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ABOUT THE BOOK
NO SPOILERSTwelve-year-old Ivy Aberdeen feels invisible in her own family. Ever since her baby twin brothers were born, her mother barely has time for her, and even her older sister, Layla, feels like a stranger lately. At night, Ivy pours her real feelings into a secret notebook full of drawings, including pictures of two girls holding hands inside a treehouse, something she has never shown anyone. Then a tornado flattens the Aberdeens' farmhouse in rural Georgia, and after a night at a crowded emergency shelter, the notebook goes missing. The family ends up crammed into one room at a bed-and-breakfast called the Calliope Inn while Ivy tries to piece her life back together with borrowed clothes and a new notebook. Then, as soon as she is back at school, pages from it start appearing in her locker one at a time, left by someone who won't say who they are. While Ivy tries to figure out who has her drawings, she grows close to June Somerset, a funny, talkative classmate with a treehouse of her own, and starts to wonder if the fluttery feeling she gets around June is a crush.
Free Battle of the Books questions for Ivy Aberdeen's Letter to the World
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 Ivy Aberdeen's Letter to the World. 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 notebook get stuffed into a pillowcase seconds before an attic window explodes?
✓ Answer
Ivy Aberdeen's Letter to the World by Ashley Herring Blake
When Dad rushes in to say a tornado is nearby, Ivy shoves her secret notebook into her pillowcase and hugs it to her chest. Just as they reach the attic stairs, her window explodes and sprays glass all over her bed.
- First half
In what book does a monkey face with puffed cheeks and pulled ears stop a baby's whining?
✓ Answer
Ivy Aberdeen's Letter to the World by Ashley Herring Blake
While changing Aaron's diaper in the family's crowded room at the Calliope Inn, Ivy makes her monkey face and he giggles right away. His gummy grin makes her feel guilty for wishing him away a few minutes earlier.
- First half
In what book does a drawn treehouse stand in an orchard of glass-orb apples lit by fireflies?
✓ Answer
Ivy Aberdeen's Letter to the World by Ashley Herring Blake
This is the drawing Ivy finds propped in her locker, torn from the notebook she lost at the gym. The glowing apples are lit emerald, amethyst, and sapphire by the fireflies living inside them.
- Second half
In what book does a girl tail a boy in a purple cast, ducking behind a giant brick mailbox?
✓ Answer
Ivy Aberdeen's Letter to the World by Ashley Herring Blake
Ivy wonders if Drew is the one returning her drawings, since he was in the gym that day and asked to see her art. After school she follows him, writes "Drew Dunaway, Suspect #2" in her yellow notebook, and hides behind bushes and a skinny birch tree.
- Second half
In what book does a crowing rooster alarm clock get called a "devil disguised as a clock"?
✓ Answer
Ivy Aberdeen's Letter to the World by Ashley Herring Blake
Taryn's alarm clock cock-a-doodle-doos on Friday morning, and Ivy wants to smash it against the wall. Taryn explains that she never hears normal alarms, so her mom bought her this one.
- Near the end
In what book does a doctor's daughter wear a lacy dress "the color of winter sunshine"?
✓ Answer
Ivy Aberdeen's Letter to the World by Ashley Herring Blake
Ivy arrives at the Spring Dance with Taryn and finds June by the snack table in a flowing pale yellow dress. It's the first dance for both girls, and June greets Ivy with a birthday hug.
