I’m excited to be participating in Mother Reader’s 48 Hour Book Challenge this weekend. I’ll be reading from 9:00 AM Friday morning until 9:00 AM SUnday morning, with appropriate breaks for rest, sustenance, and other necessary activities. I’ve already started gathering up books to be read for the challenge, and here are the titles of some of the books I have on hand and another list of some I plan to look for at the bookstore this weekend. I’m trying to do mostly new stuff (2007-2008 publication), so the bookstore trip is just a necessity.

Books on hand:

100 Cupboards by N.D. Wilson. I’ve been wanting to read this one ever since I read Wilson’s first children’s book last year, Leepike Ridge. It’s also on Karate Kid’s summer reading list.

The Gollywhopper Games by Jodi Feldman. I checked this out of the library and added it to Karate Kid’s reading list on Becky’s recommendation.

Blue Like Friday by Siobhan Parkinson. I picked this one up at the library because it’s new and it’s about a kid with synesthesia.

You Know Where To Find Me by Rachel Cohn. A YA book about suicide and the grief and healing of the loved ones left behind. It may be depressing, but then again it may be full of insight.

the seems: the split second by John Hulme and Michael Wexler. I just got this ARC in the mail, and it’s a sequel to a book I haven’t read. Nevertheless, it looks as if it might be able to stand on its own. Sci-fi adventure about an alternate world called The Seems.

Violet Raines Almost Got Struck by Lightning by Danette Haworth. Another ARC from Bloomsbury by a first time author, this one is about an eleven year old girl in a small town in Florida.

Rapunzel’s Revenge by Shannon and Dean Hale. Yes, that Shannon Hale, and it’s a graphic novel, maybe the first one I’ve ever been interested in reading. Because it’s Shannon Hale.

Imaginary Enemy by Julie Gonzalez. YA fiction about a sixteen year old who writes letters to her imaginary enemy Beelzebub. It’s waiting for me at the library.

Abbeville by Jack Fuller. George Bailey goes back to his grandfather’s hometown to try to find out how Grandpa survived the Great Depression. I got an ARC of this one, too.

Books to be gleaned if I can find them:

Tennyson by Lesley Blume.
A Taste for Rabbit by Linda Zuckerman.
The Penderwicks on Gardam Street by Jeanne Birdsall.
A Curse As Dark As Gold by Elizabeth Bunce
The Adoration of Jenna Fox by Mary Pearson
Auralia’s Colors by Jeffrey Overstreet
ridiculous/hilarious/terrible/cool: A Year in an American High School by Elisha Cooper. Recommended at Chasing Ray.
The Compound by S.A. Bodeen. Recommended by Jen at JKR Books.
Shift by Jennifer Bradbury. Recommended at Little Willow’s Slayground.
Fortune’s Fool by Kathleen Karr
Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson
Forever Rose by Hilary McKay
Found by Margaredt Peterson Haddix. Recommended at Collecting Children’s Books.
The Calder Game by Blue Balliett. Recommended at Collecting Children’s Books.
Climbing the Stairs by Padma Venkatramon. Recommended by Mitali.
Sunrise Over Fallujah by Walter Dean Myers.
In the Woods by Tana French. Recommended by Kelly at Bigalittlea.
Daughter of War by Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch. Recommended by Jen at JKR Books.