Summer Reading Challenge Completed

Reading challenges are weird things. I finished the school's summer reading challenge today, but it took me twice as long as I expected it to. I got really hung up on the collection of short stories tile and the non-human protagonist tile, neither of which did I expect to be a problem. In the end I read nearly 15 books that were parts of series (tile 7) and nearly as many that won awards (tile 1) before I found my non-human protagonists. I guess that's just how it goes.

1. Read a Book that Won an Award: Hope Was Here by Joan Bauer 
2. Read a Book with A Non-Human Main Character: The Dot & the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics by Norman Juster
3. Read a Book recommended by Family, Friend, or Teacher: Mathematician's Lament: How School Cheats US Out of Our Most Fascinating and Imaginative Art Form by Paul Lockhart
4. Read a Collection of Essays or Short Stories: Twelve Impossible Things Before Breakfast by Jane Yolen
5. Free Space: Whip It by Shauna Cross
6. Read a Book Featuring a Place You've Never Been: Men at Arms by Terry Pratchett (Discworld)
7. Read a Book that is Part of a Series: Lord Sunday (Keys to the Kingdom book 7) by Garth Nix
8. Read a Book about Something that Actually Happened: Code Talker: A Novel about the Navajo Marines of World War Two by Joseph Bruchac
9. Read a Book with a Mystery: Looking For Alaska by John Green (What happened to Alaska?)

Good luck everyone who's still working on it!