Things A Map Won't Show You
Coraline
The Bone Sparrow
Grammar, spelling and punctuation
Vocabulary
100

The name of the boy who jumps off the roof in 'Learning to Fly'

Who is David?

100

The location where Coraline's parents were hidden.

What is a snow globe?

100

I was born in the detention centre

Who is Subhi?

100

In grammar, what does the tense express?

What is time?

100

A formal way of referring to the main character of a text

What is a protagonist?

200

The girl in Australia Day thinks this food has poisoned her

What is a potato?

200

The names of the two elderly ladies who live in Coraline's building

Who are Miss Spink and Miss Forcible?

200

I'm a famous author who names a duck in the novel.

Who is Shakespeare?

200

A punctuation mark that is used to indicate a quote has been shortened in the middle

What is an ellipsis (...)?

200

A word that is used to describe a writer using the five senses in their writing.

What is imagery?

300

The salesman in Cloud Busting sells this household item

What are saucepans?

300

The Other Father is described as this when Coraline finds him in the basement.

What is bread dough?

300

A sparrow in the house symbolises this

What is death or hope and change?

300

Which word in this sentence is an adverb? - "The lively owl hooted loudly into the night."

What part of speech is loudly?

300

A term used to describe a person seeking safety in another country from their own

What is an asylum seeker?

400

The name of the story about Tanny and Lynchy

What is The Exotic Rissole?

400

A Scottish word that describes a protective amulet made of a stone with a hole in the middle of it

What is a hagstone?

400

The name of a pet mentioned in the novel

What is Ratticus?

400

After which word should a comma appear? - "Let’s eat mum and dad."

What is eat?

400

A word for a system of rules or laws that is particularly harsh or unfair

What is oppression?

500

The name of Lan's cricket team in Only a Game

NIPS XI

500

"You'll go home. You'll be bored. You'll be ignored." is said by this character.

Who is the Other Mr Bobinsky/Crazy Old Man?

500

"Writing does lie. It lies all the time." is spoken by which character.

What did Subhi say?

500

A term used to describe when you shorten two words by combining them into one word with an apostrophe

What is a contraction?

500

A German word that describes a body double

What is a doppelgänger?