Rascal by Sterling North

Which book is set in Wisconsin?

In which book will you find a pie eating contest?

In which book is the main theme loss? Sterling loses his mother, the attention of his father, his brother to war, and eventually his best friend, Rascal, but survives and learns from it.

In which book would you find a canoe?

In which book would you find this character? "although he never touched a card...was a born gambler."

In which book would you find Lake Superior?

In what book does an author give a nonfiction account of adventures with his pet when he was a boy?

What book is set in 1918 in Brailsford Junction?

What book does a boy and his friend Oscar Sunderland operate as trapping partners?

In what book does a friend’s father Herman Sunderlan have a temper?

In what book does a boy’s mother die when he was seven?

What book does a friend’s mother bake pastries at Christmas time?

And what book do boys draw straws to catch an animal?

In what book does a brother (Hershel) fight a war in France?

In what book does a crow steal shiny objects and bring them to a church belfry?

In what book does a sister (Jessica) work as a linguist and poet and take postgraduate work at the University of Chicago?

In what book was an older sister (Theo) married to a young Papermill owner in Northern Minnesota?

In what book was a boy’s mother a biologist?

In what book do your pets get in trouble with the Methodists?

In what book does a crow shout, “What fun! What fun!”

What is the name of the crow? (Poe the Crow)

In what book does a character learn that he can’t wash sugar?

In what book does a boy learn in the paper that the Germans were within sight of the Eiffel Tower?

In what book is the character a “demon for speed?”

In what book does a character catch their first crayfish who then pinches them?

In which book does an animal crawl into bed with a sister?

In which book do animals fight over a diamond ring?

In which book does a janitor give a character one half of his jelly sandwich?

In which book does a father talk about Thure Ludwig Theodore Kumlien, a great pioneer generalist, who had been trained in Sweden and came to Wisconsin in the 1840’s burying 80 acres?

In what book do a father and son look for whippoorwills?

In what book does a pet dig for turtle eggs?

In what book does a father drive a huge seven passenger Oldsmobile which he had traded in a real estate swap?

In which book does a boy ride a bike to Shadwick’s Harness and Leather Emporium?

In which book is there an Irish picnic and horse fair?

In which book does a boy start junior high school and have two gifted teachers; Miss Stafford for English and Miss Whalen for biology?