Check it out! YALSA is hosting an awesome reading challenge: to read award books you may have missed from past years.
Between now and Nov. 15th attempt to read five books to create a BINGO, or if you have nothing else to do, go for a BLACKOUT!
Here is a link to the YALSA Website which contains links to all the YALSA AWARD and BOOKLISTS.
Since I am still focused on reading potential Printz Award candidates for this year I do not want to pick up a new challenge myself but I wanted to see if I could actually fill in all the blanks from past reading since I do attempt to read the award winners every year and I did it. Check out my list below of books I have already read. I scored a blackout (but did all my reading before this challenge actually started.)
All
the Light We Cannot See/Doerr
(Alex Award 2016)
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Ghosts
of Heaven/Sedgwick
(2016 Printz Honor)
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Dreams
of Gods and Monsters/ Taylor
(Amazing Audiobook 2015)
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Audacity/
Crowder
(Top Ten BFYA 2016)
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Nimona/
Stevenson
(Quick Picks for Reluctant Readers 2016)
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The
Fault in Our Stars /Green
(2013 Odyssey winner)
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Simon
vs the Homo Sapiens Agenda/Albertalli
(2016 Morris Award winner)
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Bone
Gap /Ruby
(2016 Printz Award winner)
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Rotters/
Kraus (Odyssey 2012, outside my comfort range)
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Nimona/
Stevenson
(Great Graphic Novels 2016)
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Brown
Girl Dreaming/ Jaqueline Woodsen (2015 Coretta Scott King Author Award)
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Love
Dictionary/ David Levithan (2016 Edwards Author Award Winner)
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FREE
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Eleanor
and Park/ Rowell (2014 Printz Honor)
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Speak/
Anderson (Popular Paperbacks 2015)
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Gabi,
a Girl in Pieces/ Quintero (on both Quick Picks and BFYA 2015)
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Looking
for Alaska/ Green (2005 Printz Award; reread in 2014)
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The
Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time/ Haddon (Alex Award; reread
in 2014)
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We
Are All Made of Molecules/ Neilson (Rainbow Book List 2015)
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The
Carnival at Bray/ Foley (2015 Morris Honor Book)
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Aristotle
and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe (2013 Pura Belpre Winner)
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Jackaby/Ritter
(BFYA 2015)
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Porcupine
the Truth/ Konigsberg (Stonewall Award 2016)
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The
Unlikely Hero of Room 13-B/ Toten (Schneider Family Book Award 2016)
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Most
Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War/
Sheinkin (YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction 2016)
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