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6/10/09

Take A Chance Challenge

1. Random Book Selection. Go to the library. Position yourself in a section such as Fiction, Non-Fiction, Mystery, Children (whatever section you want). Then write down random directions for yourself (for example, third row, second shelf, fifth book from right). Follow your directions and see what book you find. Check that book out of the library, read it and then write about it. (If you prefer, you can do the same at a bookstore and buy the book!)

2.Random Word: Saving Fish from Drowning by Amy Tan.

3.Birth Year Book: Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis

4. Judge A Book By Its Cover. Pick out a book based SOLELY on the cover. First, write about what you expect the book to be about based on the cover art. Then read the book and write about how the book was different from and/or similar to what the cover art led you to expect.

5.Phoning An Author:Feed by M.T. Anderson

6. Public Spying. Find someone who is reading a book in public. Find out what book they are reading and then read the same book. Write about it.

7. Random Bestseller. Go to Random.org and, using the True Random Number Generator, enter the number 1950 for the min. and 2008 for the max. and then hit generate. Then go to this site and find the year that Random.org generated for you and click on it. Then find the bestseller list for the week that would contain your birthday for that year. Choose one of the bestsellers from the list that comes up, read it and write about it.

8. Lit Riff (inspired by the book Lit Riffs by Matthew Miele.) Choose a song and then write a brief story that is inspired by or further explains the lyrics of the song.

9. Poetic Review. Write a book review in three different forms of verse: haiku, limerick and free verse. (You can pick any book you want to write about.)

10. Movie/Book Comparison: The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown and The Da Vinci Code (the movie)

5/16/09

Variety Is The Spice Of Life Challenge

Variety Is The Spice Of Life Challenge

Opposite Gender: Nicholas Sparks
Living Author:
Dead Author:
Was not originally in English:
Non-fiction:
Mystery book:
Literary fiction:
“Young Adult”:
Short Story Collection or Anthology:
Poetry Collection:
Graphic Novel:
Banned book:


Science Fiction or Fantasy Novel:
Epistolary Novel or Non-fiction collection of letters/journals:
Spring Cleaning Book: The Catcher in the Rye
Car Book:
Christian Fiction Novel:
Book about sacrifice:
Autobiography/Biography of a woman I admire:
A Novel with woman, women, lady, ladies, female, feminine, girl, maiden, madame in the title:
Book To Read and Donate to Library:
Humorous Novel, A Book of Jokes or a biography/autobiography/memoir of a comedian:
Book with Rabbit, Bunny, Bird (or any type of bird), Butterfly, Bees, Lion, Lamb or A term for a baby animal such as kitten,cub,calf,etc.:
Book with rain, thunder, shower, lighting, etc in the title:

Book by an Irish author, set in Ireland or about Ireland:
Book by an Australian author, set in Australia, or about Australian:
Book by an author who was born in March, April, or May:
Book about magic, a magician etc:
Book with the word Earth, Moon, Sun, World, Star or one of the other planets (Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune) in the title:
Book where author/main character shares the same FIRST name as your mother:
Book about a veteran or someone serving in the military:
TNBBC Top Books List (only numbers that can be found within my birth year... for example 1): The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
TNBCC: Book Two: Good in Bed – Jennifer Weiner
A book about an artist or art:
Book of Poetry:
TNBBC group book: People of the Book – Geraldine Brooks
Book about Washington DC:
Book that an author wrote and won a major literary prize (Nobel, Pulitzer etc) in the year that I was born: Beloved – Toni Morrison
Book translated from it's original language:
Two books that have rhyming words in their title (ex. The Scent of Sake AND The Red Tent):
Read a book by an author and then read/listen to an interview with that author:
Read a book with a color in the title AND eat a meal that includes at least 2 foods that are that color:
Read the third, fourth and fifth books of one series:
A book that starts with the letter G:
A book that starts with the letter R:
Read a Non-fiction book about or a diary written by one of the noted diarists who lived prior to the 1900's (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_diarists): Little Women - Louisa May Alcott.
Read a book that on the big reads list: (http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/bigread/top100.shtml): The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, Part 1)

The 5 Senses

The Five Senses Challenge

Sight: See How They Run – James Patterson
Hearing: Speak Softly, She Can Hear: A Novel – Pam Lewis
Taste: A Taste of Blackberries – Doris Buchanan Smith
Smell: The Smell of Old Lady Perfume – Claudia Guadalupe Martinez
Touch: Touching Spirit Bear – Ben Mikaelsen

Eyes: Cat's Eye – Margaret Atwood
Ears: Sound Friendships: The Story of Willa and Her Hearing Dog – Elizabeth Yates
Tongue: Kat Got Your Tongue – Lee Weatherly
Nose: Nose Down, Eyes Up: A Novel – Merrill Markoe
Fingers/Skin: Sticky Fingers – Niki Burnham

All In A Name

It's All In A Name

Sarah's Song (Name)
An Irish Country Doctor (Location)
Snow Crash (Weather)
One Red Rose (Color)
The Sunflower: A Novel (Plant)
Butterfly (Orphans Series, Book #1) (Animal)

YA group

30 POINT TASKS:
1. The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo (Candlewick) (USA – The John Newberry Medal)

Just In Case by Meg Rosoff (UK – The Carnegie Medal)
2. Not decided yet as the June book has not been chosen.
3. Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast by Robin McKinley


25 POINT TASKS:
1. Christian Lit: Christy by Catherine Marshall

Fantasy: The Princess Bride by William Goldman

Mystery: The Westing Game by Ellen Rashkin

2. Undecided – Need to visit a library or bookstore.
3. Irish Girls About Town: An Anthology of Short Stories
4. The Second Summer of the Sisterhood (Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, Book2)

Girls in Pants (Sisterhood of Traveling Pants, Book 3).




20 POINT TASKS:
1. The Story of Doctor Dolittle (Books of Wonder) by Hugh Lofting
2. Jelly Belly by Robert Kimmel Smith
3. Edisto: A Novel by Padgett Powell
4. After the Dancing Days: Margaret I. Rostkowski
5. Into The Wild by Jon Krakauer



10 POINT TASKS:
1. The Brothers Torres by Coert Voorhees
2. Dogsbody by Diana Wynne Jones
3. Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
4. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH


5 POINT TASKS:
1. Where The Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls
2. The Giver by Lois Lowry
3. The Devil Wears Prada by Lauren Weisberger
4. The Rest of Her Life by Laura Moriarty