Reading Challenges for Maw Books

A-Z Reading Challenge 2009

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When:  All of 2009
How:  Read 52 books, 26 titles for A-Z and 26 authors for A-Z

I swore when I did this challenge last year that I would not preplan my list.  What I ended up with was 100% different that what I started with.  BUT I decided to make this interesting.  So the majority of the books on this list are middle readers and Newbery books.  With the exception of two or three they are all books that I already OWN!  In other words, I want to actually get these read!  You should have seen me when I was sitting in front of my bookshelf figuring this out.  So how’s that for making this even more difficult than it already was?!

Alpha by Title
Amelia’s War by Ann Rinaldi
The Black Cauldron by Lloyd Alexander
Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryre Brink
Dovey Cove by Frances O’Roark Dowel
The Egypt Game by Zilpha Ketley Snyder
From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L Konigsburg
The Good Master by Kate Seredy
Homeless Bird by Gloria Whelan
In Grandpa’s House by Philip Sendak
Journey Outside by Mary Q. Steele
Keesha’s House by Helen Frost
Letters from a Slave Girl, The Story of Harriet Jacobs by Mary E. Lyons
My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George
Nightjohn by Gary Paulsen
On My Honor by Marion Dane Bauer
The Penderwicks by Jeanne Birdsall
*The Quaint and Curious Quest of Johnny Longfoot by Catherine Besterman or *Queer Person by Ralph Hubbard
Roller Skates by Ruth Sawyer
Sarah Plain & Tall by Patricia MacLachlan
To Be a Slave by Julius Lester
*Up a Road Slowly by Irene Hunt
The View From Saturday by E.L. Kongisburg
The Watsons Go to Birmingham: 1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis
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Yolonda’s Genius by Carol Fenner
Zlata’s Diary by Zlata Filipoivic

Alpha by Author
The Door in the Wall by Marguerite de Angeli
The Summer of the Swans by Betsy Byors
My Brother Sam is Dead by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier
The Courage of Sarah Noble by Alice Dalgliesh
anything by Eleanor Estes
The Slave Dancer by Paula Fox
Pictures of Hollis Woods by Patricia Reilly Giff
Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse
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Cracker by Cynthia Kadohata
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
In My Enemy’s House by Carol Matas
Rascal by Sterling North
Mrs. Frisby & the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O’Brien
Jacob Have I Loved by Katherine Paterson
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Daughter of the Mountains by Louise Rankin
The Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Speare
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Stuart Little by E.B White
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Pay the Piper by Jane Yolen and Adam Stemple
Getting the Girl by Marcus Zusak

Alternates:
All Alone by Claire Hutchet Bishop
Romona Quimby Age 8 by Beverly Clearly
Wringer by Jerry Spinelli
The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson
Ginger Pye by Eleanore Estes
My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George
*The Voice that Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights by Russell Freedman
When Zachary Beaver Came to Town by Kimberly Willis Holt
The Whipping Boy by Sid Fleischman
A Fine White Dust by Cynthia Rylant
Sounder by William Armstrong

*Books that I don’t already own.