Reading Challenges

Susanna Wesley (Women of Faith)- Running with Scissors: A Memoir
- Breathing for a Living: A Memoir
- Letters Home: Memoirs of one Army Nurse in the Southwest Pacific in World War II
- Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time
- A Child Called “It”: One Child’s Courage to Survive
- Born Too Soon
- The Lost Boy: A Foster Child’s Search for the Love of a Family
- The Unheard: A Memoir of Deafness and Africa
- Dorie: Woman of the Mountains
- Behind the Veil: An Australian Nurse in Saudi Arabia
- Amy Carmichael: Rescuer of Precious Gems (Christian Heroes: Then & Now) (Christian Heroes, Then & Now)

- Hoot
- Miss Hickory
- The Secret Garden (HarperClassics)
- Watership Down: A Novel
- Gulliver’s Travels (Penguin Classics)
- The Borrowers
- Hatchet
- A Wrinkle in Time
- Interstellar Pig
- Kingdom’s Dawn (Kingdom Series, Book 1)
- Kingdom’s Hope (Kingdom Series)
- Kingdom’s Edge (Kingdom Series)

Another fantastic challenge hosted by Becky over at Young Readers!
Here’s my main list…I’m sure by the end of the year it will be much longer.
- Sam and the Firefly by P.D. Eastman
- A Treasury of Santa Mouse by Michael Brown
- Bach’s Big Adventure by Sallie Ketcham
- Fat Polka-dot Cat and Other Haiku by Betsy Maestro
- The Alphabet Atlas by Arthur Yorinks
- Alexander and the Wind-Up Mouse by Leo Lionni
- Time to Sleep by Denise Fleming
- Many Moons
by James Thurber - The Mitten by Alvin Tresselt
- Simeon’s Gift by Julie Andrews Edwards and Emma Walton Hamilton
- Tell Me About Heaven by Randy Alcorn
- Wait Until Then
by Randy Alcorn

For more info on this challenge head on over to Becky’s Book Reviews!
A Mother’s Offering to Her Children by Charlotte Barton- An Old Fashioned Girl by Louisa May Alcott
- Gems from the East: A Birthday Book of Precepts and Axioms by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
- The Life and Perambulations of a Mouse by Dorothy Kilner
- A Christmas Cake by Lady Barker
- Domestic Pleasures by Francis Bowyer Vaux
- Under the Lilacs by Louisa May Alcott
- Little Ann: A Book by Adelaide O’Keefe
- A Wreath From the Woods of North Carolina by Mary Ann Bryan Mason
- Carrots: Just a Little Boy by Mary Molesworth
- Enthusiasm and Other Poems by Susanna Moodie
- Wouldbegoods by E. Nesbitt

January: Thornton Burgess’ (bd January 14, 1874) The Adventures of Mr. Mocker- February: Jules Verne’s (bd February 8, 1828) Voyage au Centre de la Terre
- March: Howard Pyle’s (bd March 5, 1853) Pepper and Salt
- April: Hans Christian Andersen’s (bd April 2, 1805) Will-o’-the Wisp, and other stories
- May: Edward Lear’s (bd May 12, 1812) Nonsense Botany and Nonsense Alphabets
- June: Antoine de Sainte Exupery’s (bd June 29, 1900) Southern Mail
- July: Beatrix Potter’s (bd July 28,1866) The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin
- August: Holling C. Holling’s (bd August 2, 1900) Little Big-Bye-and Bye
- September: Lucretia P. Hale’s (bd September 1820) The Peterkin Papers
- October: Lois Lenski’s (bd October 14, 1893 ) The Little Engine That Could
- November: Astrid Lindgren’s (bd November 14, 1907) The Children of Noisy Village
- December: Rudyard Kipling’s (bd December 30,1865) Puck of Pook’s Hill

Another neat challenge hosted by Becky over at Becky’s Book Reviews!
I’ll be reading C.S. Lewis to the kids for this challenge.
- Prince Caspian
- The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
- The Silver Chair
- The Horse and His Boy

I am only doing this because my dear, sweet friend Sonya is such a complete JA fan and I was starting to feel left out! lol!! This mini-challenge is hosted by Becky from Becky’s Book Review!
For this challenge I’ll be reading the two following novels. I also plan on watching all six Masterpiece Theater movies. Fun!
- Emma
- Pride and Prejudice
All the details for this info can be found over at the TBR Challenge Blog.
- Vanishing Acts by Jodi Picoult
- Redeeming Love by Francine Rivers
- The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields
- Chicken Dreaming Corn by Roy Hoffman
- Family-Based Youth Ministry by Mark DeVries
- The Handmaid’s Tale
by Margaret Atwood - And to the Eskimos by Gleason H. Ledyard
One Small Sparrow by Jeff Leeland- Prince Caspian by C. S. Lewis
- An Old Fashioned Girl by Louisa May Alcott
- The Heavenly Man: The Remarkable True Story of Chinese Christian Brother Yun by Paul Hattaway
- I Kissed Dating Goodbye by Joshua Harris
alternates:
- When the Pieces Don’t Fit…God Makes the Difference by Glaphre Gilliand

All the info on this very creative book challenge can be found over at Words by Annie!
- Book with a color in the title:
Girl in Hyacinth Blue
by Susan Vreeland - Book with an animal in the title: Elephant Walk
by Robert Standish - Book with a first name in the title: Emma
by Jane Austen - Book with a place in it’s title: Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
by Captain Ted Lawson - Book with a weather event in the title: King of the Wind
by Margeurite Henry - Book with a plant in the title: The United States of Arugula: The Sun-dried, Cold-Pressed, Dark-Roasted, Extra Virgin Story of the American Food Revolution
by David Kamp




























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