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Battle of the Books 09-10
The Year of the Dog by Grace Lin
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3rd Grade
11/26/2009
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The New Year tray is filled with candy.
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The Year of the Dog (p. 3)
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Fried dumplings symbolize gold coins so if you eat them you'll be rich.
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The Year of the Dog (p. 6)
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Grandpa's first patient was very poor and couldn't pay him.
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The Year of the Dog (p. 8)
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The main character's sister was reading the book "Mary Poppins".
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The Year of the Dog (p. 12)
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A character's mother could sleep standing up.
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The Year of the Dog (p. 17)
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The lunch lady thought a character had already been through the line that day.
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The Year of the Dog (p. 22)
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On Unicorn Day people would draw pictures of unicorns and hang them up.
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The Year of the Dog (p. 20)
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At a friend's house there were only "nutritious" foods.
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The Year of the Dog (p. 27)
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Friends ate chewable vitamin C as if it was candy.
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The Year of the Dog (p. 27)
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Egg foo young is described as an egg pancake.
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The Year of the Dog (p. 29)
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Brown rice in the rice cooker was a complete surprise.
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The Year of the Dog (p. 31)
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Red eggs symbolize good luck for a new baby.
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The Year of the Dog (p. 34)
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They sang their favorite song about "the prettiest hole, that you ever did see".
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The Year of the Dog (p. 39)
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A character's grandmother told her to practice piano on a keyboard drawn on paper.
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The Year of the Dog (p. 57)
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A science fair experiment consisted of watering four pea plant seeds with orange juice.
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The Year of the Dog (p. ??
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The only plant that looked good was the one watered with ginger ale.
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The Year of the Dog (p. 61)
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A classmate said that 'Dorothy' couldn't be Chinese.
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The Year of the Dog (p. 70)
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Grandmothers sat waiting in a row outside the school.
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The Year of the Dog (p. 79)
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The 'gift' was an empty shoe box covered with sapphire blue paper and a big red bow.
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The Year of the Dog (p. 82)
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Danny Dog played Toto.
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The Year of the Dog (p. 83)
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A main character has writer's block.
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The Year of the Dog (p. 87)
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Mom made soup out of "ugly vegetables".
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The Year of the Dog (p. 88)
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They ate red bean paste jelly candy.
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The Year of the Dog (p. 92)
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The girls held a stuffed animal wedding at the TAC.
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The Year of the Dog (p. 96)
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At Aunt Alice's they ate ghost leftovers.
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The Year of the Dog (p. 98)
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One girl called her a Twinkie, a Chinese person who was 'Americanized'.
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The Year of the Dog (p. 101)
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When her family went to New York City, they bought groceries to last the whole year.
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The Year of the Dog (p. 108)
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A boy spit on the remaining pieces of cake so that no one else would eat them.
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The Year of the Dog (p. 112)
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It was difficult deciding what to dress as for Halloween.
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The Year of the Dog (p. 113-114)
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A character's book won fourth place in a National book writing contest.
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The Year of the Dog (p. 119)
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Mother wanted to decorate her rubber tree plant for a Christmas tree.
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The Year of the Dog (p. 124)
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In this book the setting is New Hartford, NY
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The Year of the Dog, p. 106
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Mr. Hargraves was the Principal in which book?
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The Year of the Dog, p. 118
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This book is about a family of five that lives in New York.
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The Year of the Dog, p. 1
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In this book the story is told by Pacy.
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The Year of the Dog, p. 3
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In the book by this author, dog is a symbol for thinking and finding yourself.
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Grace Lin p. 2
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In the book by this author, the main character learns how her grandfather became rich.
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Grace Lin, p. 9
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In the book by this author, the main character learns how her mother fell asleep standing up.
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Grace Lin, p. 17
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In the book by this author, the main character tells her friend that there is a day of the unicorn.
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Grace Lin, p. 23
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In the book by this author it shows how to draw a dog.
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Grace Lin, p. 2
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In the book by this author, the vegetables and shrimp and pork meant wealth.
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Grace Lin, p. 5
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In the book by this author, fried dumplings symbolize gold coins.
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Grace Lin, p. 6
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In the book by this author they slept on bunk beds in a buttercup yellow room.
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Grace Lin
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In the book by this author, the longer you stay up the longer your parents' lives will be.
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Grace Lin, p. 11
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In the book by this author, the parents came from Taiwan.
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Grace Lin, p. 18
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In the book by this author, they played the Suzuki violin
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Grace Lin, p. 23
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In the book by this author, someone was sick with pneumonia, not ammonia.
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Grace Lin, p. 37
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In the book by this author, Albert was the new baby cousin.
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Grace Lin, p. 40
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In the book by this author, only women could eat yellow ginger and chicken soup.
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Grace Lin, p. 41
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In the book by this author, Teddy Jackson was the cutest boy in school.
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Grace Lin, p. 48
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In the book by this author, she read all the books by Ruth Chew.
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Grace Lin, p. 52
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In the book by this author, they would write and illustrate their own books.
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Grace Lin, p. 53
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In the book by this author, a character's mom used to be a plant scientist before she was married.
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Grace Lin, p. 60
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In the book by this author, the grade was going to put on the play "Wizard of Oz".
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Grace Lin, p. 68
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In the book by this author, the picture says 5 brothers, but the book title is 7 Brothers.
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Grace Lin, p. 71
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In the book by this author, she was a munchkin in the play.
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Grace Lin, p. 76
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In the book by this author, it is told how women used to bind their feet to make them smaller.
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Grace Lin, p. 78
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In the book by this author, the 'amahs' waited for them the whole day.
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Grace Lin, p. 80
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In the book by this author, Aunt Alice fed the ghosts first.
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Grace Lin, p. 98
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In the book by this author, 'twinkies' are described as yellow on the outside, white on the inside.
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Grace Lin, p. 100
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In the book by this author, Chinatown is in New York city.
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Grace Lin, p. 107
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In the book by this title, they ate thousand-layer cake.
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The Year of the Dog p. 109
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In the book by this title, one costume was a black and blue cat and one was a laundry basket.
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The Year of the Dog p. 116
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In the book by this title, her book won the national contest and she won $400.00
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The Year of the Dog p. 119
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In the book by this title, their hair was cut as part of the New Year's celebration.
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The Year of the Dog p. 128
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In the book by this title, oranges are meant to bring you money.
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The Year of the Dog p. 133
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