Thursday, January 3, 2008

Young Adults Challenge

COMPLETE!

The fifth challenge I'm starting in 2008 is a Young Adults Challenge (YA). I had great success last year reading books that are aimed at younger readers, and so I've decided to make it more formal and give myself a goal of 10 books to read during the year. Quite a few books on the below list will also qualify for the Classics Challenge (CL).

YA reading in 2008: (currently reading)
Frances Hodgson Burnett: The Secret Garden
Roald Dahl: Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator
May Gibbs: Snugglepot and Cuddlepie
Rudyard Kipling: The Jungle Book
Madeleine L'Engle: A Wrinkle in Time
CS Lewis: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
CS Lewis: Prince Caspian
Robert O'Brien: Z for Zachariah
Ruth Park: Playing Beatie Bow
Markus Zusak: The Book Thief

TBR books that qualify for the YA challenge (max 15 listed):
Note: Books in italics have been read.
Richard Adams: Watership Down
Enid Blyton: The Magic Faraway Tree
Frances Hodgson Burnett: The Secret Garden
Roald Dahl: Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator
Louise Fitzhugh: Harriet the Spy
Ann Holm: I Am David
Kathryn Kenny: Trixie Belden (various)
Charles Kingsley: The Water-Babies (re-read)
Robin Klein: Hating Alison Ashley (re-read)
Madeleine L'Engle: A Wrinkle in Time
CS Lewis: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
John Marsden: So Much to Tell You (re-read)
LM Montgomery: Anne of Avonlea (ebook)
Robert O'Brien: Z for Zachariah
Ruth Park: Playing Beatie Bow
Jonathan Swift: Gulliver's Travels
Judy Bernard-Waite: The Riddle of the Trumpalar

Other YA books I'd like to own and read:
Note: Books in italics have been bought.
Graeme Base: Animalia (re-read)
Graeme Base: The Eleventh Hour (re-read)
Judy Blume: Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret
Michael Ende: The Never Ending Story
Norton Juster: The Phantom Tollbooth
Maurice Sendak: Where the Wild Things Are

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