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BookBattle2013_Auth
Garcia/Delacruz Team
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| You have droopy eyebags and a pasty complexion | Sarah Pennypacker |
| I have to wait until tonight to find out if I'm in trouble | Sarah Pennypacker |
| Mouth germs...I can feel them crawling around | Sarah Pennypacker |
| All the kids begged him to be their partner, because he's the scienciest kid in the third grade | Sarah Pennypacker |
| As soon as we got there, I saw that something was wrong | Sarah Pennypacker |
| My inside clock keeps perfect time, and so I am never late for anything | Sarah Pennypacker |
| When I put it on, I could almost feel her soft hands on my head | Sarah Pennypacker |
| Please-pass-the-almonds-excuse-me-thank-you | Sarah Pennypacker |
| I make sure to remind everybody of what a great idea it would be if our family got a gorilla | Sarah Pennypacker |
| The worried feeling crawled through my whole body like worms | Sarah Pennypacker |
| Has Uncle Frank borrowed any of Dad's tools lately? | Sarah Pennypacker |
| It's a priceless heirloom | Sarah Pennypacker |
| One way that I am like my fruit name is that I have lots of sections | Sarah Pennypacker |
| Four is a perfect number for a family | Sarah Pennypacker |
| Life is always moving too fast and we're never ready | Sarah Pennypacker |
| I think our project should be about my superpowers | Sarah Pennypacker |
| Haven't you ever noticed me getting invisible? | Sarah Pennypacker |
| Fair means everyone gets what they need | Sarah Pennypacker |
| I did look older than three thousand one hundred and fourteen days | Sarah Pennypacker |
| How's mushroom soup doing today? | Sarah Pennypacker |
| The people in my family are known for their extra-hard shinbones | Sarah Pennypacker |
| I look like a brain sucking alien vampire swamp creature! | Sarah Pennypacker |
| You can call me Magneto-Girl | Sarah Pennypacker |
| This is how we roll | Sarah Pennypacker |
| "Take the kids up to the cane fields!" | Lauren Tarshis |
| A curtain of smoke- black and bloody red-surrounded the harbor. | Lauren Tarshis |
| "But he'd never felt more terrified than he did right now, alone and running for his life." | Lauren Tarshis |
| "Rat, tat,tat,tat" | Lauren Tarshis |
| Sand flew into his eyes. And then from behind him, a huge explosion seemed to shatter the world. | Lauren Tarshis |
| One Day Earlier, December 6, 1941 | Lauren Tarshis |
| "Just look at that view," she said. "Can you believe we live here?" | Lauren Tarshis |
| She wanted to get him away from danger and trouble, away from Earl Gasky and his gang. | Lauren Tarshis |
| He paid them a dollar a day to run errands. | Lauren Tarshis |
| He even taught them how to drive one of his cars. | Lauren Tarshis |
| He father had been gone since before he was born. | Lauren Tarshis |
| "Because who else was going to look after them?" | Lauren Tarshis |
| "Until one night two months ago." | Lauren Tarshis |
| "It was like a horror movie playing in his mind." | Lauren Tarshis |
| "It's time for us to go," Ma said. "Before something terrible happens to you." | Lauren Tarshis |
| "We're starting out fresh," she said | Lauren Tarshis |
| A week later, they were on a train heading to San Francisco. | Lauren Tarshis |
| Felt guilty his friend got hurt. | Lauren Tarshis |
| A ship called Carmella. | Lauren Tarshis |
| He was used to being on the lookout for people lurking outside their door, waiting to pounce. | Lauren Tarshis |
| But there was nothing on their porch but a pot of pink flowers, wrapped in a bow. | Lauren Tarshis |
| The sun felt good on his face, and there was a warm breeze off the ocean. | Lauren Tarshis |
| They were huge- like skyscrapers turned on their sides. | Lauren Tarshis |
| She always said yes, and she always happened to have a Thermos of lemonade or hot chocolate with just enough for them. | Lauren Tarshis |
| She also had a big world map on the wall of her classroom. | Lauren Tarshis |
| "The world has to stop that monster," she told them. | Lauren Tarshis |
| Of course he never cried - he was no sissy. And he'd learn a trick when he was younger. | Lauren Tarshis |
| Lately that cold hard place had grown so big that he felt numb. | Lauren Tarshis |
| But then he heard commotion in his backyard. | Lauren Tarshis |
| There was a crash, a strange squeal, and an earsplitting scream. | Lauren Tarshis |
| "Was someone in trouble?" | Lauren Tarshis |
| What the heck was he doing here all by himself? | Lauren Tarshis |
| He was grinning like a monkey standing on a mountain of bananas. | Lauren Tarshis |
| "My Puppy!" the kid said. | Lauren Tarshis |
| It was black, the size of a huge dog, with wiry bristles, a pig's snout, and two huge spiked tusks sprouting right from its face like swords. | Lauren Tarshis |
| "Monster!" he said. | Lauren Tarshis |
| "Prepare to die!" it seemed to be saying | Lauren Tarshis |
| This kid really was crazy! | Lauren Tarshis |
| One of the monster's tusks tore through his pant leg. | Lauren Tarshis |
| The kid was a stitch. | Lauren Tarshis |
| There were people from all over the world living here- just like in New York City. | Lauren Tarshis |
| "I sorry, Mama" he said in a voice sweeter than a chocolate doughnut. | Lauren Tarshis |
| He wasn't sure if it was possible to keep a wild boar as a pet. | Lauren Tarshis |
| He rolled bandages and found extra blankets for men recovering from surgery. | Lauren Tarshis |
| There was something about her that reminded him of his teacher- a look in her eyes , like she could read his mind and liked what she saw. | Lauren Tarshis |
| "My son is wanderer. The minute I turn my back, he sneaks away." | Lauren Tarshis |
| For such a shrimp, the kid was a real muscleman. | Lauren Tarshis |
| Still, there was something nice about it- the white flowers climbing up the walls, the neat vegetable garden planted in front. | Lauren Tarshis |
| His father was a fisherman out on a three-day trip. | Lauren Tarshis |
| The food was weird- bowls of rice with fish in a salty sauce-but not so bad, especially the bright orange fruit for dessert. | Lauren Tarshis |
| "Flying Fortress" his favorite plane | Lauren Tarshis |
| He's an artist." 'Fishing is just his job" | Lauren Tarshis |
| "I wish I could draw "he said | Lauren Tarshis |
| His teacher had gotten him a sketchbook and told him to practice, but he never made much progress. | Lauren Tarshis |
| "Your mother's very brave, to come all this way to start a new life." | Lauren Tarshis |
| "She's lucky to have a boy like you." | Lauren Tarshis |
| Tears came down his face but he no idea why. | Lauren Tarshis |
| Somehow being here with them, some of that ice inside him had melted. | Lauren Tarshis |
| He lay in bed listening to the morning birds sing outside his window. | Lauren Tarshis |
| The Carmella was leaving in two hours. | Lauren Tarshis |
| He 'd already figured out his sob story: He was an orphan, trying to get back to New York to be with his cousin Finn. | Lauren Tarshis |
| He might even mention the name Earl Gasky. | Lauren Tarshis |
| A boy who didn't turn his back on his best friend. | Lauren Tarshis |
| All night he'd been tossing in bed, feeling torn in two. | Lauren Tarshis |
| Now his plans would really be messed up! | Lauren Tarshis |
| The kid wasn't wearing his crazy monkey face. His face looked dead serious. | Lauren Tarshis |
| "Airplanes." | Lauren Tarshis |
| A buzzing sound, like there was a giant swarm of bees closing in. | Lauren Tarshis |
| There must be a drill going on. | Lauren Tarshis |
| Sirens began to howl. | Lauren Tarshis |
| He knew something horrible was happening, something beyond his worst nightmares. | Lauren Tarshis |
| "I know somewhere we can go, in case…" | Lauren Tarshis |
| Somewhere in the middle of that was Hickam. | Lauren Tarshis |
| The man looked young. He had a white rag tied around his head. He wore goggles. | Lauren Tarshis |
| His head smashed against the sand. And then he couldn't see anything at all. | Lauren Tarshis |
| He's share a secret for starting a car engine without a key. | Lauren Tarshis |
| "They caught us by surprise," | Lauren Tarshis |
| Reminded him of a photo he'd seen in Life magazine of a town that had been hit by a tornado. | Lauren Tarshis |
| It smelled like burned rubber and plastic. | Lauren Tarshis |
| "They destroyed the barracks and the mess hall. Two hangars are gone." | Lauren Tarshis |
| "We need to get out of here!" he shouted to the guards. | Lauren Tarshis |
| But he understood too. There was nothing they could do. | Lauren Tarshis |
| "It will all be over soon!" | Lauren Tarshis |
| They were small and gray, like killer birds. | Lauren Tarshis |
| "You never know when you need to get somewhere quick." | Lauren Tarshis |
| They needed every spare hand they could find. | Lauren Tarshis |
| West Virginia, Arizona, Oklahoma and California (names of the Battleships badly hit or sunk) | Lauren Tarshis |
| Shaw and Cassin (Destroyers that had exploded) | Lauren Tarshis |
| Heard his school was turned into a hospital. | Lauren Tarshis |
| "We'll remember this moment for the rest of our lives," | Lauren Tarshis |
| But he knew this: He wasn't that kind of boy anymore. | Lauren Tarshis |
| He brought him a present - one of the airmen had given him his wings. | Lauren Tarshis |
| "They are looking for spies." | Lauren Tarshis |
| Sent a telegram to a gangster to help free him from prison. | Lauren Tarshis |
| Every house had to have these curtains. It had to pitch dark at night….. | Lauren Tarshis |
| You'd have to crazy not to be scared, with what was happening in the world,…. | Lauren Tarshis |
| Decided being scared was better than being numb. | Lauren Tarshis |
| If he were numb, he wouldn't be able to feel happy, and there were times he caught himself smiling. | Lauren Tarshis |
| Earl and all his guys had enlisted in the army. | Lauren Tarshis |
| It sounded like a baby whimpering. | Lauren Tarshis |
| He looked scared. And tough. And like he'd happy to have someone keep an eye on him. | Lauren Tarshis |
| All the main events and places are real. | Lauren Tarshis |
| But in 1930's the relationship between the two countries was tense. | Lauren Tarshis |
| The next day, Franklin D Roosevelt appeared before our Congress and made a speech that is still one of the most famous in American history. | Lauren Tarshis |
| President Roosevelt said that December 7th, 1941 would "live in infamy," | Lauren Tarshis |
| World War II "Axis powers" (Japan and Germany) "Allied Forces "(England, France, and USA) | Lauren Tarshis |
| Today the "interment: of loyal Japanese Americans is considered a shameful act in American history. | Lauren Tarshis |
| It is also a monument and graveyard. | Lauren Tarshis |
| USS Arizona Memorial- memorial built over sunken battleship. | Lauren Tarshis |
| The drops of oil made me think of the tears that are still shed over the lives lost in the Pearl Harbor attack, and the sorrows of the long war that followed. | Lauren Tarshis |
| Gave a time line at the end of story. | Lauren Tarshis |
| He is shocked - and, for the first time,he is truly afraid. | Lauren Tarshis |
| Eleven-year-old tough city kid. | Lauren Tarshis |
| I slipped and fell to the bottom of the gorge. | Geronimo Stilton |
| The note said: You wanted to save a buck? Too Bad For You! In case of motion sickness, you're on your own! | Geronimo Stilton |
| He forced me to wear a ridiculous leather jacket, complete with fringe and a bandanna. | Geronimo Stilton |
| As the light of my helmet glinted across the water, I noticed the pool was in the shape of a heart. | Geronimo Stilton |
| "Where is Bear's Lodge?" | Geronimo Stilton |
| Everything was perfectly ORGANIZED. I had planned it all down to the last whisker. | Geronimo Stilton |
| Extremely busy and loves job even if stressful. | Geronimo Stilton |
| The Rodent's Gazette | Geronimo Stilton |
| At Wander Rat began leafing through some pamphlets, talking non-stop. | Geronimo Stilton |
| After a moment's rummaging, she removed a very large dusty box. | Geronimo Stilton |
| There were photos of luscious green forests, enchanted-looking lakes and clear blue skies. | Geronimo Stilton |
| "Look at all the interesting things you can see in the Black Hills!" | Geronimo Stilton |
| The Golden Dreams Hotel | Geronimo Stilton |
| What to visit in Black Hills , South Dakota :Mount Rushmore, Jewel Cave, Bison, Devil's Tower, and Harney Peak. | Geronimo Stilton |
| I was going on a vacation. A real vacation! | Geronimo Stilton |
| I scampered up to the counter like a VIR (Very Important Rodent). | Geronimo Stilton |
| "He's flying with Dirt Cheap Airlines?!?" | Geronimo Stilton |
| Dragging my suitcase behind me, I scrambled to catch my flight. | Geronimo Stilton |
| It was a garbage can with wings! | Geronimo Stilton |
| The airplane was in a state of total disrepair. | Geronimo Stilton |
| That was the signal to the other six passengers. | Geronimo Stilton |
| I looked at them dumbfounded. "Wh-wh-what are you doing here?" | Geronimo Stilton |
| You have a top secret mission: We're going to look for treasure in the Black Hills." | Geronimo Stilton |
| As usual he was as calm as cottage cheese. He never got sick! | Geronimo Stilton |
| My tummy was doing too many somersaults for me to investigate. | Geronimo Stilton |
| I was so relieved I kissed the ground. | Geronimo Stilton |
| If I survived that flight, I could survive anything - even a vacation with Trap! | Geronimo Stilton |
| "I'm sorry , you're low on funds!" Do you have another card?" | Geronimo Stilton |
| We rented: 1 mousebago camper, 1 harley-ratison motorcycle and 8 mountain bikes | Geronimo Stilton |
| I couldn't believe a vehicle that big could go so fast! | Geronimo Stilton |
| You'll see. Not only do we have a map, but also an exp - nah, you'll find out soon enough. | Geronimo Stilton |
| "I said I wanted to get off, not be thrown off!" I whimpered. | Geronimo Stilton |
| That's when I saw a huge balloon floating above us. | Geronimo Stilton |
| He wore a vest and a khaki shirt. | Geronimo Stilton |
| He keeps a photo of his girlfriend in his shirt pocket, next to his heart. | Geronimo Stilton |
| An archeologist who loves adventures. Donates all archeological treasures to New Mouse City's Museum. | Geronimo Stilton |
| "Go with the Adventure!" he shouted. | Geronimo Stilton |
| I tried to gather my courage. | Geronimo Stilton |
| It was a small, crumpled, torn sheet of paper. A piece at the very bottom was missing. | Geronimo Stilton |
| First thing I noticed was a terrible stench. | Geronimo Stilton |
| "'Don't forget to peek.' I wonder what that means," I mused | Geronimo Stilton |
| The sculpture shows the faces of 4 American presidents. | Geronimo Stilton |
| "Why, oh why do these things always happen to me?" | Geronimo Stilton |
| Their eyes were enormous, looming before me like the jaws of a pack of hungry cats. | Geronimo Stilton |
| He was definitely the one the map referred to. | Geronimo Stilton |
| Hidden in a corner I found a rolled-up piece of parchment paper. | Geronimo Stilton |
| "looks more like a Cheese brain to me!" | Geronimo Stilton |
| We immediately began examining the mysterious scroll. | Geronimo Stilton |
| he inspected it for a long time, searching for a hidden clue. | Geronimo Stilton |
| "Catapulting cowpokes, I think I've got it!" | Geronimo Stilton |
| "I've told you a hundred times: The early mouse get the cheese!" | Geronimo Stilton |
| They even asked if he would teach them karate. | Geronimo Stilton |
| "Grandson, since you were the last to arrive, dinner is on you!" | Geronimo Stilton |
| "You see this? I got it two years ago on an expedition to the Mayan pyramids. | Geronimo Stilton |
| "My brother is a world-champion Klutz!" | Geronimo Stilton |
| He twirled me in midair and for the grand finale, slammed me on the floor like a wet mop. | Geronimo Stilton |
| "Way to stay in shape" | Geronimo Stilton |
| He has a lot of good qualities but when it comes to money, he's greedier that my great-uncle Stingy snout" | Geronimo Stilton |
| "What a cat-astrophe!" | Geronimo Stilton |
| "You're slower than a slug at a snail wedding!" | Geronimo Stilton |
| I was admiring the landscape when a herd of buffalo was crossing the road!" | Geronimo Stilton |
| "Yikes! That was a huge ouchie!" | Geronimo Stilton |
| Calcites hung from all sides. It was amazing! | Geronimo Stilton |
| And I was completely alone. My friends had disappeared!" | Geronimo Stilton |
| These should be left within Earth's heart. | Geronimo Stilton |
| Terrified I yelled"HEEEELP" | Geronimo Stilton |
| I was covered in mud, just like an earthworm! | Geronimo Stilton |
| I had a fever and a pretty bad cold! | Geronimo Stilton |
| Highest point in South Dakota 'is Harney Peak at 7,242 ft! | Geronimo Stilton |
| "Never turn your back on a mountain lion, and don't bend down." | Geronimo Stilton |
| I couldn't sleep that night. I tossed and turned, dreaming a hungry mountain lion was at my heels. It was terrifying!" | Geronimo Stilton |
| "It wouldn't be an adventure without a whiff of danger!" | Geronimo Stilton |
| She started chasing butterflies while I rummaged through my backpack….but she had disappeared! | Geronimo Stilton |
| I was puzzled until I realized my hysterics had frightened it away! | Geronimo Stilton |
| "Champ, on those rare occasions when you don't disappoint me you do me proud!" | Geronimo Stilton |
| He showed me an old key and an ancient parchment with this message on it: | Geronimo Stilton |
| We had been participating in a contest this whole time? | Geronimo Stilton |
| It was filled with gold coins! | Geronimo Stilton |
| "B-but …these are made of chocolate!" | Geronimo Stilton |
| The real prize is participating because the real treasure is nature!" | Geronimo Stilton |
| "He's such a jokester! | Geronimo Stilton |
| "I have one last surprise for you , Ger!" | Geronimo Stilton |
| "You're such a scaredy-rat! Can't you tell the mountain lion is fake?" | Geronimo Stilton |
| And thus dear reader, ends this tale. | Geronimo Stilton |
| Being president means often working late into the night and living with the constant stress of having so much responsibility | Nick Bruel |
| He still has many good years ahead of him | Nick Bruel |
| Did Brian the mailman drop his lunch again? | Nick Bruel |
| You're looking at some of those stray cats that come wandering in from the neighborhood next to ours every now and then | Nick Bruel |
| You're thinking about throwing them all into an active volcano, aren't you? | Nick Bruel |
| In a primary you vote for a candidate to become a nominee | Nick Bruel |
| Caucuses are awesome! | Nick Bruel |
| First, it's the left side party's turn to kiss the baby | Nick Bruel |
| Could we put some dramatic music here? | Nick Bruel |
| That's when we dig hard to find the roots of what voters care about and then try to leave something of ourselves behind for them to ponder | Nick Bruel |
| Impressionable little minds such as yours must not be exposed to such filth and depravity | Nick Bruel |
| I don't think either of you will be getting an endorsement today | Nick Bruel |
| You need to make a good first impression | Nick Bruel |
| Get rid of the fish, and let's go to the next house | Nick Bruel |
| Cat candidate freaks out | Nick Bruel |
| Let's go out and pound the pavement | Nick Bruel |
| If you love freedom, give me money | Nick Bruel |
| You don't have to be rich to donate | Nick Bruel |
| Those are organizations that have a specific agenda and want to have candidates elected to help them | Nick Bruel |
| That's supposed to keep really rich people from controlling an election | Nick Bruel |
| They can donate as much as $5000, but no more | Nick Bruel |
| Don't be a jerk. Vote for kitty | Nick Bruel |
| That commercial may be the most revolting thing I've ever seen on television | Nick Bruel |
| Big, stupid, sloppy dogs that stink and drool and poop wherever the heck thy want | Nick Bruel |
| Now you'll have to put your money where your mouth is | Nick Bruel |
| How do I look? Is my hat straight? | Nick Bruel |
| We'll begin with a coin toss to see who goes first | Nick Bruel |
| It's my Power Panther Fan Club Medallion! | Nick Bruel |
| No, I don't have any French fries | Nick Bruel |
| Sorry, but I don't see your name here | Nick Bruel |
| Registering is one of the most important responsibilities of being a citizen | Nick Bruel |
| For one thing, you have to be over 18 years old | Nick Bruel |
| Also, in the United States you have to be a citizen of the country | Nick Bruel |
| You can just go to your local library or post office and see if they have any hanging around | Nick Bruel |
| That's just how they do things in the Peace Garden State | Nick Bruel |
| You don't get to throw one of your screaming, spitting, angry, crazy hissy fits this time! | Nick Bruel |
| But you have no choice but to live with the results if you want to live in a democracy | Nick Bruel |
| She said she's going to beat you like a cheap rug in 4 years | Nick Bruel |
| When 2 or more people get together to publically argue over one or many topics, this is called a debate | Nick Bruel |
| I am rather prone to emotional outbursts of patriotism sometimes | Nick Bruel |
| During any dramatic moments in this book, please play the following music on your tuba, zither, or harpsichord | Nick Bruel |
| His dad is not a superhero, but has read practically everything written about them. | Lenore Look |
| "I am sort of nearly almost medium... when I stand on tiptoe and stretch at the same time" | Lenore Look |
| Having a girl for a desk buddy is even worse that not being able to talk at school. | Lenore Look |
| He has so-so performance anxiety disorder. | Lenore Look |
| "If you live in Concord, Massachusetts it is hard not to like history." | Lenore Look |
| Now he is only Firecracker Man on weekends and holidays. | Lenore Look |
| "I do not know if Jules is a girl or a boy." | Lenore Look |
| "I am as silent as a side of beef" | Lenore Look |
| If only there were volcanoes it would be the most exciting place in the world. | Lenore Look |
| The school had to close for two and a half weeks due to the epidemic. | Lenore Look |
| His dad is a great reader for his age, which could be fifty or one hundred. It's hard to tell. | Lenore Look |
| Rule number 1 for being gentlemen is no hitting, especially girls. | Lenore Look |
| His dad had a Johnny Astro. | Lenore Look |
| One of the things in his kit is garlic to keep vampires and teachers away. | Lenore Look |
| During show and tell the students compared chicken pox scabs. | Lenore Look |
| He thinks you should wear a mask to meet your new teacher, | Lenore Look |
| His friend warns him not to eat anything his piano teacher gives him. | Lenore Look |
| He is not afraid of anything that explodes. | Lenore Look |
| His dad showed him how to make a carved stick. | Lenore Look |
| "You look like a duck hanging in a Chinatown window" | Lenore Look |
| She only had three fingers. | Lenore Look |
| She was surprised he knew some Shakespeare. | Lenore Look |
| If there was no school I would dig holes all day and play catch with my gunggung. | Lenore Look |
| Now that he can read he needs to add emergency plans to his kit. | Lenore Look |
| Gunggung showed them different baseball pitches. | Lenore Look |
| There are six things the main character wants you to know about him. | Lenore Look |
| It sounded like something friends say to each other. | Lenore Look |
| Flea wrote a book about how he talks with his eyes. | Lenore Look |
| They called their car Louise. | Lenore Look |
| He pretended to be sick, but his dad told him he'd be okay. | Lenore Look |
| His voice works at home, the car and even the school bus, but he has never spoken at school. | Lenore Look |
| Everyone keeps telling him to be a gentleman. | Lenore Look |
| His dad decided he should take piano lessons. | Lenore Look |
| A character in this book has a PDK- Personal Disaster Kit. | Lenore Look |
| She made a giant volcano in her yard. | Lenore Look |
| His mom brought out a special treat, two-thousand year old dragon's beard candy. | Lenore Look |
| When he gets to school he can't think, read, smile, sing or even talk. | Lenore Look |
| Calvin digs better than anybody. He is a regular backhoe. | Lenore Look |
| He got the pieces back, but some were broken. | Lenore Look |
| He stands up for himself and tells the gang he doesn't want to do those things. | Lenore Look |
| His brother is reading the entire encyclopedia online. | Lenore Look |
| Pinky told him to do things to join the gang. | Lenore Look |
| His friend wears an eye patch and has one leg that is longer than the other. | Lenore Look |
| You can put anything in the box, but it should be things that are useful in a disaster. | Lenore Look |
| "I'm sorry it's a weird book and you're a weird girl." | Lenore Look |
| He gave his brother's baseball cards away. | Lenore Look |
| He loves superheroes like the Green Lantern and Concrete Man. | Lenore Look |
| He tries stretching exercises to make himself taller. | Lenore Look |
| He needs help to make a plan for making friends. | Lenore Look |
| Rule number two of being a gentleman is no cursing or insulting. | Lenore Look |
| His mom is really super-duper. She is not afraid of heights and can climb a tree in two seconds flat. | Lenore Look |
| He is left hanging upside down from a tree when his family forgets him. | Lenore Look |
| He has to see a psychotherapist for his problems. | Lenore Look |
| The walls of the classroom were blank except for a picture of Henry David Thoreau and another of the cabin he built. | Lenore Look |
| There is an actress who dresses up like Louisa May Alcott and gives tours. | Lenore Look |
| One of the best ways to avoid school is to get sick. | Lenore Look |
| He took his dad's toy without asking. | Lenore Look |
| Some of the kids tried to catch chicken pox from a classmate. | Lenore Look |
| Their favorite game is Patriot Day. | Lenore Look |
| There are a lot of problems when joining a gang. | Lenore Look |
| The Horrific Thing was just his sister. | Lenore Look |
| He decided to be a gentleman for Halloween. | Lenore Look |
| He brought a neighbor's window with a baseball. | Lenore Look |
| He apologizes for not sticking up for her. | Lenore Look |
| By turning this page and the pages that follow… | Kate Klise |
| Is it true that you rent houses for the summer? | Kate Klise |
| They're as bad as annoying children. | Kate Klise |
| I happen to write books fro children | Kate Klise |
| That doesn't mean I want to see or hear the little monsters when I'm trying to work. | Kate Klise |
| I didn't even know you were still alive! | Kate Klise |
| We never want our clients to be disappointed or surprised. | Kate Klise |
| But I hardly see how that's any of your business. | Kate Klise |
| Oh, it's a long, silly story! | Kate Klise |
| There's no need for you to be rude to our new guest. | Kate Klise |
| That's a lot of hogwash! | Kate Klise |
| They are spending the summer on a tour of Europe…. | Kate Klise |
| A young boy is living on the third floor. | Kate Klise |
| The entire house is arranged in this same higgledy-piggledy style. | Kate Klise |
| I am highly allergic to cats. | Kate Klise |
| You've gotten me into a fine pickle now. | Kate Klise |
| I don't even like children. And I despise cats. | Kate Klise |
| Just get me out of this backwater dump - NOW. | Kate Klise |
| Your bad investments and lavish lifestyle have made you a very poor man. | Kate Klise |
| Rule 2: You will stay out of my bedroom and bathroom at all times. | Kate Klise |
| You will not play old man music on the stereo. | Kate Klise |
| I suspect someone in this house has been stealing library books again. | Kate Klise |
| Only because he pays you. | Kate Klise |
| If you must play the piano, do so in the afternoon, when I take my daily walk. | Kate Klise |
| Now, I am aware that children have a strange fascination with the macabre. | Kate Klise |
| their son clearly needs professional help. | Kate Klise |
| Your staggering unwillingness to be of assistance is matched only by your stultifying ignorance. | Kate Klise |
| You little twit. | Kate Klise |
| I'm writing this from the hospital. | Kate Klise |
| This whole situation is completely preposterous. | Kate Klise |
| You fell asleep at your computer. | Kate Klise |
| Therein lies our CONFLICT, which is at the heart of any good story. | Kate Klise |
| Let's just have a lovely dinner on Saturday night, shall we? | Kate Klise |
| Now, scoot over, dear, I write better when I'm sitting down. | Kate Klise |
| Good luck in Paris and in Life. | Kate Klise |
| He stood in front of the portrait, studying it, until a mouse scurried across his shoe. | Kate Klise |
| That, is and accident waiting to happen. | Kate Klise |
| This trick fork actually scooped food from the plate and raised it approximately 12 inches. | Kate Klise |
| Stupid cat cost me a fortune. | Kate Klise |
| Stop!!! PLE3A#E ST#&OP TI*CK&&LING ME!!! | Kate Klise |
| I'm planning a lovely picnic dinner for Saturday night. | Kate Klise |
| I'm not sure who will get top billing. | Kate Klise |
| But we all knew he was in a slump. | Kate Klise |
| Fortunately, I keep a private investigator on my payroll for situations like these. | Kate Klise |
| I was miserable, and I was making everyone around me miserable. | Kate Klise |
| Finally, I have discovered what true art is! | Kate Klise |
| Not much intel to report yet. | Kate Klise |
| Whatta dump. | Kate Klise |
| Oh yeah, there's also a pond on the west side of the property with a few ducks paddling around. | Kate Klise |
| Didn't realize how old and flabby he'd gotten. | Kate Klise |
| I can see him with binoculars. | Kate Klise |
| I'm sorry. I can be an insensitive clod. | Kate Klise |
| You're not old and I'm not handsome. | Kate Klise |
| Dang, this means we're on our own for dinner. | Kate Klise |
| Of course you can see my curlers. | Kate Klise |
| I'll always return what I borrow. (Well, mostly.) | Kate Klise |
| An apple just fell from the tree directly into the basket. | Kate Klise |
| Self-propelled newspapers are delivering themselves down the street. | Kate Klise |
| I am writing to inform you that I have decided to terminate my professional relationship with your client… | Kate Klise |
| Their 11 year old son and his cat, Shadow | Kate Klise |
| She died 97 years before the story opens. | Kate Klise |
| I happen to write books for children. | Kate Klise |
| I read all the Ghost Tamer Books when I was a little girl. | Kate Klise |
| Victorian Lady; 32 1/2-room mansion; 43 Old Cemetery Road | Kate Klise |
| Send a rental contract to my attorney, E. Gadds. | Kate Klise |
| There's no reason for you to be rude to our new guest. | Kate Klise |
| "Your Secrets are Our Business" | Kate Klise |
| "Only Fools (and Children) Believe in Ghosts." | Kate Klise |
| A young boy is living on the third floor. | Kate Klise |
| I am highly allergic to cats. | Kate Klise |
| Yours with a handkerchief held to my nose. | Kate Klise |
| Just get me out of this backwater dump. | Kate Klise |
| Specializing in Mysteries, Mayhem & the Macabre | Kate Klise |
| That doesn't mean I want to see or hear the little monsters | Kate Klise |
| I didn't even know you were still alive. | Kate Klise |
| London Flat: Located near theatres | Kate Klise |
| Need a House? Call Anita Sale | Kate Klise |
| A dumbwaiter is a small elevator used to move food and drink | Kate Klise |
| Rule 2: You will stay out of my bedroom and bathroom at all times. | Kate Klise |
| Rule 8: You will not play old man music on the stereo | Kate Klise |
| Her name's Olive and she lives in the cupola. | Kate Klise |
| The sound of your fingers banging on the keys makes my head throb. | Kate Klise |
| I hope it's not unlucky to write the 13th book in a series. | Kate Klise |
| Only illiterate imbeciles such as yourself believe in black magic. | Kate Klise |
| Nobody relished the anticipation of a good meal like Bartholomew Brown. | Kate Klise |
| If you lay one hand on that boy, you will regret it. | Kate Klise |
| I hadn't realized how dangerous a chandelier could be. | Kate Klise |
| Apologies in advance if I awaken you by shooting a few firecrackers off the roof. | Kate Klise |
| Books back but now chicken missin' | Kate Klise |
| No one had eaten the chicken, including the family dog, Mort. | Kate Klise |
| Grumply continues to refuse requests for interviews with The Ghastly Times | Kate Klise |
| Home of Mr. Poe, the 197-year-old giant tortoise | Kate Klise |
| Bad Luck Follows Hopes on Lecture Tour | Kate Klise |
| The kid had somehow rigged up a fork that raised and lowered itself | Kate Klise |
| The incorrigible brat is downstairs banging on the piano again. | Kate Klise |
| How did you know that Nadia called me Iggy? | Kate Klise |
| He's cutting Mrs. McCorpse's yard. | Kate Klise |
| Please meet us at eight o'clock at my grave. | Kate Klise |
| The boy is going to illustrate our book. | Kate Klise |
| Return to sender/occupant has left for the summer. | Kate Klise |
| Beans, who hails from New Jersey, says he'll'' be in town a few weeks. | Kate Klise |
| Free books for those with a library card | Kate Klise |
| If a buyer can't be found, Spence Mansion might be leveled. | Kate Klise |
| I should've dropped THREE chandeliers on his head | Kate Klise |
| I don't know how you intend to buy my mansion with only $67.50. | Kate Klise |
| I can see the curlers in your hair. | Kate Klise |
| Hungarian Cookbook Back, but Tart Tomes Taken | Kate Klise |
| I'm just trying to warn you. | Kate Klise |
| Elegant Estates, Historic Homes, Classic Cottages | Kate Klise |
| Enclosed is a brochure. I would be happy to arrange a tour of the properties. | Kate Klise |
| Remit full payment for the summer. | Kate Klise |
| Return to sender-occupant has left for the summer. | Kate Klise |
| "The dang thing keeps disappearing for the cooling rack. | Kate Klise |
| A dozen children's books are missing from the library. | Kate Klise |
| The entire house is arranged in this higgledy-piggledy style, | Kate Klise |
| The cat must be removed. | Kate Klise |
| The clause said, whoever rents the house was to care for the boy and the cat. | Kate Klise |
| A letter to my lawyer will clear up the situation with unwanted housemates | Kate Klise |
| The "faintest whisper of paint" is holding this house together. | Kate Klise |
| Your bad investments and lavish lifestyle has made you a very poor man. | Kate Klise |
| The second floor of the house was off limits for the entire summer. | Kate Klise |
| I will eat what I want to eat and when to eat. | Kate Klise |
| She lives in the cupola and is my best friend, sometimes she steals library books. | Kate Klise |
| He said" this face could wake the dead" of a picture of a grim-faced woman | Kate Klise |
| He plans on buying the house himself | Kate Klise |
| Only illiterates believe in black magic and unlucky numbers | Kate Klise |
| The house was old and creaky…… | Kate Klise |
| Your book is boring….I read it while you were on a walk | Kate Klise |
| A crystal chandelier cam crashing down from the ceiling. | Kate Klise |
| The shards of glass punctured my Italian slippers. | Kate Klise |
| Being invisible is frightfully inconvenient, but it does have it's drawbacks | Kate Klise |
| Chicken paprikash-eight o'clock sharp-proper attire, please | Kate Klise |
| The settings and relationships must change. | Kate Klise |
| The character is to flat, too stiff and completely unbelievable. | Kate Klise |
| Fireworks for the roof! | Kate Klise |
| Five jars of paprika, now they are all gone…. And a chicken went missing. | Kate Klise |
| The new book will be out by Halloween | Kate Klise |
| The Hopes have reduced the price on their home due to poor lecture turnouts. | Kate Klise |
| The fork lowered and raised itself from the plate. | Kate Klise |
| What a clever trick---the food disappeared into thin air when the fork was raised. | Kate Klise |
| The food gimmick will be used somewhere in the book I am writing. | Kate Klise |
| You win, tell me what to do to get you to leave me alone! | Kate Klise |
| OUR book??? Since when are WE writing a book??? | Kate Klise |
| You HATE liver and green peppers! | Kate Klise |
| The Siamese cat liked caviar flavored cat food and a diamond and emerald studded collar. | Kate Klise |
| His parents thought he was lying because they couldn't see her. | Kate Klise |
| His parents thought he would be an embarrassment to them and their academic research. | Kate Klise |
| Eight o'clock on the dot---I'll bring dinner, you bring a present. | Kate Klise |
| It's been 109 years since she had been on a date. | Kate Klise |
| Bring your sketchpad on Saturday night. | Kate Klise |
| A ferocious wind swept the manuscript away. | Kate Klise |
| He's wigging out---that's all there is to it! | Kate Klise |
| He suffered from writer's block and financial problems. | Kate Klise |
| Reader's can't know their favorite author is "nuttier than peanut brittle"! | Kate Klise |
| She had the most rejection slips according to the Guinness Book of World Records | Kate Klise |
| It's impossible to write when you are selfish and crabby | Kate Klise |
| He turned a cartwheel and said he felt 20 years younger. | Kate Klise |
| Demolitions is not out of the question. | Kate Klise |
| Free books for those with a library card. | Kate Klise |
| The house has a pond on the side with a few ducks paddling around. | Kate Klise |
| If you cook tonight, I'll make dinner tomorrow. | Kate Klise |
| What about a game of checkers after dinner? | Kate Klise |
| The table is set for four---dinner is grilled cheese sandwiches. | Kate Klise |
| There is no wind, but the creaky old swing on the porch keeps moving. | Kate Klise |
| My hair is in curlers. | Kate Klise |
| The apples in the back yard will taste good in apple tarts, if I can find a recipe at the library | Kate Klise |
| The book was due today, he must have missed his deadline. | Kate Klise |
| Your secrets are well kept with this newspaper. | Kate Klise |
| The apples are going into a basket, as if someone is picking them. | Kate Klise |
| The newspapers are being self-propelled to the houses on the street. | Kate Klise |
| He lost his publisher, attorney and landlord all at one time. | Kate Klise |
| I want to try again, will you write the book with me? | Kate Klise |
| Didn't anyone ever tell not it is rude to stare? | Kate Klise |
| The buyer of the house is an occupant of the house. Please cancel the demolition. | Kate Klise |
| We'll convert the money you made over the summer to Euros when we return to Europe. | Kate Klise |
| I agree that you are not cut out to be parents. | Kate Klise |
| The book is music to my ears, music to my ears I tell you. | Kate Klise |
| You'll feel better about yourself if you pay off all your bills. | Kate Klise |
| The 3rd floor should be turned into an artist studio. | Kate Klise |
| Be kind to each other, remember other people and their feelings are as real as you are. | Kate Klise |
| It's our feelings that make us real. | Kate Klise |
| I FEEL---I really mean it. | Kate Klise |
| It's nice to be wanted. | Kate Klise |
| "Every ending is really a beginning" | Kate Klise |
| His governess was Miss Lumpton. | R.L. LaFevers |
| He was being sent to live with a cousin of his fathers. | R.L. LaFevers |
| This book is set in 1928. | R.L. LaFevers |
| Batting-at-the-Flies in North County. | R.L. LaFevers |
| The airship Italia crashed on the ice near the North Pole. | R.L. LaFevers |
| She was left a tidy sum in his parents' will. | R.L. LaFevers |
| Cornelius is a dodo. | R.L. LaFevers |
| He could join his parents when his sense of adventure developed. | R.L. LaFevers |
| He always carried his sketchbook with him. | R.L. LaFevers |
| P.A. stood for Philomena Augusta. | R.L. LaFevers |
| Maps covered the walls like wallpaper. | R.L. LaFevers |
| The kitchen and the rest of the house were jumbled and cluttered. | R.L. LaFevers |
| She fed him stew and a thick slice of buttered bread. | R.L. LaFevers |
| A beastologist studies unusual beasts. | R.L. LaFevers |
| The continents were all the wrong shape and size and there weren't enough oceans. | R.L. LaFevers |
| The water closet is at the north end of the hall. | R.L. LaFevers |
| He opened the suitcase and found women's clothing. | R.L. LaFevers |
| His father had a mustache and his mother had a beauty mark. | R.L. LaFevers |
| He carried his things in a rucksack. | R.L. LaFevers |
| Goggles. To keep the bugs and dust out. | R.L. LaFevers |
| "Mites", he silently mouthed. | R.L. LaFevers |
| Sopwith Platypus | R.L. LaFevers |
| He was torn between excitement and terror as they climbed higher and higher into the air. | R.L. LaFevers |
| "Halloo! We're here to refuel." | R.L. LaFevers |
| The smell of petrol filled the air. | R.L. LaFevers |
| His body hugged the side of the plane as he scooched his way forward. | R.L. LaFevers |
| It was about the size of a kitten, but sort of human shaped. | R.L. LaFevers |
| He was terrified of bats. | R.L. LaFevers |
| He felt a sharp pang of guilt. He knew all about being alone in the world. | R.L. LaFevers |
| Her name was Greasle. | R.L. LaFevers |
| They were standing in front of two camels piled high with supplies. | R.L. LaFevers |
| What are Bedouin? | R.L. LaFevers |
| It spit a nasty glob on his chest. | R.L. LaFevers |
| "Hut, hut, hut," she cried. | R.L. LaFevers |
| Sir Mungo became obsessed with Marco Polo's travels. | R.L. LaFevers |
| The Geographica | R.L. LaFevers |
| Not wanting all our work to be lost, we write letters to record our findings. | R.L. LaFevers |
| "I think I hate camels," he wheezed. | R.L. LaFevers |
| The dried goat meat tasted like salty leather. | R.L. LaFevers |
| The date was sticky and sweet, almost like a piece of toffee. | R.L. LaFevers |
| I would protect the book with my life. | R.L. LaFevers |
| The nest must be protected from the wind. | R.L. LaFevers |
| He looked at her big, round eyes, her bat like ears, and her sharp little teeth. | R.L. LaFevers |
| He stood transfixed as the brilliant red and gold bird approached. | R.L. LaFevers |
| There really were magical beasts in this world. | R.L. LaFevers |
| "Are you a Turk?" | R.L. LaFevers |
| "I ask that you grant me hospitality." | R.L. LaFevers |
| He used Shabiib's saddle as a step stool. | R.L. LaFevers |
| "I won't let the fire go out. I promise." | R.L. LaFevers |
| He instructed her to pinch him every time he started to fall asleep. | R.L. LaFevers |
| When she was close enough, she raised her hands and gripped the tree trunk. | R.L. LaFevers |
| "So, what's a jinni then?" | R.L. LaFevers |
| She gripped the stranger's hand and sank her sharp little teeth into it. | R.L. LaFevers |
| The intruder had bushy ginger colored hair. | R.L. LaFevers |
| If hope and joy had a sound, it would be just like that. | R.L. LaFevers |
| His exhaustion and discouragement were burned away, leaving only his possibilities behind. | R.L. LaFevers |
| We need to make a quick trip to visit the wyverns. | R.L. LaFevers |
| She gave him a compass. | R.L. LaFevers |
| He'd been comforted only when they promised to send for him on his eighth birthday p.3 | R. L. LaFevers |
| B-but…you're a dod! P. 16 | R. L. LaFevers |
| No, it was an airplane, he finally realized p. 21 | R. L. LaFevers |
| It happens only once very five hundred years. P. 29 | R. L. LaFevers |
| Goggles. To keep the bugs and dust out. P. 33 | R. L. LaFevers |
| Will this thing really fly? P. 34 | R. L. LaFevers |
| Goulash they called it. P. 42 | R. L. LaFevers |
| His body hugged the side of the plane as he scooched his way forward. P. 44 | R. L. LaFevers |
| It was covered with engine oil and gear grease. Pl 47 | R. L. LaFevers |
| Then the real adventure will begin. P. 54 | R. L. LaFevers |
| I'll stay in the pack nice and quiet like p. 57 | R. L. LaFevers |
| The camel had big liquid eyes with long lashes. P. 59 | R. L. LaFevers |
| He called it Geographica, A map of the world p. 63 | R. L. LaFevers |
| No. Only Miss Lumpton got letters. And only once a month. P. 66 | R. L. LaFevers |
| She's not a true beast. She's just a pest. P. 70 | R. L. LaFevers |
| the secret to a phoenix hatching is to be sure the pile of ash never grows cold. P. 72 | R. L. LaFevers |
| The notes were pure and lovely, but haunting as well, as if sadness might be just around the corner. P. 75 | R. L. LaFevers |
| There was a flash of green flame just before the fire died out. P. 78 | R. L. LaFevers |
| Yes, I really must insist that I stay. P. 80 | R. L. LaFevers |
| Very well, then. I ask that you grant me hospitality. P. 80 | R. L. LaFevers |
| she know how to take care of herself. The mean ones usually do. P. 84 | R. L. LaFevers |
| ain't nothing but a bunch of ashes and twigs. P. 85 | R. L. LaFevers |
| Keep the ash in the newst warm, protect from cold and wind, add additional fuel. P. 87 | R. L. LaFevers |
| It was too bad the palm fronds didn't grow straight up, like a wall. P. 89 | R. L. LaFevers |
| He was just drifting off to sleep when he heard voices. P. 92 | R. L. LaFevers |
| He'd instructed her to pinch him every time he started to fall asleep. P.95 | R. L. LaFevers |
| With last flurry of giggles, they left the tent. P. 98 | R. L. LaFevers |
| Wait! Don't! P. 99 | R. L. LaFevers |
| A jinni! You command a jinni? | R. L. LaFevers |
| the he heard it. A faint ripping sound. That was what awakened him p. 106 | R. L. LaFevers |
| It glowed bright red now and was definitely a lump. P0. 112 | R. L. LaFevers |
| As he stared at the egg in his hand, a plan began to from. P. 116 | R. L. LaFevers |
| His words were cut off as an iron grip took ahold of his collar and hauled him to his feet. P. 124 | R. L. LaFevers |
| You offer me a rock? P. 125 | R. L. LaFevers |
| This book is the first book in the Sherlock Files Series. | Tracy Barrett |
| Xander had dimples and big dark blue eyes. | Tracy Barrett |
| A sister and her younger brother were passing time on the steps of the Dulcey Hotel in London. | Tracy Barrett |
| Whoever guessed something correctly about a passerby got a point. | Tracy Barrett |
| Their father had a great job teaching music and composing. | Tracy Barrett |
| Miss Rose's School of Dance offered classes, private lessons and consultations. | Tracy Barrett |
| When Xander finished his Pee Wee Soccer practice, he'd show her how to look for clues. | Tracy Barrett |
| She heard him mutter, "It fades fast." | Tracy Barrett |
| Ask for a saucer of milk for your snake. | Tracy Barrett |
| Illustrious means 'famous,' right? | Tracy Barrett |
| And what's a plooman's lunch? | Tracy Barrett |
| So a shandy is a mixture of lemon soda and beer? | Tracy Barrett |
| She pushed back her chair and flew after the two figures as they disappeared through a curtain at the back of the room. | Tracy Barrett |
| Aside from being an excellent long-distance runner and having a black belt in karate, Xena was an expert rock climber. | Tracy Barrett |
| Most people said she climbed like a cat, but Xander thought she looked more like a spider. | Tracy Barrett |
| Or else someone wants this to look like a storeroom, but it isn't. | Tracy Barrett |
| Xena knew better than to interrupt him when he was thinking, but she was getting more and more anxious. | Tracy Barrett |
| The Baker Street Irregulars | Tracy Barrett |
| 221B Baker Street | Tracy Barrett |
| You dropped that paper into my sister's hand at the hotel! | Tracy Barrett |
| The doorman at your hotel is one of us. | Tracy Barrett |
| If there was anything she couldn't resist, it was an old book. | Tracy Barrett |
| Somehow they knew that this book was going to change their lives. | Tracy Barrett |
| Nigel Batheson | Tracy Barrett |
| Girl in a Purple Hat | Tracy Barrett |
| Wouldn't it be awesome if we could find that painting? | Tracy Barrett |
| Let's make a plan. Go on, you know you're dying to make a list! | Tracy Barrett |
| His wife decided to sell some of his paintings. | Tracy Barrett |
| I think he had agoraphobia | Tracy Barrett |
| Their father called her a bulldog. | Tracy Barrett |
| People walked under umbrellas, wearing raincoats and boots. | Tracy Barrett |
| He did most of his painting in Taynesbury. | Tracy Barrett |
| It's in Hertfordshire. | Tracy Barrett |
| Xander took the cell phone out of its shrink-wrap and read the manual. | Tracy Barrett |
| It was made of reddish brown stone, with windows that reached at least ten feet high. | Tracy Barrett |
| As it tweedled out "Yankee Doodle," a woman placing a bouquet of flowers on a grave glanced at them curiously. | Tracy Barrett |
| Number 76, Lilac Lane | Tracy Barrett |
| The Willows. What does that mean? | Tracy Barrett |
| Are you Mrs. Emerson? | Tracy Barrett |
| A Border collie ran out of a house and barked at them. | Tracy Barrett |
| The blitz, during the Second World War. | Tracy Barrett |
| There's a gravestone in the churchyard that says she was Nigel's daughter. | Tracy Barrett |
| But he didn't have any daughters, did he? | Tracy Barrett |
| If we don't work together we're never going to solve this case in time for the Batheson exhibit! | Tracy Barrett |
| A little girl with golden curls, a purple hat, and a long gray coat. | Tracy Barrett |
| Even an international school requires uniforms. | Tracy Barrett |
| My mum's from South Africa, and my parents want me to go to school with kids from other places. | Tracy Barrett |
| They were both put in the beginning Spanish class, which was taught by a young woman from Paraguay. | Tracy Barrett |
| In England, a subway is a passage under a busy street. | Tracy Barrett |
| Their search for the girl in the purple hat would have to wait. | Tracy Barrett |
| He made the soccer team because only three boys tried out and Coach Craig had to take him. | Tracy Barrett |
| A fierce sea serpent seemed was cooler than a dorky giraffe. | Tracy Barrett |
| The Knuckers wore bright green jerseys bearing the image of two scaly sea serpents, one blue, one yellow, battling on top of a gray shield. | Tracy Barrett |
| People stared at her as she splashed through puddles and dodged around lampposts. | Tracy Barrett |
| Don't mind her. She's a bit overprotective of the gallery. | Tracy Barrett |
| Read Batheson's letters. | Tracy Barrett |
| And is that Miss Selden with our tea? | Tracy Barrett |
| The letters! They're on microfilm. | Tracy Barrett |
| Robert had a thing for putting toad in beds. | Tracy Barrett |
| The girl in the Batheson painting didn't necessarily look like the model who posed for it either. | Tracy Barrett |
| When you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. | Tracy Barrett |
| Whenever you see people on TV at something like this, they're always wearing black. | Tracy Barrett |
| A man with so many piercings in his ears, nose, lips and eyebrows that he looked like a porcupine. | Tracy Barrett |
| He made frames out of wood and then they were covered in gold leaf - really thin sheets of gold. | Tracy Barrett |
| Her mother called this talent her cloak of invisibility. | Tracy Barrett |
| Birth years of most of the relatives had been penciled in. | Tracy Barrett |
| There were no daughters, no female cousins, not even an aunt who would have been a young girl when it was done. | Tracy Barrett |
| But Robert was born in 1894. | Tracy Barrett |
| That would have made him eight when the painting was made! | Tracy Barrett |
| How does knowing who modeled for it help us figure out who stole it? | Tracy Barrett |
| When he put it on, the picture of him in his daisy costume fell out of a pocket. | Tracy Barrett |
| I solved the case! I solved the case! | Tracy Barrett |
| I'll bet his brothers made fun of him about it for years! | Tracy Barrett |
| We have to find out where Robert went to boarding school. | Tracy Barrett |
| And finally there was that doodle of a dragon. | Tracy Barrett |
| Holding a magnifying glass, they could see not one dragon with its tail in its mouth, but two separate creatures. | Tracy Barrett |
| They were taking a bus to the school that their school was playing in soccer. | Tracy Barrett |
| Worthington School for Boys | Tracy Barrett |
| Into her backpack she shoved the latest box of gadgets from the testing company. | Tracy Barrett |
| It looks like the school has been here forever | Tracy Barrett |
| Any minute someone could come by an accuse them of trespassing - exactly what they were doing. | Tracy Barrett |
| There's got to be some kind of a dorm someplace. | Tracy Barrett |
| Can't help you there, records were destroyed in a fire. | Tracy Barrett |
| He also said that the sound of running water in the pipes reminded him of the brook at home. | Tracy Barrett |
| No painting. No Narnia either. | Tracy Barrett |
| It's like a stud-finder, but instead it locates metal. | Tracy Barrett |
| Get that speed-reading think going in your brain and tell me what to do. | Tracy Barrett |
| What were the penalties for breaking and entering anyway? | Tracy Barrett |
| She would have slapped her own forehead for stupidity if she hadn't been worried about the noise. | Tracy Barrett |
| He saw the corner of the man's mouth twitch as though he was trying not to smile. | Tracy Barrett |
| Meanwhile the headmaster had opened the longest blade and was running his fingers down the edge of the board in question. | Tracy Barrett |
| The board popped out. Not even nailed down. Interesting! | Tracy Barrett |
| Don't damage it! Here, let me take out another board. | Tracy Barrett |
| The headmaster didn't object as Mr. Nolan popped off a second piece of the paneling with the knife. | Tracy Barrett |
| It's like he's looking right at you. | Tracy Barrett |
| Pax? It means 'peace' in Latin. | Tracy Barrett |
| Then everyone sang "For they are jolly good fellows!" | Tracy Barrett |
| The best part was that they hadn't failed their ancestor | Tracy Barrett |
| An interview with the author was at the end of this book. | Tracy Barrett |
| She didn't think it was fair if the weather was going to be cold and gray every day - especially since they had to leave all their friends in warm and sunny Florida. | Tracy Barrett |
| Nobody could resist those dimples, that smile, those enormous eyes. Even the blond streak in his brown curls seemed charming on a boy. | Tracy Barrett |
| Her father taught the Game to her when she was in second grade. | Tracy Barrett |
| Their Grandpa had taught their dad, and Grandpa had learned from his own dad. It was a family legacy, something to be proud of. | Tracy Barrett |
| Go to The Dancing Men and ask for a saucer of milk for your snake. | Tracy Barrett |
| Time, as you illustrious ancestor used to say, is of the essence. | Tracy Barrett |
| He screwed up his face, his eyes closed, and she could tell he was putting his photographic memory to work. | Tracy Barrett |
| "It's got to be some kind of code…or a password." | Tracy Barrett |
| A ploughman's lunch is "a nice piece of bread and some cheese and a pickle. Standard pub fare." | Tracy Barrett |
| "I thought we'd understand everyone in England because they speak the same language, but English English is confusing." | Tracy Barrett |
| The waitress returned with two glasses of lemon soda, which she called lemonade. | Tracy Barrett |
| Aside from being an excellent long-distance runner and having a black belt in karate, she was an expert rock climber. | Tracy Barrett |
| Most people said she climbed like a cat, but he thought she looked more like a spider. | Tracy Barrett |
| "You're part of a crime here - two crimes. They're called kidnapping and forced imprisonment." | Tracy Barrett |
| "I can't believe I'm so bored that I'm watching raindrop races." | Tracy Barrett |
| She could go to a museum every day for a week and then wake up the next day and ask to go to another one. | Tracy Barrett |
| She looked at her brother. From someplace deep inside her came a sense of family pride she hadn't known she possessed. | Tracy Barrett |
| "Okay," he said. "Let's make a plan. Go on, you know you're dying to make a list!" | Tracy Barrett |
| "Agoraphobia. Fear of open spaces…now generally intended to mean fear of traveling away from familiar surroundings." | Tracy Barrett |
| He knew that once she set her mind to something, she wouldn't quit. Their father called her a bulldog. | Tracy Barrett |
| "You're nuts," she said. "Or barmy, as they say here." | Tracy Barrett |
| He made drawings, sometimes more than a hundred, of each painting. | Tracy Barrett |
| She loved Indian food, but who could think about dinner now? | Tracy Barrett |
| "One point against it right there," his mom said. "What if you don't want someone near you to know the number you're calling?" | Tracy Barrett |
| Any food with clotted in its name didn't sound too appetizing, but that didn't stop him from eating the biscuits spread with soft cream until he thought he would burst. | Tracy Barrett |
| The siblings had never moved before, and they weren't used to being the new kids. | Tracy Barrett |
| A large sign proclaimed OUR STUDENTS COME FROM EVERY CONTINENT EXCEPT ANTARCTICA! | Tracy Barrett |
| A fierce sea serpent seemed way cooler than a dorky giraffe. | Tracy Barrett |
| She must look awful, with her dark hair plastered down, mud splashed on her white school socks, and her navy blazer dripping wet. | Tracy Barrett |
| Where was her brother and what made him take off like that? | Tracy Barrett |
| What she saw was so unexpected that should couldn't take it all in at once. She closed her eyes and opened them again. It was still there. | Tracy Barrett |
| The receptionist was a slender woman with white blond hair and fingernails so long and curved that it must have been impossible for her to dial a phone or type on a keyboard. | Tracy Barrett |
| When the girl took off her hat, the golden curls went with it! | Tracy Barrett |
| He husband's reluctance to travel meant that she didn't see her sister very much, so they wrote frequently. | Tracy Barrett |
| They found out that in England kids were sent to boarding school at the age of seven. Like Hogwarts. | Tracy Barrett |
| "I'm a daisy, I'm born in the spring, I burst from the ground when the birdies sing." | Tracy Barrett |
| Robert was the youngest and his big brothers probably teased him. | Tracy Barrett |
| They used a metal finder to look behind the wall. | Tracy Barrett |
| For a moment all anyone could do was stare. | Tracy Barrett |
| Pax means peace in Latin. | Tracy Barrett |
| "Take the kids up to the cane fields!" | Lauren Tarshis |
| A curtain of smoke- black and bloody red-surrounded the harbor. | Lauren Tarshis |
| "But he'd never felt more terrified than he did right now, alone and running for his life." | Lauren Tarshis |
| "Rat, tat,tat,tat" | Lauren Tarshis |
| Sand flew into his eyes. And then from behind him, a huge explosion seemed to shatter the world. | Lauren Tarshis |
| One Day Earlier, December 6, 1941 | Lauren Tarshis |
| "Just look at that view," she said. "Can you believe we live here?" | Lauren Tarshis |
| She wanted to get him away from danger and trouble, away from Earl Gasky and his gang. | Lauren Tarshis |
| He paid them a dollar a day to run errands. | Lauren Tarshis |
| He even taught them how to drive one of his cars. | Lauren Tarshis |
| He father had been gone since before he was born. | Lauren Tarshis |
| "Because who else was going to look after them?" | Lauren Tarshis |
| "Until one night two months ago." | Lauren Tarshis |
| "It was like a horror movie playing in his mind." | Lauren Tarshis |
| "It's time for us to go," Ma said. "Before something terrible happens to you." | Lauren Tarshis |
| "We're starting out fresh," she said | Lauren Tarshis |
| A week later, they were on a train heading to San Francisco. | Lauren Tarshis |
| Felt guilty his friend got hurt. | Lauren Tarshis |
| A ship called Carmella. | Lauren Tarshis |
| He was used to being on the lookout for people lurking outside their door, waiting to pounce. | Lauren Tarshis |
| But there was nothing on their porch but a pot of pink flowers, wrapped in a bow. | Lauren Tarshis |
| The sun felt good on his face, and there was a warm breeze off the ocean. | Lauren Tarshis |
| They were huge- like skyscrapers turned on their sides. | Lauren Tarshis |
| She always said yes, and she always happened to have a Thermos of lemonade or hot chocolate with just enough for them. | Lauren Tarshis |
| She also had a big world map on the wall of her classroom. | Lauren Tarshis |
| "The world has to stop that monster," she told them. | Lauren Tarshis |
| Of course he never cried - he was no sissy. And he'd learn a trick when he was younger. | Lauren Tarshis |
| Lately that cold hard place had grown so big that he felt numb. | Lauren Tarshis |
| But then he heard commotion in his backyard. | Lauren Tarshis |
| There was a crash, a strange squeal, and an earsplitting scream. | Lauren Tarshis |
| "Was someone in trouble?" | Lauren Tarshis |
| What the heck was he doing here all by himself? | Lauren Tarshis |
| He was grinning like a monkey standing on a mountain of bananas. | Lauren Tarshis |
| "My Puppy!" the kid said. | Lauren Tarshis |
| It was black, the size of a huge dog, with wiry bristles, a pig's snout, and two huge spiked tusks sprouting right from its face like swords. | Lauren Tarshis |
| "Monster!" he said. | Lauren Tarshis |
| "Prepare to die!" it seemed to be saying | Lauren Tarshis |
| This kid really was crazy! | Lauren Tarshis |
| One of the monster's tusks tore through his pant leg. | Lauren Tarshis |
| The kid was a stitch. | Lauren Tarshis |
| There were people from all over the world living here- just like in New York City. | Lauren Tarshis |
| "I sorry, Mama" he said in a voice sweeter than a chocolate doughnut. | Lauren Tarshis |
| He wasn't sure if it was possible to keep a wild boar as a pet. | Lauren Tarshis |
| He rolled bandages and found extra blankets for men recovering from surgery. | Lauren Tarshis |
| There was something about her that reminded him of his teacher- a look in her eyes , like she could read his mind and liked what she saw. | Lauren Tarshis |
| "My son is wanderer. The minute I turn my back, he sneaks away." | Lauren Tarshis |
| For such a shrimp, the kid was a real muscleman. | Lauren Tarshis |
| Still, there was something nice about it- the white flowers climbing up the walls, the neat vegetable garden planted in front. | Lauren Tarshis |
| His father was a fisherman out on a three-day trip. | Lauren Tarshis |
| The food was weird- bowls of rice with fish in a salty sauce-but not so bad, especially the bright orange fruit for dessert. | Lauren Tarshis |
| "Flying Fortress" his favorite plane | Lauren Tarshis |
| He's an artist." 'Fishing is just his job" | Lauren Tarshis |
| "I wish I could draw "he said | Lauren Tarshis |
| His teacher had gotten him a sketchbook and told him to practice, but he never made much progress. | Lauren Tarshis |
| "Your mother's very brave, to come all this way to start a new life." | Lauren Tarshis |
| "She's lucky to have a boy like you." | Lauren Tarshis |
| Tears came down his face but he no idea why. | Lauren Tarshis |
| Somehow being here with them, some of that ice inside him had melted. | Lauren Tarshis |
| He lay in bed listening to the morning birds sing outside his window. | Lauren Tarshis |
| The Carmella was leaving in two hours. | Lauren Tarshis |
| He 'd already figured out his sob story: He was an orphan, trying to get back to New York to be with his cousin Finn. | Lauren Tarshis |
| He might even mention the name Earl Gasky. | Lauren Tarshis |
| A boy who didn't turn his back on his best friend. | Lauren Tarshis |
| All night he'd been tossing in bed, feeling torn in two. | Lauren Tarshis |
| Now his plans would really be messed up! | Lauren Tarshis |
| The kid wasn't wearing his crazy monkey face. His face looked dead serious. | Lauren Tarshis |
| "Airplanes." | Lauren Tarshis |
| A buzzing sound, like there was a giant swarm of bees closing in. | Lauren Tarshis |
| There must be a drill going on. | Lauren Tarshis |
| Sirens began to howl. | Lauren Tarshis |
| He knew something horrible was happening, something beyond his worst nightmares. | Lauren Tarshis |
| "I know somewhere we can go, in case…" | Lauren Tarshis |
| Somewhere in the middle of that was Hickam. | Lauren Tarshis |
| The man looked young. He had a white rag tied around his head. He wore goggles. | Lauren Tarshis |
| His head smashed against the sand. And then he couldn't see anything at all. | Lauren Tarshis |
| He's share a secret for starting a car engine without a key. | Lauren Tarshis |
| "They caught us by surprise," | Lauren Tarshis |
| Reminded him of a photo he'd seen in Life magazine of a town that had been hit by a tornado. | Lauren Tarshis |
| It smelled like burned rubber and plastic. | Lauren Tarshis |
| "They destroyed the barracks and the mess hall. Two hangars are gone." | Lauren Tarshis |
| "We need to get out of here!" he shouted to the guards. | Lauren Tarshis |
| But he understood too. There was nothing they could do. | Lauren Tarshis |
| "It will all be over soon!" | Lauren Tarshis |
| They were small and gray, like killer birds. | Lauren Tarshis |
| "You never know when you need to get somewhere quick." | Lauren Tarshis |
| They needed every spare hand they could find. | Lauren Tarshis |
| West Virginia, Arizona, Oklahoma and California (names of the Battleships badly hit or sunk) | Lauren Tarshis |
| Shaw and Cassin (Destroyers that had exploded) | Lauren Tarshis |
| Heard his school was turned into a hospital. | Lauren Tarshis |
| "We'll remember this moment for the rest of our lives," | Lauren Tarshis |
| But he knew this: He wasn't that kind of boy anymore. | Lauren Tarshis |
| He brought him a present - one of the airmen had given him his wings. | Lauren Tarshis |
| "They are looking for spies." | Lauren Tarshis |
| Sent a telegram to a gangster to help free him from prison. | Lauren Tarshis |
| Every house had to have these curtains. It had to pitch dark at night….. | Lauren Tarshis |
| You'd have to crazy not to be scared, with what was happening in the world,…. | Lauren Tarshis |
| Decided being scared was better than being numb. | Lauren Tarshis |
| If he were numb, he wouldn't be able to feel happy, and there were times he caught himself smiling. | Lauren Tarshis |
| Earl and all his guys had enlisted in the army. | Lauren Tarshis |
| It sounded like a baby whimpering. | Lauren Tarshis |
| He looked scared. And tough. And like he'd happy to have someone keep an eye on him. | Lauren Tarshis |
| All the main events and places are real. | Lauren Tarshis |
| But in 1930's the relationship between the two countries was tense. | Lauren Tarshis |
| The next day, Franklin D Roosevelt appeared before our Congress and made a speech that is still one of the most famous in American history. | Lauren Tarshis |
| President Roosevelt said that December 7th, 1941 would "live in infamy," | Lauren Tarshis |
| World War II "Axis powers" (Japan and Germany) "Allied Forces "(England, France, and USA) | Lauren Tarshis |
| Today the "interment: of loyal Japanese Americans is considered a shameful act in American history. | Lauren Tarshis |
| It is also a monument and graveyard. | Lauren Tarshis |
| USS Arizona Memorial- memorial built over sunken battleship. | Lauren Tarshis |
| The drops of oil made me think of the tears that are still shed over the lives lost in the Pearl Harbor attack, and the sorrows of the long war that followed. | Lauren Tarshis |
| Gave a time line at the end of story. | Lauren Tarshis |
| He is shocked - and, for the first time,he is truly afraid. | Lauren Tarshis |
| Eleven-year-old tough city kid. | Lauren Tarshis |
| I slipped and fell to the bottom of the gorge. | Geronimo Stilton |
| The note said: You wanted to save a buck? Too Bad For You! In case of motion sickness, you're on your own! | Geronimo Stilton |
| He forced me to wear a ridiculous leather jacket, complete with fringe and a bandanna. | Geronimo Stilton |
| As the light of my helmet glinted across the water, I noticed the pool was in the shape of a heart. | Geronimo Stilton |
| "Where is Bear's Lodge?" | Geronimo Stilton |
| Everything was perfectly ORGANIZED. I had planned it all down to the last whisker. | Geronimo Stilton |
| Extremely busy and loves job even if stressful. | Geronimo Stilton |
| The Rodent's Gazette | Geronimo Stilton |
| At Wander Rat began leafing through some pamphlets, talking non-stop. | Geronimo Stilton |
| After a moment's rummaging, she removed a very large dusty box. | Geronimo Stilton |
| There were photos of luscious green forests, enchanted-looking lakes and clear blue skies. | Geronimo Stilton |
| "Look at all the interesting things you can see in the Black Hills!" | Geronimo Stilton |
| The Golden Dreams Hotel | Geronimo Stilton |
| What to visit in Black Hills , South Dakota :Mount Rushmore, Jewel Cave, Bison, Devil's Tower, and Harney Peak. | Geronimo Stilton |
| I was going on a vacation. A real vacation! | Geronimo Stilton |
| I scampered up to the counter like a VIR (Very Important Rodent). | Geronimo Stilton |
| "He's flying with Dirt Cheap Airlines?!?" | Geronimo Stilton |
| Dragging my suitcase behind me, I scrambled to catch my flight. | Geronimo Stilton |
| It was a garbage can with wings! | Geronimo Stilton |
| The airplane was in a state of total disrepair. | Geronimo Stilton |
| That was the signal to the other six passengers. | Geronimo Stilton |
| I looked at them dumbfounded. "Wh-wh-what are you doing here?" | Geronimo Stilton |
| You have a top secret mission: We're going to look for treasure in the Black Hills." | Geronimo Stilton |
| As usual he was as calm as cottage cheese. He never got sick! | Geronimo Stilton |
| My tummy was doing too many somersaults for me to investigate. | Geronimo Stilton |
| I was so relieved I kissed the ground. | Geronimo Stilton |
| If I survived that flight, I could survive anything - even a vacation with Trap! | Geronimo Stilton |
| "I'm sorry , you're low on funds!" Do you have another card?" | Geronimo Stilton |
| We rented: 1 mousebago camper, 1 harley-ratison motorcycle and 8 mountain bikes | Geronimo Stilton |
| I couldn't believe a vehicle that big could go so fast! | Geronimo Stilton |
| You'll see. Not only do we have a map, but also an exp - nah, you'll find out soon enough. | Geronimo Stilton |
| "I said I wanted to get off, not be thrown off!" I whimpered. | Geronimo Stilton |
| That's when I saw a huge balloon floating above us. | Geronimo Stilton |
| He wore a vest and a khaki shirt. | Geronimo Stilton |
| He keeps a photo of his girlfriend in his shirt pocket, next to his heart. | Geronimo Stilton |
| An archeologist who loves adventures. Donates all archeological treasures to New Mouse City's Museum. | Geronimo Stilton |
| "Go with the Adventure!" he shouted. | Geronimo Stilton |
| I tried to gather my courage. | Geronimo Stilton |
| It was a small, crumpled, torn sheet of paper. A piece at the very bottom was missing. | Geronimo Stilton |
| First thing I noticed was a terrible stench. | Geronimo Stilton |
| "'Don't forget to peek.' I wonder what that means," I mused | Geronimo Stilton |
| The sculpture shows the faces of 4 American presidents. | Geronimo Stilton |
| "Why, oh why do these things always happen to me?" | Geronimo Stilton |
| Their eyes were enormous, looming before me like the jaws of a pack of hungry cats. | Geronimo Stilton |
| He was definitely the one the map referred to. | Geronimo Stilton |
| Hidden in a corner I found a rolled-up piece of parchment paper. | Geronimo Stilton |
| "looks more like a Cheese brain to me!" | Geronimo Stilton |
| We immediately began examining the mysterious scroll. | Geronimo Stilton |
| he inspected it for a long time, searching for a hidden clue. | Geronimo Stilton |
| "Catapulting cowpokes, I think I've got it!" | Geronimo Stilton |
| "I've told you a hundred times: The early mouse get the cheese!" | Geronimo Stilton |
| They even asked if he would teach them karate. | Geronimo Stilton |
| "Grandson, since you were the last to arrive, dinner is on you!" | Geronimo Stilton |
| "You see this? I got it two years ago on an expedition to the Mayan pyramids. | Geronimo Stilton |
| "My brother is a world-champion Klutz!" | Geronimo Stilton |
| He twirled me in midair and for the grand finale, slammed me on the floor like a wet mop. | Geronimo Stilton |
| "Way to stay in shape" | Geronimo Stilton |
| He has a lot of good qualities but when it comes to money, he's greedier that my great-uncle Stingy snout" | Geronimo Stilton |
| "What a cat-astrophe!" | Geronimo Stilton |
| "You're slower than a slug at a snail wedding!" | Geronimo Stilton |
| I was admiring the landscape when a herd of buffalo was crossing the road!" | Geronimo Stilton |
| "Yikes! That was a huge ouchie!" | Geronimo Stilton |
| Calcites hung from all sides. It was amazing! | Geronimo Stilton |
| And I was completely alone. My friends had disappeared!" | Geronimo Stilton |
| These should be left within Earth's heart. | Geronimo Stilton |
| Terrified I yelled"HEEEELP" | Geronimo Stilton |
| I was covered in mud, just like an earthworm! | Geronimo Stilton |
| I had a fever and a pretty bad cold! | Geronimo Stilton |
| Highest point in South Dakota 'is Harney Peak at 7,242 ft! | Geronimo Stilton |
| "Never turn your back on a mountain lion, and don't bend down." | Geronimo Stilton |
| I couldn't sleep that night. I tossed and turned, dreaming a hungry mountain lion was at my heels. It was terrifying!" | Geronimo Stilton |
| "It wouldn't be an adventure without a whiff of danger!" | Geronimo Stilton |
| She started chasing butterflies while I rummaged through my backpack….but she had disappeared! | Geronimo Stilton |
| I was puzzled until I realized my hysterics had frightened it away! | Geronimo Stilton |
| "Champ, on those rare occasions when you don't disappoint me you do me proud!" | Geronimo Stilton |
| He showed me an old key and an ancient parchment with this message on it: | Geronimo Stilton |
| We had been participating in a contest this whole time? | Geronimo Stilton |
| It was filled with gold coins! | Geronimo Stilton |
| "B-but …these are made of chocolate!" | Geronimo Stilton |
| The real prize is participating because the real treasure is nature!" | Geronimo Stilton |
| "He's such a jokester! | Geronimo Stilton |
| "I have one last surprise for you , Ger!" | Geronimo Stilton |
| "You're such a scaredy-rat! Can't you tell the mountain lion is fake?" | Geronimo Stilton |
| And thus dear reader, ends this tale. | Geronimo Stilton |
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