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25.1 - Nick KY’s Task: Suddenly, Last Summer.The options for this task relate to Summer 2022. Read two books from 2 different options.
Required: State which Options you choose.
Opt. 1. Last Summer’s Banff Mountain Book Awards
Here are the 2022 winners of the Banff Mountain Book Awards. [Not included are winners of photography books (including special jury mentions), guidebooks, and articles as they do not meet SRC guidelines.]
Mountain Literature (non-fiction) – The Jon Whyte Award
The Fox of Glencoe by Hamish MacInnes, Scottish Mountaineering Press (UK, 2021)
Environmental Literature
Northern Light: Power, Land, and the Memory of Water by Kazim Ali,
Milkweed Editions (U.S., 2022), Goose Lane Editions (Canada, 2022)
Climbing Literature
Valley of Giants: Stories from Women at the Heart of Yosemite Climbing by Lauren DeLaunay Miller,
Mountaineers Books (U.S., 2022)
Mountain Fiction & Poetry
Native Air by Jonathan Howland,
Green Writers Press (U.S., 2022)
Adventure Travel
A Year in the Woods: Twelve Small Journeys into Nature by Torbjørn Ekelund, Greystone Books (Canada, 2021)
> Read a book with a title/subtitle word from the above books. Only the following words and their singulars, plurals, and possessives are accepted:
Fox, Glencoe, Northern, Light, Power, Land, Memory, Water, Valley, Giants, Stories, Women, Heart, Yosemite, Climbing, Native, Air, Year, Woods, Twelve, Small, Journeys, Into, Nature.
Your choice does not have to be any of the Award winners listed above—but it can be.
Required: State the word
Opt. 2. Last Summer’s Interviews:
A. Read a book featured with a picture in any of the following GR Interviews from Last Summer . The Book must be pictured in the interview and not simply mentioned:
Kali Fajardo-Anstine Interview
Blake Crouch Interview
Ali Hazelwood Interview
R.F. Kuang Interview
Taylor Jenkins Reid Interview
OR
B. Read any single author book by any of the five authors interviewed.
Required: State the interview used
Opt. 3. Suddenly, Last Summer
The words “Suddenly” and “Summer” from the title of a Tennessee Williams play have consecutive double consonants in the their spellings.
Read a book with at least two sets of consecutive double consonants in the title/subtitle/author’s name. Two or more sets of consecutive double consonants in one word, such as “Tennessee” (NN SS), is acceptable.
30.3 Katrisa Task: The Game is Afoot! I love Sherlock Holmes stories in so many of their incarnations. This task is devoted to my favorite deductive detective.
Read two books, from 2 different options. If using option 3, only one of A, B or C may be used i.e. you cannot use option 3A and 3B as your two different options.
Requred: State the options you choose.
Total Pages must be 500+
Option 1: The Original
Let’s start with the OG Holmes and Watson! Read a Sherlock Holmes book from Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes Series
Sherlock Holmes Series
Option 2: Continuing Sherlock
Sherlock has been used as a character in MANY retellings. Read a book from one of these lists featuring Sherlock Holmes characters.
Beyond Conan Doyles
Best Sherlock Holmes Fiction
Required: State the chosen list and page number
Option 3: My Favorite Sherlock Shows
A: Elementary - The television show Elementary stars Jonny Lee Miller and Lucy Liu as Holmes and Watson.Choose either Miller’s or Liu’s television (not movie) list and read a book with a word of at least four letters from one of the television shows in the TITLE (not subtitle). Word must match exactly.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy_Li...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonny_L...
Required: State the chosen list and the show title
B:Sherlock - I also love the Benedict Cumberbatch Sherlock. For this task read a book with a word of at least four letters in the TITLE (not subtitle) from one of the episode titles from Sherlock you can use an episode from any of the series and the special). Word must match exactly.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...
Required: State the episode Title
C: Robert Downey Jr./Jude Law - Finally I also think the Robert Downey Jr. Sherlock movies are fun and hilarious. Read a book where the ALL of the author’s initials can be found in ROBERT DOWNEY JR. JUDE LAW. You can use any combination of the actors’ names (for example you could use T from Robert and W from Law for initials TW) but letters can only be used as often as they appear.
30.2 - KmarieD task -Book Buddies and Summer FunSummer is my busy time of the year. Along with my regular duties, I run a library youth outreach program initially called Book Buddies and now called Read and Play in a partnership with our Parks and Recreation department. I take a Bookmobile out to 5 different locations within our library service area to provide books and activities to children who may have barriers to visiting the main library. This task is honor of this program.
This is two book task. Choose two different options from 1-4 or just option 5 (two book task).
Required: One of the main summer reading goals is for children to read for 10 hours. According to Google, a 10 hour audiobook averages 350 pages, so one book must be at least 350 pages
Required: state the options
Option 1-
The program hopes to give children a fun, exciting relationship with learning over the summer without realizing it. Read a book with at least 2 people on the cover. Two people with heads and torso must be clear on the title.
Required: Post the Cover
Option 2-
Since the target age for our program is elementary and middle school, read a book with an MPG of Young Adult, Middle Grade, or Childrens. My intention is a book that is meant for the under 18 age group to reference my program, but any book must follow SRC rules.
Required: add AR Bookfinder Information for MPG Childrens and Middle Grade
Option 3-
Since the program started in 2015, read a book first published in June, July or August from 2015 forward. (2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023)
Option 4-
To celebrate our partnership with the Parks and Recreation department, read a book with a word of at least 4 letters in the title that can be spelled out from OUTDOORGAMES
This is a site that can help you find words: https://www.wordunscramble.io/unscram...
Required: state the word
Option 5-
Many of the kids find series they like to read and then ask us to bring them the next ones. Read any 2 consecutive books from a series. The series must appear in gray-scale on the book’s main page
MAZZA1's Task - WORDLEDWORDLE is a very popular online game where you guess a 5 letter word in 6 moves. When I Visit my eldest son the whole family is competing for who can solve it first. This new craze is the basis for this task
Read 2 books with a combined page length of 600 or more pages
In ALL options the 5 letter words should stand alone
For the purpose of this task Y is considered a Consonant
Book 1
Choose a 5 letter word with at least one vowel.
Read a book with this word in the title.
Required: State the word
Book 2: Using the word you used for book 1, select an option
a) Assumption: the VOWELS are correct but NOT in the right place and that all the other letters are incorrect.
Read a book with a 5 letter word in the title that can be made by moving the vowels and adding new letters (vowels or consonants) to create a new 5 letter word. Letters may be repeated.
Example word is Anger
Book 1 Anger Age of Anger: A History of the Present
Book 2 word is Blame Where the Blame Lies
or
word is Death The Death Cure
Hint: https://word.tips/wordle/
Enter the vowels and exclude the consonants. Remember you must move the vowels.
b) Assumption: the CONSONANTS are correct but NOT in the right place and the other letters are incorrect.
Read a book with a 5 letter word in the title that can be made by moving the Consonants and adding new letters (vowels or consonants) to create a new 5 letter word. Letters may be repeated.
Book 1: ANGER Age of Anger: A History of the Present
Book 2 word is BRING Bring Up the Bodies
or the word is WRONG The Wrong Family
Enter the consonants and exclude the vowels. Remember you must move the consonants.
Required: State the letters used
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5.10 – Easy BreezyRead a book of your choice that meets SRC rules.
For this task, a book with the MPG Childrens, Kids, Middle Grade or Juvenile that is NOT found in ARBF may be used
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The Spring Challenge 2023 Group Reads have been chosen!Aviation: Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Canadian Fiction: Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel
Nonfiction - Poetry: Call Us What We Carry by Amanda Gorman
Gutenberg Classic: My Man Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse
Thanks to all who nominated books and voted!
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