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| In the book by this title, the setting is Olena, 300 miles south of Chicago. |
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| Cicada Summer (p. 1 & 42) |
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| In the book by this title, a character (Lily) is in Mrs. Kirk's 6th grade classroom. |
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| In the book by this title, one flew into a gradma's beehive hairdo and they had to lop off half her hair with the sheep shears. |
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| In the book by this title, "never looking into anybody's eyes" makes a character invisible. |
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| In the book by this title, the spelling test given is all adjectives. |
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| In the book by this title, book thieves are the lowest form of criminal. |
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| In the book by this title, two old cars are kept covered in a barn. |
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| In the book by this title, the best kind of clue is the kind you can't see right in front of your eyes. |
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| In the book by this title, the zinnias are tough and always bloom for her dad. |
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| In the book by this title, a character is called a "Poor Motherless Child". |
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| In the book by this title, the population of this town said 200, but there were really never more than 117. |
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| In the book by this title, one end of the town is the First Baptist Church and the other end is the General Store. |
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| In the book by this title, a black haired girl appears in the cottonwood tree. |
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| In the book by this title, a girl has a scar the size of a quarter, white and puffy, like it hasn't healed up yet. |
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| In the book by this author, a character would copy his dad's hand motion and press his foot into the floorboard to teach himself to drive. |
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| In the book by this author, a character investigates by eavesdropping and writing a list of things learned. |
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| In the book by this author, on Saturday mornings the farm women come to town to shop and talk. |
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| In the book by this author, every afternoon the old men come to town to wait for the evening paper and tell the town's secrets. |
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| In the book by this author, sometimes the women's voices swirl around in the air and bubble up and splash like water on rocks. |
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| In the book by this author, Zero and Zagnut candy bars, jawbreakers, and tootsie pops are candies at the general store. |
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| In the book by this author, six o'clock Friday is time for the Old Lady Party. |
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| In the book by this author, after a tornado had touched down by Camel's Corner, they didn't have to eat Lottie's surprise salad anymore. |
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| In the book by this author, a character is half sobbing when she discovers only 2 packs of Teaberry gum instead of 3. |
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| In the book by this author, a stranger comes to town dressed in a County Water District shirt. |
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| In the book by this author, the wrong person is accused of stealing. |
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| In the book by this author, a character reads Nancy Drew. |
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| Andrea Beaty (p. 8, 80, 92) |
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| In the book by this author, what a character wants most is to drive Mr. Fern's sedan. |
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| Andrea Beaty (p. 100-101) |
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| In the book by this author, the cause of death was carbon monoxide poisoning. |
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| In the book by this author, a letter was left in a post office box. |
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| In the book by this author, there are black and blue marks where he tried to choke her. The scarf covers the bruises. |
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| Andrea Beaty (p. 146-147) |
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| In the book by this title, a character carefully studies wanted posters. |
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| In the book by this title, the main character is good at spying and keeping secrets. |
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| In the book by this title, the main character had a brother who loved to drive a sedan. |
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| In the book by this title, the main character's silence makes her invisible. |
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| In the book by this author, the main character and her brother would race in the cornfields to get to the neighbor's barn. |
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| In the book by this author, a man wears a strange silver ring with a crescent moon cut from the band. |
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| In the book by this title, the canned food aisle is the best place to stand and hear everything. |
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| In the book by this title, stolen money is hidden in P.O. Box 309. |
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| In the book by this title, a child dies from carbon monoxide poisoning. |
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| In the book by this author, an apple cake is really made with radishes. |
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| In the book by this author, children sneak out at midnight to sail pirate ships on Johnson's pond. |
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| In the book by this author, oreo cookies are called orioles. |
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| In the book by this title, a character puts gum in her pockets to make her clothes smell nice. |
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| In the book by this title, one of the characters took a bus to Walnut Grove and hitchhiked the rest of the way to Olena. |
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| In the book by this title, 4 cans of tamales, 8 bottles of orange crush, a package of toilet paper, bug spray and one copy of each magazine that came out in may are missing. |
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| In the book by this author, a silver dollar and sometimes brownies were given to the children delivering the groceries. |
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| In the book by this title a girl tells her father it was her fault her brother died because she shut the barn door. |
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