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Spring/Summer 2014: Leaderboard and Completed Tasks
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20.2 Task Name
Book by Author
Total points: 20
You can add things to it, I know some people put 1/30 books or sometimes 20/500 pts or whatever, but make sure you have the task number, the book you read (w/author name preferably) and your total pts to date. Thanks!
5.8. Children's Book Week-April 12-18Charlotte's Web by E.B. White April 4
Task points: 5
Total points: 5
5.2 May, June, July, & August are all women's namesTell the Wolves I'm Home by Carol Rifka Brunt
Task Points: 5
Total Points: 5
10.4 - Study Abroad: Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer 4/4/14 Task Points: 10
Total Points: 10
5.7 These Are a Few of My Favorite Things:Confessions of an Advertising Man by David Ogilvy
Task points: 5
Total points: 5
15.1 National Karaoke Week:Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann
Task points: 15
Total points: 20
Colum McCann and musician Joe Hurley wrote the song "The House That Horse Built (Let the Great World Spin)" based on McCann's novel. The song is narrated from the perspective of the character Tillie.
I don't really like the song, but here's a link if you would like to hear it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9jbd8...
25.1 Research: Stolen: A Letter to My Captor by Lucy Christopher and A Stolen Life by Jaycee Dugard
Task points: 25
Total points: 45
I must say, I know now why I kept putting these books off. They're both great reads, but I just don't have the stomach (or the strength of heart) for child abduction.
5.6. Road Trip: Your House Is on Fire, Your Children All Gone by Stefan KiesbeTask points: 5
Total points: 15
5.8. Children's Book Week:Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret by Judy Blume
Task points: 5
Total points: 50
10.2. (Hopefully not) Lost in TranslationThe Art of War by Sun Tzu April 17
Task points: 10
Total points: 30
5.6 Road Trip- Neverwhere (I've never been to London)15.4 Trilogy- Specials (Last book in the Uglies trilogy)
Tasks completed: 2
Total points: 20
10.4 Study AbroadBringing Up Bébé: One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting by Pamela Druckerman
Task Points: 10
Total Points: 10
*I know technically speaking, the author is living in France, not visiting but my arguments are thus:
1) She mentions several times that she will maybe move away from France one day.
2) She briefly mentions that other fellow foreigners she knows in Paris were at one time study-abroad students that ended up never leaving because they fell in love with Paris and/or a Parisian.
3) She is reporting on her STUDY of parenting ABROAD in Paris.
So I'm good, eh? :)
20.1 Wheel of FortuneThe Fault in Our Stars by John Green
...Finally! I am a little behind the times... :(
Task Points: 20
Total Points: 30
20.1. Allison’s task: Wheel of FortuneThe Further Observations of Lady Whistledown by Julia Quinn April 21
Task points: 20
Total points: 65
25.8 Two Become One- Can You Keep a Secret? and Duchess (Duchess, can you keep a secret?)Tasks completed: 3
Total points: 45
15.5 Blockbusters:A Time to Kill by John Grisham
Task points: 15
Total points: 40
I enjoyed watching the movie after reading the book, and I usually don't. It mostly follows the story of book and I think the things they did change really benefit the movie.
Finished 5.1 I Still Believe in 398.2: Cressby Marissa MeyerFinished 10.5 PotterMORE: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallowsby J.K. Rowling
Task Points Total: 15
Total Points: 20
5 points:3. Garden Basics: Cassandra at the Wedding (21/04/14)
10 points:
2. (Hopefully not) Lost in Translation: The Goddess Chronicle (24/04/14)
6. Like a Virgin: Self-Help (14/04/14)
7. What I Did on My Summer Vacation: How to Be Alone -travelling alone (05/04/013)
15 points:
4. Trilogy: The Long Earth (21/04/14)
20 points:
1. Allison’s task: Wheel of Fortune: Images Of Thought: Visuality In Islamic India 1550-1750 by Gregory Minissale (24/04/14)
Total points = 70
5.8. Children's Book Week-April 12-18The Wizard of Oz - L. Frank Baum (4/12/14)
Task points: 5
Total points: 5
10.6. Like a Virgin
Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife - Mary Roach (4/25/14)
Task points: 10
Total points: 15
10.2. (Hopefully not) Lost in Translation:Snakes and Earrings - Hitomi Kanehara (4/25/14)
Task points: 10
Total points: 25
5.2 May, June, July & August are all women's namesWonder by R.J. Palacio
Task points: 5
Total Points: 15
Emily D5.8: Son by Lois Lowrey
10.3: Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
10.6: The Lottery & Other Stories by Shirley Jackson
20.1: This Is Where I Leave You by Jonathan Tropper
Total Books: 4
Total Points: 45
5.1I Still Believe in 398.2: Cress by Marissa MeyerI have to wait almost a year for the finale:(
Task: 5 pts
Total: 15 pts
25.6 Take A Vacation: Europe: The Baker's Daughter by Sarah McCoy (Set in Germany)
Romantic: For One More Day by Mitch Albom
Task points: 25
Total points: 75
5.6: Road Trips: Anne of Green Gables (never been to Canada)20.1: Wheel of Fortune: Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow
Task points: 25
Total points: 50
Finished 15.8 Bethany's Task: The Animal Dialogues: Uncommon Encounters in the Wild by Craig ChildsTotal books: 4
Total points: 30
10.2 (Hopefully not) Lost in Translation: Inkheart by Cornelia FunkeTranslated from German.Task Points: 10
Total Points: 30
5.7. These Are a Few of My Favorite ThingsInto the Wilderness by Sara Donati April 30
Task points: 5
Total points: 70
Emily D10.4 Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater
Total books: 5
Total points: 60
25.2. Bizarre, Unique, and Special HolidaysBe a Millionaire Day - Lunch Money by Andrew Clements April 14
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Cinco de Mayo - Becoming Naomi Leon by Pam Muñoz Ryan May 3
Task points: 25
Total points: 105
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