Oregon Battle of the Book practice questions 2010

MIDDLE DIVISION QUESTIONS:

1. In which book does a boy write a school report about the importance of duct tape?
2. In which book does art popping up in random places make adults nervous?
3. In which book is a woman put on permanent disability by her company a day after she starts a new job?
4. In which book does a girl have to wear golden gloves all the time?
5. In which book is a father arrested for being educated?
6. In which book do twins get summer jobs across the street from each other?
7. In which book does a smile contest put on by a dentist result in a lot of sugar consumption?
8. In which book does a famous basketball star come to help in a school for $1?
9. In which book is an infant blamed for her mother’s death?
10. In which book is the DNA of different creatures put together with varying amounts of success?
11. In which book does a girl have to move to the suburbs after she survives an explosion?
12. In which book does a boy find out he’s adopted when he’s 13?
13. In which book does a boy decide he needs a gimmick to make friends and fit in at a new school?
14. In which book does a girl believe her mother turned into a fox?
15. In which book does a boy decide to run away when his mother is about to move him to a safer neighborhood?
16. In which book does a girl play Woody Guthrie songs during lunchtime to raise money for a soup kitchen?
17. In which book does a mother only know 23 words or phrases?
18. In which book does it seem like a disadvantage to be the only Presbyterian in class?
19. In which book does a mute girl suddenly regain the ability to speak?
20. In which book is a boy so overscheduled he can’t remember where he’s supposed to be on any given day?
21. In which book does a school librarian lead a secret life outside of school?
22. In which book does a woman suffer from agoraphobia (fear of leaving home)?
23. In which book do 15-year-olds get to help decide what they will do with the rest of their lives?
24. In which book does a boy have to live with a foster family when his grandmother breaks her leg?
25. In which book do characters read a story in front of an audience with war paint on their faces?
26. In which book does a boy steal his grandfather’s watch to try to buy a gun?
27. In which book does a girl keep writing letters to a boy in a coma whom she doesn’t know?
28. In which book is a girl taken care of by a veterinarian when she’s hurt?
29. In which book does a boy mistakenly think that bullying is supposed to be part of his training?
30. In which book does a mother murder anyone who jeopardizes her child’s future?
31. In which book does a mother stay in bed when she is depressed?
32. In which book does a woman sell her property to give her grandchild a better life?
33. In which book do birds attack cars on a bridge?
34. In which book do a characters’s brothers play a cruel joke with a glass of orange juice?
35. In which book does a quiet school janitor become a local hero?
36. In which book is a pet duck used as a test of a dog’s training?
37. In which book is a library meeting room used by kids meeting a woman for the first time who may be able to answer their questions?
38. In which book does a boy get to know his great-great-great-great-grandfather as a boy?
39. In which book does a character learn to walk on stilts?
40. In which book does a school team ask one of their classmates for a blessing or something before a big game?
41. In which book does a boy find Shakespeare’s plays help him cope with his life?
42. In which book is a boy nearly killed when he decides not to join a gang?
43. In which book is a characterl lucky with slot machines and guessing how many items are in a jar?
44. In which book is the only way to ride a horse to say “By your leave” in its ear before mounting for the first time?
45. In which book does a gay teenager named James join a group of girls?
46. In which book is a tree actually a living house?
47. In which book does a girl have to dress as a boy to provide for her family?
48. In which book does a boy lose the present and have to decide whether he wants to be in the past or the future?
49. In which book does a creature die when it cries?
50. In which book does the cafeteria cook lose her husband in the Vietnam War?
51. In which book does a class president learn the name of every single kid in his school?
52. In which book is a character forced to run a maze over and over?
53. In which book is a girl pulled out of school the day after she’s elected class president?
54. In which book is grave robbing a faster way to earn money than reading or writing?
55. In which book is a little girl given a pink lunch box by an off-duty policeman?  
56. In which book does a boy try to avoid the weekly phone calls his dad makes from prison by doing charity work on those days?   
57. In which book does a teenage girl run away with her boyfriend and get stranded away from home with no money?  
58. In which book do young people and a horse try to protect each other from a wild boar?
59.  In which book do a group of kids get a total makeover in order to disguise themselves? 
60. In which book does a gang form to perform secret acts of kindness?
61. In which book is a bathroom remodel the undoing of a school principal?
62. In which book does a girl take a bus trip across the country alone to try to find out who she is?
63. In which book does a woman ask to have a garden painted on her face?
64. In which book does a blind woman see through mirrors?

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