JennH's Spring Reading Challenge 2021

[JennH]

It's time for our Spring Seasonal Challenge!
Our spring challenge starts on March 1, 2021 and finishes on May 31, 2021.

The Phrases:
1. springtime
2. bloom
3. sun shining
4. baby animals
5. eggs
6. tulips
7. jellybeans
8. rainstorm
9. sprout
10. warming
11. spring break
12. raincoat

How to Fill the Prompts:
1. Phrase contains BOTH letters of the author's name (ignore middle initial)
2. Phrase contains the first letter of the title (ignore or include A, An, and The)
3. Phrase is exemplified on the cover (your interpretation)
4. Phrase is found somewhere in the text (should be exact word)

[JennH]

How to Fill the Prompts:
1. Phrase contains BOTH letters of the author's name (ignore middle initial)

The Phrases:
✔1. springtime - A Woman is No Man by Etaf Rum 3/9/21
✔2. bloom- Handbook for Homicide by Lorna Barrett 4/6/21
✔3. sun shining - Dear Martin by Nic Stone 4/3/21
✔4. baby animals - The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery 3/7/21
✔5. eggs - A Death Long Overdue by Eva Gates 4/20/21
6. tulips
✔7. jellybeans - Lies My Teacher Told Me by James W. Loewen 3/22/21
✔8. rainstorm - The Perfect Marriage by Adam Mitzner 3/17/21
9. sprout
✔10. warming - My Own Words by Ruth Bader Ginsburg 3/18/21
✔11. spring break - Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer 3/15/21
✔12. raincoat - The Mirror Crack'd From Side to Side by Agatha Christie 3/2/21

[JennH]

How to Fill the Prompts:
✔2. Phrase contains the first letter of the title (ignore or include A, An, and The)

The Phrases:
✔1. springtime - Pumpkin Spice Peril by Jenn McKinlay 3/11/21
✔2. bloom - The Mirror Crack's From Side to Side by Agatha Christie 3/2/21
✔3. sun shining - Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 3/7/21
✔4. baby animals - Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer 3/15/21
✔5. eggs - The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery 3/7/21
✔6. tulips - The Perfect Marriage by Adam Mitzner 3/17/21
✔7. jellybeans - Lies My Teacher Told Me by James W Loewen 3/22/21
✔8. rainstorm - My Own Words by Ruth Bader Ginsburg 3/15/21
✔9. sprout - The Tattoo Murder Case by Akimitsu Takagi 3/20/21
✔10. warming - A Woman is No Man by Etaf Rum 3/9/21
✔11. spring break - The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab 3/22/21
✔12. raincoat - Towards Zero by Agatha Christie 3/22/21

[JennH]

How to Fill the Prompts:
3. Phrase is exemplified on the cover (your interpretation)

The Phrases:
✔1. springtime - 4/26/21
✔2. bloom - 3/31/21
✔3. sun shining - 3/25/21
✔4. baby animals - 3/25/21
5. eggs
6. tulips
7. jellybeans
8. rainstorm
9. sprout
10. warming
11. spring break
12. raincoat

[JennH]

How to Fill the Prompts:
4. Phrase is found somewhere in the text (should be exact word)

The Phrases:
✔1. springtime - The Elegance of the Hedgehog - 3/7/21 - p123 - "It is springtime."
✔2. bloom - 3rd Degree - 3/11/21 - p181 - "Alias Morgan Bloom."
✔3. sun shining - The Fire Next Time - 3/28/21 - p9 - "Try to imagine how you would feel if you woke up one morning to find the sun shining and all the stars aflame.
4. baby animals
✔5. eggs - The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side - 3/2/21 - p4 - "All these great packets of breakfast cereal instead of cooking a child a proper breakfast of bacon and eggs."
✔6. tulips - The Perfect Marriage - 3/17/21 - p16 - "The fact that everything in the space was white -- the chairs, the tablecloths, the tulips, and the vases in which they stood -- gave the place an even more cavernous feel."
7. jellybeans
✔8. rainstorm - Pumpkin Spice Peril - 3/11/21 - p192 - "It was early morning and cooler, the desert having enjoyed a nice seasonal rainstorm the night before."
✔9. sprout - Pumpkin Spice Peril - 3/11/21 - p205 - "Did you hear that, sprout?"
✔10. warming - 3rd Degree - 3/11/21 - p39 - "I leaned back under the warming spray, the grit and soot and smell of ash chipping off my body, swirling at my feet."
✔11. spring break - Later - 4/17/21 - p59 - "on the upcoming spring break instead of going home to Maine..."
✔12. raincoat - The Elegance of the Hedgehog - 3/7/21 - p44 - '"Renee," said the voice again, "don't you want to take off your raincoat?"'