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This author's real name is Theodor Geisel.  He is an American writer and illustrator of popular children's books, which were noted for their nonsense words and playful rhymes.

Who is Dr. Seuss?

100

This names the title of the book. It also tells who wrote the book and who drew the pictures. It even tells the name of the company that published the book.

What is the Title Page?

100

This is a book about a young teenage girl who has been diagnosed with lung cancer and attends a cancer support group. Hazel is 16 and reluctant to go to the support group, but she soon realizes it was a good idea and ends up meeting Augustus Waters.

What is The Fault in Our Stars?

100

You could use this to find the definition of the word archaeologists.

What is a dictionary?

100

A genre of fiction whose purpose is to create feelings of fear, dread, repulsion, and terror in the audience

What is Horror?

200

Many of this author's books, including A Walk to Remember, have been turned into movies.  

Who is Nicholas Sparks?

200

This twelve-year-old boy is on the most dangerous quest of his life. With the help of a satyr and a daughter of Athena, he must journey across the United States to catch a thief who has stolen the original weapon of mass destruction — Zeus’ master bolt.

What is Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief?

200

A series of seven fantasy novels written by British author, J. K. Rowling. The novels chronicle the lives of a young wizard and his friends , all of whom are students at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

What is Harry Potter?

200
This is to steal or pass off the ideas or words of another as your own. Be careful not to do this when you are doing research!
What is Plagiarism?
200

A genre that depicts the  state of mankind where the conditions of human life are horrible as from deprivation, oppression or terror, characterized by human misery in the form of squalor, oppression, disease, overcrowding, destruction, or war

What is Dystopian?

300

This author was challenged to write a scary story by her husband and their friend.  What came of it was an eerie story of reanimation of the dead by a young scientist.

Who is Mary Shelley?

300

This novella written by John Steinbeck, published in 1937, narrates the experiences of George Milton and Lennie Small, two displaced migrant ranch workers, who move from place to place in California in search of new job opportunities during the Great Depression in the United States

What is Of Mice and Men?

300

A morally driven and interesting story about a young boy who lives in a society free of crime and sadness. At the age of 12 children are assigned their jobs, which they will train for and do for the rest of their lives. Everything is chosen; from your parents to your partner

What is The Giver?

300

The non-fiction section of the library is organized using this system

What is the Dewey Decimal System?

300
A fictional story where the characters have to be detectives to solve a problem. This type of story is usually filled with suspense!
What is a Mystery?
400

This author, born and raised in England, did not set out to be a writer but stumbled into it by accident.  She goes by Tash and you might recognize her book The Twin.

Who is Natasha Preston?

400

Set in the small Southern town of Maycomb, Alabama, during the Depression, this novel follows three years in the life of 8-year-old Scout Finch, her brother, Jem, and their father, Atticus--three years punctuated by the arrest and eventual trial of a young black man accused of raping a white woman

What is To Kill A Mockingbird?

400

A 2008 dystopian novel by the American writer Suzanne Collins. There is an annual event in which one boy and one girl aged 12–18 from each of the twelve districts surrounding the Capitol are selected by lottery to compete in a televised battle royale to the death

What is The Hunger Games?

400

Dictionary, Thesaurus, Atlas, Almanac, and Encyclopedia are all what types of books.

What is Reference books?

400
A non-fiction book about a real persons life and their accomplishments or events that happened during their life written by someone else.
What is a Biography?
500

This author started writing stories when he was young, on an old typewriter that jammed and longhand on legal pads. When he was a little older I got a camera for Christmas and became obsessed with photography. You can even visit some of his peculiar children in an abandoned orphanage 

Who is Ransom Riggs?

500

An age-old vendetta between two powerful families erupts into bloodshed. A group of masked men from one family risk further conflict by gatecrashing a party hosted by their rival family.  A young man and woman fall instantly in love and secretly wed. 

What is Romeo and Juliet?

500

A series of fantasy romance novels by Stephanie Meyer. It follows the life of a human teenager who moves to Forks, Washington and finds her life turned upside-down when she falls in love with a vampire  

What is Twilight?

500
When an author uses words in their writing to mimic sounds. It appeals to the sense of hearing and brings a description to life. Example: Buzzzzz!
What is Onomatopoeia?
500
A fictional story where the setting and characters are part of a notable period in history.
What is historical fiction?
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