Social Justice Challenge

Monthly Themes:

January: Religious Freedom ~ Anil’s Ghost by Michael Odaantje   Part One and Part Two

February: Water~ Water Wars: Privatization, Pollution, and Profit by Vandana Shiva

Domestic Violence & Child Abuse ~ The Verbally Abusive Relationship: How to Recognize it and How to Respond  by Patricia Evans

Hunger

AIDS Crisis

Genocide

Poverty

Illiteracy and Education

Modern Day Slavery

Homelessness & Refugees

Women’s Rights

Child Soldiers & Children in War

 Young Adult Reading Challenge

The Mini YA Reading Challenge – Read 12 Young Adult novels

1. Tempted: A House of Night Novel ~ P.C. Cast (Read but not Reviewed)
2. Breakfast at Bloomingdales ~ Kristen Kemp
3. Shiver ~ Maggie Stiefvater
4. After ~ Amy Efaw
5. The Enemy ~ Charlie Higson
6. How to Say Goodbye in Robot ~ Natalie Standiford
7. Hunger Games ~ Suzanne Collins
8. Catching Fire ~ Suzanne Collins
9. Genesis ~ Bernard Becket
10. TBD
11. TBD
12. TBD

  Twenty Ten Challenge

1. Young Adult
   The Maze Runner ~ James Dashner  
2. T.B.R. **
   Intended to help reduce the old T.B.R. pile. Books for this category must be already residents of your bookshelves as of 1/11/09.
3. Shiny & New
   Little Giant of Aberdeen Country ~ Tiffany Baker (won in a giveaway http://peekingbetweenthepages.blogspot.com)
4. Bad Blogger’s ***
   Books in this category, should be ones you’ve picked up purely on the recommendation of another blogger count for this category (any reviews you post should also link to the post that convinced you give the book ago).
   *** Bad Bloggers: Is hosted by Chris of Stuff as Dreams are Made on.
5. Charity
   Support your local charity shops with this category, by picking up books from one of their shops. Again, for those on book-buying bans, books bought for you as gifts also count, as long as they were bought from a charity shop.
6. New in 2010
   Roses ~ Leila Meacham &
7. Older Than You
   Read two books that were published before you were born, whether that be the day before or 100 years prior!
8. Win! Win!
   Have a couple of books you need to read for another challenge? Then this is the category to use, as long that is, you don’t break the rules of the other challenge by doing so!
9. Who Are You Again?
   This one isn’t just for authors you’ve never read before, this is for those authors you have never even heard of before!
10. Up to You!
    Published Under Harlequin:

 Support Your Local Library Challenge

Just My Size – Check out and read 50 library books

1. How to Say Goodbye in Robot
2. Shiver
3. Humpty Dumpty Was Pushed and Other Cracked Tales
4. Roses
5. After
6. Tempted
7. The Verbally Abusive Relationship: How to Recognize it and How to Respond  
8. There’s Something About St. Tropez

Governor General Literary Award Winners for Fiction