The Kicks, Saving The Team by Alex Morgan

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Comments:  Great soccer book for young girls.  I really enjoyed reading the book and so did my young daughter (10 years old).  Can't wait to read her next book, "Sabotage Season."

Book: The Kicks, Saving the Team
ISBN: 978-0-545-68911-3

Chapter 1

1. What was the name of her best friend?
2. What is the main character’s name?
3. What was the name of her little sister?
4. In what state does Devin live now?
5. What was the name of Devin’s old middle school?
6. What was the name of her old soccer team?
7. In what state does Kara live?
8. What is the name of Devin’s school?
9. Using information on page 4-5, what was Devin’s big concern?
10. When was the first day of soccer tryouts?
11. Half the U.S. women’s soccer team comes from ______________________________.
12. What was the name of her math teacher?
13. What was Devin’s last name?
14. What was Devin’s 1st period class?
15. What grade level was Algebra meant for?
16. What did Devin do during lunch to not look like a complete loser?
17. Who did Devin want to call during her lunch period?
18. What did Devin end up doing because she couldn’t call her friend?
19. Who was Kara hanging out with?
20. What sport did Devin play for P.E.?
21. Who did she meet during P.E. class?
22. Who asked Devin if she played soccer?
23. What was the name of Devin’s home city in Connecticut?
24. What is the name of the soccer team Devin is going to tryout for?
25. What is the name of the coach?
26. How many games did the Kentville Kangaroos win last year?
27. What was the nickname of the girls’ soccer team?

Chapter 2

1. Who did Kara call after school and before soccer practice?
2. What did Devin and Jessi exchange before practice?
3. Why did the girl with the neatly braided dark hair, that crisscrossed over her head like a crown, intimidated Devin?
4. Why does everyone bring up Pinewood?  Are they a good team?  Why?
5. What is the name of the rude girl in the soccer team?
6. What was the name of the girl that wasn’t trying to make the team?
7. What was Devin’s reaction/feelings after soccer tryouts?

Chapter 3

1. Who used to be “besties” with Mirabelle?
2. “Mirabelle seems to look out only for herself.”  True or False
3. In what grade did Mirabelle join a traveling soccer team?
4. Pinewood is a super expensive private school.  True or False
5. Did Mirabelle want to attend Pinewood?
6. Why didn’t Mirabelle attend Pinewood?
7. Who wouldn’t Jessi trade for all the Mirabelles on the planet?
8. What did Jessi do to make Mirabelle remember all the fun times they used to have when they were kids?
9. How did Mirabelle’s travel team react to the picture?
10. Did Mirabelle use to dress a little dorky?
11. How did Mirabelle take the picture in the backpack incident?
12. Who does Mirabelle hang out with at school?
13. Who thinks Mirabelle is bossy?
14. Who thinks the popular kids are friendly to Mirabelle because they’re afraid of her?
15. Who thinks Mirabelle is pretty rude?
16. Who is hoping to not make the soccer team?
17. Who yelled, “curses!,” because they made the team?
18. Who told the girls they all made the soccer team?
19. How many eight graders made the team?
20. How many seventh graders made the team?
21. In soccer, how many players could be on the field at a time?
22. Who wants everyone to have a chance to play?

Chapter 4

1. Why were the boys on the soccer field laughing at Devin?
2. The boys that were laughing, what type of sports’ team were they?  Example: lacrosse, football, soccer, baseball.  Use context clues to answer this question.
3. What was the boys’ name who helped Devin regarding where the girls’ soccer team practices?
4. Did Coach Flores make Devin run laps for being late to practice?
5. Who got sloppy seconds?
6. Who is a 4.0 GPA student?
7. What was brain food?
8. What did the girls’ soccer team have for goals?
9. Do you think it is fair that the boys’ soccer team is the only one allowed to practice on the soccer field?
10. Who acted like a preschool teacher?
11. Who thought Coach Flores was too nice?
12. Why were the girls surprised that after their first practice, Coach Flores told them that they have a game on Friday?
13. Who was chosen as team captain for the eight grade girls?
14. Who was chosen as seventh grade captain?

Chapter 5

1. Which team had a pep rally?
2. Who asked the girls’ soccer team to move to make room for the banner?
3. Who said, “What are we, chopped liver?”
4. Who said, “If we want to get the red carpet rolled out for our team, we’re going to have to win some games”?
5. Who said, “The boys were state champions last year; that’s major”/
6. Who watches, “The Real Teenagers of Beverly Hills”?
7. Who is the seventh-grade team captain for the boys’ soccer team?
8. Who was bored at the pep rally?
9. Who is the eight-grade captain team captain for the boys’ soccer team?
10. Which girl has a crush on Cody Taylor?
11. Which girl has a crush on Steven?

Chapter 6

1. Who broke open a big bag of M&M’s on the bus?
2. Why was Jessi sad on the bus?
3. Who did Kentville play their first soccer game against?
4. Who in Devin’s family attended the soccer game?
5. Who videotapes all of Devin’s games?
6. What is the new ritual the girls in seventh grade are doing before each game?
7. Who was upset that the Coach didn’t start some of the seventh graders?
8. Who scored the first goal?
9. Who scored the second goal?
10. What was the final score?
11. Why weren’t the girls sad after the game?

Chapter 7

1. Who is Emma?
2. Why is Devin looking for Emma’s house on the first paragraph of chapter 7?
3. Does Emma live in a mansion?
4. What is Emma’s last name?
5. Who were the ladies preparing the food for the girls?
6. Which national team were they watching on television?
7. Which two girls slid down the waterside?
8. Who was a foosball queen?
9. Who forfeited their foosball game?
10. What did Mrs. Kim offer the girls before they went to bed?
11. What is the theme of the dance?
12. Did the girls spend the night indoors or outdoors?
13. Who was the sound track?

Chapter 8

1. Who were the Kangaroos playing for their second game?
2. What strategy did Coach Flores use again that was not successful?
3. Did the Kangaroos win their second game?
4. What was the final score?
5. What were the solution the two captains came up with to help the kangaroos win?
6. What lie did Mirabelle tell the Coach to get her way regarding the lineup?
7. What was the dilemma Devin faced at the end of Chapter 8?

Chapter 9

1. Who wanted a treat for attending Devin’s soccer games?
2. Who did Devin tell her problems to?
3. What was Devin’s dad’s advice for dealing with Mirabelle’s lineup?
4. Who threw a note at Devin during English?
5. Who said that Pinewood Panthers fans seem nice?
6. Who said that the Kangaroos were like human sacrifices to the Pinewood Panthers?
7. Who said they are not normal and why?
8. Page 79, compare and contrast the campuses of Kentville and Pinewood.
9. How many fans did Pinewood have at the game?
10. Did the boys’ soccer team attend the game?
11. Who did Mirabelle want to sit for the entire game?
12. Who is in charge of subbing Emma when she messes up on the field?
13. Was the Pinewood Panthers a first-rate team?
14. Who asked if there is a mercy rule in soccer?
15. For the game against Pinewood, who was the goalkeeper for the Kangaroos?
16. Who scored a goal against their own team?
17. What was the score at half-time?
18. What was the final score?
19. Who scored the goal?
20. Who seemed to have a guilty look in her eyes at the end of chapter 9?

Chapter 10

1. Who said, “soccer is the ultimate team game.”?
2. Who doesn’t want to be Mirabelle’s puppet?
3. Who is doing last minute homework?
4. Who in the team is an overachiever?

Chapter 11

1. Who asked Zoe to dance?
2. Who danced with Matt?
3. Who danced with Devin?
4. Who danced with Cody?
5. Who said to the girls, “You losers have to wait.”?
6. Why couldn’t the girls take photos?
7. Why did the girls feel that they lost on the field when they weren’t allowed to take photos?

Chapter 12

1. What did Kara do for team bonding?
2. Why was the locker room quiet that Monday morning?
3. How did Mirabelle quit the team?
4. Why did Mirabelle quit the team?
5. Did Mirabelle talk/tell Coach Flores that she was transferring?
6. Who did Devin see/talk to after practice was cancelled? (A)
7. What did A offer Devin as they spoke in her office?
8. How did the Kentville Kangaroos get their name “the Kicks”?
9. Did Coach Flores like playing soccer when she was young?
10. Why did Coach Flores get a funny vibe from Mirabelle?
11. Did the meeting with Coach Flores and Devin go well?
12. What is Coach Flores’ first and middle name?

Chapter 13

1. Who got nominated as eight-grade captain?
2. When Coach Flores showed up to practice, she had two bags.  What did the bags have?
3. What did Coach Flores use instead of a whistle?
4. Which bag did the girls choose?
5. What did the girls learn from playing this game?

Chapter 14

1. What was Devin’s idea to help Frida with soccer?
2. What was the name of the restaurant they went Thursday Night for team bounding?
3. What was the theme of the restaurant?
4. Who always wanted to try to eat the Giant Purple People Eater?
5. In order for the team to get their names on the plaque on the wall of the restaurant, they have to finish the Giant Purple People Eater in less than ____________ minutes.
6. How many scoops of ice cream does the Purple People Eater have?
7. Did the team successfully meet the challenge?

Chapter 15

1. Why didn’t Jessi go to the restaurant?
2. What did Jessi say to Devin later that night?
3. Why did they decide to have Emma as goalie?
4. Did Emma agree to play goalie?
5. Who scored the first goal against Rancho Verdes?
6. Who scored the second goal against Rancho Verdes?
7. What was the final score?
8. Who won?
9. How many straight losses did the Kangaroos have before this tie?


Chapter 16

1. What is Jessi’s last name?
2. Devin went downstairs to offer to help Jessi with her algebra homework.  What did she tell Jessi’s mother?
3. What was the deal that Devin put together with Mrs. Dukes?

Chapter 17

1. At the beginning of the chapter, was Jessi improving in her algebra class?
2. Who was at their practice field after school with Coach Flores?
3. Why did the boys practice with the girls?
4. What was the surprise at lunch time?
5. What was the other surprise the boys’ soccer team made for the girls?
6. Who thanked Devin and said none of this would have been possible if it wasn’t for you?
7. How did Jessi do on her test?
8. Was Jessi able to rejoin the team?

Chapter 18

1. What was the pregame team-wide tradition?
2. Who was at the game that flew in to California?
3. Who scored the second goal for Pinewood?
4. Who got a yellow card?
5. What was the halftime score?
6. Who scored the first goal for the Kangaroos?
7. Who scored the second goal for the Kangaroos?
8. Who scored the fifth goal of the game?
9. Who scored the sixth goal of the game?
10. What was the final score?
11. Coach Flores was splashed with Gatorade by _______________, _________________, and several of the other eight graders.

Presidential Pooches/ White House Dogs by Michael Burgan

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Book: White House Dogs/ Presidential Pooches
Author: Michael Burgan
ISBN: 978-0-02-203169-5   978-0-02-202830-5

Introduction

1. What are the most popular presidential pets?
2. What types of animals Presidents have kept as pets in the White House?
3. Do many people believe that dogs help Presidents gain support from Americans? How?

Chapter 1: The First Presidential Dogs/ The First Presidential Pooches

4. Who was the first President to take a dog with them to the White House?
5. What type of dog did he take?
6. Whose dog had some obedience problems and chewed up some furniture in the White House in 1844?
7. What was the name of the first famous White House dog?
8. Who did the dog belong to?
9. What was the name of the first Presidential Dog to have his photo taken?
10. Whose dog was it?
11. What was the name of President Ulysses S. Grant’s dog?
12. What was the name of President James A. Garfield’s dog? (A)
13. Why was the dog named A?
14. Which President built a doghouse for his dog?
15. What was the name of the dog?

Chapter 2: White House Dogs, 1900-1950/ Famous First Dogs, 1900-1950

16. Which president was believed to have turned the White House into a zoo?
17. What type of animals did President Theodore Roosevelt keep as pets?
18. What was the name of President Roosevelt’s most unpopular pet?
19. What was Roosevelt’s favorite dog’s name?
20. What was the name of the dog that was buried behind the White House?
21. What was the name of the presidential dog that sat in his own hand-carved chair during meetings when the President met with his advisors?
22. Who did this dog belong to?
23. What were the names’ of President Calvin Coolidge’s dogs?
24. What was the name of President Herbert Hoover’s favorite dog?
25. What was the name of the most famous presidential dog? (B)
26. What made B special over the other presidential dogs?
27. How did B help raise money for the troops fighting the war?
28. What is the name of the dog that is honored with a statue at the FDR memorial in Washington D.C.?
Chapter 3: More Presidential Dogs/ Recent Presidential Dogs

29. What was the name of President John F. Kennedy’s favorite dog?
30. What was President Lyndon B. Johnson’s favorite dog’s name?
31. Who owned the first presidential dog to write a book?
32. What was the name of the dog?
33. What was President Bill Clinton’s dog’s name?
34. What was President George W. Bush’s dog’s name?
35. What was the dog’s name lived at the White House with two different presidents?
36. What was the name of the dog that starred in several Internet movie

Three Legends by Yoko Mia Hirano

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Book: Three Legends
Author: Yoko Mia Hirano
ISBN: 978-0-02-202837-4

Introduction

1. In what area of the U.S. do the Quileute people live?
2. Where do Thunderbirds live?
3. What is the name of the first story?
4. What is this story about?
5. What is the name of the most famous story of the Quileute people?
6. Why is this story famous?

Chapter 1: The Creation of the Quileute

7. What lived on the plains? (A)
8. Did A have names, homes, and were they happy?
9. What did A have spirits of?
10. On what item did the young wolf fall asleep? (B)
11. What made B different?
12. What did B turn to? (C)
13. What did C change the young wolf to?
14. What did C turn the rest of the pack to?
15. What did the pack change to?
16. What name did C give the pack?

Chapter 2: The Legend of Thunderbird

17. Where did the Quileute people live? (D)
18. Where is the Quillayute River located?
19. Why did the Quileute people move to the prairies?
20. What happen to the weather after they moved to the prairies?
21. What happen to the river?
22. Based on what happened to the river, could the Quileute people go fishing?
23. What condition caused the people to die from the weather?
24. What caused the people to become afraid and not want to go outside?
25. What caused them to get sick?
26. Who called a meeting?
27. Who/What do you think is the Great Spirit?  Use your background knowledge to support your answer.
28. Where does the Great Spirit live?
29. The Great Chief of the Quileute says on page 8, “If that is the wish of the Great Spirit, then we must die bravely.”  What does he mean by this?
30. After the Great Spirit prayed, he said they must now wait to see what the Great Spirit decides.  What would you do if you were part of the tribe?
31. After so many days without news from the Great Spirit, how would you feel?
32. How did the Great Spirit respond?
33. What came out of the ocean?
34. What was the dark shape?
35. Describe the shape that came out of the ocean.
36. What caused the eyes of the villagers/tribe to hurt?
37. Describe the beak of the bird.
38. What did Thunderbird have in its claws?
39. What did Thunderbird give the Quileute people?
40. What cause and effect saved the Quileute people?

Chapter 3: The Great Spirit and Thunderbird

41. What areas did Thunderbird rule?
42. Who was afraid of Thunderbird?
43. What did Thunderbird enjoy to hunt for fun?
44. What did the Great Spirit ask of Thunderbird?
45. Did Thunderbird obey the Great Spirit?
46. Describe Thunderbird and The Great Spirit’s first confrontation.
47. What did Thunderbird do after their first confrontation?
48. What was Thunderbird’s response to the Great Spirit’s plea to stop hunting whales?
49. How did Thunderbird die?
50. What was the effect of the water rising and falling when the Great Spirit and Thunderbird fought?
51. Why do Quileute people have no known relatives?

Jani and the Leopard/ The Tiger-Stripe Potion by Rebecca Motil

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Book: Jani and the Leopard/ The Tiger-Stripe Potion
Author: Rebecca Motil
ISBN: 978-0-02-202635-6/ 978-0-02-203055-1

Chapter 1: Jani Meets a Leopard/ The Leopard in the Cave

1. When Jani arrived from school, whom did she talk to? (A)
2. What did Jani tell A she learned at school today?
3. What did Jani dream about that night?
4. At what time did Jani wake up?
5. Was Jani in her bedroom when she woke up?
6. Where was Jani?
7. Who/what did she see or meet?
8. How was the leopard feeling? (B)
9. Why was the leopard B?
10. Who took his family?
11. Why are they in a science laboratory?
12. Why can’t they ask the scientist for the potion?
13. Why do they want tiger stripes?
14. What is the leopard’s name?
15. What did Asha mean by “that’s a logical place to look,” when they were looking for the scientist’s notebook?
16. Where did Asha and Jani find the formula?
17. Where was the notebook located?
18. How long does the potion work?
19. Is Asha’s family being held in a city or village?  ( C )

Chapter 2: A Tiger/ The Tiger in the Forest

20. What was the trail like towards C?
21. In what country are they?
22. What was the climate like?
23. As they walked towards the village, who was about to attack them?
24. Describe Jani’s attitude towards the poachers.  Did Jani seem scared?
25. Who/what did they run into after the poachers?  (D)
26. What as D’s name?
27. Why were Jani and Asha afraid of D?
28. Who guided Jani and Asha to the village?

Chapter 3: Safe!/ The Rescue

29. Where was the cage located within the village?
30. How many leopards were in the cage?
31. What was the group’s plan on getting Asha’s family out of the cage?
32. Who smiled at the guard?
33. What did the guard say to Kartik?
34. What happened when Kartik smiled again?
35. How did the leopards get out of the cage?
36. How did the leopards escape from the village?

Chapter 4: Was It a Dream?/ Home Again

37. Who considered Kartik as a friend?
38. Did Kartik and the leopards walk off into the jungle together?
39. How did Jani get back home?
40. How long was Jani gone from her home?
41. Do you think Jani was dreaming or did she really go into a forest?  Use text from the story to support your answer.
42. Compare and contrast yourself with Jani.

Everyday Beauty- Beautiful or Not by Kirsten Anderson

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Book: Beautiful or Not
            Everyday Beauty
Author: Kirsten Anderson
ISBN: 978-0-02-202438-3
            978-0-02-202543-4

Chapter 1: The Perfect Picture

1. What did Carly take a picture of?
2. What was the first thing Carly did when she got home?
3. How did Carly react to her photos once she saw them on the computer?
4. Who plays the drums in Carly’s family?
5. What is Carly’s brother’s name?
6. What did Carly do with her camera once she saw the pictures of the hummingbird on the computer?
7. Did her brother keep her camera?
8. What has Carly always been fascinated with?

Chapter 2: A Tip from a Visitor/ A Visitor

9. Carly and Brad never helped their parents at their place of business.  True or False
10. What type of business did Carly’s family own?
11. Where did tourist go to fish and camp during the summer?
12. In what state was this wildlife refuge located?
13. What was the name of Carly’s town?
14. Was Carla bored living in this area?
15. What type of animals would Carla see?
16. In what city did Carly’s cousins lived?
17. What did Carla wondered in page 9?
18. Where was the young couple heading to?
19. When was the dam built?
20. What did the dam block?
21. What did dam create?
22. Carla discovered a new photographer on this day.  What was the name of the photographer?
23. When was the picture in the magazine taken?

Chapter 3: Learning from the Past/ Carly Learns from the Past

24. Was Carly fascinated with the glamorous pictures that Margaret Bourke-White took?
25. Which series of pictures did Carly find the most interesting?

Chapter 4: The Perfect Picture, Part II/ Carly Tries Something New

26. What were the names of her dogs?
27. Compare and Contrast you and Carly.
28. Compare and Contrast your neighborhood and Carly’s neighborhood.
29. Quote 3 facts
a. _______________________________________________________________________________
b. _______________________________________________________________________________
c. _______________________________________________________________________________
30. Quote 3 opinions
a. _______________________________________________________________________________
b. _______________________________________________________________________________
c. _______________________________________________________________________________
31. Write down one event that happened in the story.  In a few sentences write the cause and the effect of the event.

About The History of the Calendar by A.E. Evenson

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Summary: Traces the history of the calendar from ancient times to the sixteenth century when the Gregorian calendar used today came into being.

Comment:  Excellent book for your elementary school child to read.  This is history that isn't covered in school text books.

Book: About The History of the Calendar
Author: A.E. Evenson
ISBN: 0-516-08092-X

Chapter 1: Nature’s Calendars

1. What are natural calendars?
2. How did the farmers tell time long ago?
3. What natural calendar did the farmers have to know when it was time to plant?

Chapter 2: Moon Calendars

4. What do you call when the moon changes shape?
5. How many days does it take for the moon to go through all its phases?
6. What do you call a calendar that is based on the phases of the moon?
7. What was the first day of the month called?
8. What were the names of the months in the lunar calendar?
9. Lunar months were shorter than our months.  True or False
10. Twelve lunar months were greater than a year.  True or False
11. What was the 13th month in the lunar calendar called?

Chapter 3: The Calendar of Julius Caesar

12. Who decided to add the extra month to the lunar calendar?
13. Why, sometimes, wouldn’t the rulers of Rome not add the extra month?
14. Why did some rulers often add extra months?
15. What did adding and not adding the extra month to the lunar calendar cause?
16. How was the calendar when Julius Caesar became ruler of Rome?
17. When was December appearing when Julius Caesar became rule of Rome?
18. What did Julius Caesar do to correct the calendar?
19. How did Julius Caesar correct the calendar?
20. How many days did the year 46 B.C. have?
21. What was this year called?
22. What was accomplished by this action?
23. What calendar did Julius Caesar do away with?
24. What calendar did Julius Caesar start using?
25. What was this calendar based on?
26. What do we call the year that we add an extra day?
27. How many days does February have in a Leap Year?
28. How many days does February have?
29. What did Romans call their solar calendar?
30. What was the name of the month in the lunar calendar Julius Caesar was born?
31. The Romans renamed Quintilis to ____________________.
32. Augustus renamed Sextilis to August.  True or False

Chapter 4: Pope Gregory Changes the Calendar

33. How many days in a year?
34. How many minutes off was the Julian calendar?
35. How many days was the Julian calendar off by the 1500s?
36. What did Pope Gregory XIII do in 1582?
37. The calendar jumped from Thursday, October 4th to Friday, October 15th.  True or False
38. What was this new calendar called?
39. Which country and territory didn’t use the Gregorian calendar?
40. In what year did this country and territory change to the Gregorian calendar?
41. Did the Julian calendar and the Gregorian calendar agree?
42. By 1745 these calendars were ________ days apart.
43. In the 1740s before American changed to the Gregorian calendar, what did people have to write after the date in order not to be confused with the date?

Chapter 5: How We Got the Week

44. The old Romans divided the months into periods.  What were these periods called?
45. What did they call the first day of the month?
46. How did we get the word calendar?
47. In what continent did the seven-day week get started?
48. How did it get to the western part of the world?
49. When was the seven-day week added to the calendar?
50. Roughly when did Christianity become the official religion of Rome?
51. The seven-day week were named after planets.  What is the name of Sunday in German?
52. What is the name of Sunday in Latin?
53. What is the name of Monday in German?
54. What is the name of Monday in Latin?
55. What is the name of Tuesday in German?
56. What is the name of Tuesday in Latin?
57. What is the name of Wednesday in German?
58. What is the name of Wednesday in Latin?
59. What is the name of Thursday in German?
60. What is the name of Thursday in Latin?
61. What is the name of Friday in German?
62. What is the name of Friday in Latin?
63. What is the name of Saturday in German?
64. What is the name of Saturday in Latin?


Chapter 6: A.D. and B.C.

65. What does A.D. mean?
66. What does it mean in Latin?
67. Who came up with the idea we should count our years from the birth of Christ?
68. What does B.C. mean?

Miki and the North Wind by Anne Miranda

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Book: Miki and the North Wind
Author: Anne Miranda
ISBN: 978-0-02-202699-8

Chapter 1: Missing

1. What does “Miki” mean in the Inupiac language?
2. What happened to Miki’s father during a hunting trip?
3. Did the uncle give up hope in finding his brother?
4. Did Miki and his mother give up hope in Miki’s father returning home?
5. Did Miki and his mother believe Miki’s father was still alive?
6. What happened when the family ran out of food?
7. Did Miki catch any fish?
8. What happened to Miki on his way home?
9. What do you think is the North Wind?
10. What did Miki say to the North Wind?
11. What did the North Wind do with Miki?
12. Where did Miki’s mother find Miki?
13. In what condition was Miki when his mother found him?
14. How did Miki’s mother react, when she heard that the North Wind took the fish and Miki’s father’s hook?
15. How far is the North Wind’s home from where Miki lives?

Chapter 2: The Special Pot

16. Did Miki eventually make it to the North Wind’s house?
17. Did the North Wind take Miki’s fish and his father’s hook?
18. How does the North Wind feel/think of about Miki?
19. What does the North Wind give Miki?
20. What does Miki have to do to get food
21. Where did Miki stop on his way home from meeting the North Wind?
22. Who or what greeted Miki in front of his uncle’s house?
23. Did the uncle offer Miki to stay at first?
24. What did Miki say that the uncle allowed him to stay?
25. Did Miki feed his uncle and the dogs?
26. What did Miki’s uncle do while Miki was sleeping?
27. What happened when Miki got home and said, “Pot, pot, cook food”?
28. Did Miki’s mother feel that the North Wind tricked her son?
29. What did she tell Miki to do?

Chapter 3: The Special Sack

30. Did the North Wind deny taking Miki’s father’s fur?
31. What did the North Wind give Miki?
32. What does this special sack do?
33. What did Miki give his uncle?
34. What did Miki give the dogs?
35. What happened when Miki got home?
36. What did Miki feel the North Wind did to him?

Chapter 4: The Special Stick

37. This is now the third time Miki visits the North Wind.  How does he approach the North Wind?
38. The North Wind tells Miki he didn’t take anything from him.  He gives Miki a _______________     ______________________ to find out who took his things.
39. Who did Miki visit after receiving the stick from the North Wind?
40. Who tried to take Miki’s stick?
41. Who took Miki’s stick instead?
42. What happened to the dogs once Miki said, “Stick, stick, do your work!”?
43. Who ran away with the stick once the father and uncle turned human?
44. What did the false uncle turn to?
45. What is a shape-shifter?
46. Who or what blew the raven far away?
47. Who guided Miki, Miki’s father, and the uncle home?
48. Compare and contrast yourself to Miki.
49. Quote 3 facts from the story.
50. Quote 3 opinions from the story.
51. Choose an event that happened in the story and explain the cause and the effect of the event.

Wilma Rudolph: A True Winner by Terre Lintner

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Book: Wilma Rudolph: A True Winner
Author: Terre Lintner
ISBN: 978-0-02-203176-3

Introduction

1. Where is the setting?
2. What is the event?
3. What year is it?
4. Who is the athlete?
5. How many medals did she win?

Chapter 1: A Sickly Childhood

6. In what year was Wilma born?
7. In what state was Wilma born?
8. How many brothers and sisters did Wilma have?
9. What was the disease Wilma contracted when she was four?
10. How far did Wilma’s family had to travel for her to receive treatment?
11. Why couldn’t Wilma’s family take Wilma to a local hospital?
12. At this time, the doctors believed that Wilma wouldn’t be able to walk.  True or False
13. Who developed the polio vaccine in 1955?
14. When was polio eliminated from the United States?

Chapter 2: An Unusual Nickname

15. By what age was Wilma’s leg strong again that she wouldn’t need the leg brace?
16. How old was she when she first used the leg brace?
17. For how many years did she wear the leg brace?
18. In what grade, did Wilma join the basketball team?
19. What nickname did the basketball coach give her?
20. In what grade did Wilma finally get playing time during a game?
21. Did Wilma win any races in the track meet at Tuskegee University?

Chapter 3: Training with the Tigerbelles

22. Who was the coach of the Tennessee State University Girls’ Track Team?
23. After a summer of heavy training, Wilma was accepted by what team?
24. What year was this?
25. How old was Wilma?
26. Where were the Olympics held in 1956?
27. Did Wilma win a medal at these Olympics?
Chapter 4: The 1960 Olympic Games

28. Where were the Olympics held in 1960?
29. In what competition did Wilma win her first gold medal?
30. In what competition did Wilma win her second gold medal?
31. In what competition did Wilma win her third gold medal?
32. Using text clues from the story, which events that she won gold medals were individual events?  Which are team events?
33. Why was Wilma’s Olympic return celebration special for her hometown?

Chapter 5: Wilma’s Lasting Legacy

34. What was the name of the foundation Wilma created in 1981?
35. What did the foundation provide?
36. How did Wilma help other women athletes?
37. In what year did Wilma die?
38. How old was Wilma when she died?
39. What was Wilma’s illness that caused her death?
40. What did the U.S. Postal Service release in 2004 to honor Wilma Rudolph?
41. What is the name of the award that is awarded to a woman athlete who exhibits extraordinary courage?
42. Who presents this award?

Force and Motion in Sports by Glen Phelan

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Book: Force and Motion in Sports
Author: Glen Phelan
ISBN: 978-0-02-202568-7

Introduction

1. What sport is introduced in the Introduction?

Chapter 1: A World of Motion

2. What is motion?
3. What type of motion does a flying disc represent?
4. What type of motion does humming represent?
5. What is velocity?
6. What is acceleration?

Chapter 2: Forces Make It Go

7. What is force?
8. Muscles often work in pairs to allow body movement.  True or False
9. When one muscle relaxes, the other muscle pulls on bones to move your body.  True or False

Chapter 3: Invisible Forces

10. Gravity pulls all objects at the same rate.  True or False
11. Any two objects that fall from the same height at the same time will hit the ground at the same time.   True or False
12. What is gravity?
13. What is a projectile?
14. What is friction?
15. Friction makes you go fast.  True or False
16. Does friction occur when a solid object touches liquid and gas?
17. What is friction with the air called?

Conclusion

18. What sport do you play that uses force and motion?

Kids Work by Laura Shallop

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Book: Kids Work
Author: Laura Shallop
ISBN: 978-0-02-202654-7

Introduction

1. Is it ever too early to think about a career?
2. What is an employee?
3. What is an entrepreneur?
4. What is a trait of an entrepreneur?
5. Can any kid become an entrepreneur?
6. What are some of the benefits of becoming your own boss or being self-employed?

Chapter 1: A Hobby Grows into a Business

7. What hobby did Kenny Kirkpatrick have?
8. What did Kenny call his company?
9. How old was Kenny when he ordered a pen kit?
10. How old was Kenny when he started selling his wood-covered pens?
11. What type of business did Crystal Ann Ramous start?
12. What type of camp did Crystal attend?
13. What was the name of the camp?
14. Who organized the camp?
15. What did Elise Mcmillan learn from her grandmother?
16. At 10 years old Elise was selling ____________________________  _______________________ to her neighbors.
17. In what year was the Chocolate Farm open?
18. Was Elise’s brother, Evan, involved in the business before or after the launch of the website?
19. How many visitors does the website get?
20. Using text clues, was Evan a factor on the success of the business?
21. How much money does Chocolate Farm generate annually?
22. Who did YoungBiz magazine name top youth food business in the U.S.?
23. In what year was this award given?
24. How many years after they launch the website did they receive this award?

Chapter 2: Kid Entrepreneurs have Great Ideas

25. How did Erica Gluck start her business?
26. What were the top 10 Kid-owned businesses in 2001?
27. We are in 2014.  This list is 13 years old.  Which businesses do you think are still possible today?
28. How old was Tyrone Gray when he started his printing services?
29. What is marketing?
30. What is the Chamber of Commerce?

Chapter 3: Kid Entrepreneurs Love Their Work

31. What is the name of Aaron Greenspan’s business?
32. How old was Aaron when he became president of his company?
33. Why does Aaron feel that building his business on the Internet is better for him?
34. How did Pankaj Arora start his business?
35. What is the name of Pankaj Arora’s business?
36. What is the secret that Pankaj Arora discovered?
37. Pankaj turned down a job that was going to pay him $____________________________.
38. There’s a foundation that provides computers for children in Jamaica and Brazil.  What is the name of that foundation?
39. How are Pankaj Arora Software and Think Computer alike?
40. Compare and Contrast Ken’s Pens, The Chocolate Farm, and TMCP Printing.
41. Compare and Contrast the businesses of Crystal Ann Ramous and Erica Gluck.
42. Pankaj gives some advice in starting your own business on page 14.  Why is the first advice of “think and prepare before you make a decision” important?
43. Why is advice #2, “know your stuff,” important?
44. Why is advice #3, “never quit,” important?
45. Why is advice #4, “don’t expect success overnight,” important?
46. What is the name of the creative teenager who decided to cut a giant maze into her family’s cornfield?
47. What did Kelsey do before she started her business?
48. What is the name of Travis’s business?
49. How old was Travis when he started his business?
50. What type of business does Travis Keith Bruce have?
51. Compare and Contrast Deaton’s Corn Maze with T.K. Worm Factory.
52. By using text clues, make a list of the following businesses by biggest moneymaker to least.  Then explain why: Ken’s Pens, Crystal Ann Ramous’ Flower Service Business, The Chocolate Farm, Erica Gluck’s Pasta Business, TMCP Printing, Think Computer, Pankaj Arora Software, Deaton’s Corn Maze, and T.K. Worm Factory

Chapter 4: Kid Entrepreneurs Make a Difference

53. Compare and Contrast “Starting Your Own Business” on page 14 to “Path to Change” on page 18.
54. What is “Do Something”?
55. Compare and Contrast Megan Britton’s charity garage sale with Bryan Condy’s “Do Something.”  Using text clues, which raises more money.
56. “Kids Saving the Rainforest” (KSTR) was started by ________________________________________ and  ________________________________________.
57. How did KSTR get started?
58. In which country is KSTR located?

This Friend, That Friend by Frances Ruffin

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Book: The Fisherman and the Well/ This Friend, That Friend
             A Tale from The Arabian Nights
Author: Frances Ruffin
ISBN: 978-0-02-202361-4, 978-0-02-202640-0

Introduction

1. What are “the Arabian Nights”?
2. Where do “the Arabian Nights” originate?
3. What happened with each retelling of “The Arabian Nights” tales?
4. What happened to these stories over time?
5. What do the common tales describe in their stories?

Chapter 1: The Sultan’s Plan/ An Impossible Task

6. What did the Sultan want? Why?
7. What does the Sultan mean by asking his advisor if they have a policy that he can get the fisherman’s land?
8. Who ordered the fisherman to the palace?
9. What was the task according to the advisor?
10. What was the job the Sultan had for the fisherman?
11. What does the fisherman do right after receiving this task?

Chapter 2: Help From a Friend/A Helpful Friend

12. Where was the well located?
13. Where was the well near?
14. What does the well give to the fisherman?
15. What does the fisherman’s wife tell her husband to do?
16. What happened as the fisherman did as his wife said and a beautiful carpet appeared?
17. What is the Sultan’s next task for the fisherman?
18. How many days did the fisherman have for the first task?
19. How many days does the fisherman have for the second task?
20. What was the fisherman’s reaction on page 6, when told of the first task?
21. What was the fisherman’s reaction on page 11, when told of the second task?
22. Why are the fisherman’s reactions different?

Chapter 3: A Baby’s Story

23. What does the fisherman return to the well?
24. What does the fisherman’s wife tell him to do?
25. What appeared from the well?
26. What did the fisherman’s wife tell her husband to do when he enters the great hall with the baby boy?
27. What did the baby say at the beginning?
28. What did the Sultan ask the baby?
29. In the baby’s tale, he bought a ______________________.  After cutting it open, what did the baby boy see inside?
30. After the baby boy went inside the pumpkin, what did a donkey give him?
31. What was inside the cake?
32. Did the Sultan get upset at this point in the story, if so how did he react?
33. Did the baby boy fear the Sultan?  How do you know, use text from the story to support your answer.
34. Other than a story of lies, what else does the baby reveal?
35. Was the crowd sad, angry, or pleased?
36. How did the fisherman and his wife live afterwards?
37. Using text clues, who is wiser?  The Sultan or his Advisor.
38. Using text clues, who is wiser?  The fisherman or his wife.

The Wood Sprite by Rebecca Motil

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Book: The Wood Sprite
Author: Rebecca Motil
ISBN: 978-0-02-203068-1

Chapter 1: The Caterpillars

1. What type of feeling did Stella have that morning?
2. What was Stella’s favorite place?
3. Where was her favorite place?
4. What was Stella’s goal that morning?
5. Stella’s father made a comment/request.  What was it?
6. What did Stella place inside her backpack?
7. Where did Stella live?
8. Which flowers did Stella use in her bouquet?
9. What type of animals swam in the pond?
10. What felt wonderful on her toes?
11. Were there many farms, open fields, and wooded areas where Stella lives?
12. What type of tree did Stella fall asleep under?
13. Stella was thinking about pollution before she fell asleep.  What were her thoughts?
14. What wrote the word “COME” and then created an arrow?
15. What crossed Stella’s path as she entered the woods?
16. Stella ran into some animals.  List them in the order she saw them and what she fed them.

Chapter 2: The Bear

17. What did Stella use to light up the dark path?
18. What did Stella run into that she feared for her life?
19. What saved Stella from her encounter? (A)
20. What did A say to Stella?

Chapter 3: The Net

21. What did Stella mean when she said, “Now I know what a fly feels like when it gets caught in a spider web”?
22. While walking on the path, Stella got caught on ________________.  Then ___________________ came to her rescue by _______________________ on the net.  After one squirrel gave Stella a little bow, it said, “Because you shared your _______________________ with me.  You are fee to continue on the path.”

Chapter 4: The Fork in the Path

23. How did Stella decide which way to go when she reached the fork on the road?
24. Which way did Stella go, right or left?
25. Stella approached a glade filled with sunlight.  What did she see/encounter at the glade?
26. What did the caterpillars in the bag turn to?

Chapter 5: The Queen of the Sprites

27. Who was the sprite as tall as her? (B)
28. What did B give Stella? ( C)
29. Why did Stella get C?
30. What did the Queen of Sprites make Stella?
31. What are Stella’s responsibilities as a “Special Wood Sprite”?
32. Do you think Stella was dreaming?   Use text clues from the story to support your answer.

Fighting for Rights by Ann M. Rossi

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Book: Fighting for Rights
Author: Ann M. Rossi
ISBN: 978-0-02-202941-8

Introduction

1. “In the early 1800s women in the United States had few rights.” What types of jobs could they do?
2. What types of jobs couldn’t they do?
3. Could women vote during this time?
4. Did men and women earn the same for the same type of job?
5. When a woman married, who got to keep all her property?
6. Did the wife have control of her money and who decided if she got spending money?
7. Who stayed with the children if they divorced?
8. Which two women played a role in changing the way women should be treated?

Chapter 1: Elizabeth Cady Stanton

9. In what year was Elizabeth Cady born?
10. What did Elizabeth’s father studied?
11. In what field did Elizabeth’s father work?
12. What did Elizabeth’s father let her read at home?
13. How many brothers and sisters did Elizabeth have?
14. Did colleges accept women in the 1830s?
15. What was the name of Elizabeth’s cousin who introduced her to people who wanted to end slavery?
16. Who did her cousin introduce her to?
17. When people got married in the 1840s, what word was included in most wedding vows?
18. What were women expected to do when they married in the 1840s?
19. To what city did the Stanton’s travel to in 1840 for a antislavery meeting?
20. Who did Elizabeth meet in London?
21. The men attending the 1840 antislavery meeting in London planted a seed on their wives.  What was the seed?
22. Lucretia Mott was aQ_________________ minister and a well-known a______________.  She started the P_____________________ F______________________ A____________________________ S_________________________.
23. In what year was the trip to London?
24. In what year was the convention held?
25. How many years had passed between the trip and the convention?
26. Why do you think it took so long to hold their first convention?
27. Compare and contrast yourself to Lucretia Mott or Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
28. What did the women right for their first convention?
29. How many women wrote this document?
30. What was this document about?
31. What was a big idea in this document?
32. Imagine if once you reached 18years old, you couldn’t vote.  Compare and contrast how your life would change and stay the same.
33. Where was the convention held?
34. What was the Declaration of Sentiments modeled after?
35. Were the newspapers for or against the goals of the convention?

Chapter 2: Susan B. Anthony

36. What did the Quakers believe in the 1820s?
37. Was this belief rare in the 1820s and why?
38. Susan was born 5 years after Elizabeth.  In what year was Susan born?
39. Susan learned to read by the age of ____________.
40. What did Susan’s father decide to do?
41. In what state did Susan go to boarding school?
42. What did Susan’s father own?
43. What profession did Susan do when she finished school?
44. What was the name of the academy that Susan taught in?
45. What type of group did Susan join?
46. What is a temperance group?
47. What was the Underground Railroad?
48. The slaves that escaped through the Underground Railroad went to the country of ______________________.  Why did they go to this country?
49. Who, was an escaped captive and famous abolitionist, helped people escape using the Underground Railroad?
50. In what year did Susan and Elizabeth meet?
51. How did they meet?
52. Give one fact for chapter 1, write and quote the sentence here:___________________________________________________________________________________
53. Give one opinion for chapter 1, write and quote the sentence here: _________________________________________________________________________________________
54. What event in 1852 changed Susan’s life that made her decide to start a temperance group ran by women?

Chapter 3: Working Together
55. Compare and contrast the two women, Susan and Elizabeth, on page 15.
56. What was the 1854 petition about?
57. What event caused the women’s rights movement to slowdown during the years of 1861 to 1865?
58. In 1863, Elizabeth and Susan helped form a group called the __________________________________________________________________________.  This group collected ____________________________ of people who supported an end to slavery.
59. Why were the signatures important?
60. Why was this amendment important?
61. Disagreement over what issue caused suffragists to form two groups in 1869?
62. What were the names of the two suffrage groups?
63. What was NWSA supporting?
64. Who was not allowed to join NWSA?
65. What was AWSA supporting?
66. If you were living back then, which group would you join and why?
67. In what year were women allowed to vote in 2 states?
68. How many years passed since the disagreement of the two groups (1869) and the two states allowing women to vote?
69. In what year did the two suffrage groups merge?
70. What was the name of this new group?
71. What number was the amendment that gave the women the right to vote?
72. How many states had to ratify it to become law?
73. When was the 19th Amendment passed?
74. In what year did Elizabeth die?
75. In what year did Susan die?
76. How many years after Elizabeth Stanton died, did the 19th Amendment get passed?
77. How many years after Susan B. Anthony died, did the 19th Amendment pass?
78. Who started the League of Women Voters?
79. In what year did she start this?
80. What was her belief in starting this organization?
81. This organization was designed to ____________  ______________________ become educated about political issues.
82. What did the organization encourage women to do?