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- 6. Tobias Hawthorne leaves his billions to Avery Grambs instead of his family in this popular YA series.
- 8. Taken to Auschwitz at the age of 15, this author wrote Night, which may just be the most famous memoir of the Holocaust.
- 13. This recent winner of the Pulitzer Prize for literature was based on the 19th century novel David Copperfield.
- 14. Odysseus loses six of his men to a giant _________ after they are trapped in his cave.
- 15. The hobbit Sméagol becomes known as ________ after he had been corrupted by the One Ring.
- 16. In this true story, the main character spends an incredible 47 days adrift in a raft, until his capture by the Japanese navy.
- 18. Most literary experts consider her the mother of science-fiction with her novel about a doctor who builds a creature from others body parts.
- 21. This is a series of children's horror fiction novellas created and authored by R.L. Stine. Sixty-two books were published in this series from 1992 to 1997, the last being Monster Blood IV.
- 22. John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars took its title from this Shakespearean tragedy.
- 23. Harry Potter's godfather, a member of the Order of the Phoenix and a prisoner on the run
- 25. Ichabod Crane is terrorized by the __________ ___________ in the classic story “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.”
- 28. A summer camp for demigods in the Rick Riordan books
- 31. Left to themselves on a paradisiacal island, the characters in this book eventually regress to a primitive state without the constraints of society.
- 32. He is a Canadian slacker who is in love with Ramona Flowers, but to win her heart, he must defeat her evil exes.
- 35. This series of books for grades 2-7 tells the story of one of history's most terrifying events, through the eyes of a kid who lived to tell the tale!
- 36. This manga series tells about an adolescent who dreams of being a hero though he doesn’t seem to have been born with any natural powers.
- 38. This series follows middle schooler Greg Heffley as he struggles to fit in.
- 40. He is the tyrannical dictator of Panem, ruling through an army of Peacekeepers, capital punishment, propaganda, the fear of nuclear devastation (like District 13), and the Hunger Games.
- 42. This collection of 24 tales written in Middle English are the most famous works of Geoffrey Chaucer.
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- 1. After committing suicide, she leaves a box of 13 cassettes so that those she’s leaving behind understand why she decided to end her own life.
- 2. This play by Arthur Miller was written as an allegory for McCarthyism, when the United States government ostracized people for being communists.
- 3. Because Capulets cannot marry _______________, Romeo and Juliet keep their love a secret from everyone but the Friar and the Nurse.
- 4. One of the most popular memoirs of 2022, I’m Glad My Mom Died recounts the childhood of ___________ ____________.
- 5. In Bram Stoker’s Dracula, this is the only character who can stop the bloodshed that is unleased.
- 7. In this fantasy, Celaena, an assassin, gets a chance to serve as the king's champion, after four years of which, she will be granted her freedom
- 9. Consisting of video games, books, and now a movie, this franchise takes place in locations connected to the restaurant “Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza.”
- 10. In To Kill a Mockingbird, the children give this nickname to Arthur Radley despite that fact that he is actually a nice guy.
- 11. In The Summer I Turned Pretty, this main character is trying to decide between Conrad and Jeremiah.
- 12. With character names like Ponyboy and Sodapop, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that ___________________was written by a 15-year-old.
- 15. This guy thinks life is bad until he wakes up transformed into some sort of insect; then, he realizes maybe it wasn’t.
- 17. ________ Fitz-Amobi is the main character in A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder.
- 19. One of the most popular graphic novels we have, Heartstopper focuses on a romance between Nick and Charlie who attend __________ Grammar School.
- 20. Once he becomes wealthy, Jay Gatsby buys a home in this posh neighborhood for the newly rich.
- 24. In Harry Potter, this is the name of the gray, skeletal cat that belongs to the caretaker Filch.
- 26. In this series, Margaret Haddix tells about a society riddled with overpopulation, has little food, and is constantly monitored by the government. It is illegal to have more than two children, so children are often “hidden.”
- 27. The setting for the Lord of the Rings trilogy
- 29. In this novel, an Indian boy from survives 227 days after a shipwreck while stranded on a lifeboat in the Pacific Ocean with a Bengal tiger named Richard Parker.
- 30. In this manga, Yuji Itadori eats a rotten finger talisman to protect Megumi Fushiguro.
- 33. This spider in E.B. White’s famous novel might have convinced some children that spiders weren’t really that scary after all.
- 34. Though it takes him 10 years, Odysseus doesn’t let anything keep him from making it home to ____________.
- 37. In this novel, the main character Brian must survive the wilderness on his own when the pilot of his plane suffers a massive heart attack.
- 39. After ripping the arm from this monster, Beowulf must then defeat his mother, which proves to be an even more difficult task.
- 41. This novel tells the story of the Wizard of Oz but from the Wicked Witch’s perspective.