APRIL, MAY, JUNE, 2026

HAVE SOME FUN WITH THIS CHALLENGE!

CHOOSE THREE BOOK TITLES AND FORM A SENTENCE USING ALL THREE TITLES BY ADDING AS FEW JOINING WORDS AS POSSIBLE.

Examples

SOLE SURVIVOR by Dean Koontz

THE FIRST PATIENT by Michael Palmer

ANNO O by Matthew Blake

ANNO O, THE FIRST PATIENT, was the SOLE SURVIVOR.

NO MIDDLE NAME by Lee Child

THE CLOISTERS by Katy Hays

MERCY by Michael & Daniel Palmer

THE CLOISTERS, with NO MIDDLE NAME, showed no MERCY.

When submitting your entry, be sure to list the titles of the three books and their authors plus the sentence you formed from the three titles.

A draw will be made from all entries.  The winner will win a free one-year membership to SSAI.

Submitted by Jessie Dion of the Shellbrook Senior Citizens' Cooperative Club
Helena by Evelyn Waugh
In Falling Snow by Mary-rose MacColl
The Stationery Shop by Marjan Kamali
 
Sentence:  Helena stood in falling snow outside the stationery shop.
Submitted by Rita Loiselle of the Shellbrook Senior Citizens' Cooperative Club

Tell Me What to Eat by Elaine Magee
Peggy’s Cove by Lesley Choyce
Company’s Coming by Jean Pare

Sentence: Tell me what to eat at Peggy’s Cove when company’s coming.

Submitted by Rita Loiselle of the Shellbrook Senior Citizens' Cooperative Club

The Boy Next Door by Enid Blyton
The Outsider by Stephen King
Looking for Trouble by Jess Lea

Sentence: The boy next door is the outsider looking for trouble.

Submitted by W. Sherlock from Maymont

The Five by Hallie Rubenhold; It’s All Too Much by Peter Walsh; and One Perfect Couple by Ruth Ware.

Sentence: After overhearing apparently one perfect couple argue for five minutes, it’s all too much to know.

Submitted by Marion Blain from Cut Knife
  • The Hiding Place by Lyn Cook
  • Hawk’s Hill by Allan W. Eckert
  • Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater

Sentence: I shiver in the hiding place at Hawk’s Hill.

Submitted by Mary Ramsay from Cut Knife
  • The Hiding Place by Lyn Cook
  • Hawk’s Hill by Allan W. Eckert
  • Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater

Sentence: The hiding place at Hawk’s Hill makes me shiver.

Submitted by Cheryl Ramsay from Cut Knife
  • The Hiding Place by Lyn Cook
  • Hawk’s Hill by Allan W. Eckert
  • Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater

Sentence: Hawk’s Hill is the hiding place where I shiver.

Submitted by Inez Helm of the Shellbrook Senior Citizens' Cooperative Club

Queen by Birgitta Trotzig; 
The Long Way Home by Louise Penny; 
Vinyl Café by Stuart McLean

Sentence:  Queen took the long way home to the Vinyl Café.

Submitted by Inez Helm of the Shellbrook Senior Citizens' Cooperative Club

Heidi by Johanna Spyri; 
Canadian Pie by Will Ferguson; 
The Hero of Hacksaw Ridge by Martha Hutchens

Sentence:  Heidi made Canadian pie for the hero of Hacksaw Ridge.

Submitted by Inez Helm of the Shellbrook Senior Citizens' Cooperative Club

The Real Mother Goose by Blanche Fisher Wright; 
The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux; 
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

Sentence:  The real mother goose feared the phantom of the opera so was gone with the wind.