Fantastic Beasts and How to Survive Them
This ancient Greek epic features Odysseus facing a Cyclops, the Sirens, Scylla, and Charybdis during his long journey home.
What is The Odyssey?
This Dr. Seuss book features a character named Sam-I-am who persistently tries to convince another character to eat a certain green food.
What is Green Eggs and Ham?
In Harry Potter, this hidden location beneath Hogwarts contains an ancient monster that has been petrifying students.
What is the Chamber of Secrets?
This classic novel follows a young orphan who spends his childhood on the streets of Victorian London before finding himself caught up with a gang of thieves.
What is Oliver Twist?
This famous storybook character is less interested in leading children away than in using his supernatural flute-playing to wreak havoc on a village.
Who is the Pied Piper?
In this epic poem, a hero battles the monstrous Grendel, Grendel's mother, and eventually a dragon.
What is Beowulf?
This children's book was inspired by its author's real-life experiences with a pet mouse named Fred.
What is Stuart Little?
This fictional hotel in Colorado becomes the terrifying setting of a family's winter stay, complete with haunted rooms and a hedge maze.
What is the Overlook Hotel?
This novel follows Gene Forrester at a New England boarding school, where friendship, rivalry, and one disastrous summer force him to confront the loss of innocence.
What is A Separate Peace?
These figures from Greek Myth that share a book with another clue on this board use their enchanting songs to lure sailors toward destruction.
What are the Sirens?
In this novel, a young boy named Bastian enters a magical world populated by creatures such as Rock Eaters, Luckdragons, and the Childlike Empress.
What is The Neverending Story?
This novel was written in a single continuous paragraph with no conventional paragraph breaks, making its structure almost as famous as its story.
What is Ulysses?
The underground labyrinth under these mountains in The Hobbit is home to a creature who has spent years alone with a magical ring and has developed some rather unpleasant eating habits.
What are the Misty Mountains?
In this novel, a young Black boy named Bigger Thomas comes of age in 1930s Chicago while confronting poverty, racism, and the limited opportunities available to him.
What is Native Son?
In The Phantom of the Opera, this character's greatest weapon isn't actually his mask or his underground lair—it is his extraordinary ability to compose and perform music.
What is the Phantom?
This medieval epic centers on a knight who faces a mysterious emerald-skinned challenger who survives what should be a fatal blow.
What is Sir Gawain and the Green Knight?
This famous fantasy author once created an entire fictional language for his stories, complete with its own grammar and vocabulary, rather than merely inventing a handful of words.
Who is J.R.R. Tolkien?
In Coraline, this seemingly ordinary house contains a door leading to a disturbingly improved version of Coraline's own home.
What is The Pink Palace?
This novel follows Celie from childhood into adulthood as she survives an abusive upbringing and eventually builds an independent life.
What is The Color Purple?
This Tolkien villain was originally a powerful spirit whose musical discord challenged the creation-song of the universe itself.
Who is Morgoth?
This epic fantasy series introduces readers to creatures including direwolves, dragons, and the terrifying White Walkers, whose existence is initially dismissed by many characters.
What is A Song of Ice and Fire?
This novel's title character is never actually named in the book; she is referred to almost exclusively by her title and relationships to others.
What/who is Rebecca?
This massive prison fortress in The Count of Monte Cristo is where Edmond Dantès spends years imprisoned before his eventual escape.
What is the Château d'If?
DAILY DOUBLE:
This novel follows a young Black girl named Janie Crawford through three marriages and her gradual search for independence, identity, and her own voice.
What is Their Eyes Were Watching God?
This murderous barber's name is forever associated with his musical portrayal, but his literary origins predate the famous stage musical and center on a Victorian-era tale of murder and revenge.
Who is Sweeney Todd?