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Battle of the Books Lists for Senior Teams

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Practice Questions for Senior Teams

1. In which book does Bilbo Baggins join the dwarves in a quest to regain the treasure stolen by Smaug the dragon?
2. In which Canadian book does Ian MacDonald live with an Amish family after his car collides with a horse and buggy?
3. In which funny book does Samantha trade places with her mother on a particular Friday in her life?
4. Three spirits visit this mean, stingy, old man at Christmas time to convince him to change his ways before it is too late. Name that book?
5. Soon after Tom and Liz arrive at the West Edmonton Mall a bomber strikes. Name that book?
6. What book is about 13 year old Shane and his life with his unemployed rodeo champion father on their ranch in Alberta?
7. In which Sci Fi novel is nearly everyone on earth blinded by radiation from green meteors and victimized by great man-eating plants?
8. In which book does Terry write a diary in the form of letters to a rock star?
9. In a classic thriller parts of dead bodies are sewn together and brought to life to create which monster?
10. In which autobiography by the author of the Ramona series do we learn about Beverly's life as a young girl?
11. In which book does Patricia discover an old watch hidden under a floorboard and when she winds it, she finds herself taken back in time to the summer when her own mother was twelve?
12. Name the book in which Karana lives on an island by herself for so many years?
13. In what autobiographical story does a young man study the ways of the wolf in the Canadian Arctic?
14. What is the name of the school master in Washington Irving's The Legend of Sleepy Hollow?
15. Name the book in which three English children have a Newfoundland dog for a nanny and fantastic adventures with a boy who can fly?
16. In what book is Abigail Kirk led into the past by a mysterious little girl where she spends a year in a nineteenth century working-class slum with the Bow family?
17. In what book does Rose Larkin slip back in time to Upper Canada where she meets a servant girl and helps search for a friend lost in the American Civil War?
18. What is the name of the captain in Jules Verne's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea?
19. In which Canadian book does Jonathan's dad drop him off for awhile with his grandparents in Streetsville, even though he hasn't seen them since his mother's funeral years before?
20. What is the name of the man who had to shoot an apple from his son's head?
21. When Matt and Parker learn the body they found in Indian Creek is a drug-related death, they fear Parker's mother may be involved. Name that book.
22. In what book is a poor Vermont farm girl determined to gain her independence by becoming a worker in a spinning mill?
23. In what book does the Grand High Witch have a plan to rid the country of all the children by using Formula 86 Delayed Action Mouse-Maker?
24. What cartoon character likes to pig out on lasagna?
25. In what popular book does a jumbo jet on a flight from San Diego to New York crash in the woods beyond Heidi's house?
26. In this award-winning book 13-year-old Catherine Hall keeps house for her widowed father and younger sister. In 1830 she begins to write a journal, unaware of the eventful days that lie ahead. Name that book.

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Answers for Senior Team Sample Questions

1. The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
2. Amish Adventure by Barbara Smucker
3. Freaky Friday by Mary Rodgers
4. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
5. Code Red at the Supermall by Eric Wilson
6. Cowboys Don't Cry by Marilyn Halvorsen
7. The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham
8. Dear Bruce Springsteen by Kevin Major
9. Frankenstein
10. Girl from Yamhill by Beverly Clearly
11. A Handful of Time by Kit Pearson
12. Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell
13. Never Cry Wolf by Farley Mowat
14. Ichabod Crane
15. Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie
16. Playing Beatie Bow by Ruth Park
17. The Root Cellar by Janet Lunn
18. Captain Nemo
19. Stand Your Ground by Eric Walters
20. William Tell
21. Dead Man in Indian Creek by Mary Downing Hahn
22. Lyddie by Katherine Paterson
23. Witches by Roald Dahl
24. Garfield
25. Flight #116 is Down by Caroline Cooney
26. A Gathering of Days by Joan Blos

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