#8890, aired 2023-06-09 | QUICK BOOKS $600: Angie Thomas used "U" for a pronoun in the title of this 2017 young adult page-turner The Hate U Give |
#7, aired 2022-02-11 | ALL SORTS OF BOOKS $1000: The title character in this Paulo Coelho novel turns lead into gold for young Santiago The Alchemist |
#8573, aired 2022-02-09 | BOOKS FOR YOUNG READERS $200: This story of a fawn is subtitled "A Life in the Woods" Bambi |
#8573, aired 2022-02-09 | BOOKS FOR YOUNG READERS $400: First published in 1931, "The Story of" this elephant includes his escape to the city where he becomes cultured & educated Babar |
#8573, aired 2022-02-09 | BOOKS FOR YOUNG READERS $600: In this Frances Hodgson Burnett book, Mary Lennox is determined to find the title place, locked off for years The Secret Garden |
#8573, aired 2022-02-09 | BOOKS FOR YOUNG READERS $800: In 2004 Kate DiCamillo won a Newbery Medal for "The Tale of" this inquisitive mouse Despereaux |
#8573, aired 2022-02-09 | BOOKS FOR YOUNG READERS $1000: In "From the Mixed Up Files of" this woman, a girl named Claudia & her brother run away from home & hide out at the Met Museum Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler |
#8477, aired 2021-09-28 | BOOKS FOR KIDS $800: Young Ms. Welsch is the note-taking title girl of this 1964 novel by Louise Fitzhugh Harriet the Spy |
#8370, aired 2021-04-02 | BOOKS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE $400: At Hogwarts she's deputy headmistress as well as the transfiguration professor Professor McGonagall |
#8370, aired 2021-04-02 | BOOKS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE $800: In "Twilight", Bella moves to this Washington town & meets the mysterious Edward Cullen Forks |
#8370, aired 2021-04-02 | BOOKS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE $1200: In the Percy Jackson book series, his half brother Tyson is one of these mythical creatures Cyclops |
#8370, aired 2021-04-02 | BOOKS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE $1600: In "The Lord of the Rings", this fellow hobbit is Frodo's best friend & gardener Sam |
#8370, aired 2021-04-02 | BOOKS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE $2000: The story of a spirited adopted girl growing up in Canada, "Anne of Green Gables" is by this author Lucy Maud Montgomery |
#8319, aired 2021-01-21 | BOOKS FOR YOUNG ADULTS $800: Flee from Grievers stalking the labyrinth & become one of these, the title of a James Dashner young adult series The Maze Runner |
#8319, aired 2021-01-21 | BOOKS FOR YOUNG ADULTS $1000: In this bestseller by Angie Thomas, 16-year-old Starr Carter sees her friend shot dead by a police officer The Hate U Give |
#8238, aired 2020-09-16 | TV SHOWS BASED ON BOOKS BY WOMEN $800: 3 young E.T.s appear as humans & attend a New Mexico high school in books by Melinda Metz, the basis for this TV show Roswell |
#8110, aired 2019-12-06 | OLD BOOKS $2000: Chretien de Troyes' 12th c. Arthurian tale about this young knight's search for the grail was the basis for a Wagner opera Parsifal |
#8007, aired 2019-06-04 | VWLLSS BBL BKS $200: XDS Exodus |
#7950, aired 2019-03-15 | THE NEW YORK TIMES 100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2018 $400: A young woman decides hibernation may be the answer in Ottessa Moshfegh's "My Year of" this, R&R for short rest and relaxation |
#7950, aired 2019-03-15 | THE NEW YORK TIMES 100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2018 $1600: Imani Perry went "Looking for Lorraine", this African-American playwright & activist who died all too young at 34 Lorraine Hansberry |
#7863, aired 2018-11-14 | YOUNG PEOPLE IN BOOKS $800: In a book series by Rick Riordan, this main character joins the Olympians & also attends a summer camp for demigods Percy Jackson |
#7863, aired 2018-11-14 | YOUNG PEOPLE IN BOOKS $1600: Georgia Nicolson, the teenage Bridget Jones, has many diary entries about this, British for kissing or making out snogging |
#7499, aired 2017-03-30 | PEN NAMES $2000: In the 1950s this prolific sci-fi author wrote a series of books for young adults using the name Paul French Asimov |
#7345, aired 2016-07-15 | BOOKS FOR THE YOUNG $200: This Mark Twain character is "hated" by moms because he is "vulgar & bad" but "all their children admired him" Huckleberry Finn |
#7345, aired 2016-07-15 | BOOKS FOR THE YOUNG $400: This Margaret Wise Brown children's classic about bedtime begins "In the great green room..." Goodnight Moon |
#7345, aired 2016-07-15 | BOOKS FOR THE YOUNG $600: He illustrated "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" & "Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?" Eric Carle |
#7345, aired 2016-07-15 | BOOKS FOR THE YOUNG $800: Discovered in 1993 an asteroid was named Besixdouze, an homage to this title character who lives on Asteroid B-612 the Little Prince |
#7345, aired 2016-07-15 | BOOKS FOR THE YOUNG $1000: Russell Hoban wrote 6 picture book stories about this little badger & her family Frances |
#7260, aired 2016-03-18 | BOOKS FOR YOUNG READERS $400: "Beware, the Snowman" & "Night of the Living Dummy" are 2 titles in this R.L. Stine book series Goosebumps |
#7260, aired 2016-03-18 | BOOKS FOR YOUNG READERS $600: In a Patricia MacLachlan title, these 2 words describe Sarah, an American mail order bride of the 19th century plain & tall |
#7260, aired 2016-03-18 | BOOKS FOR YOUNG READERS $800: Its apples & its branches are 2 of the offerings provided to the boy in this work about sacrifice The Giving Tree |
#7260, aired 2016-03-18 | BOOKS FOR YOUNG READERS $1,400 (Daily Double): In this Roald Dahl work, the title edible eventually comes to rest on top of the Empire State Building James and the Giant Peach |
#7143, aired 2015-10-07 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1600: Anthony Doerr won a 2015 Pulitzer for this novel that centers on a blind French girl & a young Nazi soldier All the Light We Cannot See |
#6744, aired 2014-01-02 | STONE COLD JANE AUSTEN $2000: This novel with a monastic title was sold to a publisher in 1803 but didn't appear until after Jane died in 1817 Northanger Abbey |
#6713, aired 2013-11-20 | BOOKS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE $200: Welsch is the last name of this title 11-year-old girl spy Harriet |
#6713, aired 2013-11-20 | BOOKS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE $400: John Bemelmans Marciano, grandson of the creator of this girl, wrote her "and the Old House in Paris" Madeline |
#6713, aired 2013-11-20 | BOOKS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE $600: "I Am Number" this isn't Brett Favre's memoir but young adult sci fi about the Loric children Four |
#6713, aired 2013-11-20 | BOOKS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE $800: Her popular books for young people include "Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great" Judy Blume |
#6039, aired 2010-12-09 | OPRAH'S FAVORITE BOOKS $1,000 (Daily Double): (Oprah gives the clue from a chair) A book I chose for my book club in 2000 was this Toni Morrison novel about a young black girl who prayed for different features The Bluest Eye |
#3824, aired 2001-03-29 | JOHN GRISHAM'S LAW BOOKS $300: For lawyer Reggie Love, it's young Mark Sway The Client |
#2875, aired 1997-02-14 | BOOKS ABOUT TEENS $100: A recent book by Edward Humes covers "A Year in the Life of" this court for young offenders juvenile court |
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