NancyJ’s Summer 2023 ATY challenge

[NancyJ]

NancyJ’s Summer 2023 challenge

June
1. Father's Day:
✅b. Biography or history nonfiction book -✔️Conditional Citizens: On Belonging in America by Laila Lalami

2. Estival Solstice:
✅a. Book with a title that is 5 or more words- ✔️The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border by Francisco Cantú

3. Hibernal Solstice:
✅c. Book is set in the Southern Hemisphere ✔️Fruit of the Drunken Tree by Ingrid Rojas Contreras

4. Pride Month:
✅b. A banned or challenged book, and, c. A coming of age novel - ✔️My Ántonia by Willa Cather

July
✅a. First letter of the book's title is in HORSE AROUND
✔️Honor by Thrity Unrigar

2. Travel Season:
✅a. Set in multiple countries -
✔️Solito by Javier Zamora,

3. Halfway there!
✅c. An author's second book - ✔️Americanized: Rebel Without a Green Card, by Sara Saedi
Also has an even number of pages. 288.

4. Turn Up the Radio:
*✅a. Book featuring or about musicians -✔️ The Violin Conspiracy by Brendan Slocumb

August
1. Book Lovers Day:
✅c. First letter of the book's title appears in BIBLIOMANIA - Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue

2. Perseid Meteor Shower:
✅a. Science fiction book - ✔️Exit Strategy by Martha Wells

3. Make Waves:
✅a. Author's initials can be found in SURFBOARD - ✔️The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman

4. Go Camping:
✅c. A book primarily set outdoors -✔️Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling

[NancyJ]

The Prompts

June
1. Father's Day:
111 countries around the world celebrate Father's Day, with the most common date being the third Sunday in June, which was started by Sonora Smart Dodd in Spokane, Washington in 1910.
a. Book whose main character is a father - ✔️The Master Butchers Singing Club by Louise Erdrich
✅b. Biography or history nonfiction book -✔️ Undocumented Americans,✔️ conditional citizens, ✔️The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border by Francisco Cantú
✅c. Author's initials can be found in PATERNITY - ✔️Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros

2. Estival Solstice:
For the Northern Hemisphere the summer solstice on June 21st is the day with the longest period of daylight and shortest night of the year
✅a. Book with a title that is 5 or more words- ✔️The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border by Francisco Cantú, ✔️Americanized: Rebel Without a Green Card, by Sara Saedi , The Enduring Echo of Words Unsaid
b. Cover has plants on the cover
c. Book is set in the Northern Hemisphere - most of them

3. Hibernal Solstice:
For the Southern Hemisphere the winter solstice on June 22nd is the day with the shortest period of daylight and longest night of the year.
✅a. Book that is at least 400 pages long
✔️Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros
✔️ The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present by David Treuer
b. Book with fire on the cover
✅c. Book is set in the Southern Hemisphere ✔️Fruit of the Drunken Tree by Ingrid Rojas Contreras

4. Pride Month:
A month celebrating LGBT+ communities and their history which was started following the 1969 Stonewall Riots
a. Written by an author who identifies as LGBTQIA+
✅b. A banned or challenged book -✔️ Harbor Me by Jacqueline Woodson,✔️ My Ántonia by Willa Cather
c. A coming of age novel - My Antonia, wizard of earthsea,


July
1.Let's Play:
Whether it's your summer or winter, it's always a good time to have some fun
✅a. First letter of the book's title is in HORSE AROUND
- ✔️Honor by Thrity Unrigar , ✔️Harbor Me, ✔️Solito,✔️ Everything Sad Is Untrue, ✔️American Street,
b. Includes a character who plays a sport
c. Published in a year ending with 3

2. Travel Season:
Armchair travelling is definitely the cheapest, but exploring in real life is nice too!
✅a. Set in multiple countries - ✔️ Shanghai Girls by Lisa See, ✔️ Everything Sad Is Untrue by Daniel Nayeri,✔️ Solito by Javier Zamora,
✅b. A book with a map - West with Giraffes by Lynda Rutledge
c. Cover has vehicle (car, plane, boat, train, hang glider, etc) - Refugee

3. Halfway there!
a. Book with an even number of pages
b. The next book in a series - ✔️Exit Strategy by Martha Wells
✅c. An author's second book - ✔️Americanized: Rebel Without a Green Card, by Sara Saedi

4. Turn Up the Radio:
Invented in the 1890s and probably much more fun now
✅a. Book featuring or about musicians -✔️ The Violin Conspiracy by Brendan Slocumb
✅b. Set in the 19th century - ✔️Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
✅c. Author's initials can be found in GUGLIELMO MARCONI- ✔️The Master Butchers Singing Club by Louise Erdrich, ✔️Laila lalami, ✔️ Ingrid RC, ✔️Lori Gottlieb

[NancyJ]

August
1. Book Lovers Day:
It's on August 9th, celebrate accordingly.
a. Book written by your favorite author Demon Copperhead, or Master Butchers Singing Club
b. Main character works in a book shop or library
✅c. First letter of the book's title appears in BIBLIOMANIA - Behold the Dreamers, ✔️The Master Butchers Singing Club, ✔️Americanized: Rebel Without a Green Card, ✔️Maybe You Should Talk to Someone, Breath, Eyes, Memory

2. Perseid Meteor Shower:
An annual meteor shower peaking around Aug 11-12. According to the American Meteor Society this year will be a particularly good year for viewing.
✅a. Science fiction book - ✔️Exit Strategy by Martha Wells
b. Sun, moon, or stars on the cover
c. Inspired by or retelling myths The Hollow Hills

3. Make Waves:
Fun fact: about 2.5 million Americans are employed in ocean-based tourism and recreation (as of 2018).
✅a. Author's initials can be found in SURFBOARD - ✔️The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman
✅b. Set in a coastal town or city ✔️Breath, Eyes, Memory
c. A sea creature is on the cover

4. Go Camping:
Fun fact: The American National Park Service employs approximately 20,000 people (full time, part time and seasonal).
a. A book connected to birds, bees, or bunnies
b. A ghost story - Briefly, A Delicious Life by Nell Stevens
✅c. A book primarily set outdoors -✔️Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling
✔️Solito,

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✔️The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman
✔️Everything Sad Is Untrue by Daniel Nayeri
✔️Harbor Me by Jacqueline Woodson
✔️The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border by Francisco Cantú
✔️The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present David Treuer
✔️Conditional Citizens: On Belonging in America by Laila Lalami
✔️Solito by Javier Zamora
✔️Fruit of the Drunken Tree, by Ingrid Rojas Contreras
✔️The Undocumented Americans by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
✔️Americanized: Rebel Without a Green Card by Sara Saedi
✔️The Master Butchers Singing Club Louise Erdrich
✔️Shanghai Girls by Lisa See
✔️Honor by Thrity Umrigar
✔️Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb
✔️American Street by Ibi Zoboi
✔️My Ántoniaby Willa Cather
✔️Breath, Eyes, Memory byEdwidge Danticat
✔️Front Desk by Kelly Yang
✔️Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros
✔️Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
✔️Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue
✔️Exit Strategy by Martha Wells
✔️The Forty Rules of Love by Elif Shafak
✔️The Violin Conspiracy by Brendan Slocumb
✔️Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling
✔️West with Giraffes by Lynda Rutledge
✔️A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
✔️The Unexpected Mrs Pollifax
✔️The Alice Network by Kate Quinn