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You have the author and the opening line, but can you name the book?

 

Clues

1) Frank Baum - Dorothy lived in the midst of the great Kansas prairies, with uncle Harry, who was a farmer,and aunt Em, who was the farmer’s wife.

 

2) Charles Dickens - Marley was dead, to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that.

 

3) Alex Haley - Early in the spring of 1750, in the village of Juffure, four days upriver from the coast of Gambia, West Africa, a manchild was born to Omoro and Binta Kinte.

 

4) Margaret Mitchell - Scarlet O’Hara was not beautiful, but men seldom realized it when caught by her charm as the Tarleton twins were.

 

5) William Golding - The boy with fair hair lowered himself down the last few feet of rock and began to pick his way towards the lagoon.

 

6) Harper Lee - When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow.

 

7) George Eliot - Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress.

 

8) Sue Kidd - At night I would lie in bed and watch the show,how bees squeezed through the cracks of my bedroom wall…

 

 

 

Answers

1) Frank Baum - Dorothy lived in the midst of the great Kansas prairies, with uncle Harry, who was a farmer,and aunt Em, who was the farmer’s wife.

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

 

2) Charles Dickens - Marley was dead, to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that.

A Christmas Carol

 

3) Alex Haley - Early in the spring of 1750, in the village of Juffure, four days upriver from the coast of Gambia, West Africa, a manchild was born to Omoro and Binta Kinte.

Roots

 

4) Margaret Mitchell - Scarlet O’Hara was not beautiful, but men seldom realized it when caught by her charm as the Tarleton twins were.

Gone with the Wind

 

5) William Golding - The boy with fair hair lowered himself down the last few feet of rock and began to pick his way towards the lagoon.

Lord of the Flies

 

6) Harper Lee - When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow.

To Kill a Mockingbird

 

7) George Eliot - Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress.

Middlemarch

 

8) Sue Kidd - At night I would lie in bed and watch the show,how bees squeezed through the cracks of my bedroom wall…

The Secret Life of Bees