Showing posts with label newbery. Show all posts
Showing posts with label newbery. Show all posts

BloggingMolly's lists
Saturday, January 5, 2008

Non-fiction - Family
1. Power of a Praying Parent by Omartian
2. The Fruit of Her Hands by Wilson
3. You Can't Make Me but I Can be Persuaded by Tobias
4. Peacemaking for Families by Sande
5. The Most Important Place on Earth by Wolgemuth
6. The Heart of Anger by Priolo
7. The Age of Opportunity by Tripp
8. Don't Make Me Count to Three by Plowman

Spiritual Growth
1. Starving Jesus by Gross
2. Quaker Summer by Sampson
3. Get Out of That Pit by Moore
4. Messy Spirituality by Yaconelli
5. The Ragamuffin Gospel by Manning
6. Soul Cravings by McManus
7. Jesus, the One and Only by Moore
8. The Prayer That Changes Everything by Omartian

Classics I Should Have Read a Long Time Ago
1. Pride and Predjudice by Austen
2. The Mysterious Stranger by Twain
3. Farewell to Arms by Hemingway
4. Animal Farm by Orwell
5. 1984 by Orwell
6. The Pearl by Steinbeck
7. The Yearling by Rawlings
8. Tom Sawyer by Twain

Banned Books
1. Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn by Twain
2. Farenheit 451 by Bradbury
3. Bridge to Terebithia by Paterson
4. Of Mice and Men by Steinbeck
5. The Giver by Lowry
6. My Brother Sam is Dead by Collier
7. All Quiet on the Western Front by Remarque
8. Mirandy and Brother Wind by McKissack

Newbery Winners
1. Johnny Tremain by Forbes
2. Rifles for Watie by Keith
3. The Slave Dancer by Fox
4. Number the Stars by Lowry
5. Jacob Have I Loved by Paterson
6. The Grey King by Cooper
7. Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Taylor
8. Island of the Blue Dolphins by O'Dell

Young Adult Fiction
1. Stormbreaker by Harowitz 1-13-08
2. Daughter of Time by Tey
3. Byzantium by Lawhead
4. Court of the Stone Children by Cameron
5. Blue Ridge Billy by Lenski
6. Hitty: Her First Hundred Years by Field
7. Moccasin Trail by McGraw
8. Little Britches by Moody

Historical Fiction
1. Across Five Aprils by Hunt
2. Rebels of the Heavenly Kingdom by Paterson
3. Red Badge of Courage by Crane
4. Year of Impossible Goodbyes by Choi
5. Kiss the Dust by Laird
6. Under the Hawthorn Tree by Conlon-McKenna
7. Number the Stars by Lowry
8. Phoenix Rising by Hesse

Childhood Favorites
1. Little House in the Big Woods by Wilder
2. Winnie the Pooh by Milne
3. Alice in Wonderland by Carroll
4. Peter Pan by Barrie
5. Caddie Woodlawn by Brinks
6. Prince Caspian by Lewis
7. Ginger Pye by Estes
8. Runaway Ralph by Cleary

Posted by Molly at 1/05/2008 07:37:00 PM 0 comments

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Julie's Categories
Sunday, October 14, 2007

This is such a great idea as it has really focussed my mind but it has taken me ages to finally decide. I am wondering if I am going to like my reading dictated like this so far in advance. I am also doing a lot of cross linking to other challenges which has been very interesting as I have listed and swapped and wrote more lists!!

These will be my categories

Newbery Project
1 The Giver Lois Lowry
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Book Around The World
1 War and Peace Leo Tolstoy read
2 Snow Orhan Pamuk read
3 A Thread of Grace MaryDoria Russell reading
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Women and War
1 The Children's House at Belsen Hetty Verolme
2 Four Letters to the Witnesses of My Childhood Helena Ganor
3 Surviving with Wolves: The Most Extraordinary Story of World War II Misha Defonseca read
4 I Have Lived A Thousand Years Livia Bitton-Jackson read
5 A life in secrets : the story of Vera Atkins and the lost agents of SOE Sarah Helm
6 I will Plant You a Lilac Tree Laura Hillman
7 A Time to Speak Helen Lewis
8 If I Should Die Before I Wake Han Nolan

Book Awards
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Richard and Judy
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'Catch My Eye'
1 When The Emperor Was Divine Julie Otsuka read
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Spiritual
1 Pilgrim Road A Benedictine Journey Through Lent Albert Holtz reading
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Wendy’s 100 Most Influential Novels by Women Writers
1 Their Eyes Were Watching God Zora Neale Thurston read
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Posted by Juliette at 10/14/2007 02:38:00 PM 1 comments

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Kristina's List
Thursday, October 4, 2007

Ok, it's done!!! Now I can't wait to get started!!


1. 1st in a series
-Rolling Thunder - Mark Mynheir
-Boo - Rene Gutteridge
-The Dark Hills Divide - Patrick Carman
-At Home in Mitford - Jan Karon
-Storm Front - Jim Butcher DONE
-Magyk - Angie Sage DONE
-Man With a Load of Mischief - Martha Grimes
-Black - Ted Dekker

2. Christian Fiction
-Sweet Treats - Wanda Brunstetter
-A Ship Possessed - Alton Gansky
-My Life as a Doormat - Rene Gutteridge DONE
-Heaven’s Wager - Ted Dekker
-Tilly - Frank Peretti DONE
-Premonition - Randy Ingermanson
-Redemption - Karen Kingsbury
-Thorn in my Heart - Liz Curtis Higgs

3. 8 Books from 8 Different States
-One For the Money - Janet Evanovich (NJ)
- Since You've Been Gone - Carlene Thompson (WV)
-Jane Austen Book Club - Karen Joy Fowler (CA)
-Second Glance - Jodi Picoult (VT)
-Can't Wait to Get to Heaven - Fannie Flagg (MO)
-Boo - Rene Gutteridge (IN)
-Widow of the South - Robert Hicks (TN)
-Haunted - Heather Graham (VA)

4. Mystery/Thriller/Suspense
-Man With a Load of Mischief - Martha Grimes
-I is for Innocent - Sue Grafton
-Shadow Man - Cody McFadyen
-The Virgin of the Small Plains - Nancy Pickard
-Two Little Girls in Blue - Mary Higgins Clark
-The Lucifer Messiah - Frank Cavallo
-Stitches in Time - Barbara Michaels
-Monk - Matthew Lewis

5. Young Adult
-Breaking Dawn - Stephenie Meyer DONE
-Coraline - Neil Gaiman DONE
-Pictures of Hollis Woods - Patricia Reilly Giff DONE
-The Book of Story Beginnings - Kristin Kladstrup DONE
-The Prophet of Yonwood - Jeanne DuPrau DONE
-Magyk - Angie Sage DONE
-Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - JK Rowling DONE
-Thirteen Reasons Why - Jay Asher DONE

6. Hardbacks on my floor beside my shelf (LOL I said there was an overflow!)
-Post Secret - Frank Warren DONE
-Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll DONE
-Undercover - Beth Kephart
-The Vanishing - Bentley Little
-Mary Modern - Camille De Angelis
-The Invention of Hugo Cabret - Brian Selznick DONE
-The Heart-Shaped Box - Joe Hill DONE
-The Dark Hills Divide - Patrick Carman

7. Newbery Award Winners
-Voyages of Dr. Doolittle - Hugh Lofting
-Tales from Silver Lands - Charles Finger
-The Cat Who Went to Heaven - Elizabeth Coatsworth DONE
-The Twenty-One Balloons - William Pene DuBois
-Invincible Louisa - Cornelia Meigs
-It's Like This Cat - Emily Neville DONE
-Bridge to Terebithia - Katherine Paterson
-The Giver - Lois Lowry DONE

8. Biographies/Memoirs
-In His Light - Danielle Steel
-A Paper Life - Tatum O'Neal
-Lucky Man - Michael J. Fox
-We Are Their Heaven - Allison DuBois
-Mosaic - Amy Grant DONE
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Posted by Anonymous at 10/04/2007 11:26:00 AM 2 comments

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Amanda's List
Monday, October 1, 2007

A lot of my books will be rereads that I've been wanting to get to....basically to see if I still love the books and want to keep them (I'm getting desperate for shelf space) and the others are ones I feel I should have read by now or have been wanting to read for a very long time. Here's my tentative list:

8 Jodi Picoult Books:
-Perfect Match
-Salem Falls
-Songs of the Humpback Whale
-Harvesting the Heart
-Mercy
-Second Glance
-Keeping Faith
-Second Glance
-Change of Heart

8 2008 Books
-The Adoration of Jenna Fox
-Peeled
-Where the River Ends
-The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Perilous Journey
-Light of the Moon
- The Battle of the Labyrinth
-Breaking Dawn
-Lock and Key

8 Adult Christian Fiction Books
-The Potluck Club Takes the Cake
-Only Uni
-Summer Snow
-Sisterchicks Do the Hula
-The Yada Yada Prayer Group Gets Rolling
-The Yada Yada Prayer Group Gets Caught
-Summer
-Between Sundays

8 Non-Fiction Titles
-Belly Laughs
-Book Crush
-Slightly Chipped
-The Girlfriend's Guide to Pregnancy
-One At A Time: A Week in an American Animal Shelter
-A Passion for Books
-Saving Levi
-Four Paws from Heaven

8 Children's Classic Books
-The Secret Garden
-A Little Princess
-Heidi
-A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
-Pippi Longstockings
-The Wizard of Oz
-Alice in Wonderland
-Little Men

8 Young Adult Books
-In Your Dreams
-Only You, Sierra
-Pitch Black
-Deep Green
-Keeping the Moon
-The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
-Life As We Knew It
-Twisted

8 Newbery Honor Books
-Olive's Ocean
-Our Only May Amelia
-Home Was Here
-Everything on a Waffle
-The Great Gilly Hopkins
-The Hundred Penny Box
-Catherine Called Birdy
-A Corner of the Universe

8 Fantasy Books
-The Magician's Nephew
-The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe
-The Horse and His Boy
-The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
-The Silver Chair
-A Wrinkle in Time
-Flyte
-The Shadow Thieves

Posted by Anonymous at 10/01/2007 12:03:00 PM 2 comments

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Callista's Choices
Friday, September 14, 2007

I've listed more than 8 for some which leaves me some extra in case I don't like a book I chose and can't finish it.

Non-fiction
1. The plug-in drug : television, computers, and family life by Marie Winn
2. The educated parent : recent trends in raising children by Joseph D. Sclafani
3. The elephant in the playroom : ordinary parents write intimately and honestly about the extraordinary highs and heartbreaking lows of raising kids with special needs by Denise Brodey
4. The Glass Castle: a memoir by Jeannette Walls
5. Who's Afraid of a Large Black Man? by Charles Barkley
6. Spare the child : the religious roots of punishment and the psychological impact of physical abuse by Philip J. Greven
7. The CSI Effect by Katherine M. Ramsland

Childrens/Young Adult
1. 24 Girls in 7 Days by Alex Bradley
2. Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer
3. Ida B . . . and Her Plans to Maximize Fun, Avoid Disaster, and (Possibly) Save the World -- Katherine Hannigan
4. I Am the Messenger by Marcus Zusak
5. The Sky is Falling by Kit Pearson
6. Looking at the Moon by Kit Pearson
7. The Third Eye by Lois Duncan
8. Daughters of Eve by Lois Duncan

Commonly Read And/Or Classics
1. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
2. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
3. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
4. Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne
5. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
6. Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne
7. The Stranger by Albert Camus
8. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
9. Emma by Jane Austen
10. The Plague by Albert Camus
11. The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster

Education
1. School Starts at Home by Cheri Fuller
2. My First Year as a Teacher ed. by Pearl Rock Kane
3. Home-spun Schools by Raymond and Dorothy Moore
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Medical Mystery/Thriller
1. Isolation Ward by Joshua Spanogle
2. Critical Conditions by Stephen White
3. Manner of Death by Stephen White
4. Chromosome 6 by Robin Cook
5. Fatal by Michael Palmer
6. Life Support by Tess Gerritson
7. With a Vengence by Eileen Dreyer
8. Intensive Scare Unit by J.S. Borthwick

Parenting Books
1. Rattled by Trish Berg
2. Raising Your Spirited Child by Mary Sheedy Kurcinka
3. Spiritual Parenting by David Carroll
4. I Sleep at Red Lights by Bruce Stockler
5. The educated parent : recent trends in raising children by Joseph D. Sclafani
6. The plug-in drug : television, computers, and family life by Marie Winn
7. Siblings Without Rivalry by Adele Faber, Elaine Mazlish
8. __and one more__

Banned Books

1. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
2. Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
3. The Color Purple by Alice Walker
4. The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson
5. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
6. The Figure in the Shadows by John Bellairs
7. Annie on my Mind by Nancy Garden
8. Grendel by John Gardner
9. Then Again, Maybe I Won't by Judy Blume
10. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle


Newbery Winners (With Newbery Project)
The Higher Power of Lucky by Susan Patron
Criss Cross by Lynne Rae Perkins
Kira-Kira by Cynthia Kadohata
The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo
Crispin: The Cross of Lead by Avi (Also for Back to History)
A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park
A Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle

Posted by Kathleen at 9/14/2007 09:54:00 PM 2 comments

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