Children's: What red-haired orphan is saddled with the middle name Delicatessa Windowshade Mackrelmint Efraim's Daughter?
Classics: What 1873 novel gets moving after a 20,000-pound wager at London's staid Reform Club?
Non-Fiction: What book did Pat Conroy base on a year teaching poor kids on South Carolina's Daufuskie Island?
Book Club: What Pulitzer-winning author returned to the Chesapeake of his youth in three stories published as A Tidewater Morning?
Authors: What trend-setting author coined the expression "social X-rays" when describing extremely thin society women?
Book Bag: Who "co-authored" the 2001 novel Candyland with his alter ego, Ed McBain?
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Children's: Pippi Longstocking, of course!
Classics: Around the World in 80 Days? I haven't read this in a long time, but I remember it starts with a bet.
Non-Fiction: The Water is Wide. I've spent much of my life in and out of the low country. Impossible not to know Conroy.
Book Club: I feel like I should know this, but I have no idea.
Authors: Wolfe
Book Bag: ?
and just why are orphans usually red-headed, huh?
Children's: Pippi Longstocking
Classics: Around the World in 80 Days
Happy New Year!
Care - I know, Annie, Anne of Green Gables, what's with that?
Around the World in 80 Days is the only one I can offer this week.
Pippi!
I'd also guess around the world in 80 days
don't know the rest . . .
Pippi Longstocking is all I've got. I completely forgot that was her name until I saw the question!
Children's: Pippi Longstocking
Classics: Around the World in 80 Days
Non-Fiction: The Water is Wide
Book Club: William Styron
Authors: Tom Wolfe
Book Bag: Evan Hunter
Care, there's a "ginger" joke there, but I'm not going to make it...
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