Tag Archives: Ages 10-99

Comprehension Questions- Hank Zipzer My Secret Life as a Ping-Pong Wizard

My Secret Life as a Ping-Pong Wizard

By Henry Winkler and Lin Oliver

Grades 3-5; Genre - Fiction; GRL R; AR pts: 4.0

Hank Zipzer doesn't feel great about his soccer skills, but learns with the help of Papa Pete that he really loves ping-pong.  The only trouble is his father and friends don't think ping-pong is a real sport. Continue reading

Comprehension Questions- Johnny Tremain

Johnny Tremain

By Esther Forbes

Grades 5-8; Genre - Fiction; GRL Z; AR pts: 13.0

Johnny is a fourteen year old apprentice as a silversmith living in Boston before the Revolutionary War.  He burns his hand and is not able to be a silversmith any more.  So he starts delivering the newspaper and gets caught up in taking sides with the rebels and the events leading up to the Revolutionary War. Continue reading

Comprehension Questions- Esperanza Rising

Esperanza Rising 

By Pam Munoz Ryan

Grades 6-8; Genre - Fiction; GRL V; AR pts: 6.0

Living life like a princess, Esperanza is a young girl in Mexico.  She's forced to leave her country with her mother and everything she's known and tries to figure out life and how to survive as an immigrant in American society. Continue reading

Comprehension Questions – #1 Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone

By J.K. Rowling

Grades 4-6; Genre - Fantasy; GRL V; AR pts: 12.0

Become a part of Harry’s magical world as Harry and his friends are in their first year of school at Hogwarts and solve the riddle to the Sorcerer’s Stone.  Continue reading