Mystery
Monsters
Science Fiction
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Authors
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This sleuth in an American mystery series created by publisher Edward Stratemeyer as the female counterpart to his Hardy Boys series. The character first appeared in 1930. The books are ghostwritten by a number of authors and published under the collective pseudonym Carolyn Keene.
Nancy Drew
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What is this monster?
Mountain Troll
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An English humorist, satirist, and author of fantasy novels, especially comical works. He is best known for his Discworld series of 41 novels.
With more than 85 million books sold worldwide in 37 languages, he was the UK's best-selling author of the 1990s
Sir Terence David John Pratchett
(aka Terry Pratchett)
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When I was in preschool, I had a teacher named Starlily
The Fourteenth Goldfish
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This American writer and illustrator is best known for children's picture books. He won a Caldecott Honor in 2013 for his illustration of Creepy Carrots!.
He also wrote and illustrated: Children Make Terrible Pets; YOU WILL BE MY FRIEND!; Mr. Tiger Goes Wild; My Teacher is a Monster! (No, I Am Not.); The Wild Robot; and The Wild Robot Escapes.
Peter Brown
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Sherlock Holmes' best friend, assistant and, in most of the cases redacted by him, flatmate, and the first person narrator of all but four of these stories.
Dr. John Watson
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What is this monster's name?
In Greek mythology, Medusa also called Gorgo, was one of the three monstrous Gorgons, generally described as winged human females with living venomous snakes in place of hair.
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Why did the Martians want to take over Earth in the War of the Worlds?
The Martians began plotting an invasion of Earth because their own resources were dwindling.
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Our story begins on the ocean, with wind and rain and thunder and lightning and waves.
The Wild Robot
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This author's favorite book as a child was Peter Pan. She is an American author of young adult books. Her first novel, Ella Enchanted, received a Newbery Honor in 1998.
Gail Carson Levine
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Often, the books in this series follow a formula where in the first chapter this eponymous character solving a case at the dinner table for his father, the local police chief in the fictional seaside town of Idaville in an unspecified state.
Encyclopedia Brown
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What book series is this monster from?
The Last Kids on Earth
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What is the gosling’s name that Roz adopts in The Wild Robot
Brightbill
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The screw through Cinder's ankle had rusted, the engraved cross marks worn to a mangled circle.
Cinder
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This author is a 3-time Newberry honor receiver. Her book Our Only May Amelia, the story of a 12-year-old girl living in the late 19th century, was inspired by a diary written by her great aunt, and was a 2000 Newbery Honor Book. She wrote the Babymouse and Squish, series of graphic novels for children illustrated by her brother Matthew; and The Stink Files, a series co-written with her husband Jonathan Hamel featuring James Edward Bristlefur, a cat raised by a British secret agent who is adopted by an American family and renamed Mr. Stink after his owner is murdered.
Jennifer L. Holm
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In this book a bizarre chain of events begins when sixteen unlikely people gather for the reading of a will. No one knows why the eccentric, game-loving millionaire has chosen a virtual stranger—and a possible murderer—to inherit his vast fortune.
The Westing Game
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What is the name of this monster?
Gruffalo
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How many brothers does Meg have in A Wrinkle in Time?
3
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Ho Chi Minh City in the summer. Sweltering by anyone's standards.
Artemis Fowl
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This author wrote The Time Machine, The Invisible Man, and The Island of Doctor Moreau.
H.G. Wells
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Claudia Kincaid knew that she could never pull off the old-fashioned kind of running away … so she decided not to run FROM somewhere, but TO somewhere. And so, after some careful planning, she and her younger brother, Jamie, escaped — right into a mystery that made headlines!
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
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What is this monster from a Jules Verne classic?
A Giant Squid from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
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What are the names of Cinder's two stepsisters in Marisa Meyer's Cinder?
Peony and Pearl
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The last time we saw Charlie, he was riding above his home town in the Great Glass Elevator.
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator
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An American children's author. He has written five series: the FunJungle series, the Moon Base Alpha series, the Spy School series, the Charlie Thorne series, and the Last Musketeer series. He was a screenwriter for many years before becoming an author; among the movies he wrote the screenplay for are Showdown (1993), See Spot Run (2001), and Repli-Kate (2002).
Stuart Gibbs