Anyone want to help me with some summary one liners?

[Whohashiddenthebiscuits]

In short, we have a family quizz every year (usually about 20 people) and it’s my turn “to put this together. I’m going to put a literary round together of very short funny summaries of well known books so e.g Man v Whale. Whale wins. (Moby Dick).

Have found a few online like the one above but am really lacking a bit of creativity & imagination at the moment! Can anyone come up with anything inspired?!

Peckish teens play with weapons? Hunger games

I like that - thank you!

Large footed friends go on quest for jewellery… Lord of the Rings

Italian art lover discovers hidden relic…
The Da Vinci Code

Life of a small boy that has a sweet ending… Charlie and the chocolate factory

Sorry my knowledge of books isn’t very highbrow! Which sort of books were you after? Things like Dickens or more popular modern books?

Honestly, the audience will be everyone from 13 year olds (DD), in laws who don’t read that much through to English Grads (DH & my nephew) so trying to come up with something for everyone which is a headache! Thanks for the above - the LOTR one in particular is great!

Dear Diary, I love Pandora.

The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 ¾: Sue Townsend

There’s the famous TV guide to the Wizard if Oz:

“Transported to a surreal landscape, a young girl kills the first person she meets and then teams up with three strangers to kill again.”

Ah @Whohashiddenthebiscuits that’s going to be tough to find something that everyone knows! Guessing 50 shades of grey is out of the question for the 13 year old then!

Trying to think of a good one for Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone maybe “11 year old catches schooltrain from odd station”

Lion witch and wardrobe- “children get stuck in cold cupboard until they find Father Christmas”

This is a man’s world, served by women with a plan - a handmaids tale, maybe a little too lighthearted

Old Macdonald can’t contain these rebellious beasts set on equality - animal farm

An emokid can’t decide whether to date a dead man or part time wolf.

A teenage falls in love with her boss, only to discover he has locked his wife in the attic.

People go round each other's houses.
(Pride and Prejudice)

Orphan is adopted; no signs of trauma; all goes well.
(Anne of Green Gables)

Young woman upsets everyone for almost two centuries by not marrying the first man who asks.
(Little Women)

Rich guy can't get the girl he wants despite throwing the best parties - The Great Gatsby

Thanks all - will definitely use quite a few of these (and I also really wanted Jo to marry Laurie when I read it age 11.🤷‍♀️.)

Greedy insect - - The Very Hungry Caterpiller

Winter Festival song - Christmas Carol.

Single person above thieving
birds home. On flew over the cuckoo’s nest.

Least success magic lady. The worst witch

Black cloth covers Oxford His Dark Materials Philip Pullman
Showing courage on an innovative planet Brave New World
Aristocrat moving through the skies Lord of the Flies

Lord of the Flies: this one time, at scout camp...

Spirited prince causes royal chaos in Legoland (Hamlet) (but obviously a play not a book so am not sure if it counts)

Man who saves every tuppence gets a nightmare comeuppance (A Christmas Carol)

@Shortpoet

There’s the famous TV guide to the Wizard if Oz:

“Transported to a surreal landscape, a young girl kills the first person she meets and then teams up with three strangers to kill again.”

😂

One to be a bit tricky…
Young girl uses ESP to cause chaos at school
(Could be Matilda or Carrie)

Boy collect belt buckles (The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper)
Rufugee family travels round Europe (When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit by Judith Kerr)
Neglected child becomes a criminal (Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens)
Man records tide times in diary (Piranesi by Susannah Clarke)
Orphan boy reconnects with Godfather (Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Askaban by JK Rowling)
Teenagers fall in love (Normal People by Sally Rooney)

Thanks all! Round unwritten as yet (along with entire quizz, snowed under with work so may be writing the blinking thing on Christmas Eve. Joy!). Please do keep them coming!