Book Challenges

Now that the ALA Youth Media Awards have been announced I can start reading for the new year! My goal last year was 100 books and I did it!  I count every single book I read no matter how short and I'm reading like it's my job because...librarian. So, I needed something new to focus on.  A fellow librarian told me about this reading challenge and I decided to make one for our Jefferson Jets.  Lots of students are already participating.  It's a fun way to read outside of the normal types of books we choose again and again.

If you need a hard copy, stop by the library or email me and I'll get one to you. 

I'll be filling my challenge sheet up for the next couple of months with books from the Battle of the the Kids Books contenders.  These books will get matched against each other in March Madness like brackets until a winner prevails.  So much fun!

THE BOYS WHO CHALLENGED HITLER by Phillip Hoose

CHALLENGER DEEP by Neal Shusterman

DROWNED CITY by Don Brown

ECHO by Pam Muñoz Ryan

GONE CRAZY IN ALABAMA by Rita Williams-Garcia

GOODBYE STRANGER by Rebecca Stead

THE HIRED GIRL by Laura Amy Schlitz

I CRAWL THROUGH IT by A. S. King

THE MARVELS by Brian Selznick

MOST DANGEROUS by Steve Sheinkin

MY SENECA VILLAGE by Marilyn Nelson

NEST by Kenneth Oppel

NIMONA by Noelle Stevenson

RHYTHM RIDE  by Andrea Davis Pinkney

SYMPHONY FOR THE CITY OF THE DEAD by M. T. Anderson

X: A NOVEL by Ilyasah Shabazz and Kekla Magoon