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ABOUT THE BOOK
NO SPOILERSEleven-year-old Genie Harris is a Brooklyn kid who fills a small notebook with questions about everything, from honey badgers to glaucoma to why the sport of football isn't called tackleball. When his parents need time alone to work through their crumbling marriage, Genie and his older brother Ernie are sent to spend the summer with their grandparents in rural North Hill, Virginia, a place neither boy has really spent time before. The trip is full of surprises: country life with no Wi-Fi, a neighbor girl named Tess who makes jewelry from beer caps and fishhooks, and most startling of all, a grandfather named Brooke who has been blind for twenty years and keeps a loaded pistol tucked in the back of his pants.
Free Battle of the Books questions for As Brave As You
SPOILERSEvery one of these has the same answer, and that is the point. In a real battle the question is read aloud with a dozen other books in play, and students have a few seconds to place it. Here is what a battle might ask about As Brave As You. Use them as a quiz, a trivia round, or BOTB practice.
Where in the book they come from
- Early in the book
In what book does a girl hammer beer bottle caps flat and turn them into earrings to sell?
✓ Answer
As Brave As You by Jason Reynolds
Tess lives at the bottom of the hill and makes jewelry out of mashed bottle caps and clipped fishhooks. She sells the earrings at the local flea market, and Ernie falls for her almost immediately.
- First half
In what book does a kid sit in a soundproof room with a glass ceiling and five birdcages?
✓ Answer
As Brave As You by Jason Reynolds
Grandpop's secret room has a glass ceiling, fake green grass on the floor, and five birdcages arranged in a half circle. He calls it his outside since he can't safely walk into the real yard anymore.
- First half
In what book does a grandmother sell peas at a flea market by shouting, "Sweeeeeeet pea"?
✓ Answer
As Brave As You by Jason Reynolds
At the country flea market, Grandma belts out a sweet pea call to draw customers and pulls in a crowd. She makes Genie shout it too, then later tapes a sign to the table that reads sorry, pea-ple, we're sold out.
- Second half
In what book do windows of an old house look painted over but the white stuff is really bird droppings?
✓ Answer
As Brave As You by Jason Reynolds
When the boys explore the abandoned yellow house in the woods, they realize the white coating on the windows isn't paint at all. It's a sickening reveal that matches the stink and the hundreds of birds nesting inside.
- Second half
In what book does a boy spit out three of his own teeth "like pumpkin seeds"?
✓ Answer
As Brave As You by Jason Reynolds
After the revolver's recoil smacks Ernie in the mouth, he heaves on one knee and spits out three tiny rocks. They turn out to be his front teeth. Crab gathers them and stores them in a beer bottle for the trip to the hospital.
- Near the end
In what book do a boy and his grandma play M.A.S.H. to randomly decide his future life?
✓ Answer
As Brave As You by Jason Reynolds
Genie's mom taught him M.A.S.H., a game that randomly decides your future. Genie plays it with Grandma during the awkward days after the shooting accident. His best result is being Detective Little Wood in a mansion with Shelly and a 1971 Mustang.
