What's in a Name Reading Challenge

Dates: January 1st through December 31st

Host: Annie

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The Challenge (put simply): Read one book in each of 6 categories...a book with a color in its title, a book with an animal in its title, a book with a plant in its title, a book with a place in its title, a book with weather event in its title, and a book with a person's name in its title.

My list:

*Light on Snow by Anita Shreve (weather event)

*Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes (plant)

*Hearts in Atlantis by Stephen King (place)

*Green River, Running Red by Ann Rule (color)

*The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick (first name)

*I Was a Rat by Philip Pullman (animal)

Substitutes:

*The Floods: Good Neighbors by Colin Thompson (weather event)

*The Rose and the Beast by Francesca Lia Block (plant)

*New Guinea Tapeworms and Jewish Grandmothers by Robert S. Desowitz (place)

*The Adoration of Jenna Fox by Mary Pearson (first name)