Thursday, February 28, 2013

Alexander Graham Bell by Laurie Rozakis


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Book: Alexander Graham Bell
Author: Laurie Rozakis
ISBN: 978-0-02-202383-6

Introduction
1. Was Alexander Graham Bell an inventor?
2. What was Alexander’s assistant’s name?

Chapter 1: Growing Up with Science
3. What country was an exciting place in the 1800s?
4. What did Alexander’s father and grandfather teach people?
5. How did Alexander’s father and grandfather help people?
6. What was Alexander’s mother’s name?
7. When was Alexander born?
8. Where was Alexander born?
9. Alexander’s mother had a handicap, what was it?
10. What was the name of Alexander’s high school?
11. Did Alexander graduate from high school?
12. For how many years did he attend high school?
13. Where did Alexander’s father send Bell after high school?
14. What did Alexander’s father invent?
15. What did “visible speech” do?
16. In what year did Alexander’s family build a speaking machine?
17. What caused Alexander to start experimenting in sending sound by using electricity?
18. When did Alexander’s family move to Canada?
19. How long after Alexander moved to Canada, did he move to Boston?
20. What type of job did Alexander do in Boston?
21. In what year did Alexander become a professor at Boston University?

Chapter 2: First Experiments
22. Alexander hired an electrical engineer, what is his name?
23. Who was Alexander working “neck-and-neck” against?
24. Who discovered that a magnet could generate, or make, electricity?
25. Who invented the generator, a machine that makes electricity?

Chapter 3: “Mr. Watson, Come Here!”
26. Who was the first director of the Smithsonian Institution?
27. Where does the word telephone come from?
28. What does “tele” mean?
29. What does “phone” mean?
30. What is a telephone?
31. How old was Alexander when he invented the telephone?
32. In what year did Bell apply for the patent?
Chapter 4: Bell’s Later Life
33. What was the name of the exposition in Philadelphia that Bell won a prize?
34. What was the name of Bell’s laboratory?
35. What does the audiometer do?
36. What does a graphophone do?

Conclusion
37. In what year did Alexander Graham Bell die?
38. Who made the 1st cell phone call?
39. In what year were cell phones invented?
40. When was the 1st cell phone company started?
41. In what year did cell phones surpass landlines?

Monday, February 25, 2013

Looking at Whales by Dina Anastasio


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Book: Looking at Whales
Author: Dina Anastasio
ISBN: 978-0-02-202688-2

Introduction
1. Where do some of the world’s largest mammals live?
2. What are the world’s largest mammals?
3. Do whales stop swimming?
4. How fast can whales swim?
5. What do you call when whales jump out of the water?
6. What are baby whales called?

Chapter 1: A Whale’s Life
7. What are whale families called?
8. Are whales related in pods?
9. What do members in pods do?
10. What does working in a unit mean?
11. How big are pods?
12. Orcas are also known as _______________________________________.
13. Do whales stop moving when they sleep?
14. Do whales sleep with both eyes close?
15. Where is the blowhole located on the whale?
16. The fine mist that’s from the whale’s blowhole, sprays up to ________________.
17. A blue whale is as big as a _____________________________________________.
18. Do whales spend six months eating constantly and six months eating very little?
19. Where do whales do most of their eating?
20. How does blubber help whales?
21. How many groups are whales divided into?
22. How do toothed whales eat?
23. How do Baleen whales eat?
24. What type of whales are humpback whales?
25. How do humpback whales communicate?
26. What is the beluga whale known as?
27. How do toothed whales communicate when they locate food?
28. How do baleen whales communicate when they locate food?
29. How do humpback whales communicate when they locate food?
30. The blue whale sings the loudest.  True or False
31. When the blue whale sings, it is louder than a jumbo jet.  True or False
32. Scientist know why whales sing.  True or False
33. What is echolocation?
34. How far can whale songs travel underwater?
35. Are male humpback whale songs long and complex?

Chapter 2: Whales Together
36. Do orca whales stay together in pods?
37. How many years do sperm whales live?
38. What is a maternal pod?
39. What is a pod?
40. What is a clan?
41. What is a community?

Chapter 3: On the Move
42. What game do pilot whales like to play?
43. How do whales carry their calves?
44. What is spy-hopping?

Conclusion
45. What protects whales?
46. What do whales have to avoid?

From Gliders to Rockets by Sarah Jane Brian


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Book: From Gliders to Rockets
Author: Sarah Jane Brian
ISBN: 978-0-02-202576-2

Introduction
1. What were the names of the brothers who invented the first hot air balloon?
2. What year did the two brothers display their invention?
3. This became the age of human flight.  True or False
4. Hot air balloons were hard to control.  True or False
5. Who invented the glider?
6. From what country is the inventor of the glider?
7. What year was the glider invented?
8. Who read about the invention of the glider?

Chapter 1: The Wright Brothers
9. In what year did the Wright brothers test Wilbur’s idea?
10. Where did the Wright brothers test their glider?
11. Strong, lightweight engines weren’t available in the early 1900’s.  True or False
12. On September 1903, the Wright brothers tested a new aircraft with an engine, called the “Wright Flyer.”  True or False
13. Who completed the first powered flight?
14. When did he accomplish the flight?

Chapter 2: Heroes of the Skies
15. In what year did the Wright brothers build a plane that could soar 100 feet high?
16. How long did the plan stay in the air?
17. Who was the Red Baron?
18. What was the Red Baron’s name?
19. From which country is the Red Baron?
20. How many planes did the Red Baron shoot down?
21. In what year did Cal Rogers fly across the U.S.?
22. How many days did it take Cal Rogers to fly across the U.S.?
23. What is the name of the first American female pilot?
24. Who flew the “Spirit of St. Louis”?
25. How long did the flight from New York to Paris, France take?
26. In what year did Amelia Earhart fly alone across the Atlantic Ocean?
27. In what year did Earhart disappear over the Pacific Ocean?
28. What were airships called in the 1920s-1930s?
29. What were zeppelins filled with?
30. On what year did the Hindenburg crash?
31. How many people died in the Hindenburg accident?

Chapter 3: Flying in World War II
32. In what year did the German’s create the first yet fighter?
33. How fast were American planes in World War II?
34. How fast was the German jet fighter?
35. What is Mach 1?
36. Who flew the first plane pass Mach 1?
37. What year was this plane flown?
38. In what year did the first woman fly pass Mach 1?
39. What is the name of this lady?

Chapter 4: To Space and Beyond
40. In what area were rockets tested in the U.S.?
41. In what year did the Soviet Union launch Sputnik?
42. What was the name of the first manmade satellite?
43. What was the name of the first U.S. satellite?
44. What was the Mercury Project?
45. What was the name of the Soviet who went into orbit?  In what year did this happen?
46. What is the name of the astronaut?
47. What was the name of the next U.S. space project?
48. What is the name of the first chimpanzee that returned from space?
49. Which Apollo mission landed on the moon?
50. Who were the astronauts?
51. How long did they spend on the moon?

Conclusion
52. Who was the first African American woman to go to space?

Sunday, February 17, 2013

Goin' Someplace Special by Patricia C. McKissack


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Book: Goin’ Someplace Special
Author: Patricia C. McKissack
ISBN-13: 978-0-689-81885-1

1. What is the name of the girl?
2. What is the name of the girl’s grandmother?
3. What did the girl ask her mother?
4. Did Tricia Ann pay the same amount for bus fare as her grandmother?
5. Where did Tricia Ann sit on the bus?
6. Tricia Ann had seen such signs all her life.  True or False
7. Mama Frances told Tricia Ann that those signs tell them where to sit, but they can’t tell them ______________________________________.
8. What did Tricia Ann feel wasn’t fair?
9. Who did Tricia Ann give her seat to?
10. Where did Tricia Ann go?
11. What did Mrs. Grannell say to Tricia Ann as she walked off the bus?
12. What did she see at the Capitol Square?
13. What was written on the bench that she tried to sit on?
14. Who was Jimmy Lee?
15. What did Jimmy Lee give Tricia Ann?
16. Who is Mr. John Willis?
17. What hotel did Tricia Ann enter?
18. The hotel manager referred to African Americans during this time period as _______________________________.
19. Who is Blooming Mary?
20. Where did Tricia Ann go after the Southland Hotel? (A)
21. Where did she go after A? (B)
22. Who did Tricia Ann meet at B?
23. What was the “Someplace Special” that Tricia Ann started her journey to?

Author’s Note
24. Where did the author grow up?
25. Was the city of Nashville segregated in the 1950s?
26. Nashville’s public library board of directors quietly voted to ___________________________________________________________.
27. Who is Andrew Carnegie?
28. What did Andrew Carnegie and the author’s grandmother know about the library?

At Home in the Coral Reef by Katy Muzik


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Book: At Home in the Coral Reef
Author: Katy Muzik
ISBN-13: 978-0-88106-486-5

1. What is a coral reef made from?
2. How many coral polyps make up the coral reef?
3. How do coral polyps get food?
4. What are coral polyps called?
5. How many tentacles do soft coral polyps have?
6. How many tentacles do hard coral polyps have?
7. What is the name of a baby coral?
8. What color are the coral eggs?
9. What is the baby coral covered with?
10. How can the planula swim?
11. Can the planula swim fast?
12. What are wrasses?
13. Who eats the planula?
14. What is the name of the animal that twinkles at night in the coral reef?
15. Why do brittle stars flash?
16. Why do worms glow at night in the Caribbean?
17. How do flashlight fish attract their food?
18. What type of tree can grow in salty water?
19. What grows on the roots of red mangrove trees?
20. How is the sand form in the Caribbean?
21. What kills coral polyps?
22. What are the items that poison the coral?
23. What grows over coral and kills it?
24. How do divers hurt the coral?
25. Is the polyp an animal?
26. Does the polyp look like a flower?
27. After the polyp grows its twelve little tentacles, what does it start to grow under its soft body?
28. After growing its skeleton, what does the polyp do in a few weeks?
29. What do polyps catch for food?
30. What type of creature hides in the reef to escape predators?
31. What do grouper fish eat?
32. Where do polyps get special food?
33. How long does it take for reefs to grow?
34. How long does it take for a reef to die?
35. How can we help the coral reef?

Hurricanes by Seymour Simon

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Book: Hurricanes
Author: Seymour Simon
ISBN-13: 978-0-06-117072-0

1. What are hurricanes?
2. Where do hurricanes develop?
3. Do hurricanes bring tornadoes?
4. When is hurricane season?
5. When is the peak of hurricane season?
6. How many hurricanes does the East Coast average?
7. What did the ancient Mayan people call hurricanes?
8. Who came up with the word “Huracan”?
9. What does “Huracan” mean?
10. What are tropical storms?
11. What are cyclones?
12. Cyclones spin _____________________________________ in the Northern Hemisphere and _________________________ in the Southern Hemisphere.
13. What do you call cyclones of clouds and thunderstorms that spin around a central area?
14. How fast are the winds in tropical depressions?
15. What do you call cyclones of heavy clouds and strong thunderstorms?
16. How fast are the winds of tropical storms?
17. What are the wind speeds of hurricanes?
18. Hurricanes develop in the ______________________________, ___________________________, ___________________________, or ____________________________________.
19. Where are typhoons developed?
20. Where are cyclones developed?
21. What is the weather like in the eye of a hurricane?
22. What is a storm surge?
23. How big is a storm surge?
24. What is a storm tide?
25. How many people died when the hurricane hit Galveston, Texas?
26. Tornado winds can reach more than _______________________________________.
27. How many days can hurricanes last?
28. Hurricanes can cause more damage than any other single weather event.  True or False
29. What amount of energy can a hurricane release?
30. What system is used to measure hurricanes?
31. What is a Category 1 Hurricane?
32. What damages does a hurricane 1 cause?
33. What is a Category 2 Hurricane?
34. What damages does a hurricane 2 cause?
35. What is a Category 3 Hurricane?
36. What damages does a hurricane 3 cause?
37. What is a Category 4 Hurricane?
38. What damages does a hurricane 4 cause?
39. What is a Category 5 Hurricane?
40. What damages does a hurricane 5 cause?
41. What was the most costliest hurricane in the U.S.?
42. How many hours in advance does the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) give before a hurricane hits?

Snowflake Bentley by Jacqueline Briggs Martin


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Book: Snowflake Bentley
Author: Jacqueline Briggs Martin
ISBN-13: 978-0-547-24829-5

1. When does the story take place?
2. When was Wilson Bentley born?
3. Where was Wilson Bentley born?
4. Where is the “Snowbelt” located?
5. What is the annual snowfall in the “snowbelt”?
6. Which days were Bentley’s happiest?
7. Bentley said snow was ____________________________________________________________.
8. What is Bentley’s brother’s name?
9. Who was Bentley’s teacher until he was 14 years old?
10. What did Bentley use to study snowflakes?
11. Bentley studied all forms of moisture.  True or False
12. Bentley didn’t keep records of the weather.  True or False
13. Bentley did many experiments with raindrops.  True or False
14. How many branches do most crystals have?
15. Some crystals have ___________________ branches.
16. What did Bentley try to draw for 3 winters?
17. At what age did Bentley start drawing crystals?
18. At what age did Bentley get a camera from his parents?
19. How many times could Bentley’s microscope magnify a crystal?
20. How big was the camera that Bentley received?
21. How much did the camera cost?
22. How many winters did it take Bentley to figure out how to photograph snowflakes?
23. Were people receptive in those days to Bentley’s photographs?
24. How does each Snowflake begin?
25. What attaches to the speck? (A)
26. After A attaches to the speck, what does it form?
27. When the crystal grows, the branches come together.  What do the branches trap?
28. Why aren’t two snowflakes alike?
29. What year did Bentley experienced his best snowstorm?
30. How many photographs did he make during the two-day storm?
31. What did Bentley call the storm?
32. What did Bentley become known as?
33. Bentley was the world’s expert on _________________________.
34. In what did Bentley spent his money on?
35. At what age was Bentley when his book was published?
36. How much did Bentley spend on his work by 1926?
37. How much did Bentley receive from his work by 1926?
38. How did Bentley die?

Wednesday, February 13, 2013

The Divide by Elizabeth Kay


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Comments:  This is my all time favorite book.  I highly recommend this book to kids, they will fall in love with the characters.  This is the type of story that is a great read for adults.  This is part one of her trilogy.  I'm surprise this book isn't more popular.

Book Title: The Divide
Author: Elizabeth Kay
ISBN: 0-439-45696-7


Chapter 1
1. Was it a man or a woman lying on the stretcher?
2. The person on the stretcher was bitten by?
3. What did the person follow that made him/her get lost in the jungle?
4. How old is Felix?
5. In which country is Felix on vacation?
6. What are epiphytes?
7. What is the Continental Divide?
8. What does Betony look like?
9. Who is Ramson?
10. How old are Betony, Tansy, and Ramson?
11. What is the name of Grisette’s daughter?
12. Betony hated saying with Grisette’s daughter, why?
13. What was the name of the place they lived?
14. What did Betony’s father break as he tried to stop the family cart from rolling down the hill?
15. What happened to Betony’s parents when her mom tried to fix her husband’s arm?
16. What types of creatures are found in their forest?
17. What are Brittlehorns?
18. Who lives at Tromm Fell?
19. What is rumor to be found there?
20. Where else are Brazzles to be found?
21. Why didn’t the Brittlehorn fly away when it saw Betony?
22. What did Betony give the Brittlehorn?
23. What is the name of the Brittlehorn?

Chapter 2
1. When Felix came to, was he in the same place?
2. When Felix woke up he could see less vegetation and he could no longer see the sea.  True or False
3. Was there a forest where the Pacific Ocean was once?
4. What kind of creature was Ironclaw?
5. What types of items do not work in dreams?
6. Betony ran into what type of creature?
7. What type of conversation did Felix have with the brazzle?
8. What type of conversation did Betony have with the worrit?
9. Worrits kill their prey by making them laugh to death.  True or False
10. They turned their noses up at anything that had passed (died) away not laughing.  Who is “they”? ___________________________  Is this statement true or false?
11. What type of creature did Felix meet next after the brazzle?
12. After Felix controlled himself from laughing at the worrit and almost dying of laughter, how did the worrit look at Felix?
13. Do you think the worrit is more dangerous than the brazzle?

Chapter 3
1. Who was sitting opposite of Felix when he woke up?
2. What does Betony mean by when she said “a dog’s a mythical creature.  It doesn’t really exist.”?
3. Why does Betony think Felix has mutilated ears?
4. Why did Felix believe Betony is an elf?
5. Why does Felix believe he is in the afterlife?
6. What did Felix do, that is impossible in Betony’s world, right before she placed green mush on Felix’s knee?
7. Japegrins had red hair and wore purple clothes.  Some wore black and Ramson referred to them as the _______________________.  Why did Ramson think they were the militia?
8. What is a Japegrin?
9. What was the entertainment at the conference center?
10. Why was the audience relieved when the japegrin came out of the worrit costume?  At first the audience thought it was a worrit that was making them laugh and they ran a risk of laughing to death.
11. What type of conference was being held at the conference center?
12. Who is Snakeweed?
13. What kind of person comes to mind with a name like “Snakeweed”?
14. What was the name of the biggest healing organization?
15. Why do you think Tansy doesn’t trust Snakeweed?
16. Global Panaceas (G.P.) wants to work with tangle-persons to have access to their discoveries.  Do you think this is a good idea for the tangle-persons to work with G.P.?
17. Did Ramson and Tansy signed with Global Panaceas?
18. What do you think the message is for the brittlehorns?

Chapter 4
1. By the time Felix and Betony reached the brittlehorns’ valley, Felix was a celebrity.  True or False
2. What was at the end of the brittlehorn valley?
3. “Wallow” means to roll about in or as if in deep mud.  Example: Elephants wallowing in the river.  What do they mean in the story, “a mud wallow, which wasn’t very attractive to a human being, but was the height of luxury for a brittlehorn”?
4. Silvershank died when Betony found him.  True or  False
5. What do you think Silvershank’s message means, “Tell them not to take…”?
6. What do you think the leader of the brittlehorns means by “I’ll need to meditate on it for a while”?
7. What does the word “foal” mean?
8. What was the name of the brittlehorn that took them to the brittlehorns’ valley?
9. Which brittlehorn mixed Felix’s remaining pills to taste better?
10. What did the leader of the brittlehorns tell Felix how he (Felix) got to their world?
11. Why did Felix persist on going to Tiratattle?
12. What are fire-breathers?
13. Who was willing to take Felix to Tiratattle?
14. Instead of taking Felix to Tiratattle, the brittlehorn offered to take Felix to see?

Chapter 5
1. What are crystal-ball parlors?
2. Whare are Ragamuckies?
3. Who went to the crystal-ball parlors?
4. What did the wizened little Ragamucky tell Ramson and Tansy what she saw in the crystal ball?
5. What did Woodsmoke say to Ramson and Tansy?
6. Why does Tansy get a bad feeling about Helvella?
7. Why does Woodsmoke go to see Snakeweed?
8. Why isn’t Snakeweed interested in Felix at first?
9. What did Woodsmoke sayto Snakeweed to get him to be interested in Felix?
10. What is a flame-bird?
11. What appeared after Snakeweed rubbed two pebbles together?
12. What were the names of the Sinistroms?
13. What did Snakeweed want Architrex to do?
14. What did Architrex and Vomidor do at the end of the chapter to Woodsmoke?
15. Do you think Woodsmoke had good intentions when she found out about Felix?

Chapter 6
1. Did Ramson go with Tansy to the terminal?
2. Who was at the terminal with the other twenty passangers?
3. Tansy nudged a lickit and pointed to the sinistrom.  The lickit yelled and said, “Get a move, will you!  There’s a sinistrom heading this way!”  Why are people afraid of the sinistrom?
4. Did Ramson get arrested?
5. Was Ramson accused of two murders?
6. Who waited for Ramson outside the jail?
7. From where does Betony tell Felix that sinistroms come from?
8. What did Betony, Felix, Chalky and Snowdrift find in trouble on their way to Tiratattle?
9. Who did Tansy visit first?
10. Who did Ramson meet in jail?

Chapter 7
1. What is the name of the last village before entering Tiratattle?
2. Why did Betony feel uncomfortable at Drokking?
3. What did the brittlehorns smell?
4. What did the brittlehorns eat?
5. How did Chalky die?
6. How did the sinistroms turn to stone?
7. Did Betony and Ramson get away from the sinistroms?

Chapter 8

1. What was the name of Agrimony’s fire-breather?
2. Who is Grisette?
3. Who was a good friend with Tansy’s mother?
4. Who rode the fire-breather to Tromm Fell from Grisette’s house?
5. Who assumed the form of a lickit when they arrived to Tiratattle?
6. The conference center that Architrex took Felix appeared to be ______________.
7. Once Architrex and Felix were inside the conference center, it opened out like a vast ________________________________.
8. What type of clothes was Snakeweed wearing?
9. What was the name of Ironclaw’s friend?
10. In the city of Tiratattle, what was the lickit district like?
11. What is the ragamucky quarter like?
12. What was the japegrin precinct like?

Chapter 9

1. What did Betony show Ramson at jail that proved that Felix existed?
2. What color were the clothes that Felix had to wear for dinner with Snakeweed?
3. What did the ragamucky say to Felix before he sat down to have dinner with Snakeweed?
4. What did Felix have for dinner?
5. What was the shrimp made from?
6. What were the strawberries made from?
7. Which objects didn’t work in front of Snakeweed when Felix tried demonstrating them?
8. When Felix couldn’t get the objects to work, did Snakeweed think he was a tangle child?  (circle) Yes   No, why?
9. What did Granitelegs and Ironclaw do with the sinistrom?
10. What was the name of the sinistrom?
11. How did the sinistrom appeared?
12. Was Grimspite lost in his new place? (circle) Yes  No,  why?
13. Grimspite saw a sign that read “You Are Here.”  Was he lost?
14. Do you think Ironclaw found a spell to get Felix back to his world?
15. As Granitelegs reads Ironclaw’s calculations, it started to rain.  Did they lose the spell on how to get Felix home?
16. Who did Felix meet in jail?
17. How did Felix open the cell door?
18. Where did Progg say Felix should go to find a remedy for his illness?

Chapter 10

1. How did Milklegs see how Chalky and Snowdrift die? (A)
2. What can the A be used for that is located in the brittlehorn’s valley?
3. When does the A work as a crystal ball?
4. How did Progg die?
5. What was the name of the hotel Betony was staying at?
6. What do you think was lurking in the canal?
7. Who did Ironclaw meet on his way to Tiratattle? (B)
8. What did B sell to Ironclaw? (C)
9. How much did Ironclaw pay for the C?
10. What was the name of the C that B sold to Ironclaw?
11. What is a “quaff-by date” that was printed on the C?

Chapter 11

1. What was the name of Felix’s mother?
2. What was the name of Felix’s father?
3. What did Grimspite think Felix’s parents were doing with the flowers?
4. What did Grimspite say to Felix’s parents?
5. What is Grimspite’s first mission in our world?
6. What did Felix and Ironclaw discuss around the camp fire?
7. What did Ironclaw find fascinating about the conversation?
8. What type of posters did Agrimony and Tansy see in the city of Tiratattle?
9. Who approached Agrimony and Tansy about advertising a cosmetic product?
10. Who was the lickit that scared Tansy at Tiratattle?
11. Where is Ramson staying in Tiratattle?

Chapter 12

1. At the beginning of the chapter, Felix did a spell on a candle that only the green wax materialized to a creature.  What type of creature do you think materialized?
2. Betony told Felix that magic has rules.  What are the three rules she mentioned?
3. What did Betony tell Felix magic could do?
4. Do king and queens have power in Betony’s world?
5. Who has the power in Betony’s world?
6. Agrimony was having the time of her life with Squill.  Who tangled her hair?
7. Agrimony will make appearances to tell people how great Snakeweed’s headache remedy is.  Where will she make these appearances?
8. Do you think Agrimony will tell lies about Snakeweed’s headache remedy after they told her how much money they would pay her?
9. What was the first thing Grimspite killed and ate in our world?
10. What creature do you think Grimspite ran into when he was looking for candles in people’s homes?
11. Where did Grimspite find candles?
12. Who watched Tansy climbed down the hotel ladder?
13. Did Architrex think Tansy died by jumping into the canal?

Chapter 13

1. What do you think Felix, Betony, and Ironclaw saw flying over the snowy mountains?
2. What did the traders on top of the mountain order Ironclaw to do?
3. Were the traders japegrins or lickits?
4. Betony told the traders that they would like to buy a couple of cloaks.  What do you think the word cloaks means?
5. Where were the traders traveling to?
6. What happened to the cloaks when they took them off?
7. What did Ironclaw say about the library in Andria?
8. Ironclaw’s female friend was doing research on a brazzle called (A) ___________
9. Ironclaw said A worked for the king as a ____________________________ and __________________________________.
10. Felix tried doing magic again with candle wax and this time he created a           (B) ________________________.
11. What did B shouted out to Felix?
12. What was Betony surprised to see as they got closer to Andria?
13. Do they harvest food in Geddon?
14. Why does Felix feel Betony’s world is in a crucial time?

Chapter 14

1. Who is going to take singing and dancing lessons?
2. Who did Ramson meet at the fertle-juice bar?
3. Where did Architrex say the brazzle was heading after it ate Felix and Betony?
4. Who did Sankeweed invite to go with him to Andria?
5. Snakeweed told Architrex to offer the brazzle a contract to do what for him?
6. What did Snakeweed say to Architrex that sounded so cold blooded?
7. What were the buildings in Andria made off?
8. Where did Felix live in our world?
9. The domes reminded Felix of which universities?
10. The word “asymmetrical” appears on the top of page 209.  What does asymmetrical mean by the way it is used in this sentence?
11. What is the library made from?
12. Is the library older than the palace?  Yes    No
13. What is a centaur in their world?
14. A small-tail in Betony’s world is a half goat and half elf.  This is known in our world according to Felix as a (A) ___________________.
15. What did Betony say that A does for a job?
16. What was the name of Ironclaw’s wife?
17. What is the name of Ironclaw’s son?

Chapter 15

1. What did Tansy see when she was underneath the water? (A)
2. What does A remind you of from our world?
3. What was the name of A? (C)
4. What does A eat? (B)
5. Does A like the B’s for dinner?
6. What does A say they taste like?
7. Did C say Snakeweed’s remedies are getting into the food chain?  Yes   No
8. Is C afraid of becoming extinct?
9. What do tangle-folks do with their dead?
10. What do japegrins do with their dead?
11. What do lickits do with their dead?
12. What is the name of C’s wife?
13. What is the name of C’s and D’s child?
14. Did Architrex pick up Tansy’s & Felix’s scent off the road to Andria?   Yes   No
15. What was the man wearing who opened the door to the church?
16. Did this man, who opened the church, kick Grimspite out of  church?Yes  No
17. Did Agrimony have a talking mirror at her room at the Conference Center?  Yes   No

Chapter 16
1. What did Felix say elephants do? 4 answers
2. Did Felix feel Betony was the best friend he ever had?
3. Who saved Betony from drowning?
4. What did Thornbeak offer Betony?
5. What occupation (job) does Betony want to do?

Chapter 17
1. How many legs do starfish have in Betony’s world?
2. What color is the seaweed in Betony’s world?
3. What did Felix give Betony?
4. What was the name of the book Betony found?
5. Thornbeak’s aunt was once turned into a tree.
6. Who did Agrimony run into while walking around the ragamucky quarter in Tiratattle?
7. What was Agrimony’s plan to spread the news in Andria about Snakeweed’s remedy?
8. What was Snakeweed’s big idea about farms?
9. What type of bird landed in front of Felix and Betony during the concert?
10. What did the bird do for Felix and Betony to repay the favor he owed them?
11. Do you think Felix and Betony will ask the king and queen if they could enter the royal library or will they break-in to read the book?

Chapter 18
1. Why didn’t people want to stock the newspaper?
2. Who were the first to react to the newspaper articles?
3. Who reacted second?
4. Who reacted last?
5. Did all the shop owners stop promoting Snakeweed’s remedies?
6. What happened to the shops that carried Snakeweed’s remedies?
7. Did anyone get hurt?
8. Do they have newspapers in this world?
9. What do they think newspapers are?
10. From whom did Architrex take the newspaper?
11. How did Architrex take the newspaper away?
12. After reading the newspaper, what did Snakeweed say to Squill?
13. Does Snakeweed kill Squill, if not what happened?
14. How did  Felix describe Ramson when he discovered that Ramson used his book to create a printing press?
15. Who got invited to dine with the queen and king?
16. What was the name of the brazzle Snakeweed, Architrex, and Vomidor met at the beach?
17. How old was this brazzle?
18. Which brazzle and sinistrom fought?
19. Who won the fight?
20. How did the loser of the fight die?

Chapter 19
1. What did Betony and Agrimony have to drink at the castle?
2. What did the queen have no intention in learning?
3. What was served with a rich spicy sauce?
4. What did Betony ask the queen if they could do after dinner?
5. What type of paintings were on the wall?
6. What did the queen find boring?
7. What was the name of the book Betony was looking for?
8. Did the queen let her keep the book?
9. Did Agrimony leave the castle with Betony?
10. Where did Betony go, with the book, after she left the castle? (A)
11. Was Felix at A?
12. Where did the innkeeper say happened to Felix?
13. The innkeeper said Felix is at _______________________________.
14. How many brazzles were with Felix?
15. What did they need in order to recite Felix’s healing spell?
16. Did the spell work in curing Felix?
17. What did Ironclaw say that Thornbeak found inappropriate when Felix was coming to at the beach?
18. What do we use in our world to jolt people’s hearts back from death?
19. According to Thornbeak, for how many years can Felix live with this new heart?
20. On page 238, Felix had mixed feelings on how he felt.  He regarded Betony as his best friend.  True or False
21. What word was considered as bad joke to Felix?
22. What was the group’s (Betony, Felix, and the brazzles) plan to getting Felix back home?
23. What did Felix say he wanted to be when he grew up?

Chapter 20
1. What type of creature ran across Grimspite’s path that he couldn’t uncurl to eat?
2. What were the creatures that Grimspite found along a fence mooing? (A)
3. Did Grimspite enjoy eating A?
4. What type of book was Grimspite thinking of writing?
5. What would be the title of the book?
6. In what city could Agrimony see from the air smoke and people running in the streets?
7. In which quarter of the city was Ramson staying?
8. Who told Agrimony that the conference center was destroyed?
9. How did half of the city feel about Ramson, Tansy, and Dibber?
10. How did the other half feel about them?
11. After Agrimony saw the destruction, she decided to head back to ______________.
12. What is the name of the shreddermouth Agrimony ran into?
13. Where did Gulp say Tansy, Ramson, and Dibber are hiding?
14. What did Gulp say Tansy, Ramson, and Dibber want to do?
15. Did Snakeweed try to land at Tiratattle?
16. Was Snakeweed able to land and refuel (feed and water) his fire-breather?
17. Who rode to Tromm Fell on Stonetalon’s back?
18. Who rode on Ironclaw’s back?
19. How many days did it take them to fly to Tromm Fell from Andria?
20. What did Felix imagine Thornbeak joining in our world?
21. What did Felix imagine Ironclaw giving in our world?
22. Who greeted the group at Geddon when the fire-breather landed? (B)
23. Who is B?
24. What happen when Felix and Betony reached the ragamucky quarter?
25. Who was talking to Thornbeak? (C)
26. What did C do according to Thornbeak?

Chapter 21
1. How long was Felix in the other world?
2. Who was the other brazzle that joined them during the flight?
3. According to Granitelegs, what got wiped out in the rain?
4. Felix asked if he could return to this world in the future.  What was Ironclaw’s response?
5. What did Thornbeak give Felix?
6. What did Betony tell Felix to write down?
7. What did Felix give Betony?
8. What did Felix give Ramson?
9. Who arrived before Felix came back home?
10. Who said, “What makes you think that a magical cure from this world will have the slightest effect in yours?”
11. What was the air full of when Felix came back home?
12. To what country did Felix return to?
13. Where did Felix go once he returned to our world?
14. Who was the first person he saw? (A)
15. Where did A say Felix’s parents are?
16. A thinks _______________________ has been killing their cows.
17. People decided that it will be better for Felix to fly to England alone, instead of waiting for his parents to come to Costa Rica.  Where did A’s wife take Felix to catch a flight?
18. What was the first thing Architrex ate in our world?
19. Who was the first human Architrex saw in our world?
20. Architrex was about to spring when he got ________________.  Architrex felt a pain in his shoulder.  By the second shot, what happened to Architrex?
21. Where is Heathrow?
22. What is Heathrow?
23. Where did Snakeweed go first once he got to our world?
24. What did Snakeweed look at with interest?
25. What did Snakeweed see when he peered through one of the houses windows?
26. What does Snakeweed describe as a box of light?
27. What does Snakeweed describe as a metal box with wheels?
28. What did the doctor say about Felix’s health?


The Prize by Jeffrey B. Fuerst


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The Prize by Jeffrey B. Fuerst
ISBN: 978-0-02-203013-1

Chapter 1: The Writing Contest
1. Who is Captain G?
2. What does the “G” stand for in Captain G.?
3. Who is “Dr. Catastrophe”?
4. Who is Anthony Lucas?
5. What was the name of the magazine that was having a contest?
6. What was the name of Gregory and Anthony’s favorite magazine?
7. What type of articles could be found in this magazine?
8. What did Gregory hear that winners of the contest get for prizes?
9. What did Gregory’s mom tell them to do outside?
10. Who was Gregory’s mother talking about on page 4?
11. What would the “cool” kids do to Gregory if he went out to play basketball?
12. What did Gregory want from the “cool” kids?

Chapter 2: The Game
13. What did Jordan say in a mean way?
14. Who asked, “When did they start playing basketball on Planet Nerd?”
15. Who laughed at Gregory’s response that he has been practicing?
16. Gregory had been practicing by actually playing basketball or a basketball video game?
17. What did Jordan give Gregory before they started playing basketball?
18. Who did Gregory wish was there?
19. How long did it take for Jordan to win the basketball game?
20. Who shouted, “Stop!”?
21. For how long did Gregory stay home after he lost the basketball game?
22. Who offered Gregory basketball lessons?
23. What did Gregory win from winning the Robomation Magazine Contest?
24. What did Gregory have to send the magazine?

Chapter 3: The Prize
25. What arrived a week later to Gregory’s house?
26. Was Gregory’s robot good at sports?
27. Who was watching Robot Gregory play basketball while Gregory was on the phone with Anthony?
28. Who won the basketball game between Robot Gregory and Jordan?
29. Did Robot Gregory make a special basketball shot?
30. Who offered to buy Robot Gregory a milkshake?
31. Where did Anthony want to go and celebrate after the basketball game?
32. What did Robot Gregory say to Anthony?
33. What did Robot Gregory do to Anthony?
34. Who got Anthony  down from the basketball rim?
35. Who did Gregory say took over his mind?
36. Who also wanted to hang around Gregory and Anthony?

Snakes in North America by Dina Anastasio


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Snakes in North America by Dina Anastasio
ISBN: 978-0-02-202901-2 (Green Book)
           978-0-02-202786-5 (Purple Book)

Introduction
1. Snakes can be found in ____________________, ________________________, ____________________, ___________________________, and _________________________ of North America.
2. How many snake families are there in North America?

Chapter 1: Non-Poisonous Snakes
3. Which types of snakes can be found in warm climates?
4. How does the blind snake protect itself?
5. What do blind snakes eat?
6. Eastern screech owls use blind snakes as their _______________________.
7. How do blind snakes protect the owl’s chicks?
8. Boa are constrictor snakes, which means they _____________________________.
9. Where can the rosy boa and rubber boa be found?
10. Most harmless snakes in North America belong to the _______________________________ family.
11. What is one way gamer snakes stay warm in the winter?

Chapter 2: Poisonous Snakes
12. Where do poisonous snakes make venom?
13. What are the two types of poisonous snakes that can be found in the United States?
14. The coral snake can be recognized if the ______________________ ring is next to a _________________ ring.
15. The coral snake is often confused with the _________________________________.
16. How are the Scarlet King Snake and Coral Snake different?
17. The Pit Viper family includes ________________________, _____________________________, ______________________________.
18. How do we know when a rattlesnake is about to strike?
19. Which continent is the third largest on Earth?
20. Which areas of the continent are hot and dry?
21. The northeastern states and parts of Alaska are hot and dry.  True or False
22. Canada is hot and mild.  True or False
23. In what type of vegetation are snakes found in the southwest?
24. In what type of vegetation are snakes found in the northeastern area?
25. Snakes do well in the cold.  True or False
26. What type of snake is found in Alaska?
27. North America has three snake families.  True or False
28. How many snake families are poisonous?
29. How many snake families are not poisonous?
Chapter 3: Stripes, Blotches, and Cover-Ups
30. Which snakes have patterns, spots, or blotches?
31. Which snakes have stripes or rings?
32. Snakes that swim through swamps have smoother skin than desert snakes.
33. What is the name of the snake that starts out gray and then becomes all black?
34. Why do snakes have such different patterns?
35. Why do snakes have forked tongues?
36. Why do snakes always have their eyes open?
37. Why can’t snakes hear?
38. Can snakes feel sounds?

Conclusion
39. How do snakes help people and animals?
40. Are most snakes poisonous?
41. Will most snakes bite?
42. Is it easy to tell which snakes are poisonous?


Cattle Driving Horses of the Old West by Ann Gadzikowski


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Book: Cattle Driving Horses of the Old West
Author: Ann Gadzikowski
ISBN: (Orange Book) 978-0-02-202466-6
            (Purple Book) 978-0-02-202762-9
            (Blue Book) 978-0-02-202467-3
            (Green Book) 978-0-02-202468-0

Introduction
1. What is a cattle drive?
2. How long did cattle drives take?
3. What time period was this?
4. The Old West was between what years?
5. What were the reasons pioneers came west?
6. Was the west suited for cattle?
7. How did cattle get to the cities?
8. What was the name of the workers that drove the cattle from the ranches to the railroads?
9. What type of animal did the cowboys need to do their work? (A)
10. Where did the cowboys get A?
11. What were A called? (B)
12. B were descendants from _________________________________________________.
13. North America was a terrible habitat for the horses.  True or False
14. The grassy plains provided B with ________________________________________.
15. What were cowboys responsible for moving in the early days?
16. What was a difficult journey for cowboys?
17. What is the name of the cowboy’s hat?
18. What was well suited for raising cattle?
19. Why were cattle raised to the railroads?

Chapter 1: Taming and Training Wild Horses
20. How fast can a mustang run?
21. What did cowboys do when they caught, tamed, and rode wild mustangs?
22. What was a team effort?
23. Where did cowboys drive the horses?
24. What was hidden from the mustangs?
25. Today, what do experts feel is a rough treatment?
26. What did the cowboy have to do to the mustang once he caught it?
27. How did you break a horse in the Old West?
28. What is another word for “break”?
29. The cowboy that would ride and tame the horse was known as a “________________________.”
30. What is the name of cowboy contests? (C)
31. What type of events does C offer?
32. What do you call a way a horse walks or runs?
33. What do you call a slow walk?
34. What do you call a moderate run/walk?
35. What do you call a run?
36. Horses are not sensitive to touch or sound.  True or False
37. What was essential to a cowboy’s survival?
38. Where was the safest place for a cowboy out in the plains?
39. What is a saddle?
40. What are stirrups?
41. What is a bridle?
42. What item has a brim to shield the cowboys from sunlight and rain?
43. What is a lariat or lasso?
44. What are chaps?
45. What are boots made out of?

Chapter 2: Hard Work on the Trail
46. When did cattle drives begin?
47. What was a parade of cows called?
48. What was a “cow horse”?
49. What are “pony serenades”?
50. What time of day did cattle drives begin/start?
51. What is “riding swing”?
52. What is “riding point”?
53. What was the dustiest and smelliest job called?
54. Who rotated the cowboy jobs during a cattle drive?
55. What did a “cutting horse” do?
56. What could one frightened cow trigger?

Chapter 3: Descendants of the Wild Mustangs
57. What are new horse breeds?
58. How many horse breeds exist today in North America?
59. How many horse breeds existed in the 1500s?
60. What is the name of the breed used to herd cattle?
61. What is the name of the breed for being known for being strong and sturdy?
62. What is the name of the breed that bread with mustangs and the English horse?
63. From where did the quarter horse get its name?

Conclusion
64. Horses were an important part of life in the Old West.  True or False
65. What has replaced horses in cattle drives?
66. Who was “Wild Horse Annie”?
67. What year did Congress pass a law to protect wild mustangs?