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What is Seedfolks?
"It's sad every fall, seeing it turn brown. Fewer and fewer people there"
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What is Inside Out and Back Again
Titi
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What is The Giver
Who decides what is right and just?
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Who is Kim, from Seedfolks. Her father had passed away, and she felt like working on the garden in the empty lot would finally allow her to feel like she could connect with her father again- like he would be to really see her as his daughter.
"I dug six holes. All his life in Vietnam my father had been a farmer. Here our apartment had no yard. But in the vacant lot he would see me."
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Who is Humpty Dumpty?
In the nursery rhyme, who sat on a wall before having a great fall?
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What is The Outsiders?
“They grew up on the outside of society. They weren't looking for a fight. They were looking to belong.”
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What is The Giver
Lily
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What is The Outsiders
How does my identity influence the decisions I make?
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What is the ending of the Giver?
"But perhaps it was only an echo."
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What is Saturn?
Which planet in our Solar System is known for having a ring?
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What is The Giver?
"Now the landscape was changing. It was a subtle change, hard to identify at first."
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What is The Outsiders
Johnny
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What is Inside Out and Back Again
What impact does your past have on who you will one day become?
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What is the letter Thanhha Lai wrote to her readers:
Since much of Ha's experiences were the author's own, the author had to endure a great deal of hardship and heartache. She has many family members who did not endure what she did, so she's expressing how important it is to continue to tell our stories of our childhood and our heritage to keep it alive.
"I hope you enjoy reading about Hà as much as I have enjoyed remembering the pivotal year
in my life. I also hope after you finish this book that you sit close to someone you love and implore that person to tell and tell and tell their story." |
What are spiders?
If you suffer from arachnophobia, which animal are you scared of?
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What is Nothing But the Truth?
I realized two things that make me want to puke. Track practice starts tomorrow and I’m not on the team.
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What is Seedfolks
Leona
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What is Nothing But the Truth
How can we understand others' perspectives even when they are different from our own?
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What is irony?
At the end of Nothing But the Truth, we learn that after this whole story of Philip claiming he's singing out of the spirit of patriotism, it turns out he doesn't know the words to the Star Spangled Banner. What literary term can be used to describe this concept?
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What is Paris, France?
In which city is the Disney movie Ratatouille based?
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What is Inside Out and Back Again
"It grew from a seed I flicked into the back garden.
A seed like a fish eye, slippery shiny black." |
What is Nothing But the Truth
Philip
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What is Seedfolks
What impact does one’s personal motivation have on others?
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What is the difference between the Socs and the Greasers?
long, greasy hair and leather jackets verse madras shirts and fancy cars
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What is zero?
How many bones do sharks have?
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