Save Me a Seat

What does Mrs. Bean tell Ravi on the first day of school?

• He should put his "fragrant" lunch in her little refrigerator.

• He shouldn't have covered his math notebook in brown paper.

• A teacher's aid would have to assess his computer literacy.

• A teacher in the resource room would help him with his English.

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Joe and his mother had to have a "big talk" so that she would

• pick him up at the curb the minute school let out for the day.

• avoid telling Mrs. Frost all about his homesickness at summer camp.

• pretend she didn't know him as she worked as a lunch monitor.

• pack him a large-enough lunch so that he could share with others.

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What did Dillon do after he tripped Ravi?

• He collected a dollar from Jax, who had dared him to do it.

• He slipped a mushy tomato into Ravi's desk.

• He swiped another one of Ravi's mechanical pencils.

• He sneaked a look at Ravi's answers on a quiz.

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What did Ravi realize during his first time in the resource room?

• As Mrs. Beam suspected, he was far behind in computer skills.

• Miss Frost was engaged to marry a young man from India.

• Its colorfully painted walls were just like the ones in Vidya Mandir.

• Mrs. Beam had been correct about the meaning of assimilate.

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In gym class, Joe tried to warn Ravi about a

• slippery spot on the cross-country trail.

• loose board in the gymnasium's basketball court,

• fastball that was pitched at Ravi's head.

• bully who superglued Ravi's shower shoes to the floor.

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What happened when Celena was packing up Ravi's stuff?

• Dillon put slices of pepperoni into Ravi's pencil box.

• The curd rice that ha been in Ravi's tiffin box spilled over her shoes.

• A crumpled up cartoon about Joe ended up in Ravi's backpack.

• A chair leg settled on Ravi's six-inch ruler, breaking it.

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The "personal reflection" assignment prompted Amma and Perimma to

• prepare an Indian-syle banquet for Ravi's entire class.

• arrange for Ravi to call his best friend in Bangalore.

• prepare the family's pet cat for a trip to school.

• create a glittery poster of Ravi's accomplishments.

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What made Ravi "feel like the luckiest boy in the world."

• Amma promised him a new mountain bike for his birthday.

• Amma gave him money to buy pizza for lunch.

• Mrs. Beam entered him a district math contest.

• He found a dollar coin on the playground.

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What did Ravi do while everyone crowded around his desk to look at leeches?

• He set one of Amma's naan khatais on every desk.

• He removed batteries from Dillon's plastic yellow star.

• He prepared to show how Mr. Das used a neem twig.

• He placed a candy in the glass dish on Joe's desk.

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After Emily Mooney vomited, Joe got a great idea that involved

• leaving poor Emily a note from a "secret admirer"

• baking Dillon a cupcake made with salt instead of sugar

• loosening the lid on Ravi's jar

• photographing Dillon stealing things

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