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ABOUT THE BOOK
NO SPOILERSPlum has spent her whole life on a tiny farm island, growing chai-melons and snake beans and talking to the worms in her garden, so she is stunned when her grandfather secretly applies for her to attend the Guardian Academy on Lotus Island without asking her first. Guardians are protectors who can transform into powerful creatures like hywolves and glister mares, and Plum cannot picture herself as one of them. Still, she boards the boat north, meets a lively new friend named Cherry, and discovers that her fellow Trainees, including Sam Ubon, whose family owns half of Nakhon Island, and a girl named Rella who never misses a chance to put her down, already seem sure of who they are meant to become. Plum has only one month to learn the arts of Heart, Hand, and Breath before the first test decides whether she stays at the Academy or goes home for good, and as the full moon draws closer, she is the only Trainee who has not shown even a flicker of her Guardian form.
Free Battle of the Books questions for The Guardian Test (Legends of Lotus Island)
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 The Guardian Test (Legends of Lotus Island). 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 is a girl raised by her grandparents after a storm capsized her parents' boat?
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The Guardian Test (Legends of Lotus Island) by Christina Soontornvat
Plum was still a baby when her parents drowned at sea, so Grandma and Grandpa raised her on Little Island. Her mother came from the big city of Nakhon and stayed a mystery, which is why the shell pendant means so much to Plum.
- First half
In what book does a great beast have a lion's head, bird wings, and a fish tail?
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The Guardian Test (Legends of Lotus Island) by Christina Soontornvat
Hetty tells the other girls the old story painted on the faded mural inside the ruined temple. The Great Beast carried the animals and a few sworn humans away from the Old Home, and when he finally lay down in the sea, the humps of his back became the Santipap Islands.
- First half
In what book does a girl chew up leaves and stick the green mush on a boy's ant bite?
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The Guardian Test (Legends of Lotus Island) by Christina Soontornvat
Salan gets bitten while he and Plum are racing to collect herbs, so Plum finds itchbane, chews it into a pulp, and presses it onto his hand. The sting stops instantly, though Salan asks that next time he be allowed to chew his own.
- Second half
In what book can certain flower seeds dry out for a thousand years and still sprout?
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The Guardian Test (Legends of Lotus Island) by Christina Soontornvat
Master Sunback says this while cupping a pale blossom in one of the ponds she babies. She is talking about the flowers, but she is also telling Plum that something delicate can be far tougher than it looks.
- Second half
In what book does a hand catch a falling girl's wrist above the moonlit waves?
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The Guardian Test (Legends of Lotus Island) by Christina Soontornvat
The rocks crumble under Plum the second she scoops up Mip, and the two of them start dropping toward the ocean. Sam grabs her wrist in time, and Plum finally learns who has been running around at night as a wolfhund.
- Near the end
In what book does a girl become a butter colored bear and shout, "I'm a gillybear!"?
✓ Answer
The Guardian Test (Legends of Lotus Island) by Christina Soontornvat
Cherry draws her arm back like an archer and then grows and grows into a bear even bigger than Mikko's field sloth form. She is so delighted with her webbed clawed paws that all her friends jump up cheering.
