Collect Them All Challenge

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Collect Them All Challenge

Collect books with different types of creatures to make your own zoo. Creature only needs to be mentioned in the book. One creature per book to prevent depopulation of the local book species.

Add additional cages to your zoo if you find new animals.

Duration Open

Rules

Steps must be completed in order or the animals will escape! Once a specific region has been created animals from that area may be added at any time if there's an open habitat.

You may add your own animals for a category if you find new species in the wild or even create entirely new regions for your zoo to bring in tourists from all over the world!

Step 1: Create your zoo. Choose a name for your zoo. Then use Spell-It-Out, Word-It-Out or a combination to make it official.

Step 2: Create your first region. Use Spell-It-Out, Word-It-Out or a combination to spell the name of the region.

Step 3: Add habitats to your region. Read a series #'d book in order to add habitats. Each region starts with the first book. (Example: To add 5 habitats to the Africa region read the first book in a series, followed by the second book in the same or a different series, followed by the third, forth and fifth. Then to add 3 cages in the House Pets region, read a first, second and third book in order.)

Option: To decrease difficulty, you may read series numbers that add up to the cage number you wish to add. (Example: Read a series #3 and series #4 to add cage #7.)

Step 4: Find your animals! Read books that mention each of the animals to acquire them for your zoo.

House Pets
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•Cat
•Dog
•Bird
•Hamster
•Rabbit
•Fish
•Snake
•Ferret
•Mouse
•House Plant
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Petting Zoo
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•Horse
•Cow
•Pig
•Sheep
•Goat
•Llama
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Africa
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•Lion
•Tiger
•Bear
•Giraffe
•Elephant
•Monkey
•Zebra
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Australia
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•Koala
•Kangaroo
•Platypus
•Sugar Glider
•Dingo
•Emu
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Under The Sea
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•Fish
•Shark
•Dolphin
•Whale
•Sea Otter
•Turtle
•Frog
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Creepy Crawly
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•Spider
•Ant
•Mosquito
•Cockroach
•Fly
•Beetle
•Moth
•Butterfly
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Paranormal
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•Zombie
•Vampire
•Werewolf
•Were-creature
•Alien
•Fairy
•Wizard
•Demon
•Monster
•Angel
•Devil
•Dragon
•Merperson
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Optional Features
Optional features may be added any time after a region has been created. Each feature may be added to as many regions as you would like. Repeat the task to add one to another region. Specify which region you are adding the feature to when completing the task.
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• Bench - Read a book with "bench", "park" or "sit" in the title or has a bench or park on the cover.
• Lamp - Read a book with "lamp" or "light" in the title or one that deals with the topic of darkness.
• Popcorn Stand - Read a book with "Pop", "Corn", or "Stand" in the title or a book that has a bright yellow cover.
• Kids Ride - Read a book with "kid", "children", or "child" in the title or one that focuses on childhood or children.
• Restaurant - Read a book with a food in the title or one where the main character owns or works at a restaurant.
• Gift Shop - Read a book with "gift" or "present" in the title or one where the main character is wishing for something or receives a gift from someone else.
• Landscaping - Read a book with flowers on the cover or one where the main character is a gardener or cares for a garden.
• Specialized Animal Caretaker - Read a book where a main character is a vet or one that has an animal on the cover.
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Glossary

Spell-It-Out: Read books to spell out the word(s) using
◈ the first letter in the book's title
◈ the first letter in the series
◈ the first letter in the author's first or last name
◈ the first letter of a character's first, last, or nick-name

As always, if the first letter of a title starts with an indefinite or definite article ('A', 'An', 'The', etc.), you may use the first letter of the second word in the title to spell out your chosen word.

Word-It-Out: Using only one word from the title, author's name or series name of each book you read, connect it to a word in the phrase you selected.

Note:
In 2014 we started this challenge, and we've now decided to start a new thread for the challenge to freshen it up a bit! You can find the old thread here

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Example:

Name the Zoo
Zoo Name: Zoo-m Zoom
ZOO - Zoo James Patterson
M - Karrin Murphy in Proven Guilty Jim Butcher

Z - Zooey Glass in Franny and Zooey J.D. Salinger
O - One Lucky Vampire Lynsay Sands
O - On Thin Ice Cherry Adair
M - Maybe Someday Colleen Hoover

Create a Region (Africa)
AFRICA - Out of Africa Karen Blixen

Add 3 Cages - Africa
1) One for the Money Janet Evanovich
2) The Maze Catherine Coulter
3) The Death Cure James Dashner

Add Animals - Africa
Lion - The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe C.S. Lewis
Monkey - Next Michael Crichton
Zebra - We Bought a Zoo: The Amazing True Story of a Young Family, a Broken Down Zoo, and the 200 Wild Animals that Changed Their Lives Forever Benjamin Mee

Add 1 Cage - Africa
4) Playing to Win Jaci Burton

Create a Region - House Pets
HOUSE - House Rules Jodi Picoult
PET - Pet Sematary Stephen King
S - Stephanie Plum in Two for the Dough Janet Evanovich



Current Zoo
Name: Zoo-m Zoom
Africa: 4 Cages with a Lion, Monkey and Zebra
House Pets: Empty

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Participants:

Anna

Celia

Gabi

Lizz

Mary
~❤️Minnie❤️~

Rachel
Rokkan

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[Mary]

another good one Will post the rest later
was working on this from before
zoo name Full Ark

F Freda Vasilos - Moon Madness
U Usen, Amanda - Scrumptious
L Lilian J Braun - The Private Life of the Cat Who...
L Lindsay Armstrong - Wildcat Wife

A Anne Mayburn - Prides of the moon 1-5
R Roughing it With Ryan Jill Shalvis
K Karen M Moning - Burned

Step 2: Create your first region. Use Spell-It-Out, Word-It-Out or a combination to spell the name of the region.
region
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S
E
P
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habitat

Step 3: Add habitats to your region. Read a series #'d book in order to add habitats. Each region starts with the first book. (Example: To add 5 habitats to the Africa region read the first book in a series, followed by the second book in the same or a different series, followed by the third, forth and fifth. Then to add 3 cages in the House Pets region, read a first, second and third book in order.)

cages series books
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
animals
Step 4: Find your animals! Read books that mention each of the animals to acquire them for your zoo.

•Cat
•Dog
•Bird
•Hamster
•Rabbit
•Fish
•Snake
•Ferret
•Mouse
•House Plant

[Mary]

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[Rachel]

I've always wanted to try a "zoo challenge." I'm in!

There was a zoo I visited as a child called DeYoung's Family Zoo, so I'll go with DeYoung for my zoo name

D -- Darkness Dawns by Dianne Duvall
E --
Y --
O --
U--
N --
G - Grainne in Cast A Cold Eye by Alan Ryan

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Welcome Mary & Rachel!

[~❤️Minnie❤️~]

I have been thinking about what to name my zoo for a couple days and I have come up with...

Zoo Name: Hitten Crystal

H
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E
N

C
R - The Raven Boys read 5/6/18
Y
S
T
A
L - The Lost Duke of Wyndham read 5/7/18

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Welcome Minnie!

[Anna Lagos]

I’m in for this challenge. Looks like fun.

Name of Zoo:
Tiergarten
Books: 16
Habitats: 1
Cages:
Animals:

T- To the Lighthouse 5/11/18
I- In a Dark, Dark Wood 5/13/18
E- The Essex Serpent 5/8/18
R- Revenger 5/10/18
G- Girls Made of Snow and Glass 5/15/18
A- Artemis 5/18/18
R- Red Sister 6/14/18
T- There Is No Me Without You: One Woman's Odyssey to Rescue Africa's Children 6/7/18
E- Emma in the Night 5/9/18
N- Not a Sound 6/16/18
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A- The Astonishing Color of After 6/18/18
F- Frostblood 6/21/18
R- Reign of the Fallen 6/22/18
I- The Island of Dr. Moreau 6/22/18
C- Circe 6/20/18
A- An Old-Fashioned Girl 6/23/18
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Cages
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#2-
#3-
#4-
#5-
#6-
#7-

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Welcome Anna!

[Lizz (Beer, Books and Boos)]

Zoo Challenge
Open Ended
Crystal Cove
Books 32
Habitats 2
Cages 1
Animals 0

Crystal Cove
Done
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C: The Belles5/16/18 Camellia Beauregard
r: Blood Rose Rebellion5/11/18
y: Yeats: Irish Folk and Fairy Tales: Irish Folk and Fairy Tales by W.B. Yeats 9/24/18
s: Scythe5/22/18
t: Between a Wolf and a Hard Place7/3/18 by Terry Spear
a: The Astonishing Color of After6/8/18
l: House of Furies5/30/18 Louisa Ditton

C: Halfway to the Grave10/21/18 Catherine Crawfield-Russell
o: Once Burned 10/22/18
v: Dying Breath8/13/18 Vickie Preston
e:Passenger6/7/18 Etta Spencer (hide spoiler)]


Under The Sea
Done
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U: Unholy Ghosts8/8/19
n:Wicked Saints5/24/19 Nadya
d: Deadly Night7/20/18
e: Emergency Contact6/12/18
r: Revealed8/10/18

T:Simon Says: Demon Hunter Book 1 by Matthew Thrush 10/7/18
h: The Fury / Dark Reunion8/12/18 Matt Honeycutt
e:Even Vampires Get the Blues7/16/18

S:The Awakening / The Struggle by L.J. Smith 8/9/18
e:Beautiful Creatures8/5/18 Ethan Wate
a:A Quick Bite10/9/18 Lissianna Argeneau (hide spoiler)]

Cages
1. Nevernight by Jay Kristoff 8/15
2.
3.
Aminals
•Fish
•Shark
•Dolphin
•Whale
•Sea Otter
•Turtle
•Frog

Paranormal
DONE
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P: Phantom Evil8/7/18
a: Secondhand Spirits 10/17/18 Aidan Rhodes
r: I Hate Myself and Want to Die: The 52 Most Depressing Songs You've Ever Heard by Tom Reynolds 11/6/18
a: Crown of Midnight 1/30/19 Archer Finn
n: Between Two Fires by Mark Noce 8/8/19
o: The First Time She Drowned 9/7/19 Cassie O’Malley
r: Heir of Fire 2/3/19 Rowan Whitethorn
m: Darkest Journey 8/14/18 Charlie Moreau
a: Queen of Shadows 2/6/19 Aelin Ashryver Galathynius
l: Skinwalker 1/16/19 Leo Pellissier (hide spoiler)]

Cages
1. Hold Me Closer, Necromancer 9/9/19
2.
3.
Aminals
•Zombie
•Vampire
•Werewolf
•Were-creature
•Alien
•Fairy
•Wizard
•Demon
•Monster
•Angel
•Devil
•Dragon
•Merperson

[Rokkan]

Huh I'll give this one a go I guess.

Zoo Name: HAVEN SAFARI PARK

H - Homeland - Cory Doctorow - 15/5/2018
A - Acevedo, Elizabeth - author of The Poet X - 19/5/2018
V - Vega Jane - narrator of The Keeper - 17 5 2018
E - Elizabeth McKenzie - author of The Portable Veblen - 15/5/2018
N - Noon, Jeff - author of A Man Of Shadows - 20/5/2018

S - The Subtle Knife - Philip Pullman - 25/5/2018
A - Alec Kinsella - character in Bobby's Boy - 27/5/2018
F - Felicity Hayes-McCoy - author of The Library at the Edge of the World - 22/5/2018
A - Alice Marin - PoV character in The King of Bones and Ashes - 29/5/2018
R - Robert Dinsdale - author of Gingerbread - 2/6/2018
I - In the Light of What We See - Sarah Painter - 28/5/2018

P - Prineas, Sarah - author of The Magic Thief - 14/5/2018
A - Alysha Gale - main character in The Enchantment Emporium - 25/5/2018
R - Rachel Caine - Author of Stillhouse Lake - 4/6/2018
K - Kroese, Robert - author of Disenchanted - 15/5/2018

Region 1: Africa
A - Adina Greenberg - character in Beauty Queens - 7/6/2018
F - Feyre - character in A Court of Thorns and Roses - 7/6/32018
R - Randall Patrick McMurphy - character in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - 5/6/2018
I - If You Look For Me, I Am Not Here - Sarayu Srivatsa - 4/6/2018
C - Caine, Rachel - author of Killman Creek - 4/6/2018
A - Adaora - character in Lagoon - 21/6/2018

African Habitats
1. The Raven Boys - book 1 of The Raven Cycle - 25/6/2018
lion - Lily and the Octopus - loc 94 - 4/8/2018
2. The Obelisk Gate - book 2 of The Broken Earth - 2/7/2018
bear - You Die When You Die - pg 143 - 9/8/2018
3. The Raven's Shadow - book 3 of The Wild Hunt - 9/7/2018
elephant - The Fifth Elephant - pg 1 - 13/8/2018
4. In the Labyrinth of Drakes - book 4 of the Memoirs of Lady Trent - 21/7/2018
tiger - The Pale Criminal - pg 197
5. The Long Cosmos - book 5 of the Long Earth - 29/7/2018
monkey(s) - We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families - loc 2433 - 19/12/2018
6. Killing Floor - book 1 of Jack Reacher - 30/7/2018 and Within the Sanctuary of Wings book 5 of the Memoirs of Lady Trent
zebra - The Unexpected Vacation of George Thring - pg 82
7. Blue Lily, Lily Blue - book 3 of The Raven King - 20/8/2018 and The Raven King - book 4 of The Raven King - 20/8/2018
giraffe - Memoirs of a Polar Bear - pg 207

Region 2: Paranormal
P - Paama - protagonist of sorts in Redemption in Indigo - Karen Lord - 7/9/2018
A - Aleksei Danilov - protagonist in Thirteen Years Later - Jasper Kent - 30/8/2018
R - Rules of Civility - Amor Towles - 25/8/2018
A - Aldous Huxley - author of Brave New World - 7/9/2018
N - Nate O' Riley - character in The Testament - 3/10/2018
O - The Original Ginny Moon - Benjamin Ludwig - 27/8/2018
R - Rory - character in The Novice - 5/11/2018
M - Marie Lu - author of The Rose Society - 11/9/2018
A - Aomame Masumi - PoV character in 1Q84 #1-2 - 10/10/2018
L - Lincoln in the Bardo - George Saunders - 19/10/2018

Paranormal Habitats
1. Homeland - book 1 of The Legend of Drizzt - 9/11/2018
Fairy - Five Children and It - loc 251
2. The Shadow's Curse - book 2 in the Knots Sequence - 15/11/2018
Demon - Curse of the Pogo Stick - pg 140
3. Woken Furies - book 3 in the Takeshi Kovacs series - 16/11/2018
Vampire - The Snow Gypsy - pg 127
4. The Rebirths of Tao - book 3 in Tao series - 18/11/2018 + Nomad - book 1 in Rubicon series - 18/11/2018
Werewolf - Training Their Mate - pg 45
5. Kindred - Book 5 of Jefferson Tayte - 25/11/2018
Dragon - The Dragon Keeper - pg 4
6. The Midnight Star - book 3 of the Young Elites Trilogy - 11/1/2019 + Who Killed Sherlock Holmes? - Book 3 of Shadow Police - 22/1/2019
Alien - Sleeper 13 - pg 28
7. Deadfall - Book 4 of Agent 21 - 30/1/2019 + Once Dead - book 1 of Rho Agenda Inception - 2/2/2019 + The Magicians - book 1 of the Magicians - 3/2/2019 + Born of Water - book 1 of The Rise of the Fifth Order - 8/2/2019
Wizard - The Shadow of Black Wings - loc 197 -3/1/2020
8. Mind's Eye - book 1 of Inspector Van Veeteren - 18/2/2019 + Thunderhead - book 2 of Arc of a Scythe - 21/2/2109 + Snowblind - book 1 of Dark Iceland - 25/2/2019 + The Xibalba Murders - book 1 of Lara McClintoch Archaeological Mysteries - 26/2/2019 + Still Life With Murder - book 1 of Nell Sweeney Mysteries - 26/2/2019 + The Falconer - book 1 of The Falconer series - 4/3/2019 + The Wasp Nest - book 1 of Nerdology series - 10/3/2019
Monster - Death's End - pg 132
9. Scourged - book 9 of the Iron Druid Chronicles - 16/6/2019
Devil - The Satanic Verses pg 3
10. Simply the Quest - book 2 of Who Let The Gods Out? - 26/3/2019 + The Fallen Kingdom - book 3 of the Falconer - 26/3/2019 + River of Smoke - book 2 of the Ibis - 3/4/2019 + Throne of Jade - book 2 of Temeraire - 3/4/2019 + New Pompeii - book 1 of New Pompeii - 14/4/2019
Angel - The Labyrinth of the Spirits pg 600
11. It Devours! - book 2 of Welcome to Night Vale - 13/4/2019 + Moonshine - book 2 of Cal Leandros - 15/4/2019 + The Rose and the Dagger - book 2 of The Wrath and the Dawn - 18/4/2019 + The Casquette Girls - book 1 of The Casquette Girls - 18/4/2019 + The Valley of Horses - book 2 of Earth's Children - 10/5/2019 + American by Day - book 2 of Sigrid Ødegård - 12/5/2019
Zombie - Quantum of Nightmares pg 316
12. The Skull Throne - book 4 of the Demon Cycle - 25/5/2019 + Death in Devon - book 2 of the County Guides - 31/5/2019 + The Girl in the Tower - book 2 of Winternight - 1/6/2019 + The Plains of Passage - book 4 of Earth's Children - 4/6/2019
[Were-Creature]
13. The Clan of the Cave Bear - book 1 of Earth's Children - 11/3/2019 + Hope and Red - book 1 of Empire of Storms - 14/3/2019 + Bane and Shadow - book 2 of Empire of Storms - 14/3/2019 + Please Don't Tell My Parents I'm A Supervillain - book 1 of Please Don't Tell my Parents - 7/4/2019 +The Mammoth Hunters - book 3 of Earth's Children - 3/6/2019 + The Shelters of Stone - book 5 of Earth's Children - read 5/6/2019
[Merperson]

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Welcome Lizz & Rokkan!

Your challenge posts are updated HERE

[Lizz (Beer, Books and Boos)]

Moderators of NBRC wrote: "Welcome Lizz & Rokkan!

Your challenge posts are updated HERE"

Thank you

[Celia]

MagiZOO

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Welcome to the challenge Gabi and Celia!

Your challenge posts are HERE

[Lizz (Beer, Books and Boos)]

Under The Sea
Done
U: Unholy Ghosts 8/8/19
n: Wicked Saints 5/24/19 Nadya
d: Deadly Night 7/20/18
e: Emergency Contact 6/12/18
r: Revealed 8/10/18

T: Simon Says: Demon Hunter Book 1 by Matthew Thrush 10/7/18
h: The Fury / Dark Reunion 8/12/18 Matt Honeycutt
e: Even Vampires Get the Blues 7/16/18

S: The Awakening / The Struggle by L.J. Smith 8/9/18
e: Beautiful Creatures 8/5/18 Ethan Wate
a: A Quick Bite 10/9/18 Lissianna Argeneau

Post 17

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Post 17

Paranormal
DONE
P: Phantom Evil 8/7/18
a: Secondhand Spirits 10/17/18 Aidan Rhodes
r: I Hate Myself and Want to Die: The 52 Most Depressing Songs You've Ever Heard by Tom Reynolds 11/6/18
a: Crown of Midnight 1/30/19 Archer Finn
n: Between Two Fires by Mark Noce 8/8/19
o: The First Time She Drowned 9/7/19 Cassie O’Malley
r: Heir of Fire 2/3/19 Rowan Whitethorn
m: Darkest Journey 8/14/18 Charlie Moreau
a: Queen of Shadows 2/6/19 Aelin Ashryver Galathynius
l: Skinwalker 1/16/19 Leo Pellissier

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Well done Sweettie Pie! Congrats

[Lizz (Beer, Books and Boos)]

Moderators of NBRC wrote: "Well done Sweettie Pie! Congrats"

Thank you