Social Justice Challenge

Monthly Themes:

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

February: Water~ Water Wars: Privatization, Pollution, and Profit by Vandana Shiva Part One and Part Two and Review

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

Challenge Abandoned.

 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. Shiver ~ Maggie Stiefvater
3. After ~ Amy Efaw
4. How to Say Goodbye in Robot ~ Natalie Standiford
5. Hunger Games ~ Suzanne Collins
6. Catching Fire ~ Suzanne Collins
7. Genesis ~ Bernard Becket
8. Sixth Grade Glommers, Norks, And Me ~ Lisa Papademetriou (Read but not Reviewed)
9. 39 Clues: Maze of Bones ~ Rick Riordan 
10. Burned ~ P.C. Cast (Read But Not Reviewed)
11. The Sky is Everywhere ~ Jandy Nelson (Read But Not Reviewed)

  Twenty Ten Challenge

1. Young Adult
   The Maze Runner ~ James Dashner                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    The Line ~ Teri Hall
2. T.B.R. **
   The Art of Racing in the Rain ~ Garth Stein   &  The Diviners ~ Margaret Laurence
3. Shiny & New
   Little Giant of Aberdeen Country ~ Tiffany Baker (won in a giveaway http://peekingbetweenthepages.blogspot.com)                                                                            A Dark Matter ~ Peter Straub
4. Bad Blogger’s ***
   How I Became  A Famous Novelist ~ Steve Hely (Recommended by Find Your Next Book Here)                                                                                                              When You Reach Me ~ Rebecca Stead (Recommended by At Home With Books)
5. Charity
   The Story of My Life ~ Jay McInerney                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           A Pocket Full of Rye ~ Agatha Christie
6. New in 2010
   Roses ~ Leila Meacham & Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand ~ Helen Simonson
7. Older Than You
   The Good Earth ~ Pearl S. Buck                   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?
   The Prairie Bridesmaid ~ Daria Salamon  & 
10. Up to You!
    Published Under Harlequin: Hot Copy ~ Diane Pershing & From Caviar to Chaos ~ Lois Grieman

 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
9. Sixth Grade glommers, norks, and me
10. Her Fearful Symmetry
11. Liar
12. 39 Clues: Maze of Bones
13. Just Take My Heart
14. 39 Clues: One False Note
15. This Book Isn’t Fat, It’s Fabulous!
16. A Dark Matter
17. 39 Clues: The Sword Thief
18. 39 Clues: Beyond The Grave
19. 39 Clues: The Black Circle
20. How I Became a Famous Novelist
21. Alice, I Have Been
22. 39 Clues : In Too Deep
23. One Fifth Avenue
24. The Maze Runner
25. Burned
26. Bite Me
27. The Book Thief
28. Undead and Unwed
29. When You Reach Me
30. Undead and Unappreciated
31. Undead and Unemployed
32. Ordeal
33. The Babysitter’s Club Prequel: The Summer Before
34. Undead and Unworthy
35. Undead and Uneasy
36. Undead and Unpopular
37. Undead and Unreturnable
38. The Sky is Everywhere
39. Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang
40. Ghosts of Ashbury High
41. Garden Spells
42. The Girl Who Chased the Moon
43. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
44. The Viper’s Nest
45. The Chemistry of Death
46. Are you there Vodka, It’s me Chelsea
47. Fallen
48. The Guinea Pig Diaries
49. 29
50. Linger

Governor General Literary Award Winners for Fiction