Reading Challenges

Dec-21-2007 By jdoriot

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

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  1. Hoot
  2. Miss Hickory
  3. The Secret Garden (HarperClassics)
  4. Watership Down: A Novel
  5. Gulliver’s Travels (Penguin Classics)
  6. The Borrowers
  7. Hatchet
  8. A Wrinkle in Time
  9. Interstellar Pig
  10. Kingdom’s Dawn (Kingdom Series, Book 1)
  11. Kingdom’s Hope (Kingdom Series)
  12. Kingdom’s Edge (Kingdom Series)

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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.

  1. Sam and the Firefly by P.D. Eastman
  2. A Treasury of Santa Mouse by Michael Brown
  3. Bach’s Big Adventure by Sallie Ketcham
  4. Fat Polka-dot Cat and Other Haiku by Betsy Maestro
  5. The Alphabet Atlas by Arthur Yorinks
  6. Alexander and the Wind-Up Mouse by Leo Lionni
  7. Time to Sleep by Denise Fleming
  8. Many Moons by James Thurber
  9. The Mitten by Alvin Tresselt
  10. Simeon’s Gift by Julie Andrews Edwards and Emma Walton Hamilton
  11. Tell Me About Heaven by Randy Alcorn
  12. Wait Until Then by Randy Alcorn

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For more info on this challenge head on over to Becky’s Book Reviews!

  1. A Mother’s Offering to Her Children by Charlotte Barton
  2. An Old Fashioned Girl by Louisa May Alcott
  3. Gems from the East: A Birthday Book of Precepts and Axioms by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
  4. The Life and Perambulations of a Mouse by Dorothy Kilner
  5. A Christmas Cake by Lady Barker
  6. Domestic Pleasures by Francis Bowyer Vaux
  7. Under the Lilacs by Louisa May Alcott
  8. Little Ann: A Book by Adelaide O’Keefe
  9. A Wreath From the Woods of North Carolina by Mary Ann Bryan Mason
  10. Carrots: Just a Little Boy by Mary Molesworth
  11. Enthusiasm and Other Poems by Susanna Moodie
  12. Wouldbegoods by E. Nesbitt

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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

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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

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All the details for this info can be found over at the TBR Challenge Blog.

 

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All the info on this very creative book challenge can be found over at Words by Annie!

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