GDBA Authors
Kate O'Shauhgnessy, author of The Wrong Way Home, also wrote last year's Golden Dome Book Award winner, this book.
What is Lasagna Means I Love You?
This fiction genre has books that include events that could really happen, similar to All the Ways to Go, by Jessie Janowitz.
What is Realistic Fiction?
A book that has the definition of many words.
What is a dictionary?
“Do not forget for one second that Miami is a sunny place filled with shady people.”
“It’s actually a good thing for us,” Zoe said. “Shady people have secrets. Secrets lead to mysteries. Mysteries need detectives. That shadiness is where we’re going to get our business.”
What is The Sherlock Society?
This graphic novel tells the story of book loving twins named Page and Turner who have an absolutely crazy adventure in the New York City Library.
What is The Night Librarian by Christopher Lincoln?
Vermont writer Katherine Arden won the Golden Dome in 2020 for this, the first book in a spooky 4-part series.
What is Small Spaces?
This fiction genre includes books such as Keeper of the Lost Cities, Wings of Fire, and Katherine Rundell's Impossible Creatures.
What is Fantasy?
A book that is filled with maps.
What is an atlas?
Rachel, I do appreciate
your enthusiasm for biology,
but I cannot advise
a change in your major.
There is very little opportunity
for a woman in science.
What is A Force of Nature?
Where is the camp in A Summer at Squee located?located?
What is Boston?
This author won the Golden Dome in 2021 for his book Charlie Thorne and the Last Equation; he also wrote the Spy School and Fun Jungle series.
Who is Stuart Gibbs?
Like A Force of Nature, this type of book tells a complete, multi-chapter story—including plot, characters, and settings—using poetry instead of full sentences and paragraphs.
What is a book in verse?
A book a person writes about their own life.
What is an autobiography?
Mal lifted Gelifen to her shoulder. “Is there breakfast?” she asked.
There was. They ate it–the five humans, the griffin, and the ratatoska–sitting on the deck in the rising sun.
What is Impossible Creatures?
The grandpa character in The Sherlock Society is very interested in investigating because of this job that he used to have.
What is a journalist?
This author won the Golden Dome Book award two years in a row for his historical fiction books Projekt 1065 and Refugee.
Who is Alan Gratz?
This fiction genre contains stories revolving around a puzzling crime, event, or unknown circumstance.
What is Mystery?
A Japanese-style graphic novel inspired by anime.
What is manga?
I could strike Renzo down. I might not take him our of play, but the rest of my team were close enough that they could surely finish it.
It wouldn’t change the Great Game. But it would win Gramps his freedom.
What is The Game of Noctis?
In the book Wrong Way Home what kind of shop does the character Babs own?
What is a tea shop?
This author wrote Willodeen, The One and Only Ivan, and 2024's GDBA winner, ODDER.
Who is Katherine Applegate?
Like in The Bletchley Riddle, this fiction genre has books that take place during a important time in history.
What is Historical Fiction?
This type of book is a story told through art, combining illustrations and text.
What is a Graphic Novel?
Boo’s stomach growls. I think she’s too hungry to nap, but I sing, “Nutty up, nutty down, nutty turn yourself around. Nutty pillow, nutty bed, nutty covers over your head,” and she climbs in bed. Then I hold her hand until she falls asleep.
What is The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman?
In The Secret Library what does Dally find in the envelope that her grandfather left her?
What is a letter and the map to the Secret Library?