BoB 2023-24 Quiz - January

In which book was a woman not considered for a job opening because women supposedly have body temperatures that are too high for such an occupation?

• The Blackbird Girls

• This is How I Roll

• Marcu Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish

• Answers in the Pages

• Onyeka and the Academy of the Sun

In which book are Sundays a day to gather, sing songs, dance, and share experiences around a camp fire?

• Onyeka and the Academy of the Sun

• The Fort

• My Brigadista Year

• A Drowned Maiden's hair

• Muhammad Najem, War Reporter

In which book does a boy have a crush on a girl who wears "clothes that don't make sense- cardigans, shawls and Technicolor stuff not usually considered cool"?

• This is How I Roll

• The Blackbird Girls

• The Last Cuentista

• Nura and the Immortal Palace

• OCDaniel

In which book is a boy dead for 25 seconds?

• The Nest

• The Screaming Staircase

• Muhammad Najem, War Reporter

• The Fort

• The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents

In which book is a woman opposed to teaching a girl a language because, in addition to being against the rules, she says it's useless to her as an American?

• A Drowned Maiden's Hair

• My Brigadista Year

• The Last Cuentista

• Displacement

• Nura and the Immortal Palace

In which book is a girl frightened that she, like her family, might be purged?

• American Born Chinese

• The Genius Under the Table: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain

• Displacement

• The Last Cuentista

• Bone Talk

In which book must a girl read a famous children's novel as a way to prepare her for an acting role?

• The Nest

• A Drowned Maiden's Hair

• My Brigadista Year

• Charlie Thorn and the Last Equation

• Answers in the Pages

In which book is a boy thought of as the "miracle son"- his mother thought she couldn't have any more children?

• Muhammad Najem, War Reporter

• The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents

• The Nest

• The Fort

• OCDaniel

In which book do we learn that there are all sorts of plagues: plagues of accordion players, bricks tied up with strings, even plagues of fish?

• American Born Chinese

• Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish

• The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents

• The Screaming Staircase

• Bone Talk

In which book is a girl unable to stop worrying about her mother who's gone to look for her missing father?

• Onyeka and the Academy of the Sun

• Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish

• The Blackbird Girls

• My Brigadista Year

• Displacement