Reading Challenges

Reading My Name Challenge

When: February 1, 2009 - June 30, 2009

1. Claudine at School – Colette

2. Some kind of short story collection – Colette

Battle of the Prizes

When: May 1, 2009 – September 7, 2009

1. One that won the Pulitzer but not the National

2. One that won the National but not the Pulitzer

3. One that won both the Pulitzer and the National

· The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao – Junot Diaz

Non-Fiction 5 Challenge

When: May 1, 2009 – September 30, 2009

1. How To Become A Famous Writer Before Your Dead: Your Words In Print and Your Name in Lights – Ariel Gore

2. Reading Like A Writer – Francine Prose

3. Living in History – Hilary Rodham Clinton

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5. One that is a different format than the other 4.

Summer Vacation Reading Challenge – “Globe Trotter”

When: May 22, 2009 – September 7, 2009

*5 of the 6 titles can cross over with another challenge.

1. The Sisters Antipodes – Jane Alison

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Summer 2009 Reading Challenge

When: June 1, 2009 – August 30, 2009

1. Title with a Sports Theme

2. Re-read a Favorite

3. A Title by Linda Howard

4. Title published before 2000

5. Hot word for summer (sun, fire, heat, fever…)

6. A Book that takes place in a warm location (Florida, Hawaii, etc)

· Duma Key – Stephen King

7. Unlikely here/heroine (whatever that means to you. overweight heroine, nerdy hero...)

· The Worst Years of Your Life

8. Author with last name that starts with same letter as your last name.

9. Schoolmarms/Teachers/Governess...

10. Title with a person of royalty (Duke/Princess/Marquis/Queen...)

11. Title with an "S" for Summer

12. Food type word (Sweet, Tasty, Cake, Lick, Bite...)

13. A Title Read/Reviewed in the Spring Challenge...

14. Reader's Choice...

15. Double Trouble, ( a story with a twin or twins )...