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October 2008:
The October Country by Ray Bradbury
November 2008:
December 2008:
January 2009:
February 2009:
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April 2009:
May 2009:
June 2009:
July 2009:
August 2009:
September 2009:
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
The Glass Castle A Memoir by Jeannette Walls
October 2009:
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
November 2009:
The Unbearable Lightness of Being Milan Kundera
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
December 2009:
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
January 2010:
February 2010:
The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
March 2010:
American Gods by Neil Gaiman
April 2010:
One Hundred years of Solitude by Gabrield Barcia Maruez
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
May 2010:
Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
A Good Man is Hard to Find and Other Stories by Flannery O'Connor
June 2010:
Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
July 2010:
Middlesex by Jeffrey Euginides
Howl and Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg, William Carlos Williams
Summer 2010:
August 2010:
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
September 2010:
October 2010:
House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
November 2010:
Graceling by Kristin Cashore
December 2010:
January 2011:
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
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2009 Summer Challenge Categories:
5 Points:
1. The Red Queen by Margaret Drabble
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5. On the Road by Jack Kerovac
6. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
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10 Points:
1. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
2. The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe Just because this sounds fun!
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4. Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev
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6.
15 Points:
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2. Tahleen has
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4. Read a non-fiction book about a current event, such as the environment or the conflict in the Middle East.
25 Points:
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3. John Steinbeck:
145 points 5/21/10
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2009/2010 FALL/WINTER TASKS:
5 Points
1. September is Library Card Sign-Up Month:
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8. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson
10 Points
1. . Legend Johnny Cash died on September 12th: Read a book about or by your favorite artist/musician/band/composer
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3. The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien
4. A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
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6. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
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8. Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders by Vincent Bugliosi
15 Points
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5. Animal Farm by George Orwell
6. Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
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8. The Invisible Man by HG Wells (word was invisible)
20 Points
1. Saturday by Ian McEwan and
25 Points
1. Realism 1865-1910:
2. Known:
3. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott and March by Geraldine Brooks
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6. Expanding Your Horizons:
7. Read a book that has to do with your BEST and WORST subject in school. (I was horrible at Math so I might read a finance book..my best classes were my marketing classes so I might read a book about marketing).
8. In honor of 9/11-- read a fiction/nonfiction book about a disaster (or a character who is experiencing one) --can be natural (tornado, flood hurricane etc.) or manmade�(Titanic, fires, bombing, etc.)
235 point 1/13/11
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Spring/Summer 2010
5 Points:
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3. The Godfather by Mario Puzo
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5. On the Road by Jack Kerovac
6. The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
7. The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
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10 Points:
1. The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald
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4. To the North by Elizabeth Bowen
5. The Sea by John Banville
6. Robinson Cruseo by Daniel Defoe
7. The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
8. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
9. The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
10.
15 Points:
1.
2. Life of Pi by Yann Martel
3. Tinker Tailer Soldier Spy by John le Carre
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5. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
6. The Sweetness At The Bottom of The Pie by Alan Bradley
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10. The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
20 Points:
1. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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3. The Princess of Cleves by Marie-Madelaine Pioche de Lavergne, & Comtesse de
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25 Points:
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4. William Wordsworth birthday (April 7th) -- Read a book of poetry from the 18th century AND a book of Contemporary poetry (after World War II) The book of poetry must be at LEAST 75 pages. If you are reading from an anthology just pick 75 pages to read from.
5. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
6. Fanny Hill by John Cleland and
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8. Love:
9. The Great Debate: Read a book about an issue written by someone who disagrees with your stance. (So you if you were pro-choice, you might read a book written by someone who supports pro-life or if you are someone that believes in Creationism you might read about evolution, etc.)
10. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S Thompson and American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
285 points 1/13/11
10638 pages
26 books
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F: The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand 720 pages
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L:
M: Middlemarch by George Eliot 912 pages
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R: Roots by Alex Haley 729 pages
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V: Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray 912 pages
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A:
B: Bleak House by Charles Dickens
C: Cider House Rules by John Irving
D: Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
E: The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer
F: The Faerie Queen by Edmund Spencer
G: Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
H: The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling by Henry Fielding
I: Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
J: Joseph and His Brothers by Thomas Mann
K:
L: Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
M: Memoirs of an Heiress, or Cecilia by Frances Burney
N:
O:
P:
Q:
R: Rembrance of Things Past (In Search of Lost Time) by Marcel Proust
S: Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth
T:
U: Ulysses by James Joyce
V:
W: War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
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5 points:
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4. The Cider House Rules by John Irving
5. October Country by Ray Bradbury
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7. Ulysses by James Joyce
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10 Points:
1. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
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3. Quidditch Through the Ages 3.47
The Tales of Beedle the Bard by JK Rowling 3.62
Fantastic Beasts and Were to Find Them 3.63
4. The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
5. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K Dick
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15 points:
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2. Howl and Other Poems by William Carlos Williams
3. Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky
4. The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
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6. Push by Sapphire
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8. Go Tell It On the Mountain by James Baldwin
20 Points:
1. Life of Pi by Yann Martel
2.
25 points
1. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
and The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
2. Robinson Crusoe Daniel Dufoe
and
3. Sept: Health/Phys. Ed
and ?
4. Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
and ?
5. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
6. (women) Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
and (men) A Good Man is Hard to Find and Other Stories by Flannery O'Connor
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8.
90 points 1/13/11
9088 pages
