The age when Walter Dean Myers dropped out of school and joined the Army.
What is 17?
100
These are considered to be trademarks in Brett's books and often tell a story of their own.
What are the borders?
100
You'll find Carmen infrequently at home in this Metro Atlanta city.
What is Decatur?
100
Patricia suffers from this learning disability, making her writing even more remarkable.
What is dyslexia?
100
Tunnel & Jacobs say these provide an opportunity for small groups of children to talk together about a text.
What are Literature Circles?
200
Where Walter moved with his foster family, Herbert and Florence Dean, in 1940.
Where is Harlem?
200
A boy named Nikki loses this important piece of winter clothing in the snow.
What is a mitten?
200
Denmark's King Christian stands in solidarity with his Jewish citizens during WWII in this Deedy title.
What is The Yellow Star?
200
Traci, Miss Wichelman and the entire fifth grade class stand up for Marilyn when they learn of her leukemia diagnosis in this Polacco title.
What is The Lemonade Club?
200
This book by Cormac McCarthy won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2007.
What is The Road?
300
The book for which Myers won the Printz Award in 2000.
What is Monster?
300
Teeka tries to strong arm these animals and yells at them, but they just get wilder and wilder.
What are reindeer?
300
Tears in your eyes are pretty much guaranteed in this Deedy book reflecting on America's loss on 9/11.
What is 14 Cows for America?
300
This little carved wooden bird shows up in the mail after Sadie escapes from the Kentucky plantation to her family's new home in Michigan.
What is a sparrow?
300
Frankenstein Makes a Sandwich, Dirty Cowboy & The True Meaning of Smekday all have sprung from the fertile imagination of this slightly-off-kilter author.
Who is Adam Rex?
400
Myers is a five-time winner and four-time recipient in the honor category of this important literary award.
What is The Coretta Scott King Award?
400
This little chicken goes to sleep in her basket and floats away in the rising river. Ah, think KFC...
Who is Daisy?
400
Darmen Deedy won this prestigious award in 2008 for Martina the Beautiful Cockroach.
What is The Pura Belpre Medal?
400
Patricia is no slacker in the "smarts" department, holding a Ph.D. in this subject.
What is Art History?
400
The Sandman, an extremely popular series first published in 1989, has been bound into a collector's edition that's worth every $$$. Name the author
Who is Neil Gaiman?
500
Ok, were you really paying attention when Rob shared this old, old book from Pullen's collection? Name Myers' first published book and win a handful of Smarties.
What is Where Does the Day Go?
500
Name one of the two books Jan Brett published in 2010.
What are The Easter Egg and The 3 Little Dassies?
500
In 1995 Carmen's collection of 12 short stories collected in this book received a Publisher's Weekly Best Audio Book award.
What is Growing up Cuban in Decatur, Georgia?
500
Patricia credits this late American illustrator with being her "greatest artistic hero."
Who was Norman Rockwell?
500
What type of birds return annually to Hinkley, OH in the springtime?