Shelf Discovery Challenge

Booking Mama has announced a reading challenge centered around the book Shelf Discovery: The Teen Classics We Never Stopped Reading by Lizzie Skurnick. The challenge is to pick six books to read and write a "book report" on and runs from November 1, 2009 - April 30, 2010. Looking through the book's table of contents I see a lot of books that I loved and several that I remember hearing about but never getting around to reading. I think it will be fun to remember and discuss these books from days gone by. Here are the six I think I will read for the challenge:

1. The Cat Ate My Gymsuit - my all-time favorite book from my pre-teen years

2. Fifteen - another favorite

3. A Wrinkle In Time - I never read it but I feel like I should

4. My Darling, My Hamburger - never heard of it but sounds intriguing

5. Jacob Have I Loved - read

6. Summer of My German Soldier - never read

Comments

[Julie P.]

Thanks for joining us -- this challenge should be a lot of fun! I'm going to make my list tomorrow, but I'm having a very hard time. I'm thinking about THE CAT ATE MY GYMSUIT and A WRINKLE IN TIME!

[julie cope]

i read my darling my hamburger...dont remember much, but i think i liked it! lol

[CW]

Just signed up as well. I recently reread The Westing Game. And I've started encouraging Peanut to read some of my past favorites. She read The Egypt Game over the summer. Maybe we should do a book club a few times a year where we read books like that and Peanut could participate?

[Kim]

Oh, you have to read A Wrinkle in Time. It is my favorite book of all time. I read it at least once a year.

[Angie Pedersen]

I read A Wrinkle in Time in grade school, followed by A Wind in the Door, and A Swiftly Tilting Planet. I've been thinking of reading them again, and have suggested them to Jo, but she doesn't seem too interested. I should see if AWIT is available on audiobook!