2008

My Printz Award Challenge for 2008

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The Printz Award Challenge suggests you read six of the Printz Award winners or honors. Six isn’t very many so I’m going to read them all (a few, I have already read) before the end of 2008.

2007
American Born Chinese (10/11/8)
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation; v. 1: The Pox Party (10/1/8)
An Abundance of Katherines (I’ve already read this one)
Surrender (10/12/8)
The Book Thief (I’ve alrady read this one)

2006
Looking for Alaska (10/11/8)
Black Juice (10/23/8)
I Am the Messenger (10/27/8)
John Lennon: All I Want Is the Truth, a Photographic Biography (7/4/8)
A Wreath for Emmett Till (10/29/8)

2005
how i live now (6/8/8)
Airborn (11/27/8)
Chanda’s Secrets (10/18/8)
Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy (11/6/8)

2004
The First Part Last (11/9/8)
A Northern Light (11/17/8)
Keesha’s House (11/8/8)
Fat Kid Rules the World (11/8/8)
The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things (9/28/8)

2003
Postcards from No Man’s Land (6/1/8)
The House of the Scorpion (6/15/8)
My Heartbeat (5/16/8)
Hole in My Life (5/27/8)

2002
A Step From Heaven (4/24/8)
The Ropemaker (5/7/8)
Heart to Heart: New Poems Inspired by Twentieth-Century American Art (4/9/8)
Freewill (4/9/8)
True Believer (4/18/8)

2001
Kit’s Wilderness (3/23/8)
Many Stones (3/27/8)
The Body of Christopher Creed (3/27/8)
Angus, Thongs, and Full Frontal Snogging: Confessions of Georgia Nicolson (3/25/8)
Stuck in Neutral (2/3/8)

2000
Monster (1/29/8)
Skellig (1/5/8)
Speak (I’ve read this one)
Hard Love (1/10/8)

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No resolutions for me, but…

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I said recently, in a blog post elsewhere, that I don’t DO resolutions. And that’s true, I don’t. I also said that I love lists and I love a good list meme. And that’s also true, I do. And since I’ve been saying off and on that I would love to do a whole year of YA reading but know that I just cannot do that, I’m going to do a mini YA challenge.

Sassymonkey recommended the Printz Award Challenge but it’s too easy. Six YA books is not a challenge, ya know? So – how about I read all of the Prince Award winners and honor books (that I haven’t already read)? That doesn’t make it a hard challenge but it does make it more interesting. That’s 34 YA books.

I’ll also be combining that with my own “From the Stacks” challenge. 24 books that I own but have not read – two a month.

I’ll create new posts for both of these 2008 reading challenges later tonight or tomorrow, I’ll need to peruse my bookshelves for good candidates for my “From the Stacks” challenge.

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