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The first thing I thought of for courage was having to read The Red Badge of Courage in high school. Read a book from this list High School Required Reading Books
The Lion King came out in 1994. Read a book with a word from one of the songs from The Lion King soundtrack in the title. Or read a book set in the 1990s. Or read a book set in Africa."Can You Feel the Love Tonight" won an Academy Award for Best Original Song. Read a book with MPG romance. Read a book that won an award in 1994.
A group of lions is called a pride - June is also Pride month. Read a book with MPG LGBTQRead a book with a word in the title from this list of collective nouns for animals \https://www.treehugger.com/strange-co...
The lion is from the African continent. Read a book set on that continent.Read a non-fiction book about personal courage (maybe from an Adventure list and/or War list).
The longest day of the year is in June. Read a long book 600 pages or more.
Leo is Latin for lion. It's also the 5th sign of the zodiac. People born July 23-August 22nd are Leo's. The birthstone for leo is the peridot. Leos are ruled by the sun. Leo's element is fire.
Read a book FIRST published in July or August.
Read a book published in a year ending with a 5.
Read a book with 22 or 23 found in tact in page count.
Read a book with a light green cover.
Read a book with a lion on the cover.
Read a book with all the letters leo or lion in title.
Read a book with a 5 word title.
Read a book with a sun on the cover.
Read a book with fire on the cover. Read a book with fire in the title.
Several well known authors were born under the sign of leo. Read a book by an author that was born on July 23-August 22.
Although school is out for the summer, there's still that school assigned summer reading list. Choose a book from one of these lists.Best School Assigned Books
Required Reading in High School
Christmas in July has lots of options : ) Book set during Christmas, about Christmas, based on the film entitled "Christmas in July." Endless options
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christm...
Film: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christm...
For Back-to-SchoolBest Banned, Censored, and Challenged Books
Catch up on past Group Reads, if you're someone who has read all of them, read one of the alternates that didn't get chosen.
Read a book with a feline on the cover,
and/or
with a word in the title that matches a feline species
In the movie the Lion sings "If I Were King of the Forest".Read a book with trees on the cover
Read a book with a royal title (king, queen, prince, princess, duke, duchess) in the title
I scream, you scream we all scream for ice cream.A nice summer time treat. Read a book that has a word in the title from one of these flavors of ice cream.
https://www.benjerry.com/flavors/ice-...
https://order.baskinrobbins.com/menu/...
Wow some interesting things about the cowardly lion costume found here. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowardl...
The original costume was heavy. The actor had to be in the mask all day so he had to eat his lunch through a straw.
Read a book with food on the cover, dishes, eating utensils.
The mane was recreated from human hair. Read a book with a person with long hair on the cover.
Zeke and Professor Marvel are the only men wearing hats when Dorothy wakes up. Read a book with some type of hat on the cover.Zeke is also afraid of the pigs.
Read a book with a pig on the cover, the letters P I G in the title, a book from a series that starts with P I OR G.
Read a book with the name of a farm animal in title--horse, cow, chicken, pig, goose, gander, goat,rooster,rabbit, sheep, duck.
Read a book by an author whose first or last name contains the letter Z.
Lion Tamers would famously fight off a lion using a chair.Read a book with a chair on the cover.
Etymology of courage:Middle English (denoting the heart, as the seat of feelings): from Old French corage, from Latin cor ‘heart’.
Read a book with a heart on the cover or in the title.
Cowardly Lion:Read a book with a synonym for coward from this list: https://www.thesaurus.com/browse/coward
in the title
In the film The Wizard of Oz, the lion is given a medal for courage on a red and white striped ribbon. Read a book with red and white stripes on the cover.
The Northeast Congo lion has an interesting habit of climbing, playing, and sleeping in trees. Read a book where a person or animal OTHER than a bird can be seen in a tree.
The Barbary lion is also known as the Royal lion. Read a book where the protagonist is a member of royalty.
The conservation group Panthera is working to ensure the safety of critically endangered subspecies of lion. Read a book where the authors initials can be found in PANTHERA.
All of the remaining wild Asiatic lions live in the Gir Forest in India. Read a book with a word of 3 or more letters in the title that can be made from the letters in GIR FOREST INDIA (eg. fog, rig, dignitaries, arresting, frog)
The European cave lion (Panthera spelaeacave) is an extinct subspecies lion. It was believed to be a prehistoric megapredator. Read a book with a word of three or more letters that can be found IN SEQUENCE in PREHISTORICMEGAPREDATORS (eg. his, tor, meg, gap, red)
Leo (the Lion) is a constellation sharing a border (or corner) with:Ursa Major (the Great Bear)
Leo Minor (the Lesser Lion)
Lynx
Cancer (the Crab)
Hydra (the Sea Serpent)
Sextans (the Sextant)
Crater (the Cup)
Virgo (the Maiden)
Coma Berenices (Berenice's Hair)
Brightest stars in the constellation:
Regulus (double star, aka Alpha Leonis)
Denebola (aka Beta Leonis)
Algieba (binary star, aka Gamma Leonis)
Zosma (aka Delta Leonis)
Epsilon Leonis (yellow giant)
Adhafera (optical triple star, aka Zeta Leonis)
Iota Leonis (binary star)
Tau Leonis (double star)
54 Leonis (binary star)
Other interesting stars in Leo:
the red giant R Leonis, a Mira variable star
Wolf 359 (CN Leonis), a red giant and one of the closest to Earth
Interesting deep-sky objects in Leo:
Messier 65 (aka NGC 3623), an intermediate spiral galaxy
Messier 66 (aka NGC 3627), an intermediate spiral galaxy
Messier 95 (aka NGC 3351), a barred spiral galaxy
Messier 96 (aka NGC 3368), an intermediate spiral galaxy
Messier 105 (aka NGC 3379), an elliptical galaxy
NGC 3628 (aka Sarah's Galaxy), unbarred spiral galaxy
NGC 2903, a barred spiral galaxy
Read a book by an author that has all the letters LEO in their first OR last name.Read a book with a single word in the title that has all the letters LEO.
July 4th is Independence Day. Read a book set in one of the 13th Colonies--New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and GeorgiaRead a fiction or non-fiction book about the American Revolution.
Thomas Jefferson drafted the Declaration of Independence. Read a fiction or non-fiction book about Thomas Jefferson or the Declaration of Independence.
Calvin Coolidge was the only U.S. president born on July 4th.
1. Read a book by an author that has the same first and last initial.
2. Read a book by an author that has a double letter in their first or last name.
Read a book with a word in the title from the U S National Anthem.
June 19, 2022 is Father's Day.Read a book written by an author who is a father.
Read a book with a MC that is a father.
Read a memoir, biography or other non- fiction book about a man who has children.
The first week of June is National Gardening Week. Read a book with flowers on the the coverRead a book whose author's initials are in Gardening
June 1st is Flip a Coin Day. Read a book with a title of 3 words or more whose title initial's are found in Heads you win, tails you lose
June 5th is World Environment Day. Read a book with an MPG of Environment, Weather or Climate Change
Juneteenth day celebrates and symbolizes the end of slavery in the United States. Read a book from one of these lists :
https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/...
https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/...
June 19th is National Kissing Day. Read a books with an MPG of Romance
June 23rd is National Pink Day. Read a book with a cover that is at least 50% pink (use tineye)
July 1st is Canada Day-AKA Canada's birthday. Read a book by an author born in Canada oe that has an MPG of Canada/Canadian.
July 14 is Bastille Day- Read a book by an author born in France or one that has an MPG of France
Bastille Day is actually called Fete de la Federation-Read a book whose authors initials appear in Fete de la Federation
July 23rd is National Day of the Cowboy. Read a book with an MPG of Western
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Read a book that has a MPG of royalty or Royal Family
Read a biography about a member of a Royal Family, past or present (doesn't have to be the UK royal family, but cannot be fictional)
Read a book with a crown on the cover
Read a book with the word QUEEN or PLATINUM or JUBILEE in the title/subtitle
Read a book with title initials (or author initials) in The Queen's Platinum Jubilee
Read a book by an author named Elizabeth
Read a book set 100% in the UK
The Queen is not only Queen of the United Kingdom, but 14 other countries. Read a book set in, or written by an author from one of the following: Antigua and Barbuda, Australia, the Bahamas, Belize, Canada, Grenada, Jamaica, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, and Tuvalu.
The dog days of summer run July 3rd-August 11. The hottest days of summer. The tilt of the earth results in these longer hotter days. Read a book with a word in title that is an antonym/synonym of hot.
Read a book with a word in title that is a synonym/antonym of long.
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In the southern hemisphere, we are entering winter. Read a book with one of the following words in the title/subtitle: Winter, Cold, Dark
Read a book with a wintery item on the cover - eg gloves, scarf, hot chocolate (NOT Christmas - that's in December!)
I would like to expand on the last posting with some more suggestions:1. Read a book set in winter.
2. The days are short and nights are long, read a book with 'short' or 'long' in the title.
3. Read a book written by an author from a country in the southern hemisphere.
4. Read a book set in a southern hemisphere country.
5. Need to feel warm in winter. Read book with 'heat' or 'fire' in the title
Get out of the cold by reading a book set in a tropical country
Midsummer solstice - sun on cover or in titleflowers or bouquet on cover
The bonus theme is The Wizard of Oz: Lion (courage)
As in past challenges some tasks may revolve around the seasonal theme of summer. Others may reflect the bonus theme. Other tasks may have nothing to do with either of those themes, they’re just fun or unique ideas to stimulate your reading.
Feel free to post as many ideas as you can come up with. Don’t worry about repeating what someone else has might have already suggested. The more ideas, the better!
The moderators will draw from these ideas as well as their own to create the 5, 10 and 15 point tasks. This thread will be open for ideas until May 12. Summer tasks will begin to be posted on May 14. We look forward to seeing what you come up with!