About a month ago Joy stopped by and mentioned that she is hosting a Young Adult Challenge in 2008. How can I pass that up?! 
The rules are "sweet and simple." I just have to choose twelve young adult novels and read them at my own pace during 2008. These are my tentative choices (listed alphabetically by author) - including six alternates:
- Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
- Twisted by Laurie Halse Anderson
- Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher
- The Rhyming Season by Edward Averett
- Pieces of Georgia by Jen Bryant
- Total Constant Order by Crissa-Jean Chappell
- The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
- Double Identity by Margaret Peterson Haddix
- Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
- Princess Academy by Shannon Hale
- Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer
- John Lennon: All I Want Is the Truth by Elizabeth Partridge
- A Dance for Three by Louise Plummer
- Finding Daddy by Louise Plummer
- A Crooked Kind of Perfect by Linda Urban
- Peeps by Scott Westerfeld
- Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac by Gabrielle Zevin
- The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Note: I will be cross-listing some of the books for this challenge with other challenges.
What a fabulous list!!! :) We will have many to compare and the rest I can't wait to see what you have to say about them. I'm so looking forward to diving into this challenge.
ReplyDeleteJoy cracks me up--she mentioned that she's not taking on any challenges for 2008 but I think she's started about half a dozen already. :) This one sounds like an fun one.
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