Name that Book
It’s a story of growing up in a southern town in the 1930s and the trial of a black man accused of attacking a white girl.
Frankenstein
Mary Shelley
Usually involves the main character going on a quest or journey and experiencing extreme conditions.
Adventure
The second book in the Harry Potter series premiered on the big screen in 2002
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
She's been solving mysteries since 1930, sometimes with her friends the Hardy Boys.
Wuthering Heights
Emily Bronte
Set in new or alternative worlds, or futuristic societies and is characterised by degradation in values, social hierarchy, terror and oppression.
Dystopian
Clive Barker's horror novella "The Hellbound Heart", about a mystical puzzle box that opens a portal to an extra-dimensional realm that is supposed to be a place of unfathomable carnal pleasure, but which is actually one of horrible torture and pain, was made into what 1987 film?
Hellraiser
This is the story of members of a gang called The Greasers and the feuds against members of the Socs.
Dracula
Bram Stoker
Think imaginary lands, myths and magic. Popular examples include: Lord of the Rings
Fantasy
"10 Things I Hate About You" is loosely based on this Shakespeare play.
The Taming of the Shrew
Nick Carraway tells the story sometime after 1922, when the incidents that fill the book take place. As the story opens, Nick has just moved from the Midwest to West Egg, Long Island, seeking his fortune as a bond salesman
Farenheit 451
Ray Bradbury
This genre of books has been written with the intention to scare the reader with gory details of blood, ghosts, vampires, skeletons, demons and the supernatural world.
Horror
This 1995 coming of age comedy set in California is loosely based on Jane Austin's 1815 novel "Emma"
Clueless\
A young boy takes a train to the North Pole on Christmas Eve in what classic 1985 children's book by Chris Van Allsburg?
The Polar Express
The Secret Garden
Frances Hodgson Burnett
These novels have the story and characters pitched against a significant backdrop of time or history of a place or country.
"Les Liaisons Dangereuses" (Dangerous Liaisons) is an 1782 French novel in which the two main characters use seduction to manipulate and control innocent people in sadistic and rivalrous games that result in the ultimate downfall of both. This story was modernized and made into what film?
Cruel Intentions