BoB 2023-2024 Practice Questions #3

In which book does a permission sheet cause a scene of panic and distress in a family home?

• OCDaniel
• My Brigadista Year
• Muhammad Najem, War Reporter
• The Last Cuentista

In which book is a girl's payment for a day's work at her job amount to the cost of about five pencils?

• The Black Bird Girls
• Onyeka and the Academy of the Sun
• A Drowned Maiden's Hair
• Nura and the Immortal Palace

In which book is a neighbour considered a noisy informer?

• The Nest
• The Fort
• The Genius Under the Table: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain
• Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish

In which book is a clue considered 'elementary' as in literally based on the periodic table?

• This is How I Roll
• Charlie Thorne: Last Equation
• The Genius Under the Table: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain
• The Screaming Staircase

In which book does a boy suffer from "triskaidekaphobia" which is the fear of the number 13?

• OCDaniel
• The Fort
• American Born Chinese
• Charlie Throne: the Last Equation

In which book does a girl delight in playing in the ocean so much that she feels she could spend the rest of her life doing this and never get tired of it?

• A Drowned Maiden's Hair
• Displacement
• Onyeka and the Academy of the Sun
• Nura and the Immortal Palace

In which book does a mother read her horoscope every day, but doesn't seem to take it too seriously?

• The Last Cuentista
• The Fort
• Bone Talk
• The Nest

In which book do guests run around throwing fireballs at each other?

• Muhammad Najem, War Reporter
• Answers in the Pages
• Nura and the Immortal Palace
• The Nest

In which book does a boy sneak away from class in order to pray?

• American Born Chinese
• Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish
• Onyeka and the Academy of the Sun
• The Fort

In which book do the village ancients say they can't wait to die and join the spirit world - no more aches and pains, no more wrinkles and no mashed rice?

• Bone Talk
• The Last Cuentista
• The Fort
• The Nest