I read an awesome book last year by Donalyn Miller called The Book Whisperer. She is a sixth-grade teacher in Texas whose classes consistently score the highest on their State test, the TAKS. She believes her students' success is related to their love of reading. She challenges her students each year to read at least 40 books during the course of the school year. She also keeps track of the books she has read. I thought it was a wonderful idea, so I set out to read 40 novel-length books during the school year. I only made it to 35, and got so busy I didn't list them all - and of course a student wants one, and I can't remember them all! Here goes for this year's challenge!
Mrs. Kehoe's 2013-2014 40 Book Challenge
*Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy - hardest book I have ever read!
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin
The Day the Crayons Quit - Oliver Jeffers
A Clash of Kings - George R.R. Martin
*Hachiko Waits - Leslea Newman
*Shug - Jenny Han
A Storm of Swords - George R.R. Martin
A Feast for Crows - George R.R. Martin
* Diary of a Wimpy Kid - Jeff Kinney
*Breadcrumbs - Anne Ursu
*The Chronicles of Harris Burdick - Chris Van Allsburg
*The Lord of the Rings Official Movie Guide - Brian Sibley
*The Night Circus - Erin Morgenstern
*We Fought Back: Teen Resisters of the Holocaust - Allan Zullo
A Dance with Dragons - George R.R. Martin
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency - Alexander McCall Smith
Her Fearful Symmetry - Audrey Niffenegger
*Speak - Laurie Halse Anderson
*Under the Watson's Porch - Susan Shreve
*Stone Fox - John Reynolds Gardiner
When in Doubt, Add Butter - Beth Harbison
*Interworld - Neil Gaiman and Michael Reaves