2019 Middle Grade Reading Challenge

I enjoyed this challenge this year (still reading) and will be in again, using the checklist option reading as many books as I can.

Girl reading a book by Federico Zandomeneghi

Host: Becky's Book Reviews (sign up)
Duration: January - December 2019
# of books: minimum of 6

Option 1: Read six middle grade books of your choice.
Option 2: Choose one author to focus on. Perhaps read through an entire author's work. 
Option 3: Read as few as six, or as many as you like, from the checklist below

Feel free to copy/paste this. You can replace the _ with an X or a ✔ (copy/paste it) when you finish reading a book. If you list the books you read, that may help other people decide what to read.

X 1. Title beginning with A: And We Stay--Jenny Hubbard
_2. Author beginning with A
X 3. Title beginning with B: Between Shades of Gray--Ruta Sepetys
_4. Author beginning with B
X 5. Title beginning with C: Click Here--Denise Vega 
_6. Author beginning with C
X 7. Title beginning with D: Daughter of the Pirate King--Tricia Levenseller 
X 8. Author beginning with D: Seventeenth Summer--Maureen Daly
X 9. Title beginning with E: Eve of the Emperor Penguin--Mary Pope Osborne
_ 10. Author beginning with E
X11. Title beginning with F: Free to Fall--Lauren Miller
X12. Author beginning with F: The Carnival at Bray--Jessie Ann Foley
X 13. Title beginning with G: Gemina--Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff
X14. Author beginning with G: Blameless--Gail Carriger
X15. Title beginning with H: Hard Love--Ellen Wittlinger
_16. Author beginning with H
X17. Title beginning with I: I Have Lived a Thousand Years--Livia Bitton-Jackson
_18. Author beginning with I
_19. Title beginning with J
X 20. Author beginning with J: All's Faire in Middle School--Victoria Jamieson
X 21. Title beginning with K: Killing November--Adriana Mather
X22. Author beginning with K: The Improbable Theory of Ana and Zak--Brian Katcher
X23. Title beginning with L: Lies We Tell Ourselves--Robin Talley
X 24. Author beginning with L: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe--C.S. Lewis
X25. Title beginning with M: The Mysterious Benedict Society--Trenton Lee Stewart
X 26. Author beginning with M: The Art of Losing--Lizzy Mason
X 27. Title beginning with N: The Night Swimmers--Betsy Byars
_28. Author beginning with N
X29. Title beginning with O: Otto's Backwards Day--Frank Cammuso
X30. Author beginning with O: A Silent Voice, Volume 1--Yoshitoki Oima
X31. Title beginning with P: Play Me--Laura Ruby
_32. Author beginning with P: Lies My Girlfriend Told Me--Julie Anne Peters

_ 33. Title or Author beginning with Q

X 34. Title beginning with R: Riches to Rags--Casey L. Bond
X 35. Author beginning with R: Dork Diaries: Tales From a Not-So-Happy Birthday--Rachel Renee Russell

X36. Title beginning with S: Soof--Sarah Weeks

X37. Author beginning with S: All That Glitters--Lisa Ann Scott
X38. Title beginning with T: Tuck Everlasting--Natalie Babbitt 
_39. Author beginning with T: The Backstagers, Volume 1--James Tynion IV
X40. Title or Author beginning with U: Unearthly--Cynthia Hand
X41. Title or Author beginning with V or W: Wolfsbane--Andrea Cremer
X42. Title or Author beginning with X or “Ex”: Extremely Loud & Incredible Close--Jonathan Safran Foer
X43. Title beginning with Y: You Know Where to Find Me--Rachel Cohn
X44. Author beginning with Y: The Sun is Also a Star--Nicola Yoon
X45. Title or Author beginning with Z: Roses and Radicals--Susan Zimet
_ 46. children's book published in the 1860s
_ 47. children's book published in the 1870s
X 48. children's book published in the 1880s: Jo's Boys--Louisa May Alcott
_ 49. children's book published in the 1890s
X 50. children's book published in the 1900s: The Wind in the Willows--Kenneth Grahame
_ 51. children's book published in the 1910s
_ 52. children's book published in the 1920s
_ 53. children's book published in the 1930s
X 54. children's book published in the 1940s: The Saturdays--Elizabeth Enright
X 55. children's book published in the 1950s: The Borrowers--Mary Norton
_ 56. children's book published in the 1960s
X 57. children's book published in the 1970s: That Was Then, This is Now--S.E. Hinton
X 58. children's book published in the 1980s: There's a Bat in Bunk Five--Paula Danziger
X 59. children's book published in the 1990s: Speak--Laurie Halse Anderson
X 60. children's book published in the 2000s: When You Reach Me--Rebecca Stead
X 61. children's book published in the 2010s: Dead End in Norvelt--Jack Gantos 
X 62. children's book published in 2019: Opposite of Always--Justin A. Reynolds
X 63. a Newbery Winner: Hello, Universe--Erin Entrada Kelly
X 64. a Newbery Honor: Long Way Down--Jason Reynolds
X 65. nonfiction: World War I--Adriane Ruggerio
X 66. poetry: Thirteen Moons on Turtle's Back --Joseph Bruchac and Jonathan London
X 67. graphic novel: Phoebe and Her Unicorn--Dana Simpson
X 68. first in a series: The Isle of the Lost--Melissa De La Cruz
X 69. any book in a series: Hallowed--Cynthia Hand
X 70. last book in a series: Boundless--Cynthia Hand
X 71. science fiction: On a Sunbeam--Tillie Walden
X 72. fantasy: How to Train Your Dragon--Cressida Cowell
X 73. mystery: Mayflower Treasure Hunt--Ron Roy 
X 74. animal fantasy: The Magic of the Unicorn--Deborah Lerme Goodman
X 75. realistic/contemporary: Monday's Not Coming--Tiffany D. Jackson
X 76. coming of age: Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo--Ntozake Shange
X 77. action, adventure: Steelheart--Brandon Sanderson
X 78. historical fiction: Rachel--Vivian Schurfranz
_ 79. historical fiction, world war I
X 80. historical fiction, world war II: Journey to Topaz--Yoshiki Uchida
X 81. historical fiction, civil rights: Stella By Starlight--Sharon M. Draper
_ 82. historical fiction, civil war
X 83. historical fiction, great depression: Cat Running--Zilpha Keatley Snyder
X 84. reread: Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great--Judy Blume
X 85. library: So B. It--Sarah Weeks
X 86. free choice: Wings That Shine--Lisa Ann Scott
X 87. another free choice: Piper Morgan in Charge!--Stephanie Faris
X 88. biography or autobiography: Who Was Walt Disney?--Whitney Stewart
X 89.written in first person: Such a Pretty Girl--Laura Wiess
X 90. written in third person: Wake--Amanda Hocking
X 91. verse novel: The Poet X--Elizabeth Acevedo
X 92. illustrated "notebook" or diary: A Line in the Sand--Sherry Garland
_ 93. out of print
_ 94. anniversary reprint of a children's book
X 95. favorite author: Piper Morgan to the Rescue--Stephanie Faris
X 96. new-to-you author: Illuminae--Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff
X 97. YOUR pick for Newbery 2019: A Blade So Black--L.L. McKinney
X 98. multiple authors: Sam & Ilsa's Last Hurrah--Rachel Cohn & David Levithan
X 99. happy, happy: Piper Morgan Makes a Splash--Stephanie Faris
X 100. oh the sad: Al Capone Shines My Shoes--Gennifer Choldenko

Other Books Read:
Flunked--Jen Calonita
Diary of a Minecraft Zombie--Zack Zombie
A Corner of the Universe--Ann M. Martin
Merci Suarez Changes Gears--Meg Medina
Miracle's Boys--Jacqueline Woodson
Odd and the Frost Giants--Neil Gaiman
Beauty Queen--Sarah Mlynowski
Clothes and Crafts in Victorian Times--Philip Steele

Challenge completed on December 17