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Scholar Bowl Study Guide
AUTHORS & MAJOR WORKS
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
American
 Little Women
 Little Men
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HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN
Danish
 The Ugly Duckling
 The Princess & The Pea
 The Emperor's New Clothes
 The Little Mermaid
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MAYA ANGELOU
American poet
 I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
 “On the Pulse of Morning” – Bill Clinton 1993
Inauguration Poem
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WILLIAM ARMSTRONG

Sounder
RICHARD & FLORENCE ATWATER

Mr. Popper’s Penguins
JANE AUSTEN
English
 Pride & Prejudice
 Sense & Sensibility
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NATALIE BABBITT

Tuck Everlasting
FRANK BAUM
American
 The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
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PETER BENCHLEY
American
 Jaws
 The Deep
 The Island
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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
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CHARLOTTE BRONTE
English
 Jane Eyre
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EMILY BRONTE
English
 Wuthering Heights
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FRANCIS HODGSON BURNETT
American
 The Secret Garden
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LEWIS CARROLL
English
 Alice in Wonderland
 Through the Looking Glass
 “Jabberwocky” (poem)
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GEOFFREY CHAUCER
English
 “Canterbury Tales” (long poem)
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AGATHA CHRISTIE
English
 A Murder is Announced
 Murder on the Orient Express
 Death on the Nile
 Mousetrap – a play
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BEVERLY CLEARLY
Henry & Beezus
 Ramona series
 Runaway Ralph
 Henry Huggins
 Dear Mr. Henshaw
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JAMES FENMORE COOPER
American
 The Last of the Mohicans
 The Deerslayer
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STEPHEN CRANE
American
 Red Badge of Courage
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DANTE
Italian
 “The Divine Comedy” – epic poem divided into
3 parts: Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradisio
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ROALD DAHL
British
 BFG
 Charlie & The Chocolate Factory
 Charlie & The Glass Elevator
 The Witches
 James & The Giant Peach
 Matilda
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DANIEL DEFOE
English
 Robinson Crusoe
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CHARLES DICKENS
English
 A Christmas Carol
 Great Expectations
 David Copperfield
 Oliver Twist
 A Tale of Two Cities
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EMILY DICKINSON
American poet
 “A Bird Came Down the Walk”
 “Because I Could Not Stop for Death”
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FRANKLIN W. DIXON & CAROLYN KEENE
American
 Harriet Stratemeyer-Adams
 The Hardy Boys series & The Nancy Drew
Series
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SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
English
 Sherlock Holmes
 The Hound of Baskervilles
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ALEXANDRE DUMAS
French
 The Three Musketeers
 The Count of Monte Cristo
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F. SCOTT FITZGERALD
American
 The Great Gatsby
 Tender is the Night
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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
American
 Poor Richard’s Almanack
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ROBERT FROST
American poet
 “The Road Not Taken”
 “Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening”
 “Mending Walls”
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FRED GIPSON

Old Yeller
JAKOB LUDWIG & WILHELM CARL GRIMM
German
 Known as “The Brothers Grimm”
 Grimm’s Fairy Tales
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JOHN GUNTHER

Death Be Not Proud
ALEXANDER HAMILTON
American
 The Federalist Papers
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LORRAINE HANSBERRY
American/Illinois
 A Raisin in the Sun – 1st play by AfricanAmerican on Broadway
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NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
American
 The Scarlet Letter
 House of the Seven Gables
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ERNEST HEMINGWAY
American
 The Old Man and the Sea
 The Sun Also Rises
 A Farewell to Arms
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S. E. HINTON
American
 The Outsiders
 Rumble Fish
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HOMER
Greek
 Epic poems
 “The Iliad”
 “The Odyssey”
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VICTOR HUGO
French
 The Hunchback of Notre Dame
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WASHINGTON IRVING
American
 The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
 Rip Van Winkle
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NORTON JUSTER

The Phantom Tollbooth
STEPHEN KING
American
 The Shining
 It
 Pet Sematary
 The Green Mile
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RUDYARD KIPLING
English
 The Jungle Book
 Captains Courageous
 Just So stories
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(NELLIE) HARPER LEE
American
 To Kill A Mockingbird
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C. S. LEWIS
English
 The Chronicles of Narnia
 The Lion, The Witch, & The Wardrobe
 The Screwtape Letter
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ASTRID LINDGREN

Pippi Longstocking series
JACK LONDON
American
 Call of the Wild
 White Fang
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HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW
American poet
 “Paul Revere’s Ride”
 “The Song of Hiawatha”
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LOIS LOWRY
Number the Stars
 The Giver
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PATRICIA MACLACHLAN

Sarah Plain & Tall
ANN M. MARTIN

The Babysitter’s Club series
HERMAN MELVILLE
American
 Moby Dick
 Billy Budd
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ARTHUR MILLER
American
 Death of a Salesman
 The Crucible
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A. A. MILNE
English
 Winnie the Pooh

JOHN MILTON
English
 Long poems
 “Paradise Lost”
 “Paradise Regained”
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MARGARET MITCHELL
American
 Gone with the Wind
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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
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THOMAS PAINE
American patriot
 “Common Sense” pamphlet
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KATHERINE PATTERSON
Bridge to Terabithia
 Jacob, I Have Loved
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GARY PAULSEN
Hatchet
 Brian’s Winter
 Woodsong
 Canyons
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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”
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BEATRIX POTTER
English
 Tales of Peter Rabbit

ELLEN RASKIN

The Westing Game
WILSON RAWLS
American
 Where the Red Fern Grows
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J. D. SALINGER
American
 The Catcher in the Rye
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CARL SANDBURG
American poet
 “Fog”
 “Chicago”
 Biography of Abraham Lincoln
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DR. SUESS
American
 The Cat in the Hat
 Green Eggs and Ham
 Yertle the Turtle
 How the Grinch Stole Christmas
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ANNA SEWELL
English
 Black Beauty
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
English playwright and poet
 Hamlet
 Romeo & Juliet
 Macbeth
 Othello
 A Midsummer Night’s Dream
 The Merchant of Venice
 Julius Caesar
 sonnets
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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
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BRAM STOKER
English
 Dracula
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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
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PAMELA TRAVERS
Australian
 Mary Poppins

MARK TWAIN (SAMUEL CLEMENS)
American
 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
 The Prince & The Pauper
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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
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WALT WHITMAN
American poet
 “O Captain, My Captain”
 “Song of Myself”

OSCAR WILDE
Irish playwright
 The Importance of Being Earnest
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LAURA INGALLS WILDER
American
 The Little House on the Prairie series

THORTON WILDER
American playwright
 Our Town
 The Matchmaker
 Hello, Dolly!
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TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
American playwright
 The Glass Menagerie
 A Street Car Named Desire
 Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
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