Battle of the Books - Practice Deck 3 Flashcards
Her mother chirped in a happy voice when Dylan came to dinner. CHIRPING is an important word here.
The Five Lives of Our Cat Zook
Human babies are an ugly lot.
The One and Only Ivan
“Mrs. Coleman just told me you were talking to some bushes.”
Mousenet
“You had to use an outhouse? Oh you poor thing.”
Mousenet
There’s a difference between ‘can’t remember’ and ‘won’t remember.’
The One and Only Ivan
“If you pull our whiskers, do we not squeak?”
Mousenet
Oh, how I loved to play tag with my sister!
The One and Only Ivan
There are no shows. No visitors, unless you count the protesters.
The One and Only Ivan
It was finally my birthday, July Fourth.
Glory Be
When I am drawing that’s all I think about. I don’t think about where I am ,about yesterday or tomorrow.
The One and Only Ivan
I focused my mind on how she’d have to sleep on brush rollers all night long to get that flipped-up hairdo.
Glory Be
Then without a sound, the lights turned off. The fan in the back of the room gradually slowed.
Janitors
Everything had been normal until he had washed his face.
Janitors
“A cat’s purr is a mysterious thing. It means the cat feels something very strong: it could be very good or very bad.
The Five Lives of Our Cat Zook
Now it seemed like the patches of my life were mixing into a new pattern.
Glory Be
You go to school together, right? Don’t you two have anything to talk about?
Janitors
“We’ll head over to some Rebel schools in Wyoming and Colorado, keep moving south.”
Janitors
What else is yellow? I draw another banana.
The One and Only Ivan
His sixth-grade year was turning out to be worse than he could have imagined and he wanted to shut it out, to pretend he was at his old school.
Janitors
Gran knitted away in the living room and Grandfather read the paper with Bitty on his lap.
Waiting for the Magic
There it is H- O - M - E. Home!
The One and Only Ivan
They collapsed in the parking lot as the silver sports car took the corner too sharply and scraped the exhaust pipe on the curb.
Janitors
“Let’s strike now - with a devastating attack of kindness.”
Mousenet
Part of me is itching to tell Mom this was all my idea and how I got Doris Varney to call Mrs. Coombs- without even asking her.
Touch Blue
Three hundred pounds of fun to save our sorry butts. This gal is gonna sell us some tickets.
The One and Only Ivan
I wonder if I have stopped being famous.
The One and Only Ivan
He felt a rush of relief when he saw the spare key.
Janitors
Glass lay in glinting shards, leaving a jagged, dark opening into the school.
Janitors
“Quit hogging the mic, Babs!” shouted the lieutenant governor. (pg. 84)
Fake Mustache
“This was followed in almost dizzying succession by Intense Interest, then Amazement, then Excitement, and finally Astonishment.”
Mousenet
The green backpack was filled with a life jacket.
The Candymakers
“Mouse 47 was so intent on the message that for a moment she forgot the windowsill rule.”
Mousenet
“Washing’s for sissies.”
Janitors
CAN I MKE IT UP 2 U W/ DINNR & A MOVIE? MAYBE @ WHITE HOUSE ON WED? AM ALMOST PRESIDENT YOU KNOW. (pg. 151)
Fake Mustache
“There’s endless work to be done, and when we’re finished with that, there’ll still be gum to scrape.”
Janitors
Phin wrote, “ We’re two old cats, just hangin’ and howling’ together!”
The Five Lives of Our Cat Zook
“It’s Blackberry, you moron.”
Mousenet
F = Ph
The Five Lives of Our Cat Zook
The main character cried for her cat, her father, and for all those extra lives nobody gets to live.
The Five Lives of Our Cat Zook
I was so burdened by the weight of being the lone voice against an evil madman that I didn’t notice that someone was glaring at me. (pg. 85)
Fake Mustache
“It sounded crazy. But you didn’t question the wisdom of your leader in Silicon Valley.”
Mousenet
We’re playing tag.
The One and Only Ivan
This one was slimy, pale yellow, and looked like a salamander.
Janitors
How do you know who’s who if they don’t smell?
The One and Only Ivan
Does this mean you are looping?
The Year of the Book
Moonlight falls on the frozen carousel. on the silent popcorn stand, on the stall of leather belts that smell like long-gone cows.
The One and Only Ivan
Don’t ever–ever!–call Soymilk an it! She is a she! (pg. 181)
Fake Mustache
His suitcase, his trumpet, his music stand, and the photos on his dresser are gone.
Touch Blue
At the end of the poem was a single sentence: Good night, William.
Waiting for the Magic
“Daddy’ll kill us if we show up drenching wet and late.”
Glory Be
The Vortex was soon tearing everything inward.
Janitors
“You will be the first human ever to visit us at our Headquarters here in California.”
Mousenet
“No prying open a manhole cover to see what’s under it.”
Melonhead
Behind her was a boy and a girl, her friend Mr. Miles from the taxi, and another lady I didn’t know.
Glory Be
“When he was safely gone, the Captain of Clan 1578 led his group down from the windowsill to gather on the workbench”.
Mousenet
The parents will be glad to see that you are paying for your wrongdoings.
Janitors
Silverback.
The One and Only Ivan
“Rad?” she exclaimed. “Grody? Freddy, my love, where have you been for the last thirty years?”
Mousenet
“They won’t expect us to pop out of the ceiling.”
Janitors
“Mom says that his projects meant more to him than his family, and that’s why he took off.”
Janitors
We’re open 365 days a year. Can’t miss us. We’re right off 1-95.
The One and Only Ivan
“If I’m wrong and people want the restaurant to stay the way it is, you can cut off my braids.”
Mousenet
Authorities believe the operation was some kind of massive classroom theft.
Janitors
I growl low in my throat.
The One and Only Ivan
“Books have no color. And they donÕt care who reads them.”
Glory Be
Sky. Grass. Tree. Ant. Stick. Bird.
The One and Only Ivan
Papa looked. And then I thought he might cry “Scooter.”
Waiting for the Magic
I beat my chest till the whole world hears.
The One and Only Ivan
I wasn’t 100 percent sure if I should add the XOXOXO part, but I couldn’t help it. (pg. 123)
Fake Mustache
“Thanks, kid,” Marv huffed. “That was brave of you to come alone.”
Janitors
I always enjoy a good digging story.
The One and Only Ivan
“Once they prove Leslie guilty, you should get a new car.”
Janitors
“They clambered down as quietly as they could, pulling their plastic bags of poop to a corner where they would never be found.”
Mousenet
I was blind to hatred that stings more than a bucketful of the pool’s strongest chlorine.
Glory Be
Thank you, I try to say with my eyes. Thank you.
The One and Only Ivan
My big sister had remembered my birthday! I opened the box.
Glory Be
“Little Miss Snotnose, my sissy brother’s girlfriend.”
Glory Be
“Results: Lots of wrongs equals one right.”
Melonhead
I can’t draw dreamy pictures.
The One and Only Ivan
I’ve heard the Jambo stories many times.
The One and Only Ivan
Unlike the previous day, they were anxious for detention.
Janitors
I dash back and forth, hooting and grunting, doing a gorilla dance of happiness.
The One and Only Ivan
“It was an extra - wide grin, the one that had earned TM3 an A in his smiling class.”
Mousenet
He found the blue silk at the bus stop.
The Year of the Book
I am angry to protect you, because that is what I was born to do.
The One and Only Ivan
Why don’t we meet at your local hideout to hand it over?
Janitors
“If I heard footsteps on our roof it would chill me to my bones.”
Melonhead
Three precious minutes had passed by the time they stood before the boys’ bathroom with a wrinkled “out of order” sign thumb tacked to the wooden door.
Janitors
“I think what you did at the vet took a lot of chutzpah,” said Riya. Chutzpah means nerve.
The Five Lives of Our Cat Zook
We are on The Early News at Five O’clock.
The One and Only Ivan
“Super-absorbent polymers are the secret ingredient in diapers.”
Melonhead
I jumped in the wayback of the station wagon to hide under the blanket.
Glory Be
He stuck a finger into one nostril, turned toward the closest karate instructor, and snorted. Fizz! (pg. 138)
Fake Mustache
“Yes, yes, yes, it was made by humans.”
Mousenet
“Wait a minute,” he muttered. “I’ll keep it for the wild child”.
Mousenet
“Yo-day-low-day-yoda-lady-who, yo-day-low-day-yoda-lady who.” (pg. 92)
Fake Mustache
“I’m a fisherman,” I say, “and I think they’re beautiful.”
Touch Blue
“I love this vent! I think this is the coolest place I’ve ever been.”
Janitors
“Maybe I’ll find some barrettes. Do something about her hair.”
Glory Be
“On Cherry Street, panic had been building all day.”
Mousenet
Of course something was wrong! Some hideous bat thing had just come out of the bookshelf.
Janitors
“You’d be happier staying put with your sister, like you have since the day she was born.”
Glory Be
Thump thump thump THUMP, thump THUMP! ‘Charge!’”
Mousenet
“I have established my new domain in a van.”
Janitors
Five angry BEM workers were scrambling around the room, gathering supplies to fight the intruders.
Janitors
Grandfather peered into the refrigerator. What is this? He asked, holding up Marvelous Murphy’s alternative dinner.
Waiting for the Magic
The boy clung to it, the only tangible evidence of what he’d done. A memorial to utter destruction.
Janitors
On the chair where I’d been sitting in the children’s room was an envelope with my name on it.
Glory Be
He’s found a bicycle in Aunt Avril’s garage.
Janitors
“If you’re in charge and something goes wrong, it is your fault.”
Mousenet
On an island, silence usually means people are talking about you.
Touch Blue
“Snakes also require permission.”
Melonhead
Even without the front hall light turned on, I saw her jaw clenching and a frown taking over her face.
Glory Be
Six hundred pounds of fun to save our sorry butts.
The One and Only Ivan
“She and some of them other Freedom people committed a crime!”
Glory Be
You ever seen lightning bugs? Same thing as fireflies. Really they’re beetles, you know.”
Glory Be
A black wavy ducktail haircut and an arm hanging out the window told me what I already suspected.
Glory Be
“I’ve tried to teach my girls to speak up when they see a wrong being done.”
Glory Be
“There was a body in her bed, all covered up except for the springy blond hair on the pillow.”
Mousenet
Dylan was a nurse so he could use needles to give subcutaneous (under the skin) fluids.
The Five Lives of Our Cat Zook
“Together we will make history.”
Mousenet
“Those who had taken the Copying Human Expressions class were wearing expressions such as Envy or Fear or Wow.”
Mousenet
He shook free and somersaulted across the classroom, his weight and momentum making him unstoppable.
Janitors
“You guys evolved. Why not us? The difference is we did it fast and we did it in secret.”
Mousenet
The two kids arose, Baybee dangling between them, and entered the office.
Janitors
During recess, Mr. Fry and I have one of those 10 minute father-figure conversations again.
The Five Lives of Our Cat Zook
“Now what’s chewing your tail?”
Mousenet
“Your lunch, mon petit chou.”
Mousenet
They used to take me in their convertible to the a fast-food restaurant.
The One and Only Ivan
“I like to play with her mind. It’s soft like Play-Doh but doesn’t dry out as fast.”
Janitors
My parents decided on my twin sister’s name: Tag
The One and Only Ivan
The orange vests we made perfectly.
The Year of the Book
“My desk is the School Board?”
Janitors
“Their natural ability to see Toxites marked them as witches.”
Janitors
When the brush meets the damp paper, pink petals of color unfurl like morning flowers.
The One and Only Ivan
This was not he kind of house where anybody leaves the newspaper scattered on the floor or an iced tea glass seating on the sideboard.
Glory Be
“She’s standing up for what she believes is right. All of us should lead our children to do that, don’t you know?’
Glory Be
“I was able to steal Ninfa and establish myself as a warlock.”
Janitors
Miles thought constantly about the afterlife.
The Candymakers
When he returns he is carrying a long stick. The gleaming hook on its end is almost beautiful, like a sliver of moon.
The One and Only Ivan
“What’s a mugging?”
Mousenet
“Two species working for the future of the planet? Yadda yadda yadda.”
Mousenet
It felt like all the air had been sucked right out of that hot dining room.
Glory Be
“She almost screamed when one of her braids made a loud squeak right by her ear.”
Mousenet
In a romance there is much hugging and sometimes face licking.
The One and Only Ivan
We’re playing. We’re playing tag. And I’m it.
The One and Only Ivan
If I get tired and need a break, I eat my crayons.
The One and Only Ivan
I nod, then turn toward my family, my life, my home.
The One and Only Ivan
Everything’s changing. Continents are drifting and new stars are forming and my sweatshirt’s a cat bed.
The Five Lives of Our Cat Zook
“We had fun, but I didn’t buy anything ‘cept some new magazines.”
Glory Be
She was still pulling her legs into the vent when a loud crash filled the classroom below.
Janitors
An autodidact is a person who has taught himself most of what he knows. The main character’s mother makes her go to school even though she would like to be an autodidact.
The Five Lives of Our Cat Zook
Below, the three men gathered like vultures to await his inevitable descent.
Janitors
My family was called a troop, just like any other gorilla family.
The One and Only Ivan
I expect to see gorillas, but none appear. I hear a shrill sound, like a toy trumpet.
The One and Only Ivan
Hateful prejudice and dog doo are a lot alike. They both make me sick.
Glory Be
Her sweatshirt became a cat bed.
The Five Lives of Our Cat Zook
“Good-bye, good-bye, good-bye,” I whisper. NTB
The Five Lives of Our Cat Zook
“The harder you throw it, the more suction it creates on your opponent.”
Janitors
“They found a black sock at the scene. My boys tell me she’s the only person ho wears those socks.”
Glory Be
“Trust me, you will have a great time in Oregon once you settle in.”
Mousenet
When Mom says something “would be nice,” it sounds like you have a choice, but really you don’t.
Touch Blue
“Keep heading for the back wall. There is an emergency exit in the northeast corner.”
Janitors
Mrs. Coombs has the fastest phone dialing finger in Maine.
Touch Blue
He had to get his toxins flushed out because he had kidney problems.
The Five Lives of Our Cat Zook
The huge concealed closet smelled of sulphur and chili powder.
Janitors
The two kids quietly descended the stairs until they stood at the doorway to the large storage closet.
Janitors
“My friends are different. They have special powers. For instance, they can go through walls.”
Mousenet
She was twisting the key in the ignition, but the attempt was futile. The station wagon was parked forever.
Janitors
I’m angry at last. I have someone to protect.
The One and Only Ivan
Try knuckle walking for a half hour.
The One and Only Ivan
“Rule One was that you should never let humans see how smart you are.”
Mousenet
“Lady, believe it. I am a mouse, and I talk.”
Mousenet
My story has a strange shape: a stunted beginning, an endless middle.
The One and Only Ivan
The force of the suction had imploded the walls, tearing the sheetrock like paper.
Janitors
“Anyway, did you have monsters at your old school?”
Janitors
“Observe humans at all times for clues to their plans and their character.”
Mousenet
“This is my name tag, but it isn’t my desk.”
Janitors
He told his dad that one of the boys charmed the bees.
The Candymakers
“You don’t know how hard it was to fall asleep last night. I was like a walking nightlight.”
Janitors
Highly effective in eliminating Filth and Grime.
Janitors
He could sob all night as far as I was concerned.
Glory Be
“Most folks just scared of losing something precious to them.”
Glory Be
“What if they turn out to be little cyber-terrorists?”
Mousenet
“One found an empty sneaker, two climbed into boots “
Mousenet
Desperado is a good word. Desperados do something rebellious for a good, understandable reason.
The Five Lives of Our Cat Zook
I wonder if Mack could add a little red hat and a curly tail to the picture of me.
The One and Only Ivan
They spin pink clouds you can eat.
The One and Only Ivan
I had a twin sister named tag.
The One and Only Ivan
The closet’s unique smell definitely came from the Glop.
Janitors
I enjoy chewing pencils. I am sure I would excel at homework.
The One and Only Ivan
Mouse Nation
Mousenet
Sure enough, that Closed sign was covered up by a big piece of cardboard tacked on the fence.
Glory Be
I have no visitors here. I wonder if I have stopped being famous.
The One and Only Ivan
The barricaded door suddenly shuddered.
Janitors
It’s like Ol’ Gramps always said on my TV show, “Sometimes you gotta use your brains or you’ll get your butt kicked. (pg. 127)
Fake Mustache
“Two sides to most stories. Folks better be thinking about that for once.”
Glory Be
I stood face-to-face with a poster on a telephone pole.
The Wish Stealers
If you don’t risk anything, you risk everything.
The Wish Stealers
“Let’s call it Operation Cool It.”
Mousenet
