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ABOUT THE BOOK
NO SPOILERSTen-year-old Ben Silverstein likes to make up stories, because to him stories are always more exciting than the truth. When his parents say they need time alone to work out some troubles, they send him from Los Angeles to spend the summer with his grandfather in Buttonville, a sleepy little town where the old button factory has shut down and there is not much to do. On the drive into town, Ben sees something huge with a long, ropelike tail flying through the sky. Grandpa Abe thinks it is just another one of Ben's stories, but Pearl Petal, a talkative girl who lives above the Dollar Store, has seen it too. Then Grandpa's cat, Barnaby, leaves a tiny, hurt creature on Ben's bed, and it shoots fire right at Ben's face. Ben and Pearl carry it in a cookie tin to the old button factory to find a strange red-haired man Ben met at the market, Mr. Tabby, who says he works for Dr. Woo, a worm doctor. But the factory is hiding a lot more than worms. When Ben can't get a rusty bolt to lock the front door, a sasquatch slips out into town, and now Ben and Pearl have to catch it before anyone in Buttonville finds out.
Free Battle of the Books questions for The Sasquatch Escape (The Imaginary Veterinary)
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 Sasquatch Escape (The Imaginary Veterinary). 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 creature's third flame fizzle "like a sparkler on the Fourth of July"?
✓ Answer
The Sasquatch Escape (The Imaginary Veterinary) by Suzanne Selfors
The little creature Barnaby left on Ben's bed shoots a fountain of flame right at his face, then a smaller one, then this weak last one. Ben ducks just in time, and his legs are still trembling afterward.
- First half
In what book does a rusty bolt refuse to budge, so a boy settles for a closed door?
✓ Answer
The Sasquatch Escape (The Imaginary Veterinary) by Suzanne Selfors
Mr. Tabby asks Ben to bolt the factory's front door, but Ben only has a security keypad at home and pinches his fingers on the stuck bolt. He gives up because he doesn't want to miss anything, and that unbolted door turns out to matter a lot.
- First half
In what book does a boy who dislikes cats hear, "My dear boy, perhaps cats don't like you"?
✓ Answer
The Sasquatch Escape (The Imaginary Veterinary) by Suzanne Selfors
When Ben insults Grandpa's cat for hurting the hatchling, Mr. Tabby narrows his eyes and growls. His prickly reply is one of many hints that there is something unusual about Mr. Tabby.
- Second half
In what book does a girl lock a kit and keep the key so nobody blows the whistle again?
✓ Answer
The Sasquatch Escape (The Imaginary Veterinary) by Suzanne Selfors
After the squirrel disaster, Pearl locks the kit before Ben can stop her and tells him he can keep the box while she keeps the key. That way, she says, neither of them will do something they shouldn't, even though Ben had been wondering what sound he might get out of the whistle.
- Second half
In what book does a girl set a windup rat loose at a parade, not knowing ponies fear rats?
✓ Answer
The Sasquatch Escape (The Imaginary Veterinary) by Suzanne Selfors
When Ben asks why everyone calls her a troublemaker, Pearl insists she doesn't get in trouble on purpose. She let the windup rat go because she was bored, and she once put food coloring in Mr. Mutt's koi pond, not realizing it would dye the fish too.
- Near the end
In what book does a girl fire off questions about fairies and unicorns at rocket speed?
✓ Answer
The Sasquatch Escape (The Imaginary Veterinary) by Suzanne Selfors
Once she meets Dr. Woo, Pearl blurts out question after question, from where the Imaginary World is to whether fairies are real and whether she can meet a unicorn. Dr. Woo doesn't answer any of them and instead worries that the kids already know more than they should.
