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Selected Works of Janice Repka

Books
The Stupendous Dodgeball Fiasco
This humorous middle grade novel was published by Dutton Children's Books in 2004. It was a Junior Library Guild selection, a 2008 Nebraska Golden Sower Award Honor Book, a Sunshine State Young Reader Award nominee, a Young Hoosier Book Award nominee, a Great Stone Face Award nominee, and a Keystone to Reading Book Award nominee.
The Clueless Girl's Guide to being a Genius
This book is under contract to be published by Dutton Children's Books in the Summer of 2011.
Short Stories
Love's Final Selection
This short story was the 2001 Winner of the Antietam Review Literary Contest and was published in Antietam Review, vol. 22.
Bus Number 9
This short story won first place in Writer Journal's Horror/Ghost short story contest and was published in Writer’s Journal, vol. 23.
Old Jews
This short story was published online as the winner of a WritersWeekly.com 24-hour Short Story Contest.

FUN STUFF FOR KIDS

Jokes


QUESTION #1: Why did the clown cross the road?

Answer: He was following his rubber chicken.

QUESTION #2: What game is played by six clowns in
a phone booth?

Answer: Squash!


QUESTION #3: Why was the elephant's skin wrinkled?

Answer: Because he couldn't find his iron.


Wordsearch


Can you find the hidden words?

Circus Facts and Folklore Trivia Quiz


Here's some circus trivia from the research I did for THE STUPENDOUS DODGEBALL FIASCO. Can you find the trivia that does not appear in the book?

Answer


1. To get elephant skin really soft, caretakers sometimes use furniture soap.
2. When a performer leaves the circus, it’s bad luck to say good-bye. Instead, you should say, “see you down the road.”
3. In circus lingo a cookhouse is called a pie car and cherry pie means doing extra work for extra pay.
4. A lion trainer cracks his whip to distract the lion so he will forget about attacking.
5. Clowns are very organized. In each circus, a boss clown manages the group.
6. Circus people often braid elephant tail hair into bracelets to wear during performances as good luck charms.
7. Pink Lemonade was created accidentally by a circus vendor who used a bucket of water that another performer had used to wash her red tights. 8. 8. Before a Circus moves from one town to the next, the 24-hour advance man marks the route with a system of red arrows so nobody gets lost.
9. Circus balloon sellers are called rubbermen.
10. Elephants must hold the tails of the ones in front of them during a parade to stop them from plucking things from spectators.


To get the answer, Send an E-mail with your guess to JaniceRepka@​aol.com. If you're right, I'll post your name as a trivia winner.

What do you call a cake featuring The Stupendous Dodgeball Fiasco? Delicious!

Congratulations To These Trivia Winners:

Hannah

Kelly

Ashley

Rachel Rene

Kaity

Ayonna

Dylan

Meghan


******************************** MORE WORD FUN


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