May+6


 * 1) In what book does an eleven-year old girl face starvation and drowning while escaping to Zimbabwe? (//A Girl Named Disaster// by Nancy Framer)
 * 2) This book by Kathi Appelt is one of this year’s Newbery Honor books. It is about a dog that is chained and starved by his owner and that finds companions in a stray cat and her two kittens. What is the title of this book? (//The Underneath//)
 * 3) A girl is left behind on an island where she lived alone for 18 years. This is a famous book by Scott O’Dell. What is the title? (//Island of the Blue Dolphins//)
 * 4) In the book __Fever, 1793,__ Laurie Halse Anderson tells the story of Matilda Cook who struggles to survive an epidemic in Philadelphia in the year 1793. What illness were people dying of in this epidemic? (//yellow fever//)
 * 5) What is the title of the book that continuers the story of Julie and her wolves from the book //Julie and the Wolves//? (//Julie’s Wolf Pack//)
 * 6) // Nory Ryan’s Song // by Patricia Reilly Giff describes the struggle of an Irish family to survive a disease that has attacked their crop. What crop did the family grow? (//potatoes//)
 * 7) What creature is Poppy in the book of the same name by Avi? (//a deer mouse//)
 * 8) In the first book of the Shamer Chronicles, 10 year-old Dina has to use her magical power to rescue her mother. Who is the author of this series? (//Lene Kaaberbol//). Bonus point; what is the author’s nationality? (//Danish//)
 * 9) Moon Blake has always lived in the woods with his father. But when his father is accidentally killed, he decides to set off to Alaska to find other people like him who live by themselves with little contact with the outside world. This book is by Watt Key. What is the title? (//Alabama Moon//)
 * 10) What kind of natural disaster destroys a village in the book //Nation// by Terry Pratchett? (//a tsunami//)
 * 11) Kate Applegate’s book //Isolation// comes from which series of boos? (//Remnants//)
 * 12) In //Adrift// by Alan Baillie, which animal do Flynn and his sister Sally take on the crate as they go out to sea? (//cat//)
 * 13) In //Between a Rock and a Hard Place// by Alden Carter, two boys aged 15 and 17 go on an outward bound type adventure in the outdoors which includes hiking in the woods and canoeing. A bear takes most of their food and the story is about how the boys survive and eventually get rescued. Which country is the novel placed in? (//USA, Minnesota//)
 * 14) This book is the first in a new series by Suzanne Collins – author of the Underland Chronicles. It tells the story of the future, where different district must take part in games that competitors must fight in to the death. What is the name of the book? (//The Hunger Games//)
 * 15) Who wrote Robinson Crusoe? (//Daniel Defoe//)
 * 16) The title of this book by Michael Robert Evans contains a number which relates to a number of knots in a rope. In the book students are on a leadership cruise; when their adult leader dies the students continue on with the curise. What is the number in the title and what do the knots signify? (68, tie a knot in a rope each day that the students are on their cruise, it also signifies the number of days left of summer )Title: //68 Knots: A Novel//
 * 17) In the book //Shackleton’s Stowaway// by Victoria McKernan, where does the ship that Perce Blackborow, the stowaway, go to? Hint: the ship is called Endurance (//Antartica//)