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2014 Young Adult Reading Challenge
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francesashton
Posted 2014-08-16 3:19 PM (#8324 - in reply to #5944)
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Location: Cheshire, England		I just picked up the first Percy Jackson book: The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan. That's a nice little read. You can see the plot coming a bit, but then you can in some YA (I have to remind myself that I'm quite a bit older than the intended audience sometimes). Might romp through the rest if I find them. Got to love a book that takes a day to read :-)
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Thomcat
Posted 2014-12-31 5:39 PM (#9075 - in reply to #5944)
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Location: Seattle, WA		Thanks all for a great 2014!

Four participants finished the full challenge (Five if francesashton finishes Noughts & Crosses); 121 books read and 64 reviews written. I agree with posters on this list; Young Adult fiction is a bit of fun and it's always nice to finish a challenge book in a few short days.

Looking forward to finding out what the site has to offer in 2015, and also to reading more of your great reviews!

--Thomcat
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francesashton
Posted 2015-01-01 1:13 PM (#9087 - in reply to #5944)
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Location: Cheshire, England		Oops - I HAVE finished Noughts and Crosses, but not been on to update the challenge and now it's disappeared. Must do better on my other challenges, but I keep getting distracted by those pesky authors bringing out new books!

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dustydigger
Posted 2015-01-01 2:03 PM (#9088 - in reply to #5944)
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Location: UK		Thomca,tI really enjoyed the YA challenge in 2014,locating 12 new authors was good funkept my reading fresh. Are we going to do it again? I see a large number of YA/junior authors have been added recently,and I will enjoy finding out new authors. Now where on earth are those admin hiding.?Dave,we need you to set up our avis for the new challenges. Come out, come out wherever you are!. We are all panting at the off,ready to go so please put us out of our misery!

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Administrator
Posted 2015-01-02 4:39 PM (#9100 - in reply to #9088)
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Frances, here's the link to the 2014 YA Challenge.  We're gong to put the links up for the past challenges soon.

Dusty, you can certainly do the YA challenge again.  I was waiting to see if Thomcat, the organizer for the 2014 challenge, was going to start up the one for 2015.  If he does not in the next couple days then I'll duplicate last year's challenge.  I don't want to steal his thunder.
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