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The town of Pepin, Wisconsin is home to a museum honoring this author of the Little House books, most famously Little House on the Prairie

Who is Laura Ingalls Wilder?

100
The magical land that the children discover in The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe

What is Narnia?

100

Shakespeare's tragic prince of Denmark who asks "to be or not to be"

Who is Hamlet?

100

The city that is the setting for most of the novel A Christmas Carol?

What is London?

100

This 1897 novel sees Abraham Van Helsing chasing down the title character in his castle in modern-day Romania

What is Dracula?

200

Oakland, California features a neighborhood named after this author of The Call of the Wild who lived in the area

Who is Jack London?

200

The kind of animal that Charlotte is in Charlotte's Web

What is a spider?

200

The play Romeo and Juliet is set in this city

What is Verona?

200

Also known as The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up, this book features three siblings leaving home to live in a magical land with other lost children

What is Peter Pan?
200

The author of books such as Pride and Prejudice and Emma

Who is Jane Austen?

300

This book is said to have contributed so much to popular feeling against slavery that it is sometimes cited among the causes of the American Civil War

What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?

300

What the Grinch tries to steal in Dr. Seuss's famous story

What is Christmas?

300

Odysseus's wife in The Odyssey

Who is Penelope?

300

This American author is best known for children's and young-adult literature such as Superfudge and Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret

Who is Judy Blume?

300

The companion and chief interpreter of the detective Sherlock Holmes

Who is Dr. John Watson?

400

In The Scarlett Letter, the letter that Hester Prynne is forced to wear

What is "A"?

400

First appearing in the children's book Cecily G. and the Nine Monkeys, this character is best friends with the Man in the Yellow Hat

Who is Curious George?

400

This Massachusetts-born poet was famously prolific, having written nearly 1,800 poems with than a dozen published during her lifetime. Famous poems include "Because I could not stop for Death" and "Tell all the truth but tell it slant."

Who is Emily Dickinson?

400

A young boy takes a train to the North Pole on Christmas Eve in this classic 1985 children's book by Chris Van Allsburg

What is The Polar Express?

400

This 1847 Emily Bronte classic deals with two West Yorkshire families, the Earnshaws and the Lintons, especially focusing on the adopted Earnshaw, Heathcliff

What is Wuthering Heights?

500

In 1993, this author became the first African American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. Her works include Beloved and Song of Solomon

Who is Toni Morrison?

500

Huckle Cat, Lowly Worm, and Sprout Goat are some of the various characters who can be found within the busy world of this author and illustrator

Who is Richard Scarry?

500

This playwright's "The Pittsburgh Cycle" consists of 10 plays about the Black American experience, including "Fences" and "The Piano Lesson"

Who is August Wilson?

500

The author William Golding won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1983 for his parables of the human condition in this book

What is Lord of the Flies?

500

This quote comes from this author and book:

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.”

What is A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens?