A Sort of Literacy Test

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(original version here)

We have collected here the first lines of books we hope you will recognize as old acquaintances. Your challenge is to name the book given the first line. The books are divided into categories which may help you identify them.

Have fun!


Warm Up Exercises
Story Time
Books I Read at Recess
Jamestown High
English Lit.
Tome of the Brave
Voices of Women
Translation Please
The Way It Was
Who Done It
Periods are for Sissies
The Prize
I Spy
Sci-Fi
Boo !
I Saw the Movie
1950s
1960s
1970s
1980s
1990s
It's True
Cheer Up!
Visitors' Queries

A list of included titles, authors, and first lines is available: here