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NO SPOILERSThirteen-year-old Boone Mason lives for hunting. His family has 46 wooded acres on a dead-end gravel road outside Pikesville, Michigan, a small farm town that has lost its tire factory, its lumber yard and more than 200 jobs. One November morning a farmer named Hank Atwater glimpses something big and gray dart across the road in front of his truck, and the huge tracks on each side show that a giant buck jumped the whole road. Once Hank spreads the news at the Main Street Cafe, the whole town is talking about the gray-tinted Ghost Buck. Boone gets his first compound bow for Christmas and vows to join the hunt for the legendary deer. He has plenty to deal with first. His businessman dad is always at work. Next door lives Jasper, a mean old hermit who patrols his land with his snarling dog, Mumbles, and chases hunters off at gunpoint. And Boone keeps wondering whether he has what it takes to make the shot. With help from his grandpa, an expert hunter, Boone spends the year getting ready for bow season and trying to believe in himself.
Free Battle of the Books questions for The Legend of the Ghost Buck (Hometown Hunters)
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 Legend of the Ghost Buck (Hometown Hunters). 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 farmer find one huge track on each side of a gravel road?
✓ Answer
The Legend of the Ghost Buck (Hometown Hunters) by Lane Walker
After something big darts in front of his truck, Hank finds a single track on one side of the road and the matching track on the other side. The animal was so big that it jumped clear over the entire road.
- First half
In what book does a hermit at a gas station mock a dad for rarely spending time with his kid?
✓ Answer
The Legend of the Ghost Buck (Hometown Hunters) by Lane Walker
In Boone's second run-in with Jasper, the old man makes a sarcastic crack about Dad finally spending some time with his son instead of in the city. Boone thinks Jasper is right that he and his dad don't do much together.
- First half
In what book does a boy cradle his former enemy, a hurt dog, "like a newborn baby"?
✓ Answer
The Legend of the Ghost Buck (Hometown Hunters) by Lane Walker
Mumbles is too weak to stand after the rescue, so Boone says a little prayer and picks him up. Miles runs home, and Boone carries the dog all by himself toward Jasper's house, right through the middle of the hermit's land.
- Second half
In what book does an older brother tell his confused little brother, "I think you're famous"?
✓ Answer
The Legend of the Ghost Buck (Hometown Hunters) by Lane Walker
Boone wakes up to trucks driving up and down Wilderness Road and the phone ringing. Rex holds up the Pikesville Press, and the color photo of Boone, Hank and Miles with the giant antler takes up half the newspaper.
- Second half
In what book does a boy start a favorite verse from church at full draw and hit a bullseye?
✓ Answer
The Legend of the Ghost Buck (Hometown Hunters) by Lane Walker
Grandpa says a good archer needs rhythm and the same routine on every shot, so Boone uses a verse that gives him strength. He starts "I can do all things through Christ..." as he releases and hits two bullseyes in a row.
- Near the end
In what book does a boy miss at 18 yards because he peeks to see where his arrow will hit?
✓ Answer
The Legend of the Ghost Buck (Hometown Hunters) by Lane Walker
Sitting in Eiffel Tower with Grandpa, Boone gets his first chance at a buck when a six-point stops broadside. Grandpa calls it buck fever and explains that Boone didn't hold the shot, so his arrow went underneath.
