Fourth Grade Battle of the Books

1…does a character think his friend is putting on another dramatic show by screaming and falling to the ground?

1. ANSWER:

A Taste of Blackberries by Doris Buchanan Smith

2…does a character get pushed in the Greenlawn Cemetery”?

2. ANSWER:

The Case of the Mummy Mystery by James Preller

3…does the main character visit a place called the, “Rock of the Falling Flowers”?

3. ANSWER:

A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park

4…does a boy have a nightmare that he is being crushed by big stone letters of the alphabet?

4. ANSWER:

My Name is Brain, Brian by Jeanne Betanourt

5…do the characters get a list of things to do to comfort soldiers?

5. ANSWER:

Civil War on Sunday by Mary Pope Osborne

6…is a salad scattered all over the dining room table?

6. ANSWER:

Bunnicula by Debora and James Howe

7…does a group of men help build a house?

7. ANSWER:

26 Fairmount Avenue by Tomie DePaola

8…does a grandfather not pay taxes on a farm?

8. ANSWER:

Stone Fox by John Reynolds Gardiner

9…was there a pet show?

9. ANSWER:

The Cybil War by Betsy Byars

10…is there a boy accused of having a room like a “pig pen?”

10. ANSWER:

Justin and the Best Biscuits in the World by Mildred Pitts Walter

11…does a girl threaten that a family will be “nesting in the trees tonight?”

11. ANSWER:

The Magic Finger by Roald Dahl

12…does a character stand in front of her class reciting what she thinks is a poem?

12. ANSWER:

In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson by B. Lord

13…does a widowed father place an ad in the newspaper for a wife?

13. ANSWER:

Sarah Plain and Tall, by P. Maclaughlan

14…does a character repeatedly risk her life to help others escape?

14. ANSWER:

Freedom Train by Dorothy Sterling

15….does a girl threaten that a family will be “nesting in the trees tonight”?

15. ANSWER:

The Magic Finger by Roald Dahl

16…does the main character think the farmer has a gun and will shoot him and his friend for taking apples from the farm?

16. ANSWER:

A Taste of Blackberries by Doris Buchanan Smith

17…do two characters research Egypt in the Library?

17. ANSWER:

The Case of the Mummy Mystery by James Preller

18…does a character have Friday night feasts, when he stays up late reading and eating snacks?

18. ANSWER:

Bunnicula by Deborah and James Howe

19….does a backpack become a leather knapsack?

19. ANSWER:

Civil War on Sunday by Mary Pope Osborne

20…does a girl’s red hair make a boy think of flags, banners and bands?

20. ANSWER:

The Cybil War by Betsy Byars

21…does a class have a bad case of “Halloween Fever”?

21. ANSWER:The Case of the Mummy Mystery by James Preller

22…does a main character accidentally break a plain box containing 5 smaller boxes?

22. ANSWER:

A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park

23…is the motto of a club, “a joke a day brings relief”?

23. ANSWER:

My name is Brain, Brian.

24…are kids crying like babies on the first day of school?

24. ANSWER:

26 Fairmont Avenue by Tomie DePaola

25…Does a room have garlic strewn or scattered all around it?

25.

Bunnicula by Deborah and James Howe

26…do the characters meet Clara Barton?

26. ANSWER:

Civil War on Sunday by Mary Pope Osborne

27…does a boy write a poem about a Canadian goose?

27. ANSWER:

My Name is Brain, Brian by Jeanne Betancourt