1. December begins with an D. Read a book with a word in the title, series, or author’s name that begins with D. Driven by Kelley Armstrong
2. Choose one…
☯ First month of winter – read a book with snow on the cover
☯ Dec 4, 1969 – Surfer Greg Noll rides a 65-foot wave, the largest on record. Read a book with a picture of an ocean on the cover.
☯ Dec 1 1835 – Hans Christian Andersen publishes first book of fairy tales – read a book that has one of it’s genre’s listed as fairy tale.
☯ National Handwashing Awareness Week – read a book with a hand on the cover. Otherworld Chills by Kelley Armstrong
☯ Dec 1 1885 – The soft drink Dr Pepper is served for the first time. – read a book with a character that is in the field of medicine.
3. Birthday: Isaac Newton Was Born on Christmas Day. Known for “Newton’s Law of Gravitation”. Read a “heavy” book (at least 300 pages long) The Girl with the Iron Touch by Kady Cross
4. National Cookie Day – December 4th – Read a book that’s title or first or last name of author begin with one of the letters in Cookie. Cork Dork by Bianca Bosker
6. Christmas day – 1990: Test-driving the quasi-Internet. The first Web page, on the first Web server, using the first Web browser, got its first hit when British software consultant Tim Berners-Lee (right) tried out his new system for linking computers – Read a book where a character is into high tech. The Girl in the Clockwork Collar by Kady Cross
7. On December 17, 1903, the Wright Brothers made their first flight. – Read a book that has a character that can fly (without an airplane, space ship or other mechanical apparatus). The Wild Adventure of Jasper Renn by Kady Cross
8. 3 December 1926 – Gone girl – English crime novelist Agatha Christie disappears, possibly in an attempt to get her adulterous husband, Archie, arrested for her ‘murder’. Abandoning her car in the countryside, she hides in a hotel under a false name for 11 days while the police scour the nation. What happened in those days remains a mystery – read a book where a character operates under false or mysterious pretenses. Return to Del by Emily Rodda
9. On December 14, 1791, the Bill of Rights was passed. – read a book where legal proceedings of some sort take place (whether it be in a modern day legal system, or a fairy court or anything in between).
10. Read a New Book Month: Read a book from a new to you series, new to you author, or a genre that you don’t usually pick up OR read a book that was published sometime in 2017. The Dark Discovery of Jack Dandy by Kady Cross
Bonus Book: If you’ve read all 10 books in this challenge and you must have more, read any book that has a vampire as a character. Otherworld Secrets by Kelley Armstrong
Levels:
Transitional – 2 books
Fledgling – 4 books
Vampire – 6 books
Master – 8 books
Vampire King or Queen – 10 books
1. December begins with an D. Read a book with a word in the title, series, or author’s name that begins with D.
Driven by Kelley Armstrong
2. Choose one…
☯ First month of winter – read a book with snow on the cover
☯ Dec 4, 1969 – Surfer Greg Noll rides a 65-foot wave, the largest on record. Read a book with a picture of an ocean on the cover.
☯ Dec 1 1835 – Hans Christian Andersen publishes first book of fairy tales – read a book that has one of it’s genre’s listed as fairy tale.
☯ National Handwashing Awareness Week – read a book with a hand on the cover.
Otherworld Chills by Kelley Armstrong
☯ Dec 1 1885 – The soft drink Dr Pepper is served for the first time. – read a book with a character that is in the field of medicine.
3. Birthday: Isaac Newton Was Born on Christmas Day. Known for “Newton’s Law of Gravitation”. Read a “heavy” book (at least 300 pages long)
The Girl with the Iron Touch by Kady Cross
4. National Cookie Day – December 4th – Read a book that’s title or first or last name of author begin with one of the letters in Cookie.
Cork Dork by Bianca Bosker
5. Read a holiday book – Kwanza, Boxing Day, Christmas, or Hanukkah theme.
Let it Snow by John Green, Maureen Johnson & Lauren Myracle
6. Christmas day – 1990: Test-driving the quasi-Internet. The first Web page, on the first Web server, using the first Web browser, got its first hit when British software consultant Tim Berners-Lee (right) tried out his new system for linking computers – Read a book where a character is into high tech.
The Girl in the Clockwork Collar by Kady Cross
7. On December 17, 1903, the Wright Brothers made their first flight. – Read a book that has a character that can fly (without an airplane, space ship or other mechanical apparatus).
The Wild Adventure of Jasper Renn by Kady Cross
8. 3 December 1926 – Gone girl – English crime novelist Agatha Christie disappears, possibly in an attempt to get her adulterous husband, Archie, arrested for her ‘murder’. Abandoning her car in the countryside, she hides in a hotel under a false name for 11 days while the police scour the nation. What happened in those days remains a mystery – read a book where a character operates under false or mysterious pretenses.
Return to Del by Emily Rodda
9. On December 14, 1791, the Bill of Rights was passed. – read a book where legal proceedings of some sort take place (whether it be in a modern day legal system, or a fairy court or anything in between).
10. Read a New Book Month: Read a book from a new to you series, new to you author, or a genre that you don’t usually pick up OR read a book that was published sometime in 2017.
The Dark Discovery of Jack Dandy by Kady Cross
Bonus Book: If you’ve read all 10 books in this challenge and you must have more, read any book that has a vampire as a character.
Otherworld Secrets by Kelley Armstrong