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Here at last are the answers to our young fiction book quiz:

1) “Where’s Papa going with that ax?” said Fern to her mother as were setting the table for breakfast.
Charlotte’s Web by E. B. White

2) On rocky islands gulls woke.
Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes

3) From the pleasant village of Mayenfeld a path leads through green fields, richly covered with trees, to the foot of the mountain, which from this side overhangs the valley with grave and solemn aspect.
Heidi by Johanna Spyri

4) All children, except one, grow up.
Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie

5) Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, “and what is the use of a book,” thought Alice, “without pictures or conversations?”
Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

6) Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin.
Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne

7) The night Max wore his wolf suit and made mischief of one kind and another his mother called him “Wild Thing!” Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak

8) If you want to find Cherry-Tree Lane all you have to do is ask the policeman at the crossroads.
Mary Poppins by P. L. Travers

9) Once when I was six years old I saw a magnificent picture in a book, called True Stories from Nature, about the primeval forest.
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

10) I write this sitting in the kitchen sink.
I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith

11) Lyra and her dæmon moved through the darkening hall.
The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman

12) In an old house in Paris that was covered with vines lived twelve little girls in two straight lines.
Madeline by Ludwig Bemelmans

13) It was nearing midnight and the Prime Minister was sitting alone in his office, reading a long memo that was slipping through his brain without leaving the slightest trace of meaning behind.
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J. K. Rowling

14) It’s a funny thing about mothers and fathers.
Matilda by Roald Dahl

15) The Mole had been working very hard all the morning, spring-cleaning his little house.
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

16) It was seven o’ clock of a very warm evening in the Seeonee hills when Father Wolf woke up from his day’s rest, scratched himself, yawned, and spread out his paws one after the other to get rid of the sleepy feeling in the tips.
The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling

17) Claudia knew that she could never pull off the old-fashioned kind of running away.
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E. L. Konigsberg

18) Once there were four children whose names were Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy.
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis

19) Buck did not read the newspapers, or he would have known that trouble was brewing, not alone for himself, but for every tide-water dog, strong of muscle and with warm, long hair, from Puget Sound to San Diego.
Call of the Wild by Jack London

20) Big A little a What begins with A?
Dr. Seuss’s ABC by Dr. Seuss

21) It was difficult to think of a time when Betsy and Tacy had not been friends.
Betsy-Tacy by Maud Hart Lovelace

22) Once upon a time there were three children, and their names were Carey, Charles, and Paul.
Bed-Knob and Broomstick by Mary Norton

23) Ramona Quimby hoped her parents would forget to give her a little talking-to.
Ramona Quimby, Age 8 by Beverly Cleary

24) Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the Big Woods of Wisconsin, in a little gray house made of logs.
Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder

25) “Tom!” No answer.
Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

26) Mrs. Rachel Lynde lived just where the Avonlea main road dipped down into a little hollow, fringed with alders and ladies’ eardrops and traversed by a brook that had its source away back in the woods of the old Cuthbert place.
Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery

27) Ba-room, ba-room, ba-room, baripity, baripity, baripity, baripity – Good.
Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson

28) There is no lake at Camp Green Lake.
Holes by Louis Sachar

29) Andrew Marcus wanted freckles.
Freckle Juice by Judy Blume

30) It was a quiet morning, the town covered over with darkness and at ease in bed.
Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury

Congratulations to Lisa, for answering the most correct (and being mostly correct on several), you win the prize! Somewhat at random, we're awarding you a new copy of a book you didn't know the first line of: Matilda by Roald Dahl.

Please allow six-to-eight weeks for delivery. Or possibly more.

A big thanks to our other official competitors, Lynn and Andy. From various emails, phone calls, and parking lot conversations I know quite a few people played along in their heads, but you two stepped up and contributed.

Thanks finally to JD, who hosted the original version of this game (or is it a meme?) a few years ago.