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100

The first book in an ongoing series in which the story is told through a combination of mysterious photographs from the personal archives of collectors and written story surrounding them by Ransom Riggs.  

What is Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children?

100

“The ____ Habits of Highly Effective People”

What is 7?

100

In 2019 this Rick Riordan title guy—”& the Olympians”, too—spent week 500 on the children’s series list, & that’s no myth.

Who is Percy Jackson?

100

“The Fastest Kid in the Fifth Grade” is chapter 3 of “Bridge to” this enchanted land.

What is Terabithia?

100

Young Lyra leads a battle in the arctic to save children who were kidnapped and severed from the animal soul mates in this fantastical world that spawned a trilogy, a 2007 feature film, and a current HBO TV series. 

What is the His Dark Materials series? (Also acceptable: The Golden Compass (Book 1).

200

In this Newbery-Award-winning 1978 novel by Ellen Raskin, millionaire Sam Westing leaves a will challenging 16 heirs to solve the mystery of who murdered him.

What is The Westing Game?

200

The Breakfast Club meets Pretty Little Liars, this debut young adult novel by Karen McManus is the story of what happens when five strangers walk into detention and only four walk out alive.

What is One of Us is Lying?

200

In the book "Holes" by Louis Sachar, the nickname given to Stanley's illiterate friend.

What is Zero?

200

Mary Pope Osborne has taken kids all through history as Jack & Annie travel in this magic structure.

What is The Magic Treehouse?

200

The latest adaptation of this 1868 Louisa May Alcott book starred Soairse Ronan as Jo and was nominated for a Best Picture Oscar at this year's 92nd Academy Awards.

What is Little Women?

300

A young boy with autism investigates the murder of a neighbor's dog and in doing so, explores the travails and contradictions of everyday life from an alternate perspective. 

What is The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time?

300

In this first novel of a Rick Yancey series, we follow 16-year-old Cassie Sullivan as she tries to survive in a world devastated by the waves of alien invasions that have decimated the Earth's population.

What is The Fifth Wave?

300

Daisy Buchanan’s cousin, he narrates “The Great Gatsby.”

Who is Nick Carraway?

300

The party tree that grew in this Middle-Earth land was the location of Bilbo’s farewell speech.

What is The Shire?

300

A novel by Chuck Palahniuk was the basis for this film starring Brad Pitt & Edward Norton.

What is Fight Club?

400

Montresor, the narrator of this Poe story, lures Fortunato to his doom with the promise of a fine Spanish sherry.

What is “The Cask of Amontillado?”

400

A Temperance Brennan novel: “___ Bones” (referring to the number of bones in the body)

What is 206?

400

The first and middle names of Harry Potter's youngest son.

What is Albus Severus?

400

“It was a right motley company that gathered about the noble greenwood tree in ________'s depths” in an 1883 tale of this hero who steals from the rich to give to the poor.

What is Sherwood's?

400

The book series that spawned a literary and television franchise were based on author Laura Ingalls Wilder's own experiences growing up in the Midwest in the late 19th century. 

What is Little House on the Prairie?

500

A New England Catholic school student tries to "disturb the universe" by challenging the school hierarchy and is forced to face his subsequent isolation in this 1974 young adult novel by Robert Cormier. 

What is The Chocolate War?

500

The cover of the first edition of this 1961 military novel by Joseph Heller included a dancing figure & a little airplane. (The title has also become a phrase meaning a "paradoxical situation from which an individual cannot escape because of contradictory rules or limitations.")

What is Catch-22?

500

Jilted on her wedding day, this Dickens character teaches her ward Estella to despise men.

Who is Miss Havisham?

500

After title character Jane Eyre accepts Rochester’s proposal, lightning splits a chestnut tree at _________ Hall?

What is Thornfield?

500

This Spielberg Holocaust film was based on a book by Thomas Keneally.

What is Schindler's List?

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