Scholar Bowl Study Guide AUTHORS & MAJOR WORKS LOUISA MAY ALCOTT American Little Women Little Men HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN Danish The Ugly Duckling The Princess & The Pea The Emperor's New Clothes The Little Mermaid MAYA ANGELOU American poet I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings “On the Pulse of Morning” – Bill Clinton 1993 Inauguration Poem WILLIAM ARMSTRONG Sounder RICHARD & FLORENCE ATWATER Mr. Popper’s Penguins JANE AUSTEN English Pride & Prejudice Sense & Sensibility NATALIE BABBITT Tuck Everlasting FRANK BAUM American The Wonderful Wizard of Oz PETER BENCHLEY American Jaws The Deep The Island JUDY BLUME American Tales of the Fourth Grade Nothing Fudge-a-Mania Blubber It’s Not the End of the World It’s Me God, Margaret CHARLOTTE BRONTE English Jane Eyre EMILY BRONTE English Wuthering Heights FRANCIS HODGSON BURNETT American The Secret Garden LEWIS CARROLL English Alice in Wonderland Through the Looking Glass “Jabberwocky” (poem) GEOFFREY CHAUCER English “Canterbury Tales” (long poem) AGATHA CHRISTIE English A Murder is Announced Murder on the Orient Express Death on the Nile Mousetrap – a play BEVERLY CLEARLY Henry & Beezus Ramona series Runaway Ralph Henry Huggins Dear Mr. Henshaw JAMES FENMORE COOPER American The Last of the Mohicans The Deerslayer STEPHEN CRANE American Red Badge of Courage DANTE Italian “The Divine Comedy” – epic poem divided into 3 parts: Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradisio ROALD DAHL British BFG Charlie & The Chocolate Factory Charlie & The Glass Elevator The Witches James & The Giant Peach Matilda DANIEL DEFOE English Robinson Crusoe CHARLES DICKENS English A Christmas Carol Great Expectations David Copperfield Oliver Twist A Tale of Two Cities EMILY DICKINSON American poet “A Bird Came Down the Walk” “Because I Could Not Stop for Death” FRANKLIN W. DIXON & CAROLYN KEENE American Harriet Stratemeyer-Adams The Hardy Boys series & The Nancy Drew Series SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE English Sherlock Holmes The Hound of Baskervilles ALEXANDRE DUMAS French The Three Musketeers The Count of Monte Cristo F. SCOTT FITZGERALD American The Great Gatsby Tender is the Night BENJAMIN FRANKLIN American Poor Richard’s Almanack ROBERT FROST American poet “The Road Not Taken” “Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening” “Mending Walls” FRED GIPSON Old Yeller JAKOB LUDWIG & WILHELM CARL GRIMM German Known as “The Brothers Grimm” Grimm’s Fairy Tales JOHN GUNTHER Death Be Not Proud ALEXANDER HAMILTON American The Federalist Papers LORRAINE HANSBERRY American/Illinois A Raisin in the Sun – 1st play by AfricanAmerican on Broadway NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE American The Scarlet Letter House of the Seven Gables ERNEST HEMINGWAY American The Old Man and the Sea The Sun Also Rises A Farewell to Arms S. E. HINTON American The Outsiders Rumble Fish HOMER Greek Epic poems “The Iliad” “The Odyssey” VICTOR HUGO French The Hunchback of Notre Dame WASHINGTON IRVING American The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Rip Van Winkle NORTON JUSTER The Phantom Tollbooth STEPHEN KING American The Shining It Pet Sematary The Green Mile RUDYARD KIPLING English The Jungle Book Captains Courageous Just So stories (NELLIE) HARPER LEE American To Kill A Mockingbird C. S. LEWIS English The Chronicles of Narnia The Lion, The Witch, & The Wardrobe The Screwtape Letter ASTRID LINDGREN Pippi Longstocking series JACK LONDON American Call of the Wild White Fang HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW American poet “Paul Revere’s Ride” “The Song of Hiawatha” LOIS LOWRY Number the Stars The Giver PATRICIA MACLACHLAN Sarah Plain & Tall ANN M. MARTIN The Babysitter’s Club series HERMAN MELVILLE American Moby Dick Billy Budd ARTHUR MILLER American Death of a Salesman The Crucible A. A. MILNE English Winnie the Pooh JOHN MILTON English Long poems “Paradise Lost” “Paradise Regained” MARGARET MITCHELL American Gone with the Wind LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY Canadian Anne of Green Gables PHYLLIS REYNOLDS NAYLOR Shiloh Shadows on the Wall Footprints at the Window Faces in the Water SCOTT O’DELL Island of the Blue Dolphins GEORGE ORWELL English Animal Farm 1984 THOMAS PAINE American patriot “Common Sense” pamphlet KATHERINE PATTERSON Bridge to Terabithia Jacob, I Have Loved GARY PAULSEN Hatchet Brian’s Winter Woodsong Canyons EDGAR ALLEN POE American Poems and short stories “The Raven” “The Tell-Tale Heart” “The Pit & the Pendullum” “Annabel Lee” “The Fall of the House of Usher” BEATRIX POTTER English Tales of Peter Rabbit ELLEN RASKIN The Westing Game WILSON RAWLS American Where the Red Fern Grows J. D. SALINGER American The Catcher in the Rye CARL SANDBURG American poet “Fog” “Chicago” Biography of Abraham Lincoln DR. SUESS American The Cat in the Hat Green Eggs and Ham Yertle the Turtle How the Grinch Stole Christmas ANNA SEWELL English Black Beauty WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE English playwright and poet Hamlet Romeo & Juliet Macbeth Othello A Midsummer Night’s Dream The Merchant of Venice Julius Caesar sonnets MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY English Frankenstein JERRY SPINELLI Maniac Magee Loser Crash JOHANNA SPYRI Heidi JOHN STEINBECK American The Grapes of Wrath Of Mice & Men East of Eden ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Scottish Treasure Island The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde A Child’s Garden of Verses BRAM STOKER English Dracula HARRIET BEECHER STOWE American Uncle Tom’s Cabin JONATHON SWIFT English Gulliver’s Travels MILDRED TAYLOR Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry J. R. R. TOLKIEN English The Hobbit The Lord of the Rings PAMELA TRAVERS Australian Mary Poppins MARK TWAIN (SAMUEL CLEMENS) American The Adventures of Tom Sawyer The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn The Prince & The Pauper JULES VERNE French Journey to the Center of the Earth 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea Around the World in 80 Days H. G. WELLS American The Invisible Man The Time Machine The Island of Dr. Moreau E. B. WHITE English Charlotte’s Web Stuart Little WALT WHITMAN American poet “O Captain, My Captain” “Song of Myself” OSCAR WILDE Irish playwright The Importance of Being Earnest LAURA INGALLS WILDER American The Little House on the Prairie series THORTON WILDER American playwright Our Town The Matchmaker Hello, Dolly! TENNESSEE WILLIAMS American playwright The Glass Menagerie A Street Car Named Desire Cat on a Hot Tin Roof