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1. Stalky and his gang have big problems conforming with the rules at their boys' school. They are constantly out-of-bounds. They devise disgusting pranks to play on rival houses, and use their wits to get what they want. Are they punished? Sometimes, but the best of the masters admire them and they are obviously marked for glory. Who wrote the semi-autobiographical 'Stalky and Co.'?
2. Cyril, Margaret, Robert, Jane, and The Lamb are more concerned with hiding the results of their misdeeds from their parents. In this book (1904), this means setting a major nursery fire and releasing a mythical beast who takes them to an exotic island. Even The Lamb goes missing, but all ends happily. This is only one in a series of great subversive children's novels by E(dith) Nesbit. Which one is it?
3. This little girl is the only conventional, obedient entity in an alternate world that breaks every natural and social rule in the book. Who is she?
4. This boy is one of the classic rule-breakers of all time. He despises the tale-telling, pointlessly obedient Sidney, he terrorizes his loving aunt, disrupts his school and church, and scandalizes the town by befriending a complete social outcast. Yet his chronic disobedience helps him solve a murder and save an innocent man's life. Who is he?
5. Jo is a real misfit. She speaks too loudly, always says the wrong things, can't help leading rather than following, and she even has a boyish nickname. In 1868 she wasn't your typical young New England lady. Her boyish ways even lost her a trip to Europe. Who did Aunt March take instead?
6. L. M. Montgomery's Anne is as much of a misfit as Jo is, but for a different reason. Her problem is too much imagination. In the course of her inner explorations she almost drowns, falls off a roof, gets her best friend drunk and even dyes her hair. What colour does she dye it?
7. Tom Sawyer is a rule-breaker who triumphs. Booth Tarkington's boy is, conversely, pure chaos. Like the other rule-breakers, he operates almost exclusively according to his inner sense of what is appropriate, but his triumphs are merely breaks between punishments. The scourge of a turn-of-the-century Indiana town...who is he?
8. In 1940, the British writer Geoffrey Trease created a character in a historical novel for young people who broke some big rules. This young girl disguised herself as a boy, ran away to London and met Shakespeare, and eventually played Juliet on an all-male Elizabethan stage. She also helped to foil an assassination attempt against the queen. What book was this?
9. Here's a character from a modern classic. By nature a rule-follower and tale-teller, when he went to school he was continually galled by the behaviour of a small group of sanguine rule-breakers who somehow always managed to get all the praise and attention. Now he teaches at the same school and among his pupils is the son of one of those golden boys who blighted his youth. The kid gets up to the same stuff his father did yet everyone thinks he's absolutely wonderful, which makes our character really sick. Who is this bitter individual?
10. In 1857 Thomas Hughes created Tom Brown - pious, plucky, highly conventional, devoted to his school and schoolmaster. The rule-breaker in the book was a dreadful, cruel, coward of a bully called Flashman, who gets his just deserts in the end. In the 1960s, George MacDonald Fraser took that character and created a great panorama of 19th century British Empire-building described for us by the classic bad boy of all time. The novels are for adults - they have to be because bad triumphs on an hourly basis. What undeserved rank does Harry Flashman end up with?
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