Fall/Winter 2013-14 Reading Challenge

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4	1	Special Snowflake	Read a book about an individual or group of individuals that are different from the “Norm”. You can decide what the norm is.	City of Fallen Angels	Cassandra Clare	Pretty much all the characters	4
5	2	Recycle, recycle, recycle	Pick a task from one of the past challenges that you didn’t complete.	City of Bones	Cassandra Clare	Task 5.3 from Spring/Summer '13: Hot Reads (read a book from a summer reading list)	4
6	3	Christmas Time's for Kids	Read a children’s book. Preferably one over 150 pages, but since most children’s books aren’t that long, let’s say over 100 pages.	The Sea of Monsters	Rick Riordan	Percy Jackson series
7	4	Witches Brew	Read a book about witches/spells or that has an ingredient for a witches brew in the title. Can be about Wiccans, doesn’t need to be the Halloween Witch.
8	5	Banned Books Week	Read a book which is on the ALA Frequently Challenged List.	The Glass Castle	Jeannette Walls		5
9	6	Fall/Winter Challenge	Read a book with a fall or winter themed cover or a book with a typical fall/winter theme word in the title (snow, leaves, turkey, etc.)	White Fire	Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child	snow landscape on cover	5
10	7	Day of the Dead	Day of the Dead is November 1st. Read a book that has the word "dead"/"death"/"die" in the title, has a spirit/ghost in the story OR takes place in Mexico.
11	8	Architectural Marvels	Read a book relating to some architectural marvel or that shows one on the cover. (Eiffel Tower, Statue of Liberty, Notre Dame, etc)	Paris, My Sweet	Amy Thomas	Eiffel tower
12	10 Points
13	1	First we learn our letters "A"	Read a book where a word that starts with the letter “A” is in the title.	City of Ashes	Cassandra Clare		4
14	2	First we learn our letters "Z"	Read a book where a word that starts with the letter “Z” is in the title.
15	3	Then we learn our numbers "1"	Read a book with a 1 word title. (The and A count as a word)	Sisterland	Curtis Sittenfeld		3
16	4	Then we learn our numbers	Read a book with more than 5 words in the title	I Am MalalaThe Girl Who Stood Up for Education...	Malala Yousafzai		5
17	5	Nouns	Read a book with a noun in the title.	City of Glass	Cassandra Clare		4
18	6	Verbs	Read a book with a verb in the title.	Eat, Pray, Love	Elizabeth Gilbert		2
19	7	Teachers	Read a book a teacher/professor recommended. Any year in school, can also be anything that was “required reading”.	The Great Gatsby	Scott Fitzgerald
20	8	School Supplies	Read a book with some sort of school supply on the cover. (pen, pencil, paper, calculator, computer, backpack, etc.)	The Art Forger	B.A. Shapiro	has a book and painting supplies on cover	4
21	15 Points
22	1	Hocus Pocus and Elf	My 2 favorite movies during this time! Read a book whose author shares a name with a main character in these movies: Winifred, Sarah, Mary, Max, Dani, Allison, Buddy, Walter, Emily, Jovie and Michael.
23	2	One and Only	Read a book by an author that has only published one book. This can be a newly published author as long as they are not ready to release a new book by the end of the challenge.	Someday, Someday, Maybe	Lauren Graham		3
24	3	White Elephant	Read a book from the list of “White Elephants”.
25	4	Changing Colors	Read a book about a character that is changing in some way.	The Edge of Always	JA Redmerski		4
26	5	Page to Small Screen	Read a book that is or has been made into a TV movie or mini-series or inspired a regular series.	The Apprentice	Tess Gerritsen	Rizzoli and Isles show	3
27	6	Book 2.0	Read a book that is a retelling of a classic or loosely based on a classic.	Wicked	Gregory Maguire	based on The Wizard of Oz
28	7	On the Campaign Trail	Read a book about a politician, their campaign, or about their time in office.	Pretties	Scott Westerfeld	Did the Task Replacement Twist (posted on GoT, Are you there vodka? and Columbine DBs)	3
29	8	September is Alcohol and Drug Addiction Recovery Month	Read a book about a person struggling with an addiction or with the name of a drug/alcoholic drink in the title.	Maya's Notebook	Isabel Allende
30	20 Points
31	1	Group Read	Read a past group read OR a group read that happens during one of the months of this challenge AND post to the discussion thread what you thought about the book.	Uglies	Scott Westefeld		3
32	2	Alliteration	Read a book that has 2 or more words in the title that start with the same letter.	The Cuckoo's Calling	Robert Galbraith/ J.K. Rowling		5
33	3	Mikslibrarian Task: Wrap up 2013	Read a book from one of these trending and hot genres: Apocalyptic, Mythopoeia, Boomer, Bizarro, and New Adult. Use GR Genre search for suggestions and make sure to post which genre you chose.	Easy	Tamara Webber	New Adult	4
34	25 Points
35	1	Battle of the Sexes	Read 1 book by a female author and 1 book by a male author about the same type of thing, person, event, etc. How do they compare? (This can be fiction or non fiction. Examples would be two mystery authors, or 2 biographies about the same person.)	Survival in Aucshwitz	Primo Levi	Both about the Holocaust however, Picoult's is fiction
36				The Storyteller	Jodi Picoult		4
37	2	Out with the old, In with the new	Read 1 book that has been on your to read list for a really long time and 1 book that has been added really recently. Or 1 book that was published over 50 years ago and 1 book that will be published during this challenge. (September 2012 through March 2013)		Agatha Christie	Published over 50 years ago
38				Allegiant	Veronica Roth	Will be published Oct. 22, 2013	4
39	3	Intimidating Read	Read 1 book that is very intimidating to you, then read 1 fun book as a reward.	A Feast for Crows	George RR Martin	Intimidating
40				City of Lost Souls	Cassandra Clare	Fun	4
41	4	Birthday Celebrations	Read 1 book each by 2 different authors with birthdays during the challenge time. September through March. This website may help. http://www.authdir.net/	Never Let me Go	Kazuo Ishiguro	November 8th
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43	5	We Didn’t Start the Fire	Pick 2 different topics/people listed in the lyrics and read books about them. (Can be fictional accounts of the events in novel form)	The Catcher in the Rye	J.D. Salinger	book mentioned in lyrics
44				Wild Grass: Thress Stories of Change in Modern China	Ian Johnson	Red China
45	6	A Balanced View	Read 2 books with opposing points of view. They can be fiction or nonfiction. Examples would be books about a war, politics, sports teams rivalries, vegan vs carnivore, home schooling vs public schools, etc.
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47	7	Body & Mind	Read a book about a person with a physical disability/handicap and a book about a person with an emotional/social/psychological disorder.	The Bell Jar	Sylvia Plath	Psychological condition
48				The Fault in Our Stars	John Green	Physical
49	8	Two Become One	For this challenge you are going to read two books—whatever you want. The caveat—the two books need to form a proper sentence.	Twenties Girl	Sophie Kinsella	Twenties girl looking for Alaska.
50				Looking for Alaska	John Green		3
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