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Theme week: TreesBook: How to Catch a Prince
Author: Ana Ashley
Pages: 284
Date Read: 12/8
Rating: 3 stars
Justification: Page 24 "...rolling fields with patches of trees peppering the boundaries"
Book Points: 1
Team Total points: 117
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Book: Percy Jackson's Greek Gods
Author: Rick Riordan
Pages: 417
Date Read: 12/8
Rating: 4 stars
Justification: 6% ..."branches of a tree..."
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 120
Theme week: TreesBook: Of Light and Darkness
Author: Shayne Leighton
Pages: 400
Date Read: 12/7
Rating: 4
Justification: Pg. 28, "...between the trees and bushes."
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 123
Theme week: TreesBook: Of Blood and Magic
Author: Shayne Leighton
Pages: 376
Date Read: 12/7
Rating: 4
Justification: Pg. 34, "...speckling trees and dusting..."
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 126
Theme week: TreesBook: Fight or Flight
Author: Samantha Young
Pages: 288
Date Read: 12/7
Rating: 4
Justification: Pg. 158, "...between the trees..."
Book Points: 1
Team Total points: 127
Theme week: TreesBook: Fyrian's Fire
Author: Emily H. Jeffries
Pages: 345
Date Read: 12/7
Rating: 4
Justification: 1%, "...through the bare trees."
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 130
Theme week: TreesBook: My Best Friend's Mardi Gras Wedding
Author: Erin Nicholas
Pages: 289
Date Read: 12/2
Rating: 4
Justification: Letters T, R, E, E in title and 19%, "...where the cypress trees and old shacks..."
Book Points: 1
Team Total points: 131
Theme week: GingerbreadBook:
Author: Jane Porter
Pages: 158
Date Read: 9 Dec
Rating: 3 stars
Justification: the MC bakes gingerbread with children to prepare for Xmas
Book Points: 1
Team Total points: 132
Theme week: GingerbreadBook: The Falcon Tames The Psychic
Author: Candace Colt
Pages: 173
Date Read: 12/9
Rating: 3 stars
Justification: Loc 225 “I’m staying at the Gingerbread Inn”.
Book Points: 1
Team Total points: 133
Theme week: Trees Book: The Troubled Girls of Dragomir Academy
Author: Anne Ursu
Pages: 432
Date Read: 12/8
Rating: 4
Justification: "surrounded by nothing but trees" (78%)
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 136
Theme week: GingerbreadBook: It Started With A Sleigh
Author: Kaydence Snow
Pages: 185
Date Read: 12/9
Rating: 4
Justification: Pg. 18, "such as gingerbread cookies."
Book Points: 1
Team Total points: 137
Theme week: GingerbreadBook: Christmas Mountain
Author: Garrett Leigh
Pages: 236
Date Read: 12/10
Rating: 3.5 stars
Justification: Loc 3213 “a non-tap supply of gingerbread was an added bonus”
Book Points: 1
Team Total points: 138
Theme week: GingerbreadBook: Very Merry Married
Author: Molly O'Keefe
Pages: 202
Date Read: 12/11
Rating: 5 stars
Justification: Loc 212 “ordering homemade gingerbread house kits”
Book Points: 1
Team Total points: 139
Completion Post:Theme week: Gingerbread
Book:
Author: T. Kingfisher
Pages: 320
Date Read: 12/12/21
Rating: 4
Justification: Gingerbread man on cover
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 142
Completion Post:Theme week: Gingerbread
Book: Magic Lessons
Author: Alice Hoffman
Pages: 396
Date Read: 12/10
Rate: 4
Justification: Pg. 119, "...or hard gingerbread, which kept well for weeks."
Book points: 3
Team Total points: 145
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Book: A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking
Author:T. Kingfisher
Pages:320
Date Read:12/12/21
Rating:4
Justification: the MC raises a small army of gingerbread men to wreck havoc on the enemy attacking the city to delay them while she worked on more defensive measures
Book Points:3
Team Total points:148
Theme Week: GingerbreadBook: Gingerbread
Author: Helen Oyeyemi
Pages: 258
Date Read: 12/12/21
Rating: 3.5 ☆☆☆
Justification: The word Gingerbread is the title.
Book Points: 1
Team Total Points: 149
Completion Post:Theme week: Gingerbread
Book: Midnight in Everwood
Author: M.A. Kuzniar
Pages: 384
Date Read: 12/11
Rating: 3
Justification: Ch 2, "...glimpses of gingerbread and glass baubles."
Book points: 3
Team Total points: 152
Completion Post:Theme week: Gingerbread
Book: Blame It on the Mistletoe
Author: Beth Garrod
Pages: 368
Date Read: 12/11
Rating: 3
Justification: 2%, "Are you sipping on something gingerbread flavoured rn?"
Book points: 3
Team Total points: 155
Completion Post:Theme week: Gingerbread
Book:
Author: Helen Oyeyemi
Pages: 272
Date Read: 12/13/21
Rating: 3
Justification: All in the title
Book Points: 1
Team Total points: 156
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Book: Gingerbread at Moonglow
Author: Deborah Garner
Pages: 164
Date Read: 12/13
Rating: 4
Justification: Gingerbread on the cover
Book Points: 1
Team Total points: 157
Theme week: GingerbreadBook: Christmas at Carrington's
Author: Alex Brown
Pages: 371
Date Read: 14 Dec
Rating: 3 stars
Justification: there is lots of gingerbread eating going on for Xmas
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 160
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Book:A Gingerbread Romance
Author:Lacey Baker
Pages:321
Date Read:12/14/21
Rating:3
Justification:gingerbread houses on the cover/ they complete in a gingerbread house contest
Book Points:3
Team Total points:163
Theme week: GingerbreadBook: Holiday Buzz
Author: Cleo Coyle
Pages: 384
Date Read: 12/13/21
Rating: ☆☆☆☆
Justification: word in text
"Those Gingerbread Crackle Cookies smell like crack to me." (p.9)
Book Points: 3
Team Total Points: 166
Theme Week: GingerbreadBook: 'Twas the Knife Before Christmas
Author: Jacqueline Frost
Pages: 309
Date Read: 12/14/21
Rating: ☆☆☆☆
Justification: word in text
"And you're helping me with Bling that Gingerbread this afternoon." (p. 135)
Book Points: 3
Team Total Points: 169
Completion Post:Theme week: Gingerbread
Author: Ellery Adams
Pages: 304
Date Read: 12/14/21
Rating: 4
Justification: Gingerbread House in book page 10 ...owner of the Gingerbread House...
Book Points: 3
Team Total Points: 169
Theme week: GingerbreadBook: Hot Mall Santa
Author: A.J. Truman
Pages: 131
Date Read: 12/15
Rating: 4 stars
Justification: Loc 687 “Ready to get your gingerbread house”
Book Points: 1
Team Total points: 170
Shaw wrote: "Completion Post:Theme week: Gingerbread
Author: Ellery Adams
Pages: 304
Date Read: 12/14/21
Rating: 4
Justification: Gingerbread House in book page 10 ...owne..."
Oh no, you forget to add your 3 - it should be 172
Theme week: Gingerbread Book: Plain Bad Heroines
Author: Emily M. Danforth
Pages: 642
Date Read: 12/15
Rating: 3 stars
Justification: "gingerbread for dessert" (62%)
Book Points: 5
Team Total points: 178 ( I think I fixed the points)
Theme week: gingerbreadBook: A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking
Author: T. Kingfisher
Pages: audio (default paperback 308 pages)
Date Read: 16. Dec 2021
Rating: 3*
Justification: gingerbread on cover and many gingerbread men as characters
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 181
Theme week: gingerbreadBook: That Forever Girl
Author: Meghan Quinn
Pages: 359
Date Read: Dec 16
Rating: 4 stars
Justification:“And then there’s Peach and Tree Terrace, the little condos that look like gingerbread houses.” -Pg 126
Book points: 3
Total team points: 184
Theme week: BellsBook: Not Used To Cute
Author: Becca Seymour
Pages: 244
Date Read: 12/17
Rating: 3 stars
Justification: Loc 295 "every alarm bell I had was ringing"
Book points: 1
Total team points: 185
Completion Post:Theme week: Bells
Book:
Author: Kristen Callihan
Pages: 390
Date Read: 12/18/21
Rating: 2
Justification: Sleigh bells in text page 166
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 188
Theme week: BellsBook: Finders Keepers
Author: N.R. Walker
Pages: 218
Date Read: 12/18/21
Rating: 5 stars
Justification: Loc 2523 “It was ringing some distant bell”
Book Points: 1
Team Total points: 189
Theme week: BellsBook: Three Bells, Two Bows and One Brother's Best Friend
Author: Willa Nash
Pages: 157
Date Read: 12/19/21
Rating: 4 stars
Justification: Title
Book Points: 1
Team Total points: 190
Theme week: BellsBook:
Author: Terry Pratchett
Pages: 384
Date Read: 17 Dec
Rating: 4 stars
Justification: loc 2207 ".. in tones of a funeral bell.."
loc 2329: ".. the sound like a bell..."
loc: "... the length of the train, with a bell attached to either end."
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 193
Theme week: Bells Book: Under the Pendulum Sun
Author: Jeannette Ng
Pages: 416
Date Read: 12/18/21
Rating: 2 stars
Justification: lots of church bells, - "cacophony of bells" (2%)
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 196
Theme week: Bells Book: Vespertine
Author: Margaret Rogerson
Pages: 400
Date Read: 12/18/21
Rating: 4 stars
Justification: lots of church bells, - "the chapels bells had begun to ring" (10%)
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 199
Theme week: Bells Book: Empress of Forever
Author: Max Gladstone
Pages: 476
Date Read: 12/17/21
Rating: 4 stars
Justification: "woke to the ringing of bells" (53%)
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 202
Completion Post:Theme week: Bells
Book: Curse of Shadows and Thorns
Author: L.J. Andrews
Pages: 282
Date Read: 12/17
Rating: 4
Justification: Pg. 89, "...steps away from the bells and into the chapel."
Book points: 1
Team Total points: 203
Completion Post:Theme week: Bells
Book: Dreams of Darkness and Desire
Author: B.L. Cagle
Pages: 478
Date Read: 12/17
Rating: 4
Justification: Pg. 20, "...set off an alarm bell inside."
Book points: 3
Team Total points: 206
Completion Post:Theme week: Bells
Book: The Junior
Author: Monica Murphy
Pages: 406
Date Read: 12/18
Rating: 4
Justification: 53%, "...paying attention to those warning bells whatsoever."
Book points: 3
Team Total points: 209
Completion Post:Theme week: Bells
Book: The Ruthless
Author: J. Bree
Pages: 221
Date Read: 12/18
Rating: 4
Justification: 3%, "...even when all the warning bells were screaming in her mind."
Book points: 1
Team Total points: 210
Completion Post:Theme week: Bells
Book: V Games: Fresh From The Grave
Author: Caroline Peckham
Pages: 451
Date Read: 12/19
Rating: 4
Justification: 45%, "A bell rang out and Farim halted Dylan..."
Book points: 3
Team Total points: 213
Completion Post:Theme week: Bells
Book: Much Ado About You
Author: Samantha Young
Pages: 308
Date Read: 12/20
Rating: 4
Justification: Pg. 96, "the bell above the door tinkled."
Book points: 3
Team Total points: 216
Completion Post:Theme week: Bells
Book: The Girl Who Knew Too Much
Author: Tiffany Brooks
Pages: 352
Date Read: 12/20
Rating: 3
Justification: Pg. 34, "...the skirt puffed up like a bell."
Book points: 3
Team Total points: 219
Theme week: BellsBook:
Author: Melanie Lageschulte
Pages: 408
Date Read: 17 Dec
Rating: 3 stars
Justification: Page 126 "The bells over the front door tinkled merrily..."
Page 153 "... soon a snazzy version of 'Jingle Bell Rock' had her fingers tapping..."
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 222
Completion Post:Theme week: Bells
Book: V Games: Dead Before Dawn
Author: Caroline Peckham
Pages: 583
Date Read: 12/20
Rating: 3
Justification: Pg. 263, "I realized the bells were sounding from a screen on the wall."
Book points: 5
Team Total points: 227
Completion Post:Theme week: Bells
Book: Out of the Silent Planet
Author: C.S. Lewis
Pages: 224
Date Read: 12/21
Rating: 3
Justification: Pg. 13, "rang the bell"
Book points: 1
Team Total points: 228
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Book:
Author: Hilary Mantel
Pages: 576
Date Read: 8 Dec
Rating: 5 stars
Justification: King Henry VIII's party goes to the woods several times to hunt. New trees are being planted in Thomas Cromwell's garden.
Book Points: 5
Team Total points: 116