40 Fun Facts About The Lemonade War

What does Jessie secretly dump into Evan's cooler in The Lemonade War, wrecking his sales?

Flies turn up in customers' cups, the complaints pour in, and Evan has to tip out every drop and hand back the money.

What sum are Evan and Jessie racing to earn in The Lemonade War, with the loser's takings at stake?

$100 is the target, and the winner also takes whatever the loser has made, which is why both siblings keep raising the stakes.

Which grade is Jessie skipping in The Lemonade War, a jump that lands her in Evan's class?

Third grade is the year Jessie will miss, and Evan dreads it because he fears his brainy little sister will embarrass him in front of his friends.

What arrives in the mail to set off the sibling feud in The Lemonade War?

A letter from school announces that Jessie and Evan will share a classroom, news that thrills her and mortifies him.

What is the family name of Evan and Jessie, the feuding siblings of The Lemonade War?

Treski is the name, and the family returns in a string of sequels that take the siblings from a class trial to a backyard magic show.

Evan and Jessie win a town contest tied to which holiday at the end of The Lemonade War?

Labor Day brings a local contest, and the siblings win it together with a display about their rival lemonade stands.

Which business model does Jessie use in The Lemonade War to get many girls selling lemonade for her?

A franchise was Jessie's answer to a profit margin too small to win: she and her partner set up thirteen stands run by other girls in a single day.

What does Jessie know to be her weakest subject in The Lemonade War, despite being a star student?

Feelings are the one thing Jessie cannot work out: she misses social cues and wishes she could be more like her outgoing brother.

Which label fits Evan in The Lemonade War, in contrast to his number-loving sister?

People-smart is the word for Evan, who can chat easily with anyone, even grown-ups, and turns that charm into sales.

Which American author wrote The Lemonade War, the first book in her series about two siblings?

Jacqueline Davies had published picture books and a historical novel before this 2007 story, which grew into a best-selling series.

Where in the house is Evan hiding from Jessie, lying alone in the dark, as The Lemonade War opens?

The basement is Evan's hideout because he is avoiding Jessie, who is about to become his classmate as well as his sister.

Which girl from Evan's class becomes Jessie's partner at her rival stand in The Lemonade War?

Megan is someone Evan likes, so seeing her team up with his little sister only makes the quarrel worse.

Which on-and-off friend does Evan suspect of taking the missing money in The Lemonade War?

Scott is never confronted in this book, and that loose end drives the whole plot of the sequel.

Which service organization runs the annual contest that Evan and Jessie win in The Lemonade War?

Rotary Club is the local group whose yearly contest the siblings enter as a team, with a display about their lemonade stands.

Which one-word title opens The Lemonade War, heading the chapter where Evan sulks alone?

Slump means a dip in activity, and each chapter that follows is likewise named for a business term the siblings run into while selling.

Where does Jessie keep her lemonade earnings in The Lemonade War, until Evan takes them?

A lock box holds Jessie's earnings in a labeled envelope, and Evan finds $208 inside, far more than he has left.

From which piece of clothing does the money Evan took vanish during a pool day in The Lemonade War?

His shorts held all $208, and the loss carries into the sequel, where the siblings set out to prove who took it.

Why does a police officer make Evan pack up his stand in the middle of town in The Lemonade War?

He has no permit to sell food and drinks in a public space. The officer says police tend to overlook stands in residential neighborhoods, but not on the town green.

Which extra do Jessie and her partner offer customers in The Lemonade War to add value to each cup?

Face painting, hair braiding and nail polishing drew crowds of kids and earned each girl $24, but it took eight hours of work, and they decided it was not worth repeating.

The Lemonade War covers the last five days of what, before Evan and Jessie share a classroom?

Summer vacation has just five days left when the fight begins, and that deadline turns a squabble into an all-out race for sales.

What does Jessie plan to do with her lemonade earnings in The Lemonade War?

Jessie decides to give it to charity, and the official teacher's guide suggests classes running their own stands do the same.

What does Jessie's partner write to cheer her up in The Lemonade War, listing her good points?

A comment card is a Friday ritual from the class year Jessie is skipping: each pupil writes something positive about a classmate on an index card, to be read aloud.

What deal do Evan's friends offer when they help him sell in The Lemonade War, to Jessie's alarm?

He keeps all the profits, while Jessie must split hers with a partner, which she works out puts her at a huge disadvantage.

What does Evan tell himself he will do with Jessie's money after taking it in The Lemonade War?

Give it back later is the plan, once he has won, but the cash disappears before he gets the chance.

Where is Jessie spending the day when Evan takes her earnings in The Lemonade War?

At the beach with her partner, Jessie has no idea her brother is in her room counting her earnings.

What do Evan and his friends hang on the garage door while they plot in The Lemonade War?

A Keep Out sign goes up while the boys stockpile lemonade mix carried from their own homes, which costs them nothing.

Flashbacks in The Lemonade War graphic novel show Evan and Jessie helping each other through what?

Their parents' divorce sits behind the whole series, in which the siblings are raised by their hardworking mom.

Evan's bottled-up angry words are drawn as which animals in the graphic novel of The Lemonade War?

Bats burst from under Evan's shirt in the artwork, turning one of the original novel's comparisons into a picture.

The author of The Lemonade War also wrote The Boy Who Drew Birds, about which naturalist?

John James Audubon tied silver thread to young phoebes to learn whether the same birds returned to their nests each spring.

In The Lemonade Crime, which new purchase convinces Evan and Jessie that a classmate is a thief?

An Xbox, announced at school on the fourth day of fourth grade, makes the boy the most popular kid in class and the prime suspect.

How does the jury of classmates rule on the accused boy at the trial in The Lemonade Crime?

Not guilty is the outcome, and the book uses it to ask whether circumstantial evidence should ever be enough to convict.

In The Lemonade Crime, which sport does Evan choose to settle his score with the suspected thief?

Basketball is Evan's answer to Jessie's courtroom: he would rather beat the boy on the court than argue a case.

In The Bell Bandit, what has damaged Grandma's house before Evan and Jessie arrive for the holidays?

A fire that Grandma started by accident left a hole in the kitchen wall big enough to drive a car through.

The stolen bell in The Bell Bandit is traditionally rung on Lovell's Hill to mark which occasion?

New Year's Eve is when the oldest and the youngest person present hold the rope together and ring the bell.

Which kind of writing does the teacher share with Class 4-O every day in The Candy Smash?

Poetry fills the fourth book: the class studies a new poem daily, and Evan wants the verses he writes kept private.

Who turns up unexpectedly as Evan and Jessie prepare a backyard magic show in The Magic Trap?

Their father, absent for years, arrives just as their mom is about to cancel an important business trip.

Which natural disaster strikes while Evan and Jessie are left home alone in The Magic Trap?

A hurricane, a Category 1 storm, brings two days of flooding before airports reopen and their mom can get home.

Which teacher leads Class 4-O, the fourth-grade room Evan and Jessie share after The Lemonade War?

Mrs. Overton runs the class where boxes of candy hearts mysteriously turn up in every desk in the fourth book.

The Lemonade Crime, a story of fairness and forgiveness, is set in the week of which holy day?

Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement, frames the plot, which ends with the three children signing an agreement of atonement.

In The Bridge Battle, Jessie hopes for engineering camp but lands in a class on making what?

Fairy houses are not what Jessie wanted, so she takes over and leads the class in a seminar on bridge design instead.