Shared Flashcard Set

Details

2011-2012 BOB Questions
N/A
77
10/21/2011

Additional Other Flashcards

 

Cards

Term
In which book are the children not allowed to enter an area that is fenced off?
 Definition
39
Term
In which book did a woman's corset set off a metal detector?
 Definition
221
Term
In which book do a boy and girl type a letter using special duplicate carbon letter paper?
 Definition
209
Term
In which book do neighbors pound on an apartment door trying to get in when they hear shouting?
 Definition
168
Term
In which book do the characters feel safe because all the bad guys are locked up?
 Definition
83
Term
In which book do the characters travel by boat or walking when they want to go anywhere?
 Definition
25
Term
In which book does a boy and his father clean up the living room together after his sister had a tantrum?
 Definition
172
Term
In which book does a boy and his sister go out for a walk to try to keep the sister from having a tantrum?
 Definition
183
Term
In which book does a boy climb through a gap in the fence looking for a baseball?
 Definition
144
Term
In which book does a boy finish a letter off by saying, "PS I like your mother very much"?
 Definition
210
Term
In which book does a boy get angry with his mother for hiding a box of buttons?
 Definition
167
Term
In which book does a boy get upset when his mom switches her Monday piano lessons to Tuesday?
 Definition
103
Term
In which book does a boy have to carry his sister home after she fell asleep on a swing?
 Definition
171
Term
In which book does a boy lose a friend because he can't play baseball after school?
 Definition
109
Term
In which book does a boy spend his afternoons looking for a baseball?
 Definition
138
Term
In which book does a boy think he caused his sister to be different?
 Definition
173
Term
In which book does a boy try to get the warden to intercede to get his sister in a school?
 Definition
203
Term
In which book does a boy want to trade a baseball glove for a convict baseball?
 Definition
135
Term
In which book does a character charge her friends five cents to have their shirts washed by convicts?
 Definition
47
Term
In which book does a character devise a plan to sell laundry services?
 Definition
47
Term
In which book does a character like to have the index of books read to her?
 Definition
25
Term
In which book does a family move so that the sister can go to the Esther P. Marinoff School?
 Definition
3
Term
In which book does a girl calm down and stop fighting when she is rolled inside a rug?
 Definition
169
Term
In which book does a girl get in a school after the director decides to open a branch for older children?
 Definition
213
Term
In which book does a girl have her birthday on the day before she has an interview to get into a special school?
 Definition
179
Term
In which book does a girl have to go live with her grandmother because she got in trouble?
 Definition
125
Term
In which book does a girl only make it one day in a new school before her family is asked to pick her up?
 Definition
61
Term
In which book does a girl try to get the main character and his sister to help her talk to a convict?
 Definition
162-163
Term
In which book does a group of children get in trouble when a parent sends a letter complaining about her son coming home from school without a shirt?
 Definition
112-113
Term
In which book does a tour of the area include a stop at the morgue?
 Definition
16
Term
In which book does it rain all of February and half of March except on baseball days?
 Definition
125
Term
In which book does the family have to go out of their apartment and down stairs to use the telephone?
 Definition
60
Term
In which book does the main character find a casserole dish marked "Thought you might enjoy some manicotti. Looking forward to meeting you"
 Definition
10
Term
In which book does the main character get his sister to leave a boat by reading the index of a book to her?
 Definition
27-28
Term
In which book does the main character have to go see the warden?
 Definition
30
Term
In which book does the main character make friends at a new school by playing baseball?
 Definition
50-52
Term
In which book does the main character start the day by asking his sister if the sun got up okay?
 Definition
22
Term
In which book does the main character state that he lives on an island with "a ton of murderers, rapists, hit men, con men, stickup men, embezzlers, connivers, burglars, kidnappers and maybe even an innocent man or two"?
 Definition
3
Term
In which book does the main character wake up feeling foolish for sleeping with his shoes on and with a baseball bat under the covers with him?
 Definition
7
Term
In which book does the main character's sister have tantrums which go on and on for days?
 Definition
9
Term
In which book does the main character's sister sit around playing with buttons?
 Definition
4
Term
In which book does the mother have to sit on the sister to get her calmed down while on a train?
 Definition
9
Term
In which book does the mother of "public enemy number one" calm a crying baby on a boat ride?
 Definition
133
Term
In which book does the mother spend her time trying to find a place to help the sister so she can be more normal?
 Definition
65
Term
In which book does the mother want her daughter to stay at a school so that she has a better chance to get a job after school?
 Definition
66
Term
In which book does the reader find out that a whole village existed on an island?
 Definition
217
Term
In which book is a baseball hit over the fence an automatic out?
 Definition
57
Term
In which book is a boy surprised to see his sister holding hands with someone?
 Definition
185
Term
In which book is a character sent home from school because she screamed for an hour?
 Definition
68-69
Term
In which book is a family upset when they find out the daughter doesn't get in a special school?
 Definition
198
Term
In which book is a job in the laundry considered an undesirable job because it was hard, boring work?
 Definition
220
Term
In which book is one character always 10 on her birthday?
 Definition
11
Term
In which book is the laundry done by convicts?
 Definition
34
Term
In which book is the main character embarrassed when his new teacher asks him if he flunked 7th grade?
 Definition
43
Term
In which book is the main character upset because he hasn't seen his father in almost 3 months and now his father has to work?
 Definition
8
Term
In which book is the main character's dad an electrician and a prison guard?
 Definition
4
Term
In which book is the quote, "And only the children who were the best singers were given the privilege of caroling to the cons"?
 Definition
223
Term
In which book is the quote, "Because I haven't heard of a ball going over in months. I didn't think you'd find one."
 Definition
152
Term
In which book is the quote, "Dead criminals…don't I get to meet any live ones?"
 Definition
13
Term
In which book is the quote, "How old is she really?"
 Definition
191
Term
In which book is the quote, "I dig my fingers in the pocket and pull out a torn scrap of brown paper. It's folded in half and in half again. Inside is one word scribbled hastily in pencil and underlined twice. Done, it says."
 Definition
215
Term
In which book is the quote, "I'll need you to come straight home from school. I have to be on the four o'clock boat and that is probably cutting it too close."
 Definition
82
Term
In which book is the quote, "If anything like this occurs again, all of your fathers will be dismissed without severance."
 Definition
115
Term
In which book is the quote, "It's a science project…We're comparing the weight of dry cloth to the weight of wet cloth."
 Definition
99
Term
In which book is the quote, "It's her birthday today. She looks sixteen. She is sixteen."
 Definition
192
Term
In which book is the quote, "It's not everybody who gets to live down the street from thieves and murderers, you know."?
 Definition
12
Term
In which book is the quote, "Oh we have everyone who is bad. Except Bonnie and Clyde on account of their being dead"?
 Definition
15
Term
In which book is the quote, "Okay, so she's good in math. But something is wrong with her?"
 Definition
18
Term
In which book is the quote, "Overdue library book cell. If it's more than ten days overdue, they put you in the hole. Solitary confinement."
 Definition
77
Term
In which book is the quote, "Take the little policewoman off Alcatraz and she runs her mouth like crazy?"
 Definition
45
Term
In which book is the quote, "The con is smiling. He's missing a front tooth. There are dark greased bomb marks in his hair."
 Definition
147
Term
In which book is the quote, "the only thing that saved me from going completely nuts is bowling."
 Definition
126
Term
In which book is the quote, "Then I see the number stamped on the back of his denim shirt: 105."
 Definition
148
Term
In which book is the quote, "we live on an island with 278 murderers, kidnappers, thieves…maybe this isn't the exact part of the human race we want her to join."
 Definition
83
Term
In which book is the quote, "we're divvying up the earnings at the dock tomorrow and your are getting exactly nothing."
 Definition
107
Term
In which book is the quote, "You get a convict baseball, you'll show it to me first, right?"
 Definition
89
Term
In which book is the quote, "You're not allowed in there. Convict areas are off limits to you kids."
 Definition
8