It does not cluck. / A cluck it lacks. / It quacks. / It is specially fond / Of a puddle or a pond. / When it dines or sups, / It bottoms ups.”?
Ogden Nash
Identify the prepositional phrase in the following sentence: Leaving home May 12, we took a tour through the Rocky Mountains, then toured Yellowstone National Park.
through the Rocky Mountains
In this book, Roscuro [ro-SKYOOR-oh] the rat reunites Miggery Sow with her father, a prisoner in a dungeon. The title animal falls in love with Princess Pea after reading about knights saving princesses. A literate mouse is the hero of what Kate DiCamillo [dee-kuh-MILL-oh] Newbery winner?
(THE) TALE OF DESPEREAUX [DES-puh-row]
Ed Young’s Caldecott Medal-winning picture book
"Lon Po Po" is a Chinese version of which fairy tale?
Little Red Riding Hood
Which authors won an Edgar Award for The House of Dies Drear and both a National Book Award and a Newbery Medal for M.C. Higgins, the Great?
Virginia Hamilton
The poem inscribed on the base of the Statue of Liberty was written by Emma Lazarus in 1883. What is the title of that poem?
“The New Colossus”
A greatly exaggerated description or statement.
hyperbole
This book says the title structure stands, quote, "on the highest rock of a tiny island at the edge of the world." That building shines its beam to help ships safely reach the shore. Give the title of this Caldecott-winning picture book by Sophie Blackall.
Hello Lighthouse
In Lois Lowry’s The Giver, who was the boy chosen as the new Receiver of Memory?
Jonas
In 2022, which author earned a Newbery Medal for her novel The Last Cuentista?
Donna Barba Higuera
Bashō, who lived in the late 17th century, is usually considered the greatest writer of one type of poem. What kind of poem has exactly 17 syllables in three lines, with the first and last lines having five syllables each and the second line seven syllables?
haiku
After Tristan got home from school, he looked for the note that he was supposed to give his parents, but it had fallen out while he was running from a vampire. Which clause in the preceding sentence is an adjective clause?
that he was supposed to give his parents
Kadir Nelson won the 2020 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award for his work on the book that also won the 2020 Caldecott Medal. Which book, written by Kwame Alexander, is a poem celebrating black life in the United States?
The Undefeated
This star of a wordless picture book is a white animal with black nose, ears, and tail. She plays with her favorite red toy until a brown dog pops it, but she soon learns to love its blue replacement. Who is this dog, who receives a ball in a Caldecott-winning Chris Raschka [ROSH-kuh] picture book?
DAISY
The author of the Caldecott winner The Hello, Goodbye Window also wrote which classic children’s novel?
The Phantom Tollbooth
Poems in this narrative genre may start in medias res [MAY-dee-ahs RAYS]--that is, in the middle of the action. They are long poems that feature larger than life heroes who go on quests or accomplish great things. Beowulf, The Odyssey and Paradise Lost are examples of what kind of poem?
EPIC
Which punctuation mark below would you use to join two main clauses in a sentence if there is no conjunction?
semi colon
Sharon Creech won the 1995 Newbery Award for her novel titled Walk Two Moons. In that book, which character is traveling with her grandparents from Ohio to Idaho to visit her mother’s grave?
Salamanca Tree Hiddle
This character's mom loans him out to a neighbor to help type obituaries about people who founded his town. What is the name of the protagonist of the 2012 Newbery Award winning novel Dead End In Norvelt, the same name as the author?
Jack Gantos
Among this author's works were Mother Goose in Prose and American Fairy Tales. He set 14 books in a magical land that housed the Tin Woodman, Scarecrow, and Cowardly Lion. Identify the author of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.
(L(YMAN) FRANK) BAUM
These poems most often use anapestic trimeter. Their content is typically humorous and sometimes even rude. What are these poems with an A-A-B-B-A rhyme scheme?
LIMERICK(S)
Which punctuation mark below always follows an interrogative sentence?
A Question Mark