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Regina's Song by David Eddings & Leigh Eddings
+20 Task
+5 Combo (10.7 - 424 pages)
+5 Multiple
+10 Female ?
Post Total: 40
Season Total: 1,205

"+200 Mega Finish"
Congratulations! Well done!
(There is also a Listopia Tag finish of 100 points which you'll get as well!)

The Haunted House compiled by Charles Dickens
#84 on this list https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/5...
Tag-Serial
+15 - task
+ 5 - pub 1859
Task Total - 20 pts
Season Total - 1370 pts

The Nonexistent Knight & The Cloven Viscount by Italo Calvino
This can be found on the following list: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1... (# 106) with the tag of: italian.
Scoring:
15.2: +15
Pre-1980 +5 oints (ub'd 1959)
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Total: 20
Season Total: 50

The Salaryman's Wife by Sujata Massey
+20 Task
+10 Combo (10.8K, 20.4)
+10 Female
+ 5 Multiple
Task total = 45
Season Total = 555

Where We Once Belonged by Sia Figiel written by a Samoan female author and set in Samoa
+30 - ..."
It would have brought down your average

Dead Man's Chest by Kerry Greenwood
+20 task
+5 repeat
+10 female author
Task total: 35
Grand total: 515

Unnatural Habits by Kerry Greenwood
+20 task
+5 repeat
+10 female author
Task total: 35
Grand total: 565

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor
Lexile 920
+10 Task
+10 Combo (10.3 LA Times, 10.6 thunder)
+10 Female author
Task Total: 30
Season Total: 730

Where We Once Belonged by Sia Figiel written by a Samoan female author and set in..."
Exactly, because I had read it not realizing that Samoa and American Samoa were different countries and thought it would be 55 points, but it was much lower.

Summer At Mount Hope by Rosalie Ham
+20 Task (born in Jerilderie, NSW, Australia)
+5 Multiple
+10 Female
Post Total: 35
Season Total: 1,240

Amy and Isabelle by Elizabeth Strout
+20 Task
+10 Female
+15 Combo (10.3, 10.9, 20.4)
Task total: 45
Season total: 890

Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of English by John McWhorter
#91 on this list https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/7...
Tag- language
+15 - Task
+ 5 - non fiction
Task total - 20
SubChallenge bonus - 100 pts
Mega Finish bonus - 200 pts
Season Total - 1690 pts

"SubChallenge bonus - 100 pts
Mega Finish bonus - 200 pts "
Congratulations! Well done!

Falling in Love with Hominids by Nalo Hopkinson
+10 Task
+5 Multiple
+10 Female
Task Total: 25
Season Total: 1320

Monday's Not Coming by Tiffany D. Jackson
Shelved as YA, No Lexile
+10 Task -- published 2018
Task Total: 10
Season Total: 1330

Girl Meets Boy by Ali Smith
+20 Task
+10 Female
Task total: 30
+100 RwS Finish
+200 MegaFinish
Season Total: 1220

"SubChallenge bonus - 100 pts
Mega Finish bonus - 200 pts "
Congratulations! Well done!"
thank you

Balibo by Jill Jolliffe
Timor -Leste
+30 pts - Task
+20 pts - Combo (10.7-416 pgs, 20.4, 20.7-Australia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jill_Jo..., 20.9)
+10 pts - Female Author
+ 5 pts - Multi
Task Total - 65 pts
Season Total - 1755 pts

Where We Once Belonged by Sia Figiel written by a Samoan female a..."
I didn't realize they were separate countries either

The Price of Spring by Daniel Abraham
+10 Task
+5 Multiple
Task Total: 15
Season Total: 1335

To Green Angel Tower, Part 1 (Memory, Sorrow and Thorn #3 part 1) by Tad Williams
+10 Task (Williams)
+15 Jumbo (815 pages)
Post Total: 25
Season Total: 1,265

Renegades (Renegades #1) by Marissa Meyer
YA - 860L
+10 Task
+5 Combo (10.5 - pub. 2017)
+5 Jumbo (556 pages)
+10 Female
+100 RwS Finish
Post Total: 130
Season Total: 1,370

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
#77 on this list https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/2... with tag of "fiction"
task=15
grand total=765

SAINT VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES
Island in the Clouds by Susan M. Toy
+30 pts - Task
+15 pts - Combo - (10.6,10.8K,20.4)
+10 pts - Female Author
+ 5 pts - Multi
Task Total - 60 pts
Season Total - 1815 pts

Plagues: Their Origin, History, And Future by Christopher Wills
Task: 20
Post total: 20
Season total: 485

Blindness by José Saramago
#290 on https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/2...
Tag: book-to-film
Post total: 15
Season total: 500

Summer by Edith Wharton
15 task
5 older than 1980
100 completion bonus
_____
120
Running total: 820

Summer by Edith Wharton
15 task
5 older than 1980
100 completion bonus
_____
120
Running total: 820"
Valerie! Find something else quick! Summer is a YA Assignment at BPL and doesn't have a Lexile. It doesn't work for a sub-challenge.

Summer by Edith Wharton
15 task
5 older than 1980
100 completion bonus
_____
120
Running total: 820"
Valerie! Find something else q..."
Grrrr.... I didn't think there was any way that would be read now in school. Blah. No problem I will find a back up. Thanks for the swift heads up!

The Archetype Diet: Reclaim Your Self-Worth and Change the Shape of Your Body by Dana James
Pub. 2018
+10 Task
+5 Multiple
+10 Female
Post Total: 25
Season Total: 1,395

Achilles by Elizabeth Cook
task=20
combo=5 (20.4)
female author=10
task total=35
grand total=800

Scythe by Neal Shusterman
Lexile 830
List : https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
Tag : Top-5
Task Total: 15 pts
Grand Total: 260 pts

The Sign of Four (Sherlock Holmes #2) by Arthur Conan Doyle
Book can be found on this list: Thieves (541 books | 1,220 voters) (#24) with the tag of: thieves
+15 Task
+5 Pre-1980 (pub. 1890)
+100 Finisher
+200 Mega Finish
Post Total: 320
Season Total: 1,715

Code Name Verity (Code Name Verity #1) by Elizabeth E. Wein
YA - 1020L
B & E found in elizaBEth
+10 Task
+5 Combo (10.7 - 452 pages)
+5 Multiple
+10 Female
Post Total: 30
Season Total: 1,745

My Ántonia by Willa Cather
Assignment, 1010 Lexile
+20 task
+10 female author
Task total: 30
Season total: 720

I Am Legend by Richard Matheson
+20 Task (plague of vampirism spread by airborne bacteria)
Task Total: 20
Season Total: 750

Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
+20 task
+5 combo (10.4 Book Lover's Day - #203 on the list)
+10 female author
+15 jumbo (MPE 850 pages)
Woohoo, I'm so proud of myself for finding a book that should get on the readerboard for being worth 50 points. I think that's a first for me.
Task total: 50
Grand total: 140

let's try this again....!!!
A New Leash on Death by Susan Conant
15 task
100 completion
_____
115
Running total: 815

Balibo by Jill Jolliffe
Timor -Leste
+30 pts - Task
+20 pts - Combo (10.7-416 pgs, 20.4, 20.7-Australia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jill_Jo......"
I'm sorry, Rebekah. This is nonfiction and doesn't qualify for 20.4 for a debut novel.

Summer by Edith Wharton
15 task
5 older than 1980
100 completion bonus
_____
120
Running total: 820"
I'm glad you were able to salvage your Listopia Tag Finish. But can we salvage the book too? I think this works for 20.8.

Balibo by Jill Jolliffe
Timor -Leste
+30 pts - Task
+20 pts - Combo (10.7-416 pgs, 20.4, 20.7-Australia https://en.wikip..."
I did it again! I meant to type 20.9 So sorry!

Achilles by Elizabeth Cook
task=20
combo=5 (20.4)
female author=10
task total=35
grand total=800"
Combo with 10.9

Snap by Belinda Bauer
+10 Task (pub 2018)
+5 Combo (10.9)
+5 Multiple
+10 Female
Points this post: 30
RwS total: 210
ListTag total: 165
Season Total: 375
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Senlin Ascends by Josiah Bancroft
Number #133 0n https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
Tag: literary
Task: 15
Season total: 465