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↓Description No. 1 - Guess Who - ✩✩ 5 points ✩✩↓
1. I'm female, and I have gold coloured hair.
2. I've been in a horrible accident, and have just been through a 14-hour surgery to repair one of my legs.
3. My mother is very persuasive, and has insisted that I be moved from the hospital to a private facility. My father is dead.
4. I'm worried that a grade I got for a report recently might bring down my GPA, which could stop me getting into college, which would mean not getting away from my crazy mother!
5. I really need my best friend, but my mother hates her and barely tolerates her.
↓Description No. 2 - Guess Who - ✩✩ 5 points ✩✩↓
1. I'm female, I have brown curly hair, and I'm a high-school junior.
2. I'm on a school trip, but I really hate to fly! It's just unnatural!
3. I once received a felt rose on Valentine's day, only to find out the next day it was meant for someone else.
4. Sometimes people call me by my junior-high nickname, which I HATE.
5. I also signed up for this trip before realising I would be missing a big swim meet, which is pretty annoying.
↓Description No. 3 - Guess Who - ✩✩ 5 points ✩✩↓
1. I'm female, and I have dark blonde hair and brown eyes.
2. My parents aren't often around, my dad works and my mom is always painting.
3. When I was 11 I was dragged from my tire swing by wild animals.
4. One of those animals saved me though, and I've come to think of him as my own.
5. Now a boy from my school has been killed, and I'm worried that my animal won't be safe.
↓Description No. 4 - Guess Who - ✩✩ 5 points ✩✩↓
1. I'm female and I have brown hair and dark eyes.
2. I could describe myself as a 'political darling'.
3. I woke up two weeks ago in the hospital.
4. I'm told I had a bad reaction to an illegal drug.
5. The problem is that I can't remember the boy I'm supposed to love.
↓Description No. 5 - Guess Who - ✩✩ 5 points ✩✩↓
1. I'm female and I'm 19.
2. I have brown hair and gray eyes.
3. A noticeable thing about me is that I have a stutter.
4. I never knew my father, and my mother was never much of a mother.
5. Now my little sister is gone too.
↓Description No. 6 - Cover Trouble - ✩✩ 5 points ✩✩ ↓
1. This cover, at first glance, looks mainly green.
2. The cover features a man and a woman. The man is looking towards the reader, with very green eyes. The woman has her arms around the man's neck, and is facing away from the reader. Both have dark hair.
3. Behind the couple you can see some rocks, and an area of water (a lake, or river?). There are also clouds, and lightning coming down towards the water.
4. The title is written in green block capitals, above the couples heads, and there is also some text above and below the title - a tag line and a quote from a review.
5. The author's name is written in white block capitals, across the bottom of the cover.
↓Description No. 7 - Cover Trouble - ✩✩ 5 points ✩✩↓
1. This is a simple cover.
2. The background is a very pale, off-white colour.
3. On the cover are three scraps of paper, one white, one with a grid/squares on it, and one with lines on it.
4. The title is written in blue across the three scraps of paper.
5. The author's name is written in small, dark, block capitals across the bottom of the cover.
↓Description No. 8 - Cover Trouble - ✩✩ 5 points ✩✩↓
1. This cover has a black background.
2. Most of the cover is covered with a sort-of white leaf pattern, but you can see the black background behind it.
3. The title is in thick red letters across the centre of the cover. The title is also surrounded by a similar white pattern in the shape of a heart.
4. The author's name is in thinner red letters at the top of the cover, and the leaf pattern makes a space for it.
5. There is also a tagline in white letters on the lowest quarter of the cover, and the leaf pattern once again makes space for it.
↓Description No. 9 - Cover Trouble - ✩✩ 5 points ✩✩↓
1. The background of this book is a shade of pink, which has heart pictures drawn all over it in a darker shade of pink.
2. The title is in white in block capitals and is spread out over the cover.
3. Part of the title is shown on the cover by a black shape, rather than by a word.
4. The author's name is in black in block capitals at the bottom of the cover.
5. There is also a quote from a famous author, about the book, at the top of the cover in white.
↓Description No. 10 - Cover Trouble - ✩✩ 5 points ✩✩↓
1. This cover looks mainly orange.
2. The background seems to be made up of clouds.
3. On the top half of the cover, in the middle, a girl and boy are holding each other, but they seem to be suspended in mid-air.
4. The boy is on the left, and is wearing a blue t-shirt, and dark trousers/jeans.
5. The girl is on the right side of the cover, has dark hair, and a short dress.
6. The title is written in white block capitals, in the centre of the cover, with the author's name underneath.
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↓Description No. 11 - Guess Who - ✩✩ 5 points ✩✩↓
1. I'm female, and I live with my mother, step-father, and my step-father's mother.
2. My mother is so beautiful that everybody notices her. I'm not, I must take after my father.
3. My biological father walked out on my mother when she was pregnant with me.
4. I want to wear lipstick and smoke cigarettes and go on dates, but my mother says I'm too young.
5. My step-father is taking us on a trip to Palm Beach now, and I can't wait. He hasn't been back from the war for long.
↓Description No. 12 - Guess Who - ✩✩ 5 points ✩✩↓
1. I'm female, I'm nearly 16, and I have waist-length dirty-blonde hair.
2. I live with my adoptive mother. She's the only family I've ever known.
3. I have a special skill that I've told no-one about. It's really not normal, and if I told people they'd think I was crazy.
4. I never drink alcohol and I don't take drugs, I worry about addiction.
5. My best friend writes really great songs, he can't sing though, so he's looking for bands who he can sell his songs to.
↓Description No. 13 - Guess Who - ✩✩ 5 points ✩✩↓
1. I'm female, I have long brown hair, and I'm in high school.
2. I live in a really small community, where everybody knows everybody.
3. Our high school only has 1 room, and cell phones don't work here.
4. A girl went missing here recently, and though we searched, we still don't know what happened to her.
5. I dream of going to Juilliard, although I'm not sure I'll get in. I've never had any formal dance training, I just love to dance.
↓Description No. 14 - Guess Who - ✩✩ 5 points ✩✩↓
1. I'm female and I'm blonde.
2. I'm 17, and I'm a high school cheerleader.
3. I once had a very embarrassing incident with a Halloween costume.
4. I'm popular now, but it's taken a LOT of work.
5. I have a secret comic-book obsession, but I can't talk about it with my friends, because they just wouldn't understand.
↓Description No. 15 - Guess Who - ✩✩ 5 points ✩✩↓
1. I'm female and I'm 15. I'm tall and slender and I have brown hair.
2. The place where I live is not a part of your world.
3. My boyfriend just proposed to me.
4. My mom is so happy, she can't wait to have grandchildren.
5. I just have so many questions though, and I'm not sure what I should do.
↓Description No. 16 - Cover Trouble - ✩✩ 5 points ✩✩↓
1. The background of this cover is mainly dark blue, but there are areas where it is black and bronze.
2. In the centre of the cover is a pair of wings, which also seem to be a bronze/gold colour.
3. There are some splotches around the wings, and it sort of looks like the bronze colour is running in streaks down the background.
4. The title is in white block capitals across the bottom of the cover, and there also looks to be a bit of a reflection in front of the letters.
5. The author's name is in small block capitals at the top of the cover.
↓Description No. 17 - Cover Trouble - ✩✩ 5 points ✩✩↓
1. This cover focuses on a black box.
2. The box takes up the centre of the cover, and has yellow police tape wrapped around it, which is tied in a bow at the top of the box.
3. The title is in block capitals in white, surrounded by blue/green colour, at the bottom of the cover.
4. The author's name is in smaller black block capitals, underneath the title.
5. There is also a recommendation from another author at the top of the cover in white block capitals.
↓Description No. 18 - Cover Trouble - ✩✩ 5 points ✩✩↓
1. When first looking at this cover, it looks mainly blue.
2. On the right-hand side of the cover there is a girl, you can see the right-hand side of her body from the elbows up. You can also see 1 finger of her left hand on her right arm.
3. The girl's head is tilted to her right (towards the left-hand side of the cover), she has long dark hair which looks wind-blown, and is across her face so that you can't really see it.
4. The book's title is across the lower third of the cover, and is in block capitals in white. There is also another line of text under the title. The author's name is in lowercase, in a dark colour across the top quarter of the cover.
5. There is also what appears to be a blood splatter across the top left corner of the cover.
↓Description No. 19 - Cover Trouble - ✩✩ 5 points ✩✩↓
1. This cover features a couple, they are turned towards each other and holding hands.
2. The girl is on the left side of the cover, the boy is on the right side of the cover.
3. The girl has long blonde hair, and is wearing a short dark blue dress, and orange sandals.
4. The boy is wearing dark jeans, a white t-shirt, and yellow shoes.
5. The title is a darkish pink colour with a yellow shadow, and starts near the girl's waist, and goes further down the cover.
6. The author's name is in white at the bottom of the cover.
↓Description No. 20 - Cover Trouble - ✩✩ 5 points ✩✩↓
1. This is a very simple cover.
2. The background is white.
3. There is a black area in the top half of the cover, which is made to look like hair.
4. The title is in purple and black, and is written in quite small capital letters near the middle of the cover.
5. The author's name is in green, in quite small capital letters again, at the bottom right.
6. There is also some more writing, going up the centre of the bottom half of the cover. This is once again in block capitals, and contains a question, and an answer.
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^ Please send your answers to me by personal message.
^ Please do not posts your answers publically on this or any other thread, as you will be disqualified from the challenge.
^ Please ask any questions you may have on the main thread for this challenge here - https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
^ Players get 3 guesses for each book. If you are incorrect all three times, then you will receive 0 points for that book.
^ Please make sure that the book that you are guessing is YA, has over 100 pages, and has over 10,000 ratings on Goodreads. If your book doesn't, and you still guess it, you will have wasted a guess.
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↓Description No. 21 - Guess Who - ✩✩ 5 points ✩✩↓
1. I'm female, I'm 15, and I have lots of red curly hair, my best friend calls it 'serious hair'.
2. My name is pretty dull, so sometimes I think about adding in extra letters to make it sound sexier. Even adding a 'Y' gives it more personality.
3. I just found out I'm lactose intolerant, which sucks. Peanut butter sandwiches need milk.
4. I just saw an old photograph of myself somewhere that I never expected to see it. And now I have questions.
5. I wondered who would recognise a child who had been kidnapped 12 years previously, and then I realised - the kidnapped child might recognise themselves.
↓Description No. 22 - Guess Who - ✩✩ 5 points ✩✩↓
1. I'm female, I'm a senior in high school, and I'm popular.
2. I remember not being popular, and I wish I could forget it. We get away with everything now.
3. I feel like I should like my boyfriend more than I do, and I have to remind myself why I ever started hooking up with him in the first place.
4. My friends and I are wearing matching outfits for 'Cupid Day', and I'm aiming to get at least 15 roses.
5. We always let the most popular girl in our group drive as she holds her liquor better than the rest of us.
↓Description No. 23 - Guess Who - ✩✩ 5 points ✩✩↓
1. I'm sixteen and I'm female.
2. I used to be a hall monitor, but now I'm a bit of a rebel. My parents think I've gone wild.
3. My headmaster tried to expel me, but my parents talked him out of it.
4. Now my parents are sending me away for the summer, to stay with my Uncle Mort.
5. But worse than that, I'll be separated from my twin sister, which is really weird.
↓Description No. 24 - Guess Who - ✩✩ 5 points ✩✩↓
1. I'm female, and I'm a high school student.
2. My mom died when I was four, and my dad died two years ago.
3. Since then I've been living with my stepmother, and she tries her best with me.
4. I used to live in Atlanta, but since my stepmother got a new job, I'll be going to boarding school.
5. This boarding school isn't exactly a normal boarding school though. I felt drawn here.
↓Description No. 25 - Guess Who - ✩✩ 5 points ✩✩↓
1. I'm female, I'm 16, and I live in Utah.
2. I'm a total science nerd.
3. I just had my heart broken by a boy whose birthday is the same day as my own.
4. I'm hoping that I can still win the state science fair though.
5. I'm hoping to use my broken heart as part of my experiment.
↓Description No. 26 - Cover Trouble - ✩✩ 5 points ✩✩↓
1. The background of this cover is sort-of blue/purple/black, and looks a bit like water.
2. In the centre of the cover are two flower petals, which together form the shape of a butterfly.
3. The title is in the lower half of the cover, beneath the butterfly, and is written in pink cursive.
4. The author's name is in a paler colour, in block capitals, below the title.
5. There is also a pink band across the top of the cover with a quote about the book, written by another author.
↓Description No. 27 - Cover Trouble - ✩✩ 5 points ✩✩↓
1. This cover has a black background, with white dots and shooting stars.
2. Along the bottom quarter of the cover is the colour green, with what looks a bit like leaves or branches of trees sticking up towards the black.
3. The title of the book is written in white across the centre of the cover.
4. The author's name is written in black across the green part of the cover, and there is also a line mentioning the author's previous book above the author's name.
5. There is also a tag line written in yellow in the top right corner of the cover.
↓Description No. 28 - Cover Trouble - ✩✩ 5 points ✩✩↓
1. This is quite a simple cover, the background is mainly a cream colour, with some brown shading in the upper left corner.
2. In the bottom third of the cover, to the right side, is a girl and a chair.
3. The picture is quite small, so you can't see the girls features well, but she appears to have a lot of dark coloured hair.
4. The girl is wearing a short dress/long top, jeans/leggings, and possibly boots (it's not easy to see what she's wearing). She is looking forwards, towards the reader, and there are also some shadows near her feet.
5. The book's title is in red, in lowercase, across the middle of the cover, and the author's name is in black in lowercase directly under it.
↓Description No. 29 - Cover Trouble - ✩✩ 5 points ✩✩↓
1. This cover is set outside.
2. At the bottom quarter of this cover, you can see rocks, surrounded by waves.
3. Sat on the rocks is a girl, she has brown hair which is up, and a long red dress.
4. Her face is turned downwards, and her arms hug her knees.
5. You can also see the sea behind the girl, but the colour is more grey than blue.
6. The title is written in red, across the top half of the cover.
7. There is more, smaller writing across the top of the cover, and the author's name is in white at the bottom left.
↓Description No. 30 - Cover Trouble - ✩✩ 5 points ✩✩↓
1. This is an unusual cover.
2. The background is white.
3. In the middle of the cover is the outline of a girls head (with her hair up).
4. Inside the outline is what looks like colourful graffiti, including a picture of a yellow flower.
5. The title of the book is on the bottom 25% of the cover, and is in blue and black.
6. The author's name is across the top 25% of the cover in black.
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^ Please send your answers to me by personal message.
^ Please do not posts your answers publically on this or any other thread, as you will be disqualified from the challenge.
^ Please ask any questions you may have on the main thread for this challenge here - https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
^ Players get 3 guesses for each book. If you are incorrect all three times, then you will receive 0 points for that book.
^ Please make sure that the book that you are guessing is YA, has over 100 pages, and has over 10,000 ratings on Goodreads. If your book doesn't, and you still guess it, you will have wasted a guess.
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↓Description No. 31 - Guess Who - ✩✩ 5 points ✩✩↓
1. I'm female, and I have straight dark hair and Asian cheekbones like my father.
2. My people and I all live in the New York City area.
3. Our community came from roughly this geographical area, but we're not really natives. We aren't allowed to talk about it, but we're time travellers.
4. We all have to live by twelve rules, and those who don't abide die in suspicious circumstances.
5. I only have my mom left now, both of my brothers are dead, and I don't know what happened to my father.
↓Description No. 32 - Guess Who - ✩✩ 5 points ✩✩↓
1. I'm female, and I have brown hair and glasses.
2. My best friend is homeschooled, but she's gorgeous, and well, she's not exactly human, she's a vampire.
3. I really dislike my first name, so I've been going by a more normal sounding one since first grade.
4. My parents haven't improved with time either, they're still all about healthy foods, and sit-ins, and protests.
5. Normally I don't like going to parties, but I willingly make the sacrifice when it's for the good of my best friend. She's been having a hard time recently
↓Description No. 33 - Guess Who - ✩✩ 5 points ✩✩↓
1. I'm male.
2. I've had my heart broken too many times. 19 times to be exact.
3. When it comes to girls I definitely have a type. Especially when it comes to their names.
4. I have a policy to never do anything standing up that I can do laying down.
5. I'm clever, but I've always wanted to really matter.
↓Description No. 34 - Guess Who - ✩✩ 5 points ✩✩↓
1. I'm female, and I'm nearly seventeen.
2. I go to an all-girls private school.
3. I live in the year 2195.
4. My mother died when I was nine, and my father died last year. I still live in my parents family home, but my aunt says we're in debt.
5. There's also the matter of the zombies.
↓Description No. 35 - Guess Who - ✩✩ 5 points ✩✩↓
1. I'm female and I'm blonde.
2. I'm a high school student in Seattle.
3. I'm on anti-depressants, and my best friend says that my mood can sometimes change rapidly.
4. I can't turn down a party, even if I'm not as popular as I used to be.
5. I'm not so keen on vengeance though.
↓Description No. 36 - Cover Trouble - ✩✩ 5 points ✩✩↓
1. The background to this cover is black.
2. Coming down from the top of the cover is a pair of pale-coloured legs and feet, wrapped in some sort of purple gauzy fabric.
3. The toenails of the feet are also painted a very similar shade of purple.
4. The title of the book is written in white cursive at the bottom of the cover.
5. The author's name is written in purple block capitals underneath the title.
↓Description No. 37 - Cover Trouble - ✩✩ 5 points ✩✩↓
1. This cover has a dark blue background.
2. At the bottom of the cover there are shadows which give the impression of waves on water.
3. The title is in white cursive letters and takes up quite a lot of the cover.
4. The author's name is also in white, in small block capitals at the top of the cover.
5. Below the title is a pink heart which appears to be made up of two fingerprints.
↓Description No. 38 - Cover Trouble - ✩✩ 5 points ✩✩↓
1. The background of this cover looks like a map, with land on the left side and water on the right. It even looks like the map is a bit crinkly.
2. There is a line drawn on the map from the top of the cover to the bottom.
3. The line passes through three places which are marked with an orange pen, and named 'loss', 'hope', and 'love'.
4. The title and author's name are written in lines from the top to the bottom of the cover, mainly towards the right-hand side.
5. The title and author's name are written in red and purple pen.
↓Description No. 39 - Cover Trouble - ✩✩ 5 points ✩✩↓
1. This cover has a black background.
2. This cover has fairy lights strung across it.
3. The title is written in pink, in block capitals, down the middle of the cover.
4. The author's name is also written in pink, in block capitals, across the bottom of the cover.
5. There is also some more writing across the top of the cover, which is also in pink, but not in block capitals.
↓Description No. 40 - Cover Trouble - ✩✩ 5 points ✩✩↓
1. This cover features a girl, she stands to the left side of the cover. You can see her from the hips up, but you can't quite see the top of her head.
2. She has her arms folded across her middle and is wearing a white top with a silver necklace. She has brown hair which has a slight wave to it. It is loose and ends just before her elbows.
3. She is looking off towards the front, right, side of the cover.
4. There is a figure in the background to her left (the right side of the cover) who seems to be walking away from her.
5. The book's title is written across the lower half of the cover in pink.
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^ Please send your answers to me by personal message.
^ Please do not post your answers publically on this or any other thread, as you will be disqualified from the challenge.
^ Please ask any questions you may have on the main thread for this challenge here - https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
^ Players get 3 guesses for each book. If you are incorrect all three times, then you will receive 0 points for that book.
^ Please make sure that the book that you are guessing is YA, has over 100 pages, and has over 10,000 ratings on Goodreads. If your book doesn't, and you still guess it, you will have wasted a guess.
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1. "Evening "Eve" "E.V." Spiker" - Eve & Adam (Eve & Adam #1) by Michael Grant and Katherine Applegate
2. "Julia Lichtenstein" - Meant to Be by Lauren Morrill
3. "Grace Brisbane" - Shiver (The Wolves of Mercy Falls #1) by Maggie Stiefvater
4. "Aria Rose" - Mystic City (Mystic City #1) by Theo Lawrence
5. "Sadie Hunter" - Sadie by Courtney Summers
6. Obsidian (Lux #1) by Jennifer L. Armentrout
7. Every Last Word by Tamara Ireland Stone
8. Finding Sky (Benedict-Savant #1) by Joss Stirling
9. Things We Know by Heart by Jessi Kirby
10. Let the Sky Fall (Sky Fall #1) by Shannon Messenger
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11. "Evie Spooner" - What I Saw and How I Lied by Judy Blundell
12. "Anna Whitt" - Sweet Evil by Wendy Higgins
13. "Kendall Fletcher" - Cryer's Cross by Lisa McMann
14. "Madelyne Summers" - The Summer I Became a Nerd by Leah Rae Miller
15. "Waverly Marshall" - Glow by Amy Kathleen Ryan
16. Angelfall (Penryn & the End of Days #1) by Susan Ee
17. The Naturals (The Naturals #1) by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
18. This is Not a Test (This is Not a Test #1) by Courtney Summers
19. Love, Life, and the List by Kasie West
20. Symptoms of Being Human by Jeff Garvin
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21. "Janie Johnson" - The Face on the Milk Carton (Janie Johnson #1) by Caroline B. Cooney
22. "Samantha Kingston" - Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver
23. "Lexington Bartleby" - Croak (Croak #1) by Gina Damico
24. "Violet McKenna" - Haven (Winterhaven #1) by Kristi Cook
25. "Avery Shaw" - The Avery Shaw Experiment (Science Squad #1) by Kelly Oram
26. Wings (Wings #1) by Aprilynne Pike
27. Extraordinary Means by Robyn Schneider
28. Allegedly by Tiffany D. Jackson
29. Juliet Immortal (Juliet Immortal #1) by Stacey Jay
30. American Street by Ibi Zoboi
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31. "Prenna James" - The Here and Now by Ann Brashares
32. "Lucky "Lucy" Hamilton" - Hearts at Stake (Drake Chronicles #1) by Alyxandra Harvey
33. "Colin Singleton" - An Abundance of Katherines by John Green
34. "Nora Dearly" - Dearly, Departed (Gone With the Respiration #1) by Lia Habel
35. "Minnie" - Ten by Gretchen McNeil
36. The Dark Divine (The Dark Divine #1) by Bree Despain
37. Emmy & Oliver by Robin Benway
38. Let's Get Lost by Adi Alsaid
39. Far From You by Tess Sharpe
40. Time Between Us (Time Between Us #1) by Tamara Ireland Stone
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^ Players get 3 guesses for each book. If you are incorrect all three times, then you will receive 0 points for that book.
^ Please make sure that the book that you are guessing is YA, has over 100 pages, and has over 10,000 ratings on Goodreads. If your book doesn't, and you still guess it, you will have wasted a guess.
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