Question Bank Flashcards
“But as they were walking away from the store, they suddenly saw tall boots coming towards them up the hill.”
The Butterfly by Patricia Polacco
“The girls wanted to run, but they knew better. They had learned to chat and laugh as if they had no cares in the world.”
The Butterfly by Patricia Polacco
“I once had a cat just like this one.”
The Butterfly by Patricia Polacco
“How could this have been happening in her own home, and her mother never said a word to her about it?”
The Butterfly by Patricia Polacco
“Your mother made me promise that I would never come to your room again while you were there!”
The Butterfly by Patricia Polacco
“She knew now she had to protect her friend.”
The Butterfly by Patricia Polacco
“At all costs she had to keep the secret that lived in her basement.”
The Butterfly by Patricia Polacco
“Finally, another car came driving slowly down the road. It stopped by the bridge a few hundred feet away, and turned its lights on and off three times.”
The Butterfly by Patricia Polacco
“You know what I mean. You’re, like, a genius. It’s why I started calling you Brain.”
Fantasy League by Mike Lupica
“He laughed sometimes at the idea that this was all a fantasy, because other than his love for his mom and his friends, nothing was more real in his life.”
Fantasy League by Mike Lupica
“You never knew who might turn out to be your difference maker.”
Fantasy League by Mike Lupica
“Anyway, the reason I like you is because you never treat me differently or like I’m some kind of freak just because my gramps owns the team.”
Fantasy League by Mike Lupica
“The kid without a dad feeling like part of the biggest family around.”
Fantasy League by Mike Lupica
“Kid, I’m gonna make you a star.”
Fantasy League by Mike Lupica
“Once people figure out how good you are at this, it’s going to be huge. Thing could go viral by the second week.”
Fantasy League by Mike Lupica
“Kid, you see things on the field that make me think I ought to have my sunglasses checked.”
Fantasy League by Mike Lupica
“Now I seem to have surrounded myself with people who won’t tell me the truth. Or just give a version they think the poor old guy can handle.”
Fantasy League by Mike Lupica
“Maybe last week is the start of something, and they’re going to surprise us this season.”
Fantasy League by Mike Lupica
“This stays between us, right? Like, really between us?”
Fantasy League by Mike Lupica
“Think of it as your new after-school job,” the old man had said.
Fantasy League by Mike Lupica
“He’d like it more if I were a boy,” she said. “He’s still hoping that when Matt gets married, his wife has a boy.”
Fantasy League by Mike Lupica
“How big a deal is this going to be? Are people really going to care about a dumb story like this?”
Fantasy League by Mike Lupica
“You wanted to make sure he knew that you knew more stuff than he did.”
Fantasy League by Mike Lupica
“The truth will always catch up with you eventually. Trust me on that.”
Fantasy League by Mike Lupica
“If they’re good ideas, I don’t care where they come from.”
Fantasy League by Mike Lupica
“Then they turned right around and walked back into school and did the only thing they could do in an emergency like this: Whipped out their cell phones and called their moms.”
Fantasy League by Mike Lupica
“What I’m trying to tell you is that it doesn’t matter who you are or how young or old you are, eventually it’s going to be your turn to stand alone onstage.”
Fantasy League by Mike Lupica
“My dad always told me that the problem with a good idea is that once it gets inside your head, you can never get it out.”
Fantasy League by Mike Lupica
“Sometimes you gotta throw them a curveball. Just to keep them on their toes.”
Fantasy League by Mike Lupica
“It was then that I had to remind him about the fallacy of the predetermined outcome.”
Fantasy League by Mike Lupica
“Because I could see that you couldn’t see how you were starting to get a big head. That your ego was getting in the way.”
Fantasy League by Mike Lupica
“These doctors of mine are always telling me that having a good attitude is half the battle. I think it’s actually way more than half.”
Fantasy League by Mike Lupica
“You were right that I’d started getting too full of myself.”
Fantasy League by Mike Lupica
“She’s the one who convinced me to do the podcast and to believe in myself.”
Fantasy League by Mike Lupica
“You know what that means? You and I–we were always on the same team.”
Fantasy League by Mike Lupica
“This is not the way the story is supposed to go.”
Fantasy League by Mike Lupica
“You must be feeling better, now it’s only your sense of humor that is weak.”
Fantasy League by Mike Lupica
“Mustaches and beards are bad news (sorry, Dad).
El Deafo by Cece Bell
“We’re leaving our small row house in the big city. . . for a big old house in a small town.”
El Deafo by Cece Bell
“I have amazing abilities unknown to anyone!”
El Deafo by Cece Bell
“And being different feels a lot like being alone.”
El Deafo by Cece Bell
The main character in this book joins the Girl Scouts.
El Deafo by Cece Bell
This book contains an illustration of the main character imagining herself as a fish caught by a hook on another girl’s fishing pole.
El Deafo by Cece Bell
“Uh, I’m here about the ad. Sidekick wanted?”
El Deafo by Cece Bell
“Zowie! These spellbinding spectacles can spot my sidekick from more than a mile away!”
El Deafo by Cece Bell
“I don’t want to wear pajamas in front of the whole school, either.”
El Deafo by Cece Bell
“How lovely! I see that there are no rotten spots for the apple today!”
El Deafo by Cece Bell
In this book the main character alerts the class to the teacher’s return, allowing everyone to get good behavior marks.
El Deafo by Cece Bell
“Once you’ve made your bag and some warm fuzzies, you’ll exchange fuzzies with your friends.”
El Deafo by Cece Bell
In this book, students make gifts to give to classmates to make them feel good about themselves.
El Deafo by Cece Bell
“And–oh! A worm fuzzy! I was hoping I’d get one!”
El Deafo by Cece Bell
“There are people now who say I’m some kind of wonderboy or that I know some secret and that I had this big hairy plan. Nope.”
Lawn Boy by Gary Paulsen
“I must have been the only kid my age in what felt like a ten-block-radius who hadn’t signed up for sleepaway summer camp or who wasn’t on baseball and/or swim and/or tennis teams that summer.”
Lawn Boy by Gary Paulsen
“All the older guys had real jobs like at the Clucket Bucket or the Dairy Whip and all the guys my age were mostly busy or gone, so I had a long summer full of nothing ahead of me.”
Lawn Boy by Gary Paulsen
“Rounded shoulders, hips, arms, legs–even his head was a ball.”
Lawn Boy by Gary Paulsen
“Tell you what,” he said. “How would you like to barter–take it out in trade?”
Lawn Boy by Gary Paulsen
“Fourteen days passed, three hundred and thirty-six hours flew by, twenty thousand one hundred and sixty minutes whistled past, twelve million ninety six thousand seconds roared away.”
Lawn Boy by Gary Paulsen
“I wish he would quit talking about my ‘operation’ and its ‘phases.’ It was starting to sound like General Motors or something.”
Lawn Boy by Gary Paulsen
“You,” he said, smiling, “have had a very groovy month.”
Lawn Boy by Gary Paulsen