BOTB 2023-2024 Flashcards
In which book are there tiny hand-stitched books, meticulously inked with tiny brushes, delivered to all the people in town at night?
The Ogress and the Orphans by Kelly Barnhill
In which book does an old woman remember receiving the precious gift of a wind up butterfly with cut glass eyes that sparkled in any light and wings made from thread that glittered in the dark?
The Ogress and the Orphans by Kelly Barnhill
In which book is a town famous for its abundance of trees - shade trees in parks, blossoming trees in walkways and fruit trees lining the streets?
The Ogress and the Orphans by Kelly Barnhill
In which book do a group of townspeople host a picnic “from neighbors, for neighbors” where all are welcome?
The Ogress and the Orphans by Kelly Barnhill
In which book does a character dig a burrow in the ground to lie in during the day and then come out each night?
The Ogress and the Orphans by Kelly Barnhill
In which book does a dragon put on the skin of an antelope and then become the antelope, eating as the antelope eat and speaking as the antelope speak?
The Ogress and the Orphans by Kelly Barnhill
In which book does a boy, charged with teaching a group of children math, instead tell a story about a stone who fell in love with an oak tree?
The Ogress and the Orphans by Kelly Barnhill
In which book does a group of children spy through the window of a house with no grass or plants, only a yard of carefully raked rocks with several statues?
The Ogress and the Orphans by Kelly Barnhill
In which book does an extensive traveler make herself useful as a builder and maker of ingenious contraptions?
The Ogress and the Orphans by Kelly Barnhill
In which book does a woman cherish a little card she recieves with a small painting of a dog sitting at attention with a crow on his head?
The Ogress and the Orphans by Kelly Barnhill
In which book does a local secondhand dealer deliver an old but still serviceable icebox and leave with a jar of jam, bottle of elderflower syrup and a bar of soap?
The Ogress and the Orphans by Kelly Barnhill
In which book does a girl give a coughing man lozenges she has made from boiling herbs and raspberry seeds in honey until they’d hardened into little nuggets?
The Ogress and the Orphans by Kelly Barnhill
In which book does a character return from a long journey only to discover that in her absence the entire village has been burned to the ground and abandoned?
The Ogress and the Orphans by Kelly Barnhill
In which book does the constable of a town operate out of her own house, with her barn in the back converted into a stockade for people to spend a night or two cooling off and a tent in the front yard for all the office functions?
The Ogress and the Orphans by Kelly Barnhill
In which book does a cobbler use his “marvelous hat” to collect money from a crowd of people gathered in the town square?
The Ogress and the Orphans by Kelly Barnhill
In which book does a butcher help rescue 4 infant lambs and their mothers from a burning barn after having started the fire himself?
The Ogress and the Orphans by Kelly Barnhill
In which book does a mayor, pained by so much disagreement in his community, have his carpenters build a heavy wooden box to fit over a stone with ancient writing?
The Ogress and the Orphans by Kelly Barnhill
In which book does a “clodwer” of cats stalk around the edge of a yard, keeping their gaze pinned on the front door of the house and their ears tilted forward?
The Ogress and the Orphans by Kelly Barnhill
In which book does a butcher replace a section of missing stones in front of his shop, spending all morning hauling, shaping and replacing the rocks?
The Ogress and the Orphans by Kelly Barnhill
In which book does a boy have starkly different colored eyes giving him the advantage of being able to see things in two separate ways - one eye colored hazel with flecks of green and gold and the other pale like the color of skimmed milk?
The Ogress and the Orphans by Kelly Barnhill
In which book does a boy insist that he once found a book in the Reading Room that released real smoke from the library fire when he opened it?
The Ogress and the Orphans by Kelly Barnhill
“The punishment for my crime, for answering in my own Twi instead of talking in the stale, foreign language that Mr. Goodluck Phillip makes us speak in school…”
The Door of No Return by Kwame Alexander
“My cousin does not walk around, he marches, thinks he is a soldier, is stronger and taller than me by two coconuts, which I see him nearly split open with his hard head, then offer to whichever girl he is fond of all the time”
The Door of No Return by Kwame Alexander
“I hear My brother hollering at us from the riverbank like an angry hyena for me to get out of the water NOW!”
The Door of No Return by Kwame Alexander
