Spunky kids
Identify the spirited children and
the works in which they appear.
You could win one of the books!
Instructions on entering are below.
Hint: All the works or authors are
on the Greatest Literature list.
- That kid in the photo
above—he
wants more and this time he's gonna get it. Okay, in the
novel he never was a biker, but he did inadvertently
join a criminal gang.
- The definition of a girl
with spunk and imagination—if only she didn't have
such red hair that
made a boy call her carrots.
- He's a sensitive boy but
living on a farm with horses and a kindly ranch hand he
learns about life and death and becomes a stronger,
responsible young man.
- She dreams of killing her
brutally abusive father but spends most of the novel
looking for a loving home to take her.
- He thinks he's just
playing games but the military is training him to direct
real warfare—with genocidal results.
- As a child, he aids an
escaped convict but he grows up without realizing the
consequences of that charitable act.
- Appearing as a witness in
a very strange trial, she's admonished by the king and
queen, no less, but she stands up to them—she stands
way up to them.
- His school, his teachers,
his dorm-mates—they're all phonies, so he takes off to
New York for three days but nothing works out for him
there either.
- He fakes his own death to
escape his father and women who would civilize him, but
he teams ups with another kind of runaway for a trip
down a river.
- He's a spirited lad, leaving his mother to go out and carouse at
night, killing humans, devastating the king's
court—until he meets his match with a monster-slaying
hero from abroad.
The prizes:
Your choice from several of these books (telling you their titles would give away some of the answers),
as well as from among many other selections in our other stock of the greatest literature of all time.
Prizes will go to three entrants drawn from those with the most correct answers.
Note: We often don't get enough winners with all answers right, so it's worth entering
even if you aren't sure of them all!
To enter:
Send an email to contest@EditorEric.com
by August 31, 2011,
listing your answers from 1 to 10. Winners will be notified by email
and announced on this
site.
To practise your literary trivia skills, try the previous contests listed on the right.