Famous Authors
Core Reading
Books to Movies
Classics
Research Ready
100
The Tell Tale Heart and The Raven are among his most famous works.
Who is Edgar Allan Poe?
100
This book about basketball was written by Kwame Alexander is poetry form.
What is The Crossover?
100
Dorothy finds that she is no longer in Kansas in this classic book to movie.
What is The Wizard of Oz?
100
"Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much.
What is Harry Potter?
100
Another name for putting information from a source into your own words.
What is paraphrase?
200
This author's dystopian trilogy requires "tributes" to fight to the death in a public arena.
Who is Suzanne Collins?
200
Thomas awakens to find himself in a post-apocalyptic world where he must find his way out of a labyrinth.
What is The Maze Runner?
200
This actress played Katniss in the Hunger Games.
Who is Jennifer Lawrence.
200
It would be wise to recall this classic book if you are ever invited to a weekend on an island by U.N. Owen.
What is And Then There Were None?
200
Another name for a bibliography in MLA style.
What is Works Cited?
300
This author wrote the Outsiders and Rumble Fish.
Who is S.E. Hinton
300
This person is the only one that holds the memories of pain and pleasure from the old communities.
Who is the Giver?
300
Jacob is taken to this peculiar place when he follows the clues about his family's past.
What is Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children.
300
This is the classic by Roald Dahl that has every kid wanting to find the golden ticket in their chocolate bar.
What is Charlie and the Chocolate Factory?
300
To use someone else's ideas and words without giving credit.
What is plagiarism?
400
Some people have drawn comparisons to this author's short story to the Hunger Games, where the citizens blindly follow a yearly tradition.
Who is Shirley Jackson?
400
Named after a laboratory mouse, this book questions the ethics of enhancing a person's intelligence.
What is Flowers for Algernon?
400
"All children except one grow up" in this play and novel from 1901 turned into a classic Disney film.
What is Peter Pan?
400
Author, John Steinbeck, wrote this classic about a precious gem that becomes the source of greed and evil.
What is The Pearl?
400
Information that is considered well known an does not need to be cited.
What is Common Knowledge?
500
This author wrote about a miniature race that lived in Middle Earth.
Who is J.R.R. Tolkien
500
This memoir was written by a Pakistani girl who was the youngest person ever to receive the Noble Peace Prize.
What is I am Malala?
500
This book by author, Newt Scamander was recently turned into a fantastic movie.
What is Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find them.
500
The protagonist of this book is visited by Marley's ghost in this Christmas classic.
What is A Christmas Carol?
500
In Chicago we use footnotes for citing sources in the paper, in MLA we use these.
What are in-text citations or parenthetical citations?
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