Teaser Tuesday!

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

Grab your current read - Open to a random page -

Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page

BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS!

(make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)

Share the title and author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

 

"Pleeeaase can I turn them to stone?" Medusa begged.  "It's not the polite thing to do, dear," said Medusa's mom."  page 3 - Medusa Jones by Ross Collins

Contest!

Angela at Reading Angel is having a contest!  100+ followers contest!  You can win great prizes for following a great blog!  Check it out!

Top 100 Middle Grade Books

Elizabeth Bird of Fuse #8 Productions asked bloggers to list their top 10 Middle Grade books of all time and to put the list in order from 1 - 10. Then she compiled the results in a weighted scale.

How many have you read? 
I have put mine highlighted and in bold - WOW - so many left to read - just in case I needed another challenge!

100. The Egypt Game - Snyder (1967)

99. The Indian in the Cupboard - Banks (1980)

98. Children of Green Knowe - Boston (1954)

97. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane - DiCamillo (2006)

96. The Witches - Dahl (1983)

95. Pippi Longstocking - Lindgren (1950

94. Swallows and Amazons - Ransome (1930)

93. Caddie Woodlawn - Brink (1935)

92. Ella Enchanted - Levine (1997)

91. Sideways Stories from Wayside School - Sachar (1978)

90. Sarah, Plain and Tall - MacLachlan (1985)

89. Ramona and Her Father - Cleary (1977)

88. The High King - Alexander (1968)

87. The View from Saturday - Konigsburg (1996)

86. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets - Rowling (1999)

85. On the Banks of Plum Creek - Wilder (1937)

84. The Little White Horse - Goudge (1946)

83. The Thief - Turner (1997)

82. The Book of Three - Alexander (1964)

81. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon - Lin (2009)

80. The Graveyard Book - Gaiman (2008)

79. All-of-a-Kind-Family - Taylor (1951)

78. Johnny Tremain - Forbes (1943)

77. The City of Ember - DuPrau (2003)

76. Out of the Dust - Hesse (1997)

75. Love That Dog - Creech (2001)

74. The Borrowers - Norton (1953)

73. My Side of the Mountain - George (1959)


72. My Father's Dragon - Gannett (1948)


71. The Bad Beginning - Snicket (1999)

70. Betsy-Tacy - Lovelae (1940)

69. The Mysterious Benedict Society - Stewart ( 2007)

68. Walk Two Moons - Creech (1994)

67. Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher - Coville (1991)

66. Henry Huggins - Cleary (1950)

65. Ballet Shoes - Stratfeild (1936)

64. A Long Way from Chicago - Peck (1998)

63. Gone-Away Lake - Enright (1957)

62. The Secret of the Old Clock - Keene (1959)

61. Stargirl - Spinelli (2000)

60. The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle - Avi (1990)

59. Inkheart - Funke (2003)

58. The Wolves of Willoughby Chase - Aiken (1962)

57. Ramona Quimby, Age 8 - Cleary (1981)

56. Number the Stars - Lowry (1989)

55. The Great Gilly Hopkins - Paterson (1978)

54. The BFG - Dahl (1982)

53. Wind in the Willows - Grahame (1908)

52. The Invention of Hugo Cabret (2007)

51. The Saturdays - Enright (1941)

50. Island of the Blue Dolphins - O'Dell (1960)

49. Frindle - Clements (1996)

48. The Penderwicks - Birdsall (2005)

47. Bud, Not Buddy - Curtis (1999)

46. Where the Red Fern Grows - Rawls (1961)

45. The Golden Compass - Pullman (1995)

44. Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing - Blume (1972)

43. Ramona the Pest - Cleary (1968)

42. Little House on the Prairie - Wilder (1935)

41. The Witch of Blackbird Pond - Speare (1958)

40. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz - Baum (1900)

39. When You Reach Me - Stead (2009)

38. HP and the Order of the Phoenix - Rowling (2003)


37. Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry - Taylor (1976)


36. Are You there, God? It's Me, Margaret - Blume (1970)


35. HP and the Goblet of Fire - Rowling (2000)


34. The Watson's Go to Birmingham - Curtis (1995)

33. James and the Giant Peach - Dahl (1961)

32. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH - O'Brian (1971)

31. Half Magic - Eager (1954)

30. Winnie-the-Pooh - Milne (1926)

29. The Dark Is Rising - Cooper (1973)

28. A Little Princess - Burnett (1905)

27. Alice I and II - Carroll (1865/72)

26. Hatchet - Paulsen (1989)

25. Little Women - Alcott (1868/9)

24. HP and the Deathly Hallows - Rowling (2007)


23. Little House in the Big Woods - Wilder (1932)


22. The Tale of Despereaux - DiCamillo (2003)


21. The Lightening Thief - Riordan (2005)

20. Tuck Everlasting - Babbitt (1975)

19. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Dahl (1964)

18. Matilda - Dahl (1988)

17. Maniac Magee - Spinelli (1990)


16. Harriet the Spy - Fitzhugh (1964)


15. Because of Winn-Dixie - DiCamillo (2000)


14. HP and the Prisoner of Azkaban - Rowling (1999)


13. Bridge to Terabithia - Paterson (1977)

12. The Hobbit - Tolkien (1938)

11. The Westing Game - Raskin (1978)

10. The Phantom Tollbooth - Juster (1961)

9. Anne of Green Gables - Montgomery (1908)

8. The Secret Garden - Burnett (1911)


7. The Giver -Lowry (1993)


6. Holes - Sachar (1998)

5. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler - Koningsburg (1967)

4. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe - Lewis (1950)


3. Harry Potter #1 - Rowling (1997)

2. A Wrinkle in Time - L'Engle (1962)

1. Charlotte's Web - White (1952)

Found it at the Hop! Spring Reading Thing 2010!

While I was hopping - I found this challenge!  Spring Reading Thing 2010

So I joined up! 

This will be my post for the list of books I am reading/planning to read for the Spring Reading Thing 2010.

Book List (black is planning to read - green has been read)!

Crossroads: Southern Arcana Book 2 by Moira Rogers
Crux: Southern Arcana Book 1 by Moira Rogers
Soulless by Gail Carriger
Changeless (sequel to Soulless) by Gail Carriger
Into the Mist by Maya Banks
Into the Lair by Maya Banks
Wolf Signs by Vivian Arend
Wolf Flight by Vivian Arend
Wolf Games by Vivian Arend
Must Love Hellhounds by Ilona Andrews
The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner
The Queen of Attolia by Megan Whalen Turner
The King of Attolia by Megan Whalen Turner
Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane
Storm Born by Richelle Mead

It's the Hop!

I am from Minnesota - I didn't put that on the Mr. Linky - I guess I am an old blogger, but I still feel like a new blogger and apparently don't always follow direction!

It's the hop!  I have been so busy that I haven't been able to blog - although I have miraculously have found time to read (but I have been taking it from the night)!  On my way now to check out as many hop blogs as I can in the next 30 minutes - thank God for lunch break!  You can come hop too my clicking here!

Random Reading Activity Challenge

If you participated in or heard about the Holiday Break Reading Challenge and the Spring Break Reading Challenge you won't have any trouble catching on to what is going on at this site. Karin found she enjoyed hosting the challenge actvities and prize giveaways so much that she decided to set up a way for her to do it all during the year. So here is what she'll do:

•RANDOMLY, she'll post an activity challenge. You might want to look at some of the ones she did during the Holiday Break Reading Challenge and the Spring Break Reading Challenge for an idea of what to expect.

•You'll have a SPECIFIC amount of time to complete the activity.

•You'll post something on your blog with your completed activity challenge and come back to this site and link your blog post to MR. LINKY. (If, for some reason, there isn't a Mr. Linky available then just leave the link to your post in the comment section. Mr. Linky seems to be down as she's creating this post.)

•After the time period to complete the activity is up, she'll RANDOMLY choose a winner from the people on Mr. Linky.

• She'll post the winner and ask them to email her with their mailing address and prize choice. (Some challenges will be for SPECIFIC prizes, like this one.)

•YOU'LL WANT TO SUBSCRIBE TO THE BLOG BY EMAIL OR RSS IN ORDER TO RECEIVE NOTIFICATION OF THE RANDOM ACTIVITY CHALLENGES.

So, are you ready for the first activity challenge? This is an easy one. The winner will receive YOU by Charles Benoit. It won't be available for purchase until August 24, 2010.