2021 LA District

Time travel figures prominently in which of the following Newbery-winning novels, written by Rebecca Stead?

• Walk Two Moons

• Dead End in Norvelt

• When You Reach Me

• The View from Saturday

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CCSS.L.1.1J

CCSS.L.2.1F

CCSS.L.8.1C

CCSS.L.K.1D

Below are four Newbery winners. In which novel does the title character deal with her grandfather's Alzheimer's and her own status as a scholarship student at a private school?

• The Higher Power of Lucky

• The Girl Who Drank the Moon

• Shiloh

• Merci Saurez Changes Gears

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CCSS.L.2.2C

Who created the Caldecott-winning illustration seen here from the book *Locomotive*?

• Brian Floca

• David Wiesner

• Jon Klassen

• Sophie Blackall

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CCSS.L.1.1J

CCSS.L.2.1F

CCSS.L.8.1C

CCSS.L.K.1D

In a Caldecott-winning picture book, Lindsay Mattick tells of the real-life inspiration for which of the following characters?

• Mickey Mouse

• Bugs Bunny

• Winnie the Pooh

• Big Bird

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CCSS.L.1.1B

CCSS.L.3.1A

CCSS.L.K.1B

What kind of poem is pictured here?

Cuddly

Acrobatic

Tenacious

Softly Purring

• concrete

• acrostic

• haiku

• limerick

Which of the following poets imagined a scene from American history in "Paul Revere's Ride"?

• Walt Whitman

• Edgar Allan Poe

• Emily Dickinson

• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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CCSS.L.2.2C

Which character below was a Roald Dahl creation?

• Junior Brown

• Calvin O'Keefe

• M. C. Higgins

• Violet Beauregarde

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CCSS.L.1.1B

CCSS.L.2.2C

CCSS.L.3.2D

Which one of the following authors earned a Newbery Honor for A Ring of Endless Light, but won the actual Newbery Medal for A Wrinkle in Time?

• Judy Blume

• Madeleine L'Engle

• Virginia Hamilton

• Lois Lowry

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CCSS.L.2.2C

Which character below is NOT one of the March sisters from Louisa May Alcott's novel Little Women?

• Beth

• Jo

• Amy

• Daisy

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CCSS.L.1.1B

CCSS.L.2.2C

CCSS.L.3.2D

Match each literary device with its example.

X. onomatopoeia 1. The Crocodile's Teeth are white knives.

Y. Personification 2. The world has turned its back on me.

Z. Metaphor 3. The taxi screeched to a halt.

• x-3, y-2, z-1

• x-2, y-1, z-3

• x-1, y-3, z-2

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CCSS.L.3.1G