40 Fun Facts About Posted (John David Anderson)

Which poet inspires the nickname of Eric Voss, narrator of Posted, after a fifth-grade contest win?

Robert Frost was the poet Eric imitated in a poem written after his father moved out, and a teacher's praise made the name stick.

In Posted, what does Eric Voss call the cruel exchange of sticky notes that sweeps Branton Middle School?

A war is how Eric frames it, and the comparison runs deep: he likens middle school itself to a minefield.

In Posted, what word does Eric Voss use for his tight circle of four misfit friends at lunch?

A tribe is Eric's word for the four boys, who drifted together because none of them fit into any other group.

In Posted, Morgan Thompson's nickname, Wolf, is a nod to which famous composer?

Mozart, or Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in full, lends his first name to the level-headed musician of Eric's group.

In Posted, a game-winning catch in which sport draws Bench from his old lunch table?

Football finally makes a hero of Bench, who earned his nickname by spending most games sitting on the sidelines.

What do bullies threaten to do to Deedee at Branton Middle School in Posted just before Rose steps in?

A toilet dunking was the threat, and Rose's counter-offer raised the stakes: if she lost her bet, she and Eric would get one too.

After losing the Gauntlet challenge to Rose in Posted, what must the bully wear on a sticky note all day?

An apology, and a short one, is all Rose asks for, and the bully ends the day by sticking it to Deedee's locker.

Whatever animal Rose Holland claims to be folding in Posted, her origami always comes out looking like what?

A fish is the only thing Rose ever folds, yet she insists each one is a different animal, and Eric slowly learns to play along.

Which cruel nickname do athletes at Branton Middle School pin on new girl Rose Holland in Posted?

Moose is the taunt Bench hears from other athletes, and it later arrives on a sticky note as a drawing of a dead one.

Deedee's nickname in Posted comes from D&D; what role does he play in the friends' campaigns?

Dungeon Master is Deedee's job, which makes it awkward when Rose insists on a character his rulebook does not allow.

Eric Voss and his friends are in which grade in Posted when new girl Rose Holland joins their lunch table?

Eighth grade is when Rose arrives, two years after the four boys first banded together as sixth graders.

Wolf is the music prodigy of Eric Voss's lunch table in Posted; which instrument does he play?

Piano is the talent behind Wolf's nickname, which comes from a classical composer's first name.

Which Shakespeare play is Mr. Sword teaching in Posted while sticky notes take over Branton Middle School?

Julius Caesar brings a lecture on ancient Rome, and a bully's snide remark about Romans during it visibly bothers Wolf.

After his locker is defaced in Posted, what does Wolf decide to do, despite a wave of support?

To leave for a new school is Wolf's own choice, not a retreat, and he still meets his old friends for D&D.

In Posted, what fills the sticky notes that students and staff layer over Wolf's defaced locker?

Compliments and kind words cover the newly repainted locker, overlapping so thickly that Eric compares them to chain-mail armor.

Posted is set in the fictional small town of Branton, which John David Anderson places in which state?

Michigan is home to Branton, a town small enough that one student's angry text reaches the whole community within days.

What does Rose Holland borrow from Eric Voss to practice for her Gauntlet run in Posted?

His bike carries Rose all the way down the tree-studded hill, while her rival is knocked off near the bottom.

What does Wolf smash at home in Posted after finding a slur written on his locker?

Model cars and planes he had built over the years are wrecked, leaving his bedroom looking hollowed out when Eric visits.

In Posted, Ruby Sandels sends the text that gets cell phones banned after a teacher accuses her of what?

Cheating was the charge from her science teacher, along with a failing mark, and her sweary reply was school gossip by lunch.

English teacher Mr. Sword gives each student a blank sticky note in Posted and asks them to write what?

An aphorism is a one-line piece of wisdom, and he sends the class off to stick theirs where other people will read them.

Trying to stump Rose's origami skills at lunch in Posted, which hard-to-fold animal does Eric Voss request?

A Komodo dragon was his challenge, and that night Rose emailed him a video on folding one, which he botched with a sticky note.

What does Eric Voss learn about Rose Holland in Posted when his mother drives her home after the Gauntlet?

She comes from money: the house is big and the neighborhood expensive, so the worn clothes turn out to be a choice.

Which character does Rose invent for her first D&D game with Eric Voss's friends in Posted?

A gnome ninja who casts spells is against the rulebook, and Rose wins the argument by reminding everyone who runs the game.

In Rose's first D&D session in Posted, her run of high dice rolls destroys a horde of what in a crypt?

Zombies had the party beaten until Rose's string of high rolls turned the battle, and she led them on to the final boss.

After sticky notes are banned in Posted, what does Mr. Sword do with any he catches in class?

He throws them away unread, which spares students a trip to the principal and, Eric suspects, the harm the words could do.

What happens to the bully who defaced Wolf's locker in Posted once the principal learns his name?

He is suspended, while phones return to Branton with a new rule and the principal launches an anti-bullying drive.

When Eric Voss reaches the principal's office in Posted to name the locker vandals, what has Bench already done?

Bench had reported them himself, proof that he still looks out for the friends he no longer eats lunch with.

What makes home life hard for Wolf in Posted, in contrast to the divorce Eric Voss lives through?

Parents who fight, yelling at each other, are what Wolf goes home to, while Eric's house fell quiet before his own parents split.

On which day of the week do Eric Voss and his friends regularly meet to play D&D in Posted?

Saturday is game day, and the session Rose joins at Wolf's house goes ahead without Bench, who is out celebrating.

Which novel by Posted author John David Anderson, about three sixth graders, was a New York Times Notable Book?

Ms. Bixby's Last Day sends its boys on a day-long mission to thank a teacher who is out sick for the rest of the year.

The slur on Wolf's locker in Posted can't be peeled off like a sticky note; what is it written in?

Permanent marker makes the story's point literal, and the locker has been repainted bright blue by the time classmates cover it.

Which 20th-century conflict are Eric Voss and Wolf assigned to research for history class in Posted?

The nuclear arms race is new to both boys, so Wolf brings Rose along to the study session, where she proves a big help.

Which relative of Eric Voss in Posted once disarmed bombs in the army, a job Eric recalls on a tense walk?

His uncle is on Eric's mind during the walk to watch a classmate attempt the Gauntlet, until Bench cuts in to complain about Rose at lunch.

After the big game in Posted, Bench says he is dining with family; whom does his mother say he is with?

His teammates took him out instead, and that small lie is how Eric first senses Bench will not be coming back to the group.

In the lunch-table dice game in Posted, what must Rose do whenever she rolls an even number?

To share a secret is the forfeit, and Rose's own confession is that her previous school saddled her with a string of mean nicknames.

When Rose first asks the boys what they enjoy in Posted, which fantasy saga does Deedee admit to liking?

The Lord of the Rings is Deedee's half-hearted answer at that first stilted lunch, while Bench says only that he is an athlete.

John David Anderson, the author of Posted, grew up in which Midwestern state capital?

Indianapolis raised him, and he studied English literature at Indiana University before graduate work at the University of Illinois.

Why does every student at Branton Middle School in Posted already own a pad of sticky notes?

They are a required supply that Deedee complains never gets used, which is his excuse for sticking them on lockers.

Deedee compares Rose's Gauntlet bet with a bully in Posted to which medieval way of settling a dispute?

Trial by combat is how Deedee sees it, and he spends her practice session reciting the Gauntlet's worst horror stories.

In Posted, Deedee's flicked sticky note hits Rose by accident at lunch; what had he hit on his first shot?

Eric's applesauce took the first crumpled note, and Eric's dare to repeat the shot is what sends the second one into Rose.