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"There is no lake at Camp Green Lake."

Holes. Did you know Louis Sachar who wrote the book "Holes", also wrote the script for the movie?

"Wham."

Sticks. Joan Bauer won the Newbery Honor award for her book "Hope was Here!"

"Jack Torrence thought."

The Shining. Steven King's house in Maine looks as though it came from a horror story. (It looks haunted).

"Fingers of lightning tore holes in the black skies as an angry cloudburst drenched the surrealistic landscape."

Mothman Prophecies. This book is based on a true story. There really was a Mothman, and author John A. Keel writes his account of what happened in "The Mothman Prophecies".

"A few miles south of Soledad, the Salinas River drops in close to the hillside bank, and runs deep and green."

Of Mice and Men. John Steinbeck who wrote this book won a Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962, six years before he died.

"He was born in a house, a pretty ordinary house, right across the river from here in Bridgeport."

Maniac Magee. Jerry Spinelli, the author of "Maniac Magee", started writing when he was sixteen.

"Where's Papa going with that axe?"

Charlotte's Web. E.B White wrote "Charlotte's Web" and then later "Stuart Little" getting the Newbery Honor award for both books.

"Brian Robeson stared out the window of the small plane to the endless green northern wilderness below."

Hatchet. Gary Paulsen who wrote "Hatchet", did a little research before writing the book. He actually did all the things that Brian Robeson did in the book.(He survived in the wild for a month).

"Not long ago in a large university town in California, on a street called Orchard Avenue, a strange old man ran a dusty shabby store."

The Egypt Game. Did you know that "The Eygpt Game", "The Witches of Worm", and "The Headless Cupid" all won the Newbery honor?

"I knelt in the snow in front of my great-great-great-great grandfather's grave."

Backwater. Joan Bauer has written six acclaimed books in a span of four years.