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ABOUT THE BOOK
NO SPOILERSThirteen-year-old Lunar Jones looks after the twelve other kids at the Martian Relocation Clinic in Harvest, a dying city on a Mars where storms and wild creatures have attacked humans ever since people killed Ares, the planet's King-Dragon. Lunar keeps the clinic kids fed by scrapping the wastes after big storms. When a monster storm uncovers a buried mech suit, a rival crew ambushes him, and he ends up at the bottom of a cliff. Carrying his injured stand-in spotter, Little Will, Lunar flees into the forbidden militarized zone and climbs down a storm drain into a secret bunker, where an underground forest hides a dragon named Dread who speaks inside his head. General Poppy has spent years training a crew of kids so Dread could choose one of them as his dragoon, the captain of his crew, but Dread chooses Lunar. Now a scrapper who left school at nine has to lead soldiers who have trained for this for years, and not all of them are happy about it.
Free Battle of the Books questions for The Last Dragon on Mars (Dragonships)
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 Last Dragon on Mars (Dragonships). 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 bike digitize out of a microchip at a humming community generator?
✓ Answer
The Last Dragon on Mars (Dragonships) by Scott Reintgen
Lunar slides a coded microchip into the city's community generator, and his favorite road bike digitizes in front of him. In Harvest, coded goods only stay real as long as you stay in range of the city's generators.
- First half
In what book does a winged creature ask, "Tell me everything you know about love"?
✓ Answer
The Last Dragon on Mars (Dragonships) by Scott Reintgen
After another lost simulation, Lunar heads to Dread's habitat, where Dread sets his chin on the moss and asks this after overhearing someone say they were falling in love. Lunar calls their talks the highlight of his days.
- First half
In what book does a girl uncover a buried treasure chest packed with blankets at her stargazing spot?
✓ Answer
The Last Dragon on Mars (Dragonships) by Scott Reintgen
Proctor leads the group to the spot where she has been sneaking out to look at the sky since she was six. She dusts off a chest buried in the ground and pulls out big blankets for everyone.
- Second half
In what book does a blind top-ten vote end with each leader getting one veto-proof crew pick?
✓ Answer
The Last Dragon on Mars (Dragonships) by Scott Reintgen
When Lunar, Proctor, and Roddy compare their top-ten lists, only four names appear on all three. Lunar suggests that each of them gets one personal choice no one else can veto, which brings the crew to ten.
- Second half
In what book does a spaceship hide in one moon's shadow to sneak past a volcanic creature?
✓ Answer
The Last Dragon on Mars (Dragonships) by Scott Reintgen
Doc's math times a slingshot around Callisto so the ship stays hidden in its shadow while Io swings out of sight. It works, and Lunar asks to do the same trick one more time at the next moon.
- Near the end
In what book does a painfully shy crewmate's first full sentence warn that he forgot to flush?
✓ Answer
The Last Dragon on Mars (Dragonships) by Scott Reintgen
Lunar fist-bumps the crew before flying down to Jupiter, and Pickens leans in to whisper a warning to stay out of the ship's rear wing. Lunar tells him it's disgusting and thanks him anyway.
