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Battle of the Books 09-10
Highway Cats by Janet Taylor Lisle
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Literature
3rd Grade
11/24/2009

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The opening of the story is a scene from a play.
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Highway Cats (p. 1-3)
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The setting is Potterberg.
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Highway Cats (p. 1)
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There is betting on a chinchilla to get across the road.
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Highway Cats (p. 8)
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Their food came from "Hamburger Heaven" along with Chinese, Italian and barbeque.
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Highway Cats (p. 6, 17)
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Bets were put down on a kind of red rover game called "Who's Your Man".
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Highway Cats (p. 8-9)
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The only law was "everyone for himself".
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Highway Cats (p. 15)
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They were 'malodorous', which means they stank, from not washing up.
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Highway Cats (p. 19)
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A strawberry yogurt container was used to hide scars. (also lime sherbet, cottage cheese containers)
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Highway Cats (p. 20)
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Profits could be made on a new pet food product, Canned Rodent.
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Highway Cats (p. 21)
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I95 was like a powerful river flowing down the center of their lives.
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Highway Cats (25)
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A wave of grooming swept over them, causing them to look cleaner and act better.
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Highway Cats (p. 28)
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A character once spent four days in the summer locked in a baggage compartment.
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Highway Cats (p. 32, 55)
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She had a company to run and couldn't afford to fool around with mystical stuff.
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Highway Cats (p. 37-38)
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Perhaps 'mother nature' is watching out for them?
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Highway Cats (p. 58)
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Crushed rat cages were terrifying to behold.
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Highway Cats (p. 62)
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They'd done the impossible, beaten the odds.
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Highway Cats (p. 62)
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A newspaper article stated that whirling devils appeared to rise out of the graves.
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Highway Cats (p. 80)
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She decided to no longer hide her face, to learn to live with her disgrace.
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Highway Cats (p. 86)
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Campaign slogans were suggested such as "Blunt Gets the Point!"
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Highway Cats (p. 91)
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They must stand up and move together with no one rushing ahead.
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Highway Cats (p. 96)
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A character asked "What's an apparition?"
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Highway Cats (p. 97)
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In the book by this author the town mayor is named Blunt.
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Highway Cats (p. 1)
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In this book the mayor's chief of staff was named Farley.
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Highway Cats (p. 1)
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There is a need for an access road off Interstate 95.
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Highway Cats (p. 2)
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The mayor wants to be a mover and a shaker.
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Highway Cats (p. 3)
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Shredder and Murray wait by the road for food thrown from cars.
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Highway Cats (p. 6)
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Murray can't stand pickles.
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Highway Cats (p. 7)
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The winner could ask for one thing, just one thing he wanted.
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Highway Cats (p. 12)
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In the book by this author, the law here was "everyone for himself".
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Janet Taylor Lisle (p. 15 - Highway Cats)
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In the book by this author AnCon officers were called in from time to time to pick them up and break up fights.
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Janet Taylor Lisle (p. 19 - Highway Cats)
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In the book by this author rats were sometimes sold to a company that made a new pet food called canned rodent.
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Janet Taylor Lisle (p. 21 - Highway Cats)
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In the book by this author there was an abandoned graveyard with crumbling headstones that say Potter.
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Janet Taylor Lisle (p. 35 - Highway Cats)
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In the book by this author "they had a blue glow, best seen at night".
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Janet Taylor Lisle (p. 37 - Highway Cats)
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In the book by this author, the workers all abandoned her factory.
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Janet Taylor Lisle (p. 53 - Highway Cats)
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In the book by this author, the bulldozer was headed for them, when it broke down.
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Janet Taylor Lisle (p. 56 - Highway Cats)
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In the book by this author, one's favorite was raspberry and the other's was peach yogurt.
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Janet Taylor Lisle (p. 65 - Highway Cats)
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In the book by this author, the potato sack over her head snagged on a branch.
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Janet Taylor Lisle (p. 76 - Highway Cats)
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In the book by this author, the headline read "Haunted cemetery halts road crew".
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Janet Taylor Lisle (p. 80 - Highway Cats)
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In the book by this author, he told her she was still beautiful after she had stopped wearing something over her face.
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Janet Taylor Lisle (p. 87 - Highway Cats)
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In the book by this author, a character ordered 'all tails out of sight'.
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Janet Taylor Lisle (p. 96 - Highway Cats)
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In the book by this author, "they were an apparition of horror".
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Janet Taylor Lisle (p. 97 - Highway Cats)
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In the book by this author, Jim King was the project foreman to build the road.
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Janet Taylor Lisle (p. 102 - Highway Cats)
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In the book by this author, the historical society was called in.
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Janet Taylor Lisle (p. 116 - Highway Cats)
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In the book by this author, we learn that AnCon stands for 'animal control'.
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Janet Taylor Lisle (p. 42 - Highway Cats)
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In the book by this author, the mayor's Chief of Staff wakes him up at 5 AM.
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Janet Taylor Lisle (p. 46 - Highway Cats)
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In the book by this author, one setting is an old cemetery standing in the path of an access road being constructed to a shopping center.
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Janet Taylor Lisle (p. 102 - Highway Cats)
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In the book by this author, a character had picked up some foreign words during his travels across the country.
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Janet Taylor Lisle (p. 40 - Highway Cats)
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In the book by this author, dirt was a badge of honor, ticks and fleas the price of freedom to the characters.
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Janet Taylor Lisle (p. 28 - Highway Cats)
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In the book by this author, three of the characters left just like they had come - in a cardboard box from the bed of a pickup truck.
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Janet Taylor Lisle (p. 6, 115 - Highway Cats)
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In the book by this author, without the kits around, their bad manners resumed.
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Janet Taylor Lisle (p. 53 - Highway Cats)
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