March+11

1. What is the name of the famous girl detective who appears in Carolyn Keene’s popular books? //(Nancy Drew//)

2. Who is the girl with the photographic memory in the mystery books by David Adler? (//Cam Jansen//)

3. When Ellie and her friends return form a camping trip in the Australian desert, they discover that their country has been invaded and their families imprisoned. They decide to fight the enemies by acts of sabotage. This famous series by John Marsden was a bestseller worldwide and was translated into many languages. What is the title of the first book (this is also the title of the series)?(//Tomorrow when the War Began//)

4. How many books are there in the Dream Saga series by Negumi Tachikawa? (//5//)

5. There are many versions of the story of Anne Frank by different authors, Anne was a Jewish girl who hid from persecution by the Nazis in World War II and was eventually taken off to a concentration camp where she died. Which city did she live in? (//Amsterdam//)

6. What is the name of the girl hero in __Nightbirds__ on Nantucket by Joan Aiken? (//Dido Twite//)

7. In the Cam Jansen series by David Adler and Susanna Natti which is the latest book that was published in October 2008? (//Cam Jansen and the Green School Mystery//)

8. __The Sisterhood of Travelling Pants__, __Girls in Pants__, and __Forever in Blue__ are all part of a series of book about girl heroes. What is the series and who is the author? (//Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares//)

9. This series by Annie Bryant is about a group of girls who are best friends. Avery, [|I] sabel, Charlotte, Katani, and Maeve are totally different in many ways, but that just makes their friendship even better. What is the name of the series? (//The Beacon Street Girls//)

10. This is a really new book that just came out this year. It is by a popular author called Suzanne Collins who also wrote the bestselling Underland series. The protagonist is called Katniss who has use her survival skills and her cleverness when she faces death. What is the title of the book? (//The Hunger Games//).

11. This classic story by Harper Lee features a girl called Scout, her brother Jem and her father Atticus Finch. It is a story about racism and prejudice in the deep South in the 1930s. What is the title of the book? (//To Kill a Mockingbird//)

12. Charlie, the heroine in the Jacqueline Wilson book ‘The Lottie Project’ ends up sitting next to a girl in the class she doesn’t like at the beginning of the school year. As the year goes on, her opinion of the girl changes. What is the name of the girl (Jamie Edwards) and why did Charlotte not like her at the beginning of the year (she was the teacher’s pet).

13. At the beginning of the book __Witch Child__ by Celia Rees, a member of Mary Nuttal’s family is tortured, tried and hung, accused of being a witch. What is this person’s relationship to Mary, the heroine of the story? (her grandmother)

14. __Stargir__l is the first in a series of books about a girl called Stargirl and her family. The second is __Love, Stargirl__. What is the name of the author? (Jerry Spinelli)

15. __Shabanu, Daughter of the Wind__ by Suzanne Fisher Staples portrays the story of a girl growing up among camel-dealing nomads. In which country does she live? (Pakistan)