2015 Challenge Updates

2015 Series Ender Challenge

• The Grimm Conclusion by Adam Gidwitz
• Fruits Basket #23 by Natsuki Takaya

PopSugar 2015 Reading Challenge 

•  A book by a female author
• Serpent's Shadow by Amber Benson
• A trilogy
• A Tale Dark & Grimm by Adam Gidwitz, In a Glass Grimmly by Adam Gidwitz, & The Grimm Conclusion by Adam Gidwitz
• A book with a love triangle
• Jealousy by Lili St. Crow
• A book you started but never finished
• Temping Fate by Esther Friesner

Book Riot 2015 Read Harder Book Challenge

• A book written by someone when they were over the age of 65
• The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
• A book that is by or about someone from an indigenous culture
• Dreaming in Indian: Contemporary Native American Voices edited by Lisa Charleyboy & Mary Beth Leatherdale
• A National Book Award, Man Booker Prize, or Pulitzer Prize winner from the last decade
• Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
• A book that is a retelling of a classic story
• A Tale Dark & Grimm by Adam Gidwitz
  

books read february 2015

2.1.15

• Fruits Basket #20 by Natsuki Takaya (M)
• Fruits Basket #21 by Natsuki Takaya (M)
• Fruits Basket #22 by Natsuki Takaya (M)
• Dragonbreath: The Case of the Toxic Mutants by Ursula Vernon (Y)
• A Tale Dark & Grimm by Adam Gidwitz (Y)

2.4.15

• My Love Story!! #3 by Kazune Kawahara & Aruko (M)
• The Yule Tomte and the Little Rabbits by Ulf Stark & Eva Eriksson (Y)
• My Name Is Truth: The Life of Sojourner Truth by Ann Turner & James Ransome (Y-NF)
• Maddi's Fridge by Lois Brandt & Vin Vogel (PB)
• Blown Away by Rob Biddulph (PB)
• Bunnies!!! by Kevan Atteberry (PB)

2.7.15

• Freeglader by Paul Stewart & Chris Riddell (Y)
• Kiki & Coco in Paris by Stephanie Rausser, Jess Brown, & Nina Gruener (PB)
• The Snail and the Whale by Julia Donaldson & Axel Scheffler (PB)
• The Boy Who Grew Flowers by Jen Wojtowicz & Steve Adams (PB)
• From There to Here by Laurel Croza & Matt James (PB)
• You Make the World Better by Jennifer Pletsch, M.H. Clark, & Jill Labieniec (A-NF)
• The Gigantic Beard That Was Evil by Stephen Collins (GN)
• Copper by Kazu Kibuishi (GN)
• The Butterfly House by Sarah L. Smith (PB)
• Lulu & Pip by Stephanie Rausser, Jess Brown, & Nina Gruener (PB)
• Books for Me! by Sue Fliess & Mike Laughead (PB)
• Call Me Tree, Llamame arbol by Maya Christina Gonzalez (PB)
• As an Oak Tree Grows by G. Brian Karas (Y-NF)
• I Am Jazz by Jessica Herthel, Jazz Jennings, & Shelagh McNicholas (Y-NF)
• First Day at Zoo School by Sarah Dillard (PB)
• Work: An Occupational ABC by Kellen Hatanaka (PB)

2.8.15

• Goddess Girls: Athena the Proud by Joan Holub & Suzanne Williams (Y) 

2.9.15

• In a Glass Grimmly by Adam Gidwitz (Y)
• Olympians: Ares: Bringer of War by George O'Connor (GN)
• Hope Springs by Eric Walters & Eugenie Fernandes (Y-NF)
• The Magician of Auschwitz by Kathy Kacer & Gillian Newland (Y-NF)

2.10.15

• Serpent's Shadow by Amber Benson (A)

2.12.15

• The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion (A-NF)

2.14.15

• With Books and Bricks: How Booker T. Washington Built a School by Suzanne Slade & Nicole Tadgell (Y-NF)
• Noodle Magic by Roseanne Greenfield Thong & Meilo So (PB)
• Kid Sheriff and the Terrible Toads by Bob Shea & Lane Smith (PB)
• Imani's Moon by JaNay Brown-Wood & Hazel Mitchell (PB)
• Leopardpox! by Orna Landau & Omer Hoffmann (PB)
• First Snow by Peter McCarty (PB)
• The Cat at the Wall by Deborah Ellis (Y)
• Hansel & Gretel by Neil Gaiman & Lorenzo Mattotti (Y)
• Alice Waters and the Trip to Delicious by Jacqueline Briggs Martin & Hayelin Choi (Y-NF)
• The Mitten String by Jennifer Rosner & Kristina Swarner (PB)
• Swing Sisters: The Story of the International Sweethearts of Rhythm by Karen Deans & Joe Cepeda (Y-NF)

2.15.15

• Magical Animal Adoption Agency #1: Clover's Luck by Kallie George (Y)

2.16.15

• Emmy and the Home for Troubled Girls by Lynne Jonell (Y)
• Temping Fate by Esther Friesner (YA)

2.18.15

• Goddess Girls: Iris the Colorful by Joan Holub & Suzanne Williams (Y)

2.19.15

• Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul by Jeff Kinney (Y)

2.21.15

• But! by Tim Hamilton (PB)
• Stormy Night by Salina Yoon (PB)
• Clark the Shark Takes Heart by Bruce Hale & Guy Francis (PB)
• Wolfie the Bunny by Ame Dyckman & Zachariah OHora (PB)
• Hunks in Trunks by Alex Knight (A)
• Finding Trust by Annie Marie Musselman (A-NF)
• Shine by M.H. Clark & Jill Labieniec (A)
• Hoot Owl, Master of Disguise by Sean Taylor & Jean Jullien (PB)
• The New Small Person by Lauren Child (PB)
• The Fox in the Library by Lorenz Pauli & Kathrin Scharer (PB)
• Ojibway Animals by Jason Adair (PB)
• Baby Penguins Everywhere! by Melissa Guion (PB)
• First Book of Sushi by Amy Wilson Sanger (PB)
• Penguin and Pinecone: A Friendship Story by Salina Yoon (PB) 
• Spark by Kallie George & Genevieve Cote (Y)
• The Melancholic Mermaid by Kallie George (Y)
• The Unruly Queen by E.S. Redmond (PB)
• Fruits Basket #23 by Natsuki Takaya (M)

2.22.15

• My Neighbor Seki #1 by Takuma Morishige & Tonari no Seki-kun (M)
• The Grimm Conclusion by Adam Gidwitz (Y)

2.23.15

• Goddess Girls: Aphrodite the Fair by Joan Holub & Suzanne Williams (Y)
• Horse Raid: The Making of a Warrior by Paul Goble (Y)
• Star Wars: The Adventures of Luke Skywalker, Jedi Knight by Tony DiTerlizzi & Ralph McQuarrie (Y)

2.24.15

• Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson (YA-NF) 
• Dreaming in Indian: Contemporary Native American Voices edited by Lisa Charleyboy & Beth Leatherdale (A-NF)
• Fairest: Levana's Story by Marissa Meyer (YA)

2.28.15

• By Day, By Night by Amy Gibson & Meilo So (PB)
• Just Itzy by Lana Krumwiede & Greg Pizzoli (PB)
• The Backwards Birthday Party by Tom Chapin, John Forster, & Chuck Groenink (PB)
• Here Is the World: A Year of Jewish Holidays by Leslea Newman & Susan Gal (Y-NF)
• Hello Goodbye and a Very Little Lie by Christianne Jones & Christine Battuz (PB)
• The Littlest Bunny in Idaho: An Easter Adventure by Lily Jacobs & Robert Dunn (PB)
• Around the Clock! by Roz Chast (PB)
• Me & Dog by Gene Weingarten & Eric Shansby (PB)
• The Dragon Stoorworm by Theresa Breslin & Matthew Land (PB)

 02.15 total: 85
6 manga; 18 youth fiction; 9 youth non fiction; 39 picture books; 4 adult non fiction; 3 graphic novels; 3 adult fiction; 2 young adult fiction;  1 young adult non fiction