2022 Language Arts District

What 2021 Newbery Medal winner by Tae Keller tells the story of 12-year-old Lily, who learns family secret from a magical creature?

• Island of the Blue Dolphins

• The White Stag

• The One and Only Ivan

• When You Trap a Tiger

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In the Newbery Medal-winning Moon over Manifest, Abilene Tucker's father sends her to live in Manifest, Kansas, while he goes to work on the railroad. Which of the following wrote Moon over Manifest?

• Clare Vanderpool

• Lynne Rae Perkins

• Jack Gantos

• Matt de la Pena

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Kadir Nelson won the 2020 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award for his work on the book that also won the 2020 Caldecott Medal. Which book below, written by Kwame Alexander, is a poem celebrating black life in the US?

• The Crossover

• The Undefeated

• Light For The World To See: A Thousand Words on Race and Hope

• We Rise, We Resist, We Raise Our Voices

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Wolf in the Snow is a book that uses pictures to tell the story of a girl and a wolf caught in a snowstorm. Which of the following wrote and illustrated this 2018 Caldecott Medal winner?

• Matthew Cordell

• Sophie Blackall

• Brian Selznick

• Carole Lindstrom

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Which poet wrote the poem that goes "Behold the duck. / It does not cluck. / A cluck it lacks. / It quacks. / It is specially fond / Of a puddle or a pond. / When it dines or sups, / It bottoms ups."?

• Emily Dickinson

• James Thurber

• Ogden Nash

• Nikki Giovanni

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The poem inscribed on the based of the Statue of Liberty was written by Emma Lazarus in 1883. What is the title of that poem?

• Echoes

• The New Colossus

• Long Island Sound

• The New Year

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Roald Dahl's novel Matilda tells the story of a precocious young girl who can move things with her mind alone. Which of the following was the evil headmistress at Matilda's school, Crunchem Hall Primary School?

• Mrs. Cook

• Miss Honey

• Miss Trunchbull

• Mrs. Wormwood

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After her first children's book, And Both Were Young, was published, one writer began a series about the Austin family. Which writer below then introduced Meg Murry, Charles Wallace Murry, and Calvin O'Keefe in A Wrinkle in Time?

• Madeleine L'Engle

• Eve Bunting

• Emily Arnold McCully

• Susan Patron

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J. K. Rowling's series of books about Harry Potter and the wizarding world are considered to belong to which of the following literary genres?

• thriller

• horror

• fantasy

• legend

Which tall-tale character below inststed on riding Pecos Bill's horse, Widow Maker, was bounced off, and then kept bouncing higher and higher until she hit the moon?

• Sally Cato

• Star Maiden

• Sweet Betsy from Pike

• Slue-foot Sue