Author
Alcott, Louisa May
Book
Little Women
Anderson, Laurie Halse
Fever 1793
Angelou, Maya
Phenomenal Woman
Applegate, Katherine
The One and Only Ivan
Bartoletti, Susan Campbell
They Called Themselves the KKK:
the Birth of an American
Terrorist Group
Benet, Stephen Vincent
The Devil and Daniel Webster
Blumenthal, Karen
Steve Jobs: the Man who
Thought Different
Burnett, Frances Hodgson
The Secret Garden
Carroll, Lewis
The Walrus and the Carpenter
Details
About the March sisters: Meg,
Jo, Beth, and Amy
Sequel (about Professor and Jo)
is Little Men
Main character Mattie Cook
Yellow fever epidemic in
Philadelphia
Super famous poem about the
awesome feminine attributes of
the writer
About a caged gorilla who
mentors baby elephant Ruby
Also by this author:
Hitler Youth: Growing up in
Hitler’s Shadow
The Boy Who Dared
The Flagmaker
This retelling of the classic
German Faust tale is based on
the short story "The Devil and
Tom Walker", written by
Washington Irving. Benet's
version of the story centers on a
New Hampshire farmer named
Jabez Stone who sells his soul to
the Devil and is defended by
Daniel Webster, a fictional
version of the famous lawyer
and orator.
Biography
Also wrote:
Six Days In October (about the
1929 stock market crash)
Let Me Play (about Title 9 which
is the law that mandates sports
for girls)
Mary Lennox, main character
Misselwaithe Manor
Oysters get eaten
appears in chapter four of
Through the Looking Glass
recited by Tweedledee
Carson, Rachel
Silent Spring
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Cooper, James Fenimore
Dickinson, Emily
Leatherstocking Tales
1. Deerslayer
2. Last of the Mohicans
3. The Pathfinder
4. The Pioneers
5. The Prairie
Because I could not stop for
Death…
Douglass, Frederick
Engle, Margarita
What to a slave is the 4th of July?
The Surrender Tree
Flaubert, Gustave
Madame B ovary
Folk Hero
William Tell
Fossey, Diane
Gorillas in the Mist
Frost, Robert
The Mending Wall
Gaiman, Neil
The Graveyard Book
Gantos, Jack
Hole In My Life
Book about the evils of pesticide
use, inspired by the author’s
opposition to the use of DDT
Poem
Also wrote
Kubla Khan
Christabel
Main character Natty Bumppo
Mostly in New York
Frontier times
French and Indian War
Other characters are
Chingachgook, Hurry Harry
March, and Uncas
Poet
Very reclusive – never left home
Known as the “Belle of Amherst”
Live in Amherst, Massachusetts
Poems don’t have titles, are
known by the first lines…
--I’m Nobody! Who are you?
--Hope is the thing with feathers
-A speech given on July 5, 1852
All books by this author are
probably about Cuba
Also wrote: A Simple Heart and A
Sentimental Education
From Swiss legend, was a famed
marksman and shot an arrow
into an apple on his son’s head
to save both their lives
Famous zoologist worked with
gorillas in their natural habitat
Good fences make good
neighbors
Also wrote the Sandman comic
book series
Autobiography
Also by this author:
The Joey Pigza books
Dead End in Norvelt –
Gibson, William
The Miracle Worker
Ginsburg, Allen
Greenburg, Jan and Jordan,
Sandra
Harte, Bret
Howl
Mad Potter
The Luck of Roaring Camp
nosebleeds, grounded for life,
has to write obituaries, 2012
Newberry Medal winner
Play based on the life of Helen
Keller (who was deaf and blind)
and her teacher, Annie Sullivan
Beat poetry
Book about reclusive potter
George Ohr
Short story about a baby born in
a gold prospecting camp in the
1800s whose mom (Cherokee
Sal) die and the men of the camp
have to raise the baby
Another short story is The
Outcasts of Poker Flat
Hawthorne, Nathaniel
Hawthorne, Nathaniel
House of the Seven Gables
The Scarlet Letter
Hawthorne, Nathaniel
Hill, Kirkpatrick
Young Goodman Brown
Bo at Ballard Creek
Hopkinson, Deborah
Hughes, Langston
Titanic: Voices from the Disaster
Harlem
Huxley, Aldous
Brave New World
Jackson, Shirley
The Lottery
Juster, Norton
Phantom Tollbooth
Hester Prynne – main character
had to wear an A on her clothes
that stood for adultery
Short story
Won the Scott O’Dell award
Main character is girl named Bo
Set in Alaskan Gold Rush
Poem includes the similes “dry
up like a raisin in the sun,”
“fester like a sore,” and “stink
like rotten meat”
Also by this author
I, Too, Sing America
Set in the 25th centrury.
Nightmare utopian novel about
science and technology having
tyranny over humanity
Short story with a twist at the
end
Other titles by this author
--One Ordinary Day, with
Peanuts
--Charles
Tock, Milo, Spelling Bee, Rhyme
and Reason, Humbug, Doldrums,
Dictionopolis, Digitopolis
Kadohata, Cynthia
Kira-Kira
Kipling, Rudyard
The Jungle Book
Konigsburg, E.L.
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs.
Basil E. Frankweiler
Lai, Thanhha
Inside Out and Back Again
Law, Ingrid
Savvy
Lazarus, Emma
The New Colossus
Lord Byron
She Walks in Beauty
Also wrote The Hello Goodbye
Window – a picture book with
illustrator Chris Raschka
2005 Newberry Medal Winner
Describes the strong love in a
Japanese American family from
the point of view of the younger
sister Katie
Mowgli, Baloo the bear, Shere
Khan the tiger, Bigira the
panther, Kaa the snake, King
Louie the orangutan
Two kids, Claudia and her
younger brother James, run
away from home to live in the
Metropolitan Museum of Art in
New York City
Also by this author:
The View from Saturday
2012 Newberry Honor winner
Vietnamese family immigrates to
Alabama during Vietnam War
2009 Newberry Honor Book
about magical powers in a
family, focusing on a wild bus
ride through the countryside on
a journey of self-discovery for
Mibs Beaumont and her
companions
Poem on the Statue of Liberty
monument
Most famous stanza is “Give me
your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to
breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your
teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless,
tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden
door!”
A poem describing the elegance
and grace of a woman
Lord, Cynthia
Rules
Lowry, Lois
Melville, Herman
The Giver quartet
1. The Giver
2. Gathering Blue
3. Messenger
4. Son
Moby Dick
Milne, A.A.
Winnie the Pooh
Montgomery, Lucy Maud
Anne of Green Gables
Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds
Shiloh
Nelson, Vaunda Micheaux
Bad News for Outlaws
Orwell, George
1984
Park, Linda Sue
A Single Shard
Paterson, Katherine
Jacob Have I Loved
A novel about the rules that
Catherine makes for her autistic
brother, David, to follow.
Also wrote Touch Blue
Alternate titles is The Whale
Famous first line of the novel is
“Call me Ishmael”
Captain Ahab is important
character
Prequel to The house at Pooh
Corner
Anne Shirley is an orphan with
red hair and freckles who comes
to live with the Cuthberts,
Matthew and Marilla (who are
brother and sister). They reside
in the region/town of Avonlea.
There is a series of books about
Anne that follows this one.
Dog who is badly treated by
owner, Judd Travers, is rescued
by young boy names Marty
Preston
Biography of Bass Reeves who
escaped from slavery to freedom
in the Indian Territories and
served as a Deputy US Marshal
for 30 years.
Book about a future where there
are no individual rights.
Language in the book is called
newspeak (words like bellyfeel,
unperson, crimethink)
“Big brother is watching.”
Tree Ear wants to be a potter. He
becomes an apprentice to Min.
He takes Min’s pottery to
Songdo in hopes of earning a
royal commission
1981 Newberry Award winner
chronicles the lifelong rivalry
between two sisters
Peck, Richard
A Long Way from Chicago
Pierce, Tamora
Poe, Edgar Allen
“Protector of the Small” quartet
1. First Test
2. Page
3. Squire
4. Lady Knight
Murder in the Rue Morgue
Poe, Edgar Allen
The Raven
Poe, Edgar Allen
The Bells
Poe, Edgar Allen
The Cask of Amontillado
Quote
Ronald Reagan
Quote
John F. Kennedy
Quote
John F. Kennedy
Quote
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Quote
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Also by this author:
Bridge to Terebithia
The Great Gilly Hopkins
Also wrote, A Year Down Yonder
and A Season of Gifts
Several other series of four
books or “quartets” as well
Considered the first modern
detective story
Detective’s name is C. Auguste
Dupin
Epic poem
Lenore is lady in poem
“Quoth the raven, ‘Nevermore’”
Poem
Silver bells, Golden bells, Brazen
bells, Iron bells
Narrator named Montresor
seeks revenge on an
acquaintance named Fortunato
Amontillado is a type of Spanish
wine
“Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this
wall!” said in reference to the
Berlin Wall which separated the
city of Berlin, Germany into East
(communist) and West
(democratic)
“Ask not what your country can
do for you, ask what you can do
for your country.”
“We choose to go to the moon in
this decade…”
“December 7, 1941, a date which
will live in infamy” said in a
speech the day after the
bombing of Pearl Harbor by
Japanese troops
“The only thing we have to fear
is fear itself” from an inaugural
address
Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan
A Mother in Mannville
Rubin, Susan Goldman
Music Was IT
Saenz, Benjamin Alire
Aristotle and Dante Discover the
Secrets of the Universe
Midsummer Night’s Dream
Shakespeare, William
Shaw, George Bernard
Pygmalion
Sinclair, Upton
The Jungle
Speare, Elizabeth George
Witch of Blackbird Pond
Stead, Rebecca
When You Reach Me
Stockton, Frank R.
The Lady, or the Tiger
Swanson, James L.
The President Has Been Shot
Short story, main character Jerry
Also wrote Pulitzer Prize winning
book The Yearling
Book about Leonard Bernstein
who was famous composer
(West Side Story and Candide)
and conductor of New York
Philharmonic
2013 Printz Honor Book
Puck is a mischievous sprite who
serves the king of the fairies,
Oberon whose wife is Titania,
queen of the fairies
This story was suggested in “The
Knight’s Tale” from The
Canterbury Tales
Play about how a phonetics
professor, Henry Higgins,
transforms the life of a lowerclass girl, Eliza Doolittle, by
teaching her to speak better
Broadway musical based on this
play is called My Fair Lady
Sinclair wrote The Jungle to
expose the appalling working
conditions in the meat-packing
industry. His description of
diseased, rotten, and
contaminated meat shocked the
public and led to new federal
food safety laws
Kit Tyler
Puritan times
Won the 2010 Newberry Medal
References Madeline L’Engle’s A
Wrinkle in Time
Suspenseful story about
choosing between two doors (a
tiger behind one, beautiful
woman behind the other)
Book about JFK assassination
Also wrote a book or two about
Abraham Lincoln’s assassination
Sweet, Melissa
Balloons Over Broadway
Swift, Jonathon
Gulliver’s Travels
Thoreau, Henry David
Walden
Twain, Mark
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
(Manhunt, Chasing Lincoln’s
Killer)
Book about puppeteer Tony Sarg
who invented the giant balloons
you see in the Macy’s parade
Gulliver travels to Laputa,
Brobdingnag (land of giants),
Lilliput (land of little people) and
others
A reflection upon simple living in
natural surroundings. The work
is part personal declaration of
independence, social
experiment, voyage of spiritual
discovery, satire, and manual for
self-reliance. First published in
1854, it details Thoreau's
experiences over the course of
two years, two months, and two
days in a cabin he built near
Walden Pond, amidst woodland
owned by his friend and mentor
Ralph Waldo Emerson, near
Concord, Massachusetts. The
book compresses the time into a
single calendar year and uses
passages of four seasons to
symbolize human development.
Feuding families:
Grangerfords/Shepherdsons
Takes place on the Mississippi
Also wrote The Adventures of
Tom Sawyer(Becky Thatcher,
Aunt Polly, whitewashing a
fence)
Vawter, Vince
Paperboy
Whitman, Walt
O Captain! My Captain!
Short stories:
The Tragedy of Pudd’nhead
Wilson
Celebrated Jumping Frog of
Calaveras County
Main character Victor Vollmer
Has a stutter
Set in Memphis
Poem that is an extended
metaphor comparing a ship with
Wilde, Oscar
Wilder, Thornton
Williams-Garcia, Rita
The Importance of Being Earnest
Our Town
One Crazy Summer
Words to know
Words to know
Alma mater
Au pair
Words to know
Carte blanche
Words to know
Words to know
Faux pas
Prima donna
Words to know
Oxymoron
Words to know
Epic
Words to know
Allegory
a dead captain to the
assassination of Abraham Lincoln
Famous play by this Irish
author/playwright
His only novel was A Picture of
Dorian Gray
Famous play set in Grover’s
Corners, New Hampshire
Main characters are: George
Gibbs, Emily Webb, Simon
Stimson, Mrs. Soames, and Wally
Webb
Characters are Delphine,
Vonetta, and Fern who are
sisters
Also wrote P.S. Be Eleven
The school you graduated from
A nanny, often from a foreign
country
Literally means a “blank check” –
means you can do whatever you
want
An embarrassing social mistake
The principal singer in an opera
company; also refers to
someone who is vain and hard to
work with
A combination of words that
mean the opposite that
shouldn’t make sense but does
Examples: jumbo shrimp,
deafening silence, terribly good
Story about a hero or about
exciting events or adventures
Examples: The Raven by Edgar
Allen Poe; Hiawatha by Henry
Wadsworth Longfellow; The
Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey
Chaucer; The Divine Comedy by
Dante; Beowulf; The Iliad; The
Odyssey
A story in which the characters
and events are symbols that
stand for ideas about human life
Words to know
Moor
Words to know
Dumbwaiter
Words to know
Words to know
Words to know
Words to know
Eureka
Hoi polloi
Nemesis
Platitude
Words to know
Cliché
Words to know
Tempus fugit
Words to Know
Freytag’s Pyramid
Words to know
Pantomime
Words to Know
Stockholm Syndrome
Words to know
Satire
Words to know
Personification
Words to know
Parody
or for a political or historical
situation. Examples: The Lion,
the Witch, and the Wardrobe by
CS Lewis; Animal Farm by George
Orwell; Pilgrim’s Progress by
John Bunyan; The Lord of the
Flies by William Golding; Moby
Dick by Herman Melville
Expanse of land that is not good
for farming; found mainly in
England and Scotland
Small elevator for carrying food
or goods from one floor of a
building to another – usually
found in big old houses
I have found it
The common people
Opponent
Something that has been said so
much that it is no longer
meaningful
Overused phrase or expression
that is commonplace
Latin phrase meaning “time
flies”
The structure of PLOT:
Exposition, Rising Action, Climax,
Falling Action, Resolution
A performance where character
and story are portrayed using
only gestures (no words).
Abbreviated as Mime sometimes
as well.
When kidnapping victims grow
emotionally attached to their
captors
A literary technique that uses
humor and/or sarcasm to show
that something is wrong and is
usually an attempt to inspire
others to help fix wrongs.
When objects or animals are
given human characteristics
A work in which the style of an
original work is closely imitated
for comic effect.
Words to know
Pastoral
Words to know
Aside
Words to know
Irony
Yelchin, Eugene
Breaking Stalin’s Nose
Other titles mentioned:
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
James and the Giant Peach
Wind in the Willows
Dear Mr. Henshaw
Tale of Despereaux
Hatchet
Harriet the Spy
Stargirl
Al Capone Does My Shirts
Among the Hidden (Shadow Children series)
Example is Weird Al Yankovic
songs
Having to do with shepherds and
rustic country settings
Spoken by an actor onstage in a
play directly to the audience and
the other characters do not hear
what is being said.
Can be situational, dramatic, or
verbal (sarcasm)
Sasha Zaichik has known the
laws of the Soviet Young
Pioneers since the age of six. But
now that it is finally time to join
the Young Pioneers, the day
Sasha has awaited for so long,
everything seems to go awry. He
breaks a classmate's glasses with
a snowball. He accidentally
damages a bust of Stalin in the
school hallway. And worst of all,
his father, the best Communist
he knows, was arrested just last
night. This moving story of a tenyear-old boy's world shattering is
masterful in its simplicity,
powerful in its message, and
heartbreaking in its plausibility.