April+15


 * 1) In this book, Jack and his little sister Lucy are captured by Vikings and taken to the home of King Ivar the Boneless and his half-troll queen. What is the title of this book and who is the author? (The Sea of Trolls/ Nancy Farmer)
 * 2) In the graphic novel, Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, human civilization and most of the Earth’s original ecosystem have been destroyed. Scattered human settlements survive, isolated from one another by the Sea of Decay. Who is the author? (//Hayao Miyazaki//)
 * 3) This book by Herman Melville tells the story of Captain Ahab who is obsessed with finding and killing a great white whale. What is the title? (//Moby-Dick//)
 * 4) An Englishman becomes the sole survivor of a shipwreck and spends the next 24 years alone on an island. What is the title of this famous book and who wrote it? (//Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe//)
 * 5) In this 5th adventure of Cat Royal, she joins a traveling theater, turns pirate, undertakes a Caribbean cruise and gets mixed up in a slave revolt. The author of the Cat Royal series is Julia Golding. What is the fifth title in the series? (//Black Heart in Jamaica//)
 * 6) What was the name of the boy who went with Edmund and Lucy to Narnia in //The Voyage of the Dawn Treader// by C. S. Lewis? (//Eustace)//
 * 7) //The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle// by Avi won a major book award. Which award was it? //(Newbery Honor)//
 * 8) What was the name of the detective in the famous mystery novel //Death on the Nile//? (//Hercule Poirot//)
 * 9) Kevin Henkes wrote a book about a girl who wanted to visit the ocean. After she nearly drowns, she realizes that in life things can happen to anyone. What is the title? (//Olive’s Ocean//)
 * 10) //The Water Weavers// is part of which trilogy by Kai Meyer? //(The Wave Runners)//
 * 11) //In The Cay// by Theodore Taylor, a boy and an old man are stranded on an island after the ship they were traveling on was torpedoed by a German submarine. This story takes place during the WW II. The boy sustained a serious injury. What was this injury? (//he became blind)//
 * 12) In this book by Dale Peck, twelve year-old Susan and her two younger stepbrothers are sent to stay with their uncle who has a very strange house. They experience adventures involving mermaids, pirates, and an attempt to stop time forever. What is the title of this book? (//Drift House//)
 * 13) This is another book about a boy who is stranded on a deserted island. He meets a Japanese man who looks after him and a dog called Stella. The author’s name is Michael Morpurgo. What is the title of the book? (//Kensuke’s Kingdom//)
 * 14) In what book does Captain Nemo appear? (//20,000 Leagues under the Sea – Jules Verne//)
 * 15) In what book in A Series of Unfortunate Events do the Baudelaire children travel in a submarine to find a sugar bowl? (//The Grim Grotto//)
 * 16) In what book by Brian Jacques do Ben and Ned end up in the Mediterranean region in 1703, meet a troupe of traveling entertainers and are pursued by a slave trader? (//Voyage of Slaves//)
 * 17) Reduced to begging and thievery in the streets of London, a thirteen year-old orphan disguises herself as a boy and connives her way onto a British warship for high sea adventures in search of pirates. The author of this book is Louis A. Meyer. What is the title? (//Bloody Jack//)