Today is a very busy day- grocery shopping, getting dressed, and then I am leaving for the TONY AWARDS!!!!
That means I am wrapping up the Challenge early this year. But I’m happy with the time I was able to devote to it this year, despite a busy weekend. Here are my final stats:
A Map Of The Known World by Lisa Ann Sandell- 273 pages
The Summer I Turned Pretty by Jenny Han- 276 pages
Moon Science, History, And Mystery by Stewart Ross- 121 pages
Boys Are Dogs by Leslie Margolis- 195 pages
Girls Acting Catty by Lesle Margolis- 158 pages
My Season with Penguins: An Antarctic Journal (Robert F. Sibert Honor Books) by Sophie Webb- 47 pages
Suite Scarlett by Maureen Johnson- 353 pages
The Princess Diaries, Volume II: Princess in the Spotlight (Princess Diaries Series) by Meg Cabot- 86 pages (audiobook while driving 1 hr roundtrip for cupcakes!)
Hate That Cat: A Novel by Sharon Creech- 148 pages
Biology: Life as We Know It! by Dan Green- 128 pages
The Clique Summer Collection #1: Massie (Clique Series) by Lisi Harrison- 127 pages
The Mother-Daughter Book Club by Heather Vogel Frederick- 90 pages
Total pages read: 2001
Total Time: 17 hours reading, 2 hours tweeting/cheering on
Total Reading Time: 19 hours!
*If I get any more reading done, I will update this post.
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I’ve been reading this one on and off all day. It’s definitely a great book to flip through and read what interests you. But I love these books because they always hook my students. The illustrations by Simon Basher are fun to look at and always catch my students’ attention. 
But now Nate is dead. And on the night he crashed his car, he and Cora had a huge fight. Now she has to start school at the same high school Nate went to. She is struggling to survive with her parents, who have completely shut down. Her mother has become insanely overprotective, requiring that Cora be home by her 4pm curfew and never go anywhere without a parent. Dad has shut down completely, locking himself in his study, drinking gin and tonics and ignoring his wife and daughter.
Scarlett Martin lives in Manhattan, in the fabulous art deco Hopewell Hotel. Sounds glamorous, right? For Scarlett and her family, it’s anything but. The hotel is falling apart, the staff has been let go, and the money is drying up. It’s Scarlett’s fifteenth birthday- the day each Martin child is given a suite in the hotel to care for on their own. When a guest actually shows up to stay in Scarlett’s suite, everyone is shocked. And when that guest, Mrs. Amberson, turns out to be a C-list starlet intent on spending most of her time with Scarlett, she doesn’t really know how to react. Throw in a cute new boy in her brother’s acting troupe, an older sister who seems to be hiding something, and a younger sister who totally hates her and Scarlett has the makings of an interesting summer. She’s not quite sure if it will be the best summer ever or the worst.
