Around the Year in 52 Books discussion

✔ ✔ 1. A book with the letters A, T & Y in the title Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day and Fortunately, the Milk
✔ 2. A book from the first 10 books added to your To Be Read list We're All Wonders
✔ 3. A book from the 2017 Goodreads Choice Awards (link) The Book of Mistakes
✔ 4. 4 books linked by the 4 elements: Book #1 Earth (in title, cover, content, setting, author...) Peas on Earth
✔ 5. A book about or inspired by real events The Youngest Marcher: The Story of Audrey Faye Hendricks, a Young Civil Rights Activist
✔ ✔ 6. A book originally written in a language other than English A Different Pond and Pippi Longstocking
✔ 7. A gothic novel The Spider and the Fly
✔ 8. An "own voices" book* Salsa Stories
✔ 9. A book with a body part in the title (heart, bones, teeth, skin, blood, etc) Take Heart, My Child: A Mother's Dream
✔ 10. An author's debut book (their first book to be published) Not Quite Narwhal
✔ 11. A literary fiction Home in the Rain
✔ ✔ 12. A book set in Africa or South America Africa Dream and Anna Hibiscus
✔ 13. A book with a plot centered around a secret (forbidden love, spies, secret societies, etc) Splat the Cat and the Big Secret
✔ ✔ 14. 4 books linked by the 4 elements: Book #2 Fire The Fire Cat and My Father's Dragon
✔ 15. A book with an unique format/writing structure My Big Brother
✔ 16. A narrative nonfiction Minnow and Rose: An Oregon Trail Story and Hachiko Waits
✔ 17. A book you expect to make you laugh The Dinosaur That Pooped A Planet! by Tom Fletcher
✔ 18. A book with a location in the title Apples to Oregon: Being the (Slightly) True Narrative of How a Brave Pioneer Father Brought Apples, Peaches, Pears, Plums, Grapes, and Cherries (and Children) Across the Plains
✔ ✔ 19. A book nominated for the Edgar Award or by a Grand master author (books & authors) Caldecott Winner They All Saw a Cat Because of Winn-Dixie
✔ 20. A book rated 5 stars by at least one of your friends Big Smelly Bear
✔ 21. A book written in first person perspective I Am Bat
✔ ✔ 22. A book you have high expectations or hope for Dragon in the Rocks: A Story Based on the Childhood of the Early Paleontologist, Mary Anning and After the Fall: How Humpty Dumpty Got Back up Again
✔ 23. A medical or legal thriller The Purple Balloon
✔ 24. A book with a map Henry's Map
✔ 25. A book with an antagonist/villain point of view Trust Me, Jack's Beanstalk Stinks!: The Story of Jack and the Beanstalk as Told by the Giant
✔ 26. A book with a text only cover The OK Book The Book with No Pictures

✔ 27. A book about surviving a hardship (war, famine, major disasters, serious illness, etc) The Schoolchildren's Blizzard
✔ 28. 4 books linked by the 4 elements: Book #3 Water |34137106] Dirt + Water = Mud
✔ 29. A book with a "Clue" weapon on the cover or title (lead pipe, revolver, rope, candlestick, dagger, wrench) Over The Candlestick: Classic Nursery Rhymes And The Real Stories Behind Them
✔ 30. A short book DUH!!
✔ 31. A book set in a country you'd like to visit but have never been to Cecil the Pet Glacier
✔ 32. An alternate history book The Legend of Rock Paper Scissors
33. A book connected (title, cover, content) to a word "born" in the same year as you (link)
✔ 34. A suggestion from the AtY 2018 polls, that didn't win but was polarizing or a close-call (link) Has fruit in the title Danilo the Fruit Man
✔ 35. A book featuring a murder The Composer is Dead
✔ 36. A book published in the last 3 years (2016, 2017, 2018) by an author you haven't read before Malala's Magic Pencil
✔ 37. A Women's Prize for Fiction winner or nominee (link1, link2) That Book Woman
✔ 38. A science book or a science fiction book A Book by Gerstein
✔ 39. A book with a form of punctuation in the title Exclamation Mark
✔ 40. A book from Amazon's 100 Books to Read in a Lifetime list (link) Goodnight Moon
✔ 41. A book by an author with the same first and last initials Anything by Patricia Polacco
✔ 42. A book that takes place on, in, or underwater The Underwater Alphabet Book Over and Under the Pond
✔ 43. A book with a title that is a whole sentence Where Is Grandpa?
✔ 44. A ghost story Ten Timid Ghosts
✔ 45. A book that intimidates/ scares you The Bake Shop Ghost
✔ 46. 4 books linked by the 4 elements: Book #4 AirInto the Air: An Illustrated Timeline of Flight
✔ 47. A book where the main character (or author) is of a different ethnic origin, religion, or sexual identity than your own This Day in June
✔ 48. A book related to one of the 7 deadly sins (pride, greed, lust, envy, gluttony, wrath, sloth) Blue and the Grey by Polacco
✔ 49. A book from one of the Goodreads Best Books of the Month lists (link) Owl Moon
✔ ✔ 50. A book with a warm atmosphere (centered on family, friendship, love or summer) Carl's Summer Vacation Winter Pony
✔ 51. An award-winning short story or short story collection Where the Sidewalk Ends
✔ 52. A book published in 2018 The Word Collector

Oh wow!! You did it :-)

Tracy wrote: "Oh wow!! You did it :-)"Mostly. I wonder if I should try upper grade school now?

Haha, I read only 2 of them. I think I'd like to read Trust Me!
A challenge with middle grade would be interesting for me (but if I start to read 52 children books, I won't read other stuff than for the normal challenge).

I love your challenge!

Zaz wrote: "Haha, I read only 2 of them. I think I'd like to read Trust Me!
A challenge with middle grade would be interesting for me (but if I start to read 52 children books, I won't read other stuff than fo..."

I was thinking the same thing, Zaz. I love to read middle grade :-)

Tracy wrote: "Zaz wrote: "Haha, I read only 2 of them. I think I'd like to read Trust Me!
A challenge with middle grade would be interesting for me (but if I start to read 52 children books, I won't read other s..." That's it, I am doing one for upper elementary anyway. Can't help myself.

Ann wrote: "Tracy wrote: "Zaz wrote: "Haha, I read only 2 of them. I think I'd like to read Trust Me!
A challenge with middle grade would be interesting for me (but if I start to read 52 children books, I won'..."

LOL Ann,a few weeks ago you were ready to throw in the towel on your own challenge list and now you're planning #3....Its so addictive :-)

Around our house we read our two children's books for the month. My Father's Dragon...(wasn't very good or fun. The animals would never do that. The dragon was pretty fun, but should be in color.) So we colored one.
Hachiko Waits was (a really good book, but sad. The dog never got to get what he wanted and be happy)

Ann wrote: "Around our house we read our two children's books for the month. My Father's Dragon...(wasn't very good or fun. The animals would never do that. The dragon was pretty fun, but should be in color.) ..."

We haven't read Hachiko waits yet, but we watched the movie Hachi.......all three of us cried, it was torture lol