Showing posts with label current challenges. Show all posts
Showing posts with label current challenges. Show all posts

Saturday, March 24, 2012

Back to Classics Challenge


Join the challenge here.
Ends: December 31, 2011.
Challenge: 9 books from different categories

1. 19th Century - Villette by Charlotte Bronte
2. 20th Century - 1984 by George Orwell
3. Reread - Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
4. Play - Something Shakespeare, undecided
5. Mystery/Horror/Crime - The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
6. Romance - Love in the Time of Cholera by G.G. Marquez
7. Translation - The Iliad by Homer
8. Award Winner - All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
9. Fictional or Foreign Country -

Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Historical Fiction Challenge


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Ends: December 31, 2012
Challenge Level: Daring & Curious (5 books)
Challenge: Read and discuss historical fiction, each month.

1. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
2. The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi
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Tuesday, November 1, 2011

Support Your Library Challenge



Join the challenge here.
Ends: December 31, 2012.
Challenge Level: Level 4 (37+).

1. I Am the Messenger by Markus Zusak
2. The School of Essential Ingredients by Erica Bauermeister
3. Jellicoe Road by Melina Marchetta
4. The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi
5. The White Darkness by Geraldine McCaughrean

Read Your Own Books Challenge



Join the challenge here.
Ends: December 31, 2012.
Challenge Level: Level 2 (6 to 10).
Challenge: Read books you own that you haven't read yet.

1. The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley
2. Villette by Charlotte Bronte
3. Netherland by Joseph O'Neill
4. All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
5. A Separate Peace by John Knowles