Collection · 23 puzzles
Literature Word Searches
Puzzles for the books and plays of middle school and high school English. Shakespeare leads, with Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet and Macbeth each on their own, and Arthur Miller's The Crucible beside them; the class novels follow, from To Kill a Mockingbird, The Great Gatsby, Of Mice and Men and Lord of the Flies to Animal Farm, Fahrenheit 451, The Outsiders, The Giver and The Hunger Games. Edgar Allan Poe brings the poems and tales, Beowulf, The Odyssey and Classic Books cover the older canon, Fantasy the vocabulary of quests and magic, and Science Fiction the robots, starships and time machines.
Mary Shelley began Frankenstein at eighteen, during a cold, wet summer in 1816 at the Villa Diodati near Geneva, when Lord Byron challenged his guests to each write a ghost story. The novel came out in 1818 with no author's name on it, and it is often called the first science fiction novel.
Printable Literature Word Searches
Literature Word Search Puzzles
Every puzzle prints in three levels: easy hides 5 words in a 10 by 10 grid, reading only across and down; medium hides 15 in a 12 by 12 grid; hard hides up to 23 in a 15 by 15 grid. Each print is a fresh draw from the topic's word list, and every sheet comes with an answer key. The same puzzles play online, on your own or against a friend in real time.