Perpetual Challenges
The Pulitzer Project – Books Read
Status: 9/83
1932 – The Good Earth, by Pearl S. Buck
1937 – Gone with the Wind, by Margaret Mitchell
1940 – The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck
1953 – The Old Man & the Sea, by Ernest Hemingway
1961 – To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee
1999 – The Hours, by Michael Cunningham
2005 – Gilead, Marilynne Robinson
2007 – The Road, by Cormac McCarthy
2008 – The Brief Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao, by Junot Diaz
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The Printz Project – Books Read
Status: 5/10 (+4 honor books)
2000 – Monster, by Walter Dean Myers
Speak, by Laurie Halse Anderson (Honor)
2005 – How I Live Now, by Meg Rosoff
2006 – Looking for Alaska, by John Green
2007 – American Born Chinese, by Gene Luen Yang
An Abundance of Katherines, by John Green (Honor)
The Book Thief, by Markus Zusak (Honor)
2008 – The White Darkness, by Geraldine McCaughrean
2009 – The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks, by E. Lockhart (Honor)
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The Newbery Project – Books Read
Status: 18/88 (+7 honor books)
1930 – Hitty, Her First Hundred Years, by Rachel Field
1944 – Fog Magic, by Julia Sauer (Honor)
1946 – Strawberry Girl, Lois Lenski
1953 – Charlotte’s Web, by E. B. White (Honor)
1959 – The Witch of Blackbird Pond, by Elizabeth George Speare
1961 – Island of the Blue Dolphins, by Scott O’Dell
1968 – From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, by E. L. Konigsburg
1972 – Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH, by Robert C. O’Brien
1978 – Ramona and Her Father, by Beverly Cleary (Honor)
1979 – The Westing Game, by Ellen Raskin
1981 – Jacob Have I Loved, by Katherine Paterson
1982 – Ramona Quimby, Age 8, by Beverly Cleary (Honor)
1984 – Dear Mr. Henshaw, by Beverly Cleary
1986 – Sarah, Plain and Tall, by Patricia MacLachlan
1987 – The Whipping Boy, by Sid Fleischman
1990 – Number the Stars, by Lois Lowry
1991 – Maniac Magee, by Jerry Spinelli
The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle, by Avi (Honor)
1994 – The Giver, by Lois Lowry
1996 – The Midwife’s Apprentice, by Karen Cushman
2000 – Bud, Not Buddy, by Christopher Paul Curtis
2004 – The Tale of Despereaux, by Kate DiCamillo
2005 – Al Capone Does My Shirts, by Gennifer Choldenko (Honor)
2006 – Princess Academy, by Shannon Hale (Honor)
2009 – The Graveyard Book, by Neil Gaiman
