Newbery House Literary Scavenger Hunt
Test your knowledge of the Newbery Award winners with this quiz.
- Who is the protagonist of The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman? (Nobody)
- In Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell, Karana makes friends with which animal? (Dog)
- Sounder is the name of (a dog).
- In Jacob Have I Loved, Sara Louise is jealous of whom? (Her sister, Caroline)
- What are the people in Jonas's hometown unable to do in The Giver? (Hear music, see color, feel pain, etc.)
- Why wouldn't the yellow-spotted lizards bite Zero and Stanley at the end of Holes by Louis Sachar? (They ate a lot of onions and the lizards didn't like the smell)
- What is Miss Hickory made of? (A forked hickory twig and a maple nut for her head)
- In what year did The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Van Loon win the first-ever Newbery award? (1922)
- Two books of poetry have been awarded the Newbery. Titles and authors? (Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices by Paul Fleischmann (1989) and A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers by Nancy Willard (1982))
- In Bridge to Terabithia, what is Terabithia? (An imaginary kingdom)
- In The Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, where do Jamie and Claudia live after running away from home? (The Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC)
- What does kira kira mean? (Glittering)
- In Moon Over Manifest, where is Manifest? (Kansas)
- How do the Murry children travel through space and time in A Wrinkle in Time? (They use a tesseract)
- Which American president was the subject of a Newbery winner? (Abraham Lincoln)
- In what book does the main character’s name change from Brat to Beetle to Alyce? (The Midwife's Apprentice by Karen Cushman)
- In Flora and Ulysses, what comic book super hero does Flora compare Ulysses to? (Incandesco)
- What book takes place in Copenhagen during WWII? (Number the Stars by Lois Lowry)
- In what book is the main character a mail-order bride from Maine? (Sarah, Plain, and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan)
- In A Year Down Yonder whom does Mary Alice visit? (Grandma Dowdel)