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1. Pete has to give up his room and move upstairs so that Grandpa won't have to climb as many stairs. Why does Grandpa have trouble with stairs?

From Quiz Pete's War with Grandpa

Answer: He has a bad leg.

His leg broke in a construction accident and didn't heal properly. He lived with Grandma in Florida until she died, which is why he's moving in with Pete's family. Pete has to move up a floor and give Grandpa his room, which Pete is very angry about.

From Quiz Cats Are Evil

Answer: She dives into an oil slick

Kengah and the flock of the Red Sand Lighthouse are on their way to the Bay of Biscay for the Convention of the Baltic and North Seas and the Atlantic Ocean, where they meet with other flocks of seagulls from as far as the Canary islands and Cape Verde. Diving for herrings in the Hamburg port, Kengah does not hear the distress call and gets caught in the oil spill.

From Quiz The Bronze Bow

Answer: Ketzah

Daniel and Leah were raised in Ketzah by their grandmother after the death of their parents. Daniel returned to Ketzah, from the mountain, early in the book. He was reeunited with his grandmother and sister after three years of separation.

From Quiz Where the Wild Things Are

Answer: a wolf suit

In the story, Max is wearing a white wolf suit with claws, ears, a tail and all. He pretends to be a wild monster. This later helps him convince the wild things that he is tough.

From Quiz Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians

Answer: The Breaking Talent

Grandpa Smedary arrives late, Sing trips, and no one in these books does anything as silly as playing the oboe! Also called the Dark Talent, only Alcatraz and Alcatraz the First have had this Talent. In some ways all the Talents are related to the Breaking Talent. Only Smedrys have Talents, and they have Talents whether or not they are a Smedry by marriage or by blood.

From Quiz Mr Gum and the Biscuit Billionaire

Answer: England's Most Revolting Butcher

The award reads as follows: "Awarded to Billy William for the twentieth year running, in fact just keep the trophy forever - you always win, there's no point having the competition, you really are disgusting."

From Quiz Mr Gum - Book 1 - "You're a Bad Man Mr Gum"

Answer: Bag of Sticks

"Bag of Sticks" is a picture of a bag of sticks and lasts for half an hour. It is Mr Gum's favourite show. Apparently he is the only person in the country who watches it.

From Quiz Donald J. Sobol's "Encyclopedia Brown"

Answer: Leroy

Encyclopedia's "real" name is Leroy. His school teachers call him that, too.

From Quiz Sylvester and the Magic Pebble

Answer: Flaming red and shiny

During vacation, Sylvester found a fantastic flaming red, shiny, and strangely round pebble. It resembled a marble.

From Quiz Shapeshifter, Running the Risk

Answer: A migraine

Mia's COLA (Children Of Limitless Abilities) gift is Healing. When she heals somebody though, she take their pain unto herself.

From Quiz "Leven Thumps" by Obert Skye

Answer: Ernest

Clover tells Leven this. He is a friend of Leven.

From Quiz Kiss Me Tomorrow

Answer: Alyssa Reed

Blister changed her name from Alyssa to Blister when she moved from the country to Connecticut. She refers to it as 'the kind you get on your foot'.

From Quiz Encyclopedia Brown

Answer: Leroy

Most opening chapters feature the same information about the characters. Only his parents and teachers call him by his real name. The nickname comes from all the books he's read. Apparently he has a photographic memory too. The first book appeared in 1963, nearly ten years before Jim Croce's "Bad Bad Leroy Brown" song. In recent years this name has become more associated with African American men. Arsenio Hall claimed that his first name actually meant Leroy. Encyclopedia Brown appears to be Caucasian. Judging from the names and illustrations in the books, he has many friends of various ethnic backgrounds.

From Quiz The Life of Varjak Paw

Answer: Mesopotamian Blue

Varjak's family claims that they are the noblest breed of cat. Later, Varjak wonders if they truly are...

From Quiz People and Places from Across the Gap

Answer: a soft blend of lavender, violet, and shadowy grays with a silver horn, mane, and tail

Atalanta is the Dreamspeaker. She is the link between unicorns and the world of humans. She has the ability to appear in human and animal dreams.

From Quiz Krazy Kow the Klever Quiz

Answer: Jamie Frink

Jamie Frink is thinking of writing a play with the leading character 'Krazy Kow' to enter a competition. He has a big brother called Matt, who likes football and is good at it, and a big sister called Gemma, who wears heavy makeup and black clothes all the time. Matt and Dad love playing football but unfortunately, James doesn't.

From Quiz Exploding (Literally) Quiz

Answer: BURN, BABY, BURN

Lancelot is Gran's husband and he is a Hell's Angel and has a cool motorbike even though he's sixty-five years old. He's also a whizz at the stove.

From Quiz Dragonology

Answer: 1904

This library card belongs to a Dr. Ernest Drake, who lives in good old London, England. The book was written as though it is the late 1800's, when it really came out in 2003. However, it is based on a book that was written in 1895 that was recently found in a book store in London.

From Quiz "Wren to the Rescue"

Answer: a princess

When Tess (also known as Princess Teressa) first tells Wren that she is a princess, Wren thinks she's playing a game.

From Quiz Richard Scarry's Busy, Busy World

Answer: bear

Schtoompah is an Austrian bear that plays the tuba.

From Quiz "The Eagle of the Ninth" - Rosemary Sutcliff

Answer: Gaul

Marcus himself thinks of his home as being amongst the Etruscan hills but his men are from Gaul(modern-day France).He is a cohort commander, one of the middle ranks in the Roman army.

From Quiz The "Lone Pine" stories of Malcolm Saville

Answer: Where's My Girl?

Thankfully Tom's loss of memory is only temporary but it does cause him problems throughout the book. Poor Jenny is the girl in question that he is asking for.

From Quiz The Stinky Cheese Man

Answer: The Little Red Hen

The Little Red Hen is the first to show up in the book. She is complaining about where the dog, cat, and mouse are and who will help her tell her story.

From Quiz The Sign of the Beaver

Answer: Maine

Matt and his family were moving from a town in Massachusetts to the Maine wilderness.

From Quiz "Unicorns of Balinor" by Mary Stanton

Answer: Lincoln

Lincoln the dog is actually a toad named Gully, the "Link" between the worlds of Balinor and Earth. He can also take people to many other worlds through the Gap, but he leaves to bring Sunchaser's jewel to Arianna. Atalanta, the Dreamspeaker of the Celestial Unicorns, turns him into a dog so he won't have to leave Arianna.

From Quiz 'The Cricket in Times Square' Quiz

Answer: Connecticut

He travels to New York when he falls asleep in a New Yorker family's picnic basket. They take the subway to NYC.

From Quiz Where The Wild Things Are

Answer: Max

From Quiz "Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians"

Answer: He is about to be sacrificed

The book opens with the following situation: "So there I was, tied to an altar made from outdated encyclopedias, about to get sacrificed to the dark powers by a cult of evil Librarians." And, of course, he then goes on to talk about how a situation like that makes a person pause and reflect on his life, which then leads to introductory information about his life and background. At the beginning of the second chapter, he brings it up again to explain the idea of a literary hook to the reader, and to also explain that as a writer, he is not a nice person.

From Quiz Pete's War with Grandpa

Answer: The Secret Warrior

Pete decides that war is the only way to get his room back, and Steve gives him the idea about remaining hidden, striking quickly, retreating, and using a different name. Steve, who has a big vocabulary, messes up and calls a war of secret fighting and hiding "gorilla warfare", when the actual term is "guerilla warfare".

From Quiz Cats Are Evil

Answer: To teach it to fly

Oil-covered Kengah lands on Zorba's, the big, fat, black cat's balcony where she lays her egg and asks Zorba for the three promises. Kind, caring Zorba tries to lick the oil to help Kengah but realizes that Kengah's end is near and agrees to her wishes.

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