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Young Adult Literature Trivia -- Young Adult Protagonists on the Move
Many young adult characters begin or end their struggles by moving from one place to another. For others, the journey itself provides the conflict. Can you name the following young adult novels in which the protagonists are "on the move"? (Answers on p. 52)
(Compiled by Kay Parks Bushman)1. In this sequel to The Face on the Milk Carton, Jennie Spring returns to her biological family from whom she was kidnapped as a toddler.
2. Trevor is sent to stay with his great-aunts in Blue Isle, Maine -- a place devoid of television, video games, and junk food -- while his mother is on her honeymoon.
3. When farmhand Tink is stricken with cancer, fourteen-year-old John is given responsibility to tend the family sheep for the entire summer several miles from home.
4. Forced to flee from Cambodia during the Khmer Rouge, Sundara tries to adjust to the American way of life and maintain her family's expected traditions at the same time.
5. Lincoln and Tony leave their California homes to participate in a summer-exchange program in Japan.
6. Harriet Hemmings, the supposed slave-daughter of Thomas Jefferson, gives up her identity to "pass" into the free, white world.
7. When their family of actors goes bankrupt, Bambi, Buffie, and Brick are forced to move from their California mansion to Hickory Fork where they confront the small-town gang.
8. Jessie Bollier, a talented young fife player, is kidnapped to ride aboard The Moonlight and play his music for the newly captured Africans being brought to America.
9. Because her parents have joint custody, every weekend Phoebe rides a bus between Woodstock and New York City.
10. After a conflict in which Philip refuses to abide by school policy to stand quietly and respectfully during the National Anthem, he moves to a new school.
