"Save Me a Seat"

What did Mrs. Beam tell Ravi on the first day of school?

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

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

• He should place his "fragrant" lunchbox in her little refrigerator.

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

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

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

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

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

• avoid telling Miss Frost all about his homesickness at summer camp

What did Dillon do after he tripped Ravi?

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

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

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

• He collected a dollar from Jax, who'd hared him to do it.

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

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

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

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

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

In gym class, Joe tried to warn Ravi about a ----

• fastball that was pitched at Ravi's head

• slippery spot on the cross-country trail

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

• loose board in the gymnasium basketball court

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

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

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

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

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

The "person reflection" assignment prompted Amma and Perimma to ---

• arrange for Ravi to call his best friend in Bangalore

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

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

• create a glittery poster of Ravi's accomplishments

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

• He found a dollar coin on the playground.

• Mrs. Beam entered him in a district math contest.

• Amma gave him money to buy pizza for lunch.

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

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 the batteries from Dillon's plastic yellow star.

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

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

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

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

• photographing Dillon stealing things

• baking Dillon a cupcake made with salt instead of sugar

• loosening the lid on Ravi's jar