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ABOUT THE BOOK
NO SPOILERSSixth-grader Jake Liston has a problem: he faked his way into Music and Art Academy, a competitive performing arts school where his perfect older sister Lisa is basically a legend. He aced the audition by playing the one song he knows well and sneaking a peek at a classmate's math test, but now he has to survive a whole year surrounded by actual prodigies, including a kid who plays drums like he has eight arms and a new friend, Azure, who casually mentions she's written a symphony. Jake is funny, creative, and full of ideas, but he's convinced none of that counts as real talent, and the semester-end talent show is closing in fast.
Free Battle of the Books questions for Jake the Fake Keeps It Real
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 Jake the Fake Keeps It Real. 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 wear eyeliner shaped like a spiderweb across one cheek?
✓ Answer
Jake the Fake Keeps It Real by Craig Robinson and Adam Mansbach
Azure is the first kid Jake meets at the Music and Art Academy. He nearly mistakes her painted spiderweb for a tattoo, and she laughs about how her parents would kill her if it were.
- First half
In what book does a teacher quit violin at eleven for a hollowed-out termite log called a didgeridoo?
✓ Answer
Jake the Fake Keeps It Real by Craig Robinson and Adam Mansbach
Mr. Allen's biography is a parade of switched instruments. He played Carnegie Hall on violin at seven, then on didgeridoo at twelve, before moving on to the oud and beyond.
- First half
In what book does a student invent a Pulitzer-winning novel about a five-foot-eight man called a giant?
✓ Answer
Jake the Fake Keeps It Real by Craig Robinson and Adam Mansbach
Jake's fake book report describes a guy named Larry whom everyone insists is a record-breakingly short giant. The plot spirals into pirates, dolphins, and radioactive kangaroos in Australia.
- Second half
In what book does a kid sculpt cafeteria compost into sticky garbage eggs?
✓ Answer
Jake the Fake Keeps It Real by Craig Robinson and Adam Mansbach
Inspired during lunch by the school's compost bins, Jake asks the custodian for a full bin and starts kneading the gluey scraps like bread dough. The improvised art project ends up as just a pile of sticky egg-sized garbage balls.
- Second half
In what book is the homework to chew gum for six hours and write a play about it?
✓ Answer
Jake the Fake Keeps It Real by Craig Robinson and Adam Mansbach
Mr. Allen hands out one of his trademark weird assignments, with the strict warning never to use watermelon flavor. Jake suffers through grape gum for hours, and the experience inspires the play he turns in about evil aliens with poisoned gum.
- Near the end
In what book is a kid's final art project a fourteen by fourteen foot collage of pinecones and animal scat?
✓ Answer
Jake the Fake Keeps It Real by Craig Robinson and Adam Mansbach
Forrest casually tells Jake he is presenting a giant collage of pinecones and shellacked animal poop. Jake first thinks scat means a kind of jazz singing before Azure gently sets him straight.
