Crazy for Young Adult Books discussion

  Challenges So Far

2017:
A - Z Challenge ✓
Genre Challenge ✓
Carnival Challenge ✓

2018:
A - Z Challenge✓
Genre Challenge✓

2019:
A - Z Challenge
Genre Challenge

A-Z Challenge 2017: Title

Date start: 1 Jan
Date Completed: 7 Nov

26/26
(Q, X & Z can be anywhere 
in the title)



A -  All the Ugly and Wonderful 
Things ✓
B - The Best I Could ✓
C - I Capture The Castle ✓
D - Dearest ✓
E - The Ever Never Handbook ✓
F - Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: The Original Screenplay ✓
G - The Girl With All The Gifts ✓
H - Hero ✓
I - Into The Wild ✓
J - Jessaloup's Song ✓
K -  Keeping The Castle ✓
L - A Little in Love ✓
M - Monstrous Beauty ✓
N -  Number The Stars ✓
O - One ✓
P - Pirouette ✓
Q - A Quiet Kind Of Thunder ✓
R - The Rest Of Us Just Live Here ✓
S -  Of Scars and Stardust ✓
T - The Truth About Alice ✓
U - Up To This Pointe ✓
V - The Virago Book of Fairytales ✓
W - Wintergirls ✓
X - I Am Princess X ✓
Y - The Young Elites ✓
Z - Harry Potter and the Prisoner 
of Azkaban ✓

  
  

Genre Challenge 2017

Date start: 1 Jan
Date Completed: 14 Dec

12/12




January—Sports
Being Sloane Jacobs ✓
February—Non-Fiction
Eating Disorders ✓
March—Space Opera
Illuminae ✓
April— Mythology
The Lightning Thief ✓
May— Crime
Gardenia ✓
June—Friendship
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood 
Prince ✓
July—Contemporary
Faking Normal ✓
August—Fantasy
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows ✓
September—Steampunk
The Golden Compass ✓
October— Horror
Carrie ✓
November—Historical Fiction
Number The Stars ✓
December— Romance
Dreamology ✓

Carnival Challenge

Duration: June - Aug 

26/26



1. Pink cover ✓
2. Purple cover ✓
3. Red cover ✓
4. Green cover ✓
5. Blue cover ✓
6.Grey cover ✓
7. White cover ✓
8. Black cover ✓
9. Book with clouds on cover ✓
10. Sun on cover ✓
11. Water on cover ✓
12. Book with trees on cover ✓
13. Book with flowers on cover ✓
14. Grass on cover ✓
15. Car on cover ✓
16. Animal on cover ✓
17. Food on cover ✓
18. Building on cover ✓
19. Made up location ✓
20. Somewhere you've been ✓
21. Somewhere you want to go ✓
22. Mythology book ✓
23. Paranormal book ✓
24. Contemporary book ✓
25. Sci-fi book ✓
26. Mystery book ✓

A-Z Challenge 2018: Character



26/26 (letters Q, U, X and Z can be placed anywhere)

A -  Alice from A Sky Painted Gold ✓
B -  Beauty from 
The Beauty and the Beast ✓
C -  Carey from If You Find Me ✓
D -  Dunja from Wicked Like a Wildfire ✓
E -  Er Lang from The Ghost Bride ✓
F -  Frankenstein from The New Annotated Frankenstein ✓
G -  Grandmother from Room ✓
H -  Holly from The Scorpio Races ✓
I -  Imogen from The Girl Without a Voice: The true story of a terrified child whose silence spoke volumes ✓
J -  Josh from To All the Boys 
I've Loved Before ✓
K -  Katy from Katy ✓
L -  Lyra from The Amber Spyglass ✓
M -  Mary from The Subtle Knife ✓
N -  Nana from Peter Pan and Wendy ✓
O -  Opal from Opal ✓
P -  Percy from The Gentleman's 
Guide to Vice and Virtue ✓
Q -  Raven Queen from A Wonderlandiful World ✓
R -  Rosie from This is How It Always Is ✓
S -  Sparrow from Sparrow ✓
T -  Tedros from Quests for Glory ✓
U -  Shiharu from Love So Life, Vol. 1 ✓
V -  Violette from A Memory of Violets: A Novel of London's Flower Sellers ✓
W -  Wallace from Eliza and Her
Monsters ✓
X - Grandmother Weatherwax from The Wee Free Men ✓
Y -  Ylessia from Wicked Like a Wildfire ✓
Z -  Zhi Wei from Kappa Quartet ✓

  
  

Genre Challenge 2018




10/12

January— Adventure
 The Subtle Knife ✓
February— Folklore
The Ghost Bride ✓
March—Witches
The Wee Free Men ✓
April—Urban Fantasy
Trylle: The Complete Trilogy ✓
May— Gothic
The New Annotated Frankenstein ✓
June—Coming Of Age
Wonder ✓
July—Magic Realism
Wicked Like a Wildfire ✓
August—High Fantasy
Seraphina
September—Travel
The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue ✓
October—Vampires
The Coldest Girl in Coldtown
November—Music
Guitar Notes ✓
December— Christmas
Nutcracker and Mouse King and The Tale of the Nutcracker ✓

    Music Challenge: Crybaby by Melanie Martinez
  

0/12
✓

Track List:
1. Cry Baby— Read a book where the MC cries in it
2. Dollhouse— Read a book about a dysfunctional family
3. Sippy Cup—Read a book with a drink on the cover
4. Carousel—Read a book where the MC goes to a fair or an amusement park
5. Alphabet Boy—Read a book where the MC is a boy
6. Soap—Read a book where someone is told that they smell good
7. Training Wheels—Read a book that has MC learning something new
8. Pity Party—Read a book where someone has depression
9. Tag, You’re It—Read a book where the MC plays a game
10. Milk and Cookies—Read a book with a trick being played in plot
11. Pacify Her— Read a book where someone has a baby
12. Mrs Potato Head—Read a book where MC has body insecurities
13. Mad Hatter— Read a book that has a hat on the cover
14. Play Date—Read a book where the MC goes on a date
15. Teddy Bear—Read a book that has an animal on the cover
16. Cake—Read a book where the MC celebrates their birthday

  Book Series To Finish:

His Dark Materials
❀—The Golden Compass ✓
❀—The Subtle Knife ✓
❀—The Amber Spyglass ✓

Wildwood Dancing
❀—Wildwood Dancing ✓
❀—Cybele's Secret ✓

The Young Elites
❀—The Young Elites ✓
❀—The Rose Society ✓
❀—The Midnight Star ✓

Into The Wild
❀—Into the Wild ✓
❀—Out of the Wild ✓

To All The Boys I've Loved Before
❀—To All the Boys I've Loved Before ✓
❀—P.S. I Still Love You ✓
❀—Always and Forever, Lara Jean ✓

Between The Lines
❀—Between the Lines
❀—Off the Page

  Holiday Reads

A-Z Challenge 2019: Title



9/26
(Q, X & Z can be anywhere 
in the title)

A - 
B -  The Best Kind of Magic
C - 
D -  A Dream is Sadler’s Wells
E - 
F -  Fierce Like A Firestorm
G -  Guitar Notes
H - 
I - 
J - 
K -  
L - 
M -  Nutcracker and The Mouse King and The Tale of The Nutcracker
N - 
O -  Out of the Wild
P -  A Psalm for Lost Girls
Q - 
R -  Rose and The Lost Princess
S -  The Sweetest Kind of Fate 
T - 
U - 
V - 
W - 
X - 
Y - 
Z - 

  
  

Genre Challenge 2019




2/12

January — Dystopia
The Handmaid's Tale
February — Romance
Me Before You
March —Mystery
A Psalm for Lost Girls✓
April—Paranormal
The Best Kind of Magic ✓
May— 
June—
July—
August—
September—
October—
November—
December—