NetGalley & Edelweiss Reading Challenge 2020

I am planning to try this challenge again.  I have been requesting books on NetGalley.  I hope to get reading this coming year.

NetGalley and Edelweiss Reading Challenge 2020 

Tina Woodbury

Welcome to the seventh annual
NetGalley and Edelweiss Reading Challenge!

What the challenge is all about…

Are you feeling overwhelmed by the number of NetGalley/Edelweiss books sitting on your shelf to be read?
Have you lost your 80% rating and would love to get it back?
Do you want to challenge yourself to read more NetGalley/Edelweiss books?
Do you need extra inspiration to achieve that next badge?

If the answer is “YES” to any of these questions then this is the challenge for you!

Challenge guidelines… 

• The challenge runs from January 1, 2020 – December 31, 2020. There is no deadline to sign up.
• Everyone is welcome to participate – you do not need to have a blog.
• Any genre, release date, length, etc. counts – it just needs to be a book from NetGalley or Edelweiss.
• Books can count for more than one challenge that you are participating in.
• The first day of each month I will post a monthly “link-up” for you to link your reviews. If you forget one month, no worries, just catch up the next month.
• Questions: Feel free to leave a comment below or use the contact page at the top of this post.
• Help spread the book love and use the hashtag: #NGEW2020

The Levels…

Bronze – 10 Books

Silver – 25 Books

Gold – 50 Books

Platinum – 75 Books

Diamond – 100 Books

My Reading List (Books I've read, with links to reviews):

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My List of Books To Be Read (2020)

• NetGalley Books To Be Read:

1. Little Cloud. Johanna Wagstaffe
2. Choose Kindness.  Kristin Weber
3. Queer Heroes.  Arabelle Sicardi
4. A Castle in the Clouds.  Kerstin Gier
5. Speak Up!.  Adora Svitak
6. All the Stars and Teeth.  Adalyn Grace
7. A Falling Starr.  Dani Hoots
8. Story Boat. Kyo Maclear
9. Supernova.  Marissa Meyer
10. Brightstorm.  Vashti Hardy
11. If We Were Giants. Dave Matthews, Clete Barrett Smith
12. We Wish You Luck. Caroline Zancan
13. The Every Body Book.  Rachel E. Simon
14. What I Like About Me. Jenna Guillaume
15. Stand Up!.  Wendy L. Moss
16. Help Wanted, Must Love Books.  Janet Sumner Johnson
17. Martin Luther King, Jr.  Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara
18. Stephen Hawking.  Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara
19. David Attenborough.  Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara
20. Muhammad Ali.  Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara
21. You Can Do Anything You Want.  Oliver Griffin
22. Everyone Counts.  Kristin Roskifte
23. Music Is My Life.  Myles Tanzer
24. Poems Aloud.  Joseph Coelho
25. Big Ideas For Young Thinkers.  Jamia Wilson
26. It Sounded Better in My Head.  Nina Kenwood
27. Back to Christmas.  Dennis Canfield
28. Justice in a Bottle.  Pete Fanning
29. Surviving the Angel of Death.  Eva Mozes Kor and Lisa Rojany Buccieri
30. Forgive Yourself These Tiny Acts of Self-Destruction. Jared Singer
31. Epic Kids.  David Blaze

Newbery & Caldecott Reading Challenge

This is a new challenge I hope to join in on this year.  I haven't read many Newbery and Caldecott books.  Love to read more of these.  I am aiming for the Spinelli Level.

Welcome to another year of the Newbery Reading Challenge! Newbery and Caldecott books are fun to read - whether it's our first time experiencing them, or we're revisiting them from our childhood. If you want to challenge yourself to read more Newbery and Caldecott books this year, then you have found the right place!

Here are the rules:​
Each book you read is worth points. You get:

• 3 points for a Newbery Medal Winner
• 2 points for a Newbery Honor Book
• 1 point for a Caldecott Book (Both Medal winners and Honor books are worth a point.)

In addition to that, you pick a level to aim for:

• L'Engle: 15 - 29 points
• Spinelli: 30 - 44 points
• Avi: 45 - 59 points
• Lowry: 60 - 74 points
• Konigsburg: 75+ points

You can get to this level with any combination of points you want. You can read all Newbery Medal winners. You can throw in a few Honor Books. If you want, you can even read 75 Caldecott Medal winners! How you get to your point level is totally up to you.

Also, anywhere in the point range for your level counts as completing that level. So for example, if you signed up for the Avi level and read 46 points' worth of books, then you have completed that level!

List of Newbery Medal Winners & Honor Books
List of Caldecott Medal Winners & Honor Books

Challenge Guidelines:

• Rereads count (because you were probably a kid when you read it last, and your perspective on the story just might have changed since then).
• Audiobooks and ebooks count.
• And paper books count, too. :)
• All books must be read between January 1, 2020, and December 31, 2020. Books begun before January 1 don’t count.
• Books can be used for other challenges as well.
• Reviews are encouraged, but not necessary.
• Choose your point level. You can always aim for a higher point level, but you can't move to a lower one.

To join the Newbery Reading Challenge:

• Sign up at Smiling Shelves