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20.9 Baseball DiamondThe Courier's New Bicycle by Kim Westwood
+20 Task (Australia)
+5 Combo (20.6 - 327 pages)
Task Total: 25
Grand Total: 1000
10.8 Fathers DayWhite Teeth by Zadie Smith
+10 Task
+5 Combo (10.6)
Task Total: 15
Completion Bonus: 100
Grand Total: 975
10.9 Design your own task! (Read a book that is related to its author's TED Talk.)Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain
+10 Task (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quiet:_T...)
+5 Combo (10.4)
Task Total: 15
Grand Total: 860
20.8 Baseball TeamBorn of Night by Sherrilyn Kenyon
+20 Task
+5 Jumbo (560 pages)
Task Total: 25
Grand Total: 845
20.7 Four-baggerHenry IV, Part 2 by William Shakespeare (Lexile 1470)
+20 Task (part of tetralogy with Richard II; Henry IV, Part 2; and Henry V: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_IV...)
+5 Combo (20.6 – 320 pages)
+25 Oldies (published 1599)
Task Total: 50
Grand Total: 820
20.6 MLB 32 TeamsAssassins in Love by Kris DeLake
+20 Task (352 pages)
+5 Combo (20.8 – alternating perspectives, >9 named characters)
Task Total: 25
Grand Total: 770
20.6 MLB 32 TeamsThe Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky (Lexile 720)
+20 Task (213 pages)
Task Total: 20
Grand Total: 745
20.6 MLB 32 TeamsForsaken by the Others by Jess Haines
+20 Task (352 pages)
Task Total: 20
Grand Total: 725
10.6 Reading is RewardingThe Lotus Eaters by Tatjana Soli
+10 Task (James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction 2010)
+5 Combo (20.8 – two main perspectives, >9 named characters)
Task Total: 15
Grand Total: 705
20.6 MLB 32 TeamsWhen Beauty Tamed the Beast by Eloisa James
+20 Task (372 pages)
+5 Combo (20.8 – alternating perspectives, >9 named characters
Task Total: 25
Grand Total: 690
20.8 Baseball TeamKing of Sword and Sky by C.L. Wilson
+20 Task (multiple perspectives including Rain and Ellie, >9 named characters)
Task Total: 20
Grand Total: 665
10.10 In MemoryAnti-Intellectualism in American Life by Richard Hofstadter
+10 Task
+5 Oldies (published 1963)
Task Total: 15
Grand Total: 645
20.8 Baseball TeamLady of Light and Shadows by C.L. Wilson
+20 Task (multiple perspectives including Rain and Ellie, >9 named characters)
Task Total: 20
Grand Total: 630
20.6 MLB 32 TeamsThe False Prince by Jennifer A. Nielsen (Lexile 710)
+20 Task (342 pages)
Task Total: 20
Grand Total: 610
20.8 Baseball TeamDivided in Death by J.D. Robb
+20 Task (multiple perspectives, >9 named characters)
+5 Combo (20.10 – set in NYC)
Task Total: 25
Grand Total: 590
20.3 Cy Young AwardThe Valley Of Decision by Marcia Davenport
+20 Task (pub 1942)
+10 Combo (20.8 – multiple perspectives, dozens of named characters; 20.10 – set ~75% in Pittsburgh)
+5 Oldies (pub 1942)
+5 Jumbo (640 pages)
Task Total: 40
Grand Total: 565
20.1 Play Ball!Squeeze Play by Kate Angell
+20 Task (shelved 18 times as baseball)
+5 Combo (20.8 – multiple perspectives and >9 named characters)
Task Total: 25
Grand Total: 505
20.8 Baseball TeamA Kiss at Midnight by Eloisa James
+20 Task (Alternating perspectives and many more than 9 named characters)
Task Total: 20
Grand Total: 480
20.8 Baseball TeamRomancing Mister Bridgerton by Julia Quinn
+20 Task (Alternating perspectives and many more than 9 named characters)
+5 Combo (10.4)
Task Total: 25
Grand Total: 460
