July Book Challenges

There are so many places I would like to visit that it usually is not hard for me to find a book set where I would like to go. However, I'm trying to finish the Beehive nominees before school starts so the books are available for the students to read. Not to mention they are all due in August. So I've been plowing ahead with those, and then choosing the only audiobooks that were checked in that sparked even the remotest interest. And yet most of them were set in places I'd already been! Or would rather not go (e.g. under the sea). Thus, I read a decent amount of books, but my points are sadly lacking. Oh well.

By the way, I read books set where I would like to go, not about where I'd like to go. Sorry--I find travel books dead boring!

Read a book about a place you want to visit           

Coraline by Neil Gaiman

A Spy in the House by Y.S. Lee

Permanent Rose by Hilary McKay

Nonfiction

The Reading Promise: My Father and the Books We Shared by Alice Ozma

Good Stuff: A Reminiscence of My Father, Cary Grant by Jennifer Grant

A Single Voice by Kristin Oaks

Other           

The Wide-Awake Princess by E.D. Baker

Wild Girl by Patricia Reilly Giff

Palace Beautiful by Sarah Deford Williams

Bumped by Megan McCafferty

The Atlantis Complex (Artemis Fowl #7) by Eoin Colfer

Olive's Ocean by Kevin Henkes

After Ever After by Jordan Sonnenblick

Eggs by Jerry Spinelli

Enthusiasm by Polly Shulman

When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead

Uncommon Criminals by Ally Carter

Dark Life by Kat Falls

The Higher Power of Lucky by Susan Patron

*highlighted titles are Beehive nominees

July Totals

Audio = 10 (which helped me surpass my audiobook goal for the year)

Juvenile = 8

YA = 8 

Adult = 3

Pages = 4722

Books = 19

Points = 125