Local DMV Authors
This local author wrote All American Boys, Ghost, and The Boy in the Black Suit
Jason Reynolds
What is Juliet's last name in Romeo and Juliet?
Capulet
The Other _____ ______ by Wes Moore
The Hunger Games
2000's
2008
Percy Jackson and the Olympians and The Odyssey
Zeus, Poseidon, or Athena
This Rockville, MD author wrote the Spirit Hunters series and The Colliding Worlds of Mina Lee
Ellen Oh
In To Kill a Mockingbird, where does Boo Radley hide gifts for Scout and her brother?
In a tree
Roll of _______, Hear My Cry by Mildred Taylor
Thunder
The Hate U Give
2010's
2017
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets & The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Tom
Tom Riddle and Tom Sawyer
Adam Serwer is the author of The Cruelty Is the Point and is a journalist. He graduated from this local school.
Duke Ellington School of the Arts
Tim O'Brien writes about fighting in this war in his book, The Things We Carried.
The Vietnam War
Inside Out and ___ Again by Thanhha Lai
Back
1984
1940's
1949
One of Us is Lying and Icebreaker
Nate
Elizabeth Acevedo is a local poet and author. This 2016 book about Xiomara Batista is a fifteen-year-old Dominican teenager was challenged/banned by several school districts across the country.
The Poet X
According to the recent Broadway play, who is the villain of The Crucible by Arthur Miller?
John Proctor
145th ____ Stories by Walter Dean Myers
Street
Jane Eyre
1840's
1847
The Lion, Witch, and the Wardrobe and Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
Lucy
Lucy Pevensie and Lucy Gray
Jessica Spotswood wrote Great or Nothing, Tyranny of Petticoats, and The Cahill Witch Chronicles. Where else does she work that's all about books?
In what city does A Raisin in the Sun take place?
Chicago
____ the ____ by Lois Lowry
Number the Stars
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
1950's
1952
A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Great Gatsby
Nick
Nick Bottom and Nick Carraway