"Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them." 2015 Summer Reading Challenge

"Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them."

-Lemony Snicket, Horseradish

When AC and I came up with the 2015 Summer Reading Challenge, I honestly wasn't sure if it was actually doable, but I had confidence if anyone could read that much, it would be SC.  Well, not only did she manage to read 10,000 pages from May 1 to August 15 to earn her $200 total, but we decided we would continue to count the pages she read between the end of the challenge and school starting (August 24), and she read an additional 1,500 pages that we gave her $.02 per page.

She decided to use her money to purchase a new iPod, because the hand-me-down one she had been using didn't have enough space, and wouldn't play any of the games she wanted well, or at all due to the updates not being accepted.  She was very excited to finally get one of her very own, and with her own money.

If you are interested, here is the list of books (72!) and page count.  She read mostly novels and "chapter books," though a few picture books as well.  Some favorites that she discovered were the 26 Story Treehouse series, by Andy Griffiths, the School for Good and Evil series, by Soman Chainani (which I also read, at SC's recommendation), and the works of Raina Telgemeier.

Book Title	Author	# of Pages	TOTAL
Explorer: The Hidden Door	Kibuishi	125	125
Bunnicula	Howe	98	223
Whatever After: Sink or Swim	Mlynowski	165	388
Whatever After: Dream On	Mlynowski	157	545
Whatever After: Bad Hair Day	Mlynowski	165	710
Contagious Colors	DeWitt	265	975
Freckle Juice	Blume	47	1022
The 13-Story Treehouse	Griffiths	239	1261
Encyclopedia Brown (Best Cases)	Sobol	123	1384
Encyclopedia Brown #2	Sobol	78	1462
Ramona the Pest	Cleary	211	1673
Dragons Beware	Rosado/Aguirre	153	1826
26 Story Treehouse	Griffiths	368	2194
Whatever After: Cold as Ice	Mlynowski	163	2357
Whatever After: Beauty Queen	Mlynowski	167	2524
Pinkalicious	Kann	40	2564
Bad Kitty Does Not Like Candy	Bruel	24	2588
Bad Kitty Does Not Like Dogs	Bruel	24	2612
Ellen Tebbits	Cleary	180	2792
Henry Huggins	Cleary	176	2968
Encyclopedia Brown #3	Sobol	96	3064
39 Story Treehouse	Griffiths	344	3408
The Grimm Conclusion	Gidwitz	344	3752
Marvin Redpost: Why Pick on Me	Sachar	64	3816
Ramona Forever	Cleary	191	4007
Ramona's World	Cleary	209	4216
The Iron Trial	Black	295	4511
The Phantom Bully	Brown	176	4687
Matilda	Dahl	240	4927
In a Glass Grimmly	Gidwitz	313	5240
Ramonda and her Father	Cleary	165	5405
Bad Kitty Gets a Bath	Bruel	125	5530
Bad Kitty vs. Uncle Murray	Bruel	157	5687
The Boy Who Swam with Piranhas	Almond	234	5921
Eerie Elem: The School is Alive	Chabert	90	6011
Happy Birthday Bad Kitty	Bruel	159	6170
Puppy's Big Day	Bruel	155	6325
Game Over, Pete Watson	Schreiber	225	6550
Frozen: Spring Fever	Disney	80	6630
Grimmtastic Girls #3	Holub	182	6812
Marvin Redpost: Super Fast, Out of Control!	Sachar	79	6891
Marvin Redpost: A Flying Birthday Cake?	Sachar	76	6967
Dogs Don't Tell Jokes	Sachar	209	7176
There's a boy in the girls' bathroom	Sachar	195	7371
School of good and evil	Chainani	501	7872
Floods: Good Neighbors	Thompson	213	8085
SGE: World Without Princes	Chainani	512	8597
Nancy Clancy: Secret Admirer	O'Connor	112	8709
Nancy Clancy: Secret of the Silver Key	O'Connor	121	8830
Nancy Clancy: Star of Stage and Screen	O'Connor	120	8950
Rotten School: Big Blueberry Barf-Off	Stine	128	9078
Miss Nelson Collection	Allard	98	9176
BSC: Kristy's Great Idea	Martin/Telgemeier	181	9357
Rotten School: Great Smelling Bee	Stine	128	9485
Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing	Blume	120	9605
Rotten School: The Good, the Bad & the Very Slimy	Stine	128	9733
Aliens for lunch		54	9787
Goldilocks and other tales		50	9837
Grimmtastic Girls #5	Holub & Williams	181	10018
Grimmtastic Girls #6	Holub & Williams	179	10197
El Deafo	Bell	233	10430
Smile	Telgemeier	213	10643
Sisters	Telgemeier	197	10840
The Road to Oz	Baum	136	10976
The Scallywags	Melling	27	11003
Dump Dog	Morris	30	11033
Earthquack!	Palatini	14	11047
Miss Fox	Puttock	23	11070
The Baby that Roared	Puttock	29	11099
Marvin Redpost #8	Sachar	81	11180
The Haunted Library	Butler	127	11307
Henry & Beezus	Cleary	201	11508

My own summer book list is much shorter, and I only read half the number of pages (5600), but I did read some very good ones.  I really liked the School for Good and Evil series, and I read both The Wednesday Wars and Okay for Now by Gary D. Schmidt.  I absolutely loved Okay for Now, and it was incredibly written.

How did your own summer reading challenges go?  Did you discover anything you would highly recommend?