40 Book Challenge

A Long Walk to Water: Based on a True Story Linda Sue Park Publication Date: November 15, 2010 Started Reading: September 24, 2017 Finished Reading: September 24, 2017 A Long Walk to Water begins as two stories, told in alternating sections, about a girl in Sudan in 2008 and a boy in Sudan…

House Arrest KA Holt Publication Date: October 6, 2015 Started Reading: September 17, 2017 Finished Reading: September 19, 2017 Timothy is on probation. It’s a strange word—something that happens to other kids, to delinquents, not to kids like him. And yet, he is under house arrest for the next year. He must…

Solo Kwame Alexander Publication Date: July 25, 2017 Started Reading: September 17, 2017 Finished Reading: September 17, 2017 Solo, a YA novel in poetic verse, tells the story of seventeen-year-old Blade Morrison, whose life is bombarded with scathing tabloids and a father struggling with just about every addiction under the sun—including a…