2024 Reading Challenge: A Book Set in Winter

Are you participating in the 2024 Reading Challenge? We have 12 challenges to complete throughout the year and every month we’ll feature one of the challenge prompts. This month we’re featuring the prompt “Read a book set in winter.” Listed below are just a few books that fit the prompt but there are plenty of other books you can pick up! 

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Adult

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Beartown One by OneThere should have been eight The Family You Make To the bright edge of the world

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A quiet life/ An unwanted guest/ A week in winter Dead of winter Winter garden

Young Adult

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 Love & other train wrecksHow to excavate a heartThe chaos of standing stillWhat beauty there isBittersweet

Middle Grade

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WinterhouseDead voicesGreenglass House/ The poet’s dogWinter according to Humphrey

 

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Books Coming to Screens: February 2024

A Beautiful Wedding / Jamie McGuire

Beautiful Wedding

It follows Abby and Travis, who after a crazy night in Las Vegas, discover they are married. They head to Mexico for a honeymoon with friends and family.

Feb 1st/ Theatres/ Place on hold

The Tiger’s Apprentice by Laurence Yep

Tiger's Apprentice

Tom Lee, a Chinese-American boy, after the death of his grandmother, has to be apprenticed to the talking tiger Mr. Hu and learn ancient magic to become the new guardian of an ancient phoenix.

Feb 2nd/ Netflix

Argylle / Elly Conway

Argylle

An introverted spy novelist is drawn into the activities of a sinister underground syndicate.

Feb 2nd/ Theatres/ Place on hold

Orion and the Dark / Emma Yarlett

Orion and the Dark

Follows Orion, a young boy who is afraid of heights, pets, and rendered nearly catatonic by the worst of all perils: the dark. The Dark takes Orion on a nighttime trip to prove to the youngster that the only thing to fear is fear itself.

Feb 2nd/ Netflix/ Place on hold

One Day / David Nicholls

One Day

Emma and Dexter meet for the first time on the night of their graduation. Tomorrow they must go their separate ways.

Feb 8th/ Theatres/ Place on hold

Float / Kate Marchant

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After she nearly drowns, a young woman unexpectedly falls for the small-town lifeguard who rescued her. Based on the novel by Kate Marchant.

Feb 9th/ Theatres and Streaming/ Place on hold

 

The Never Game / Jeffery Deaver

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Tracker

Colter Shaw travels the country in his old-school RV to help police and private citizens solve crimes and locate missing persons until his latest case changes everything.

Feb 11th/ CBS/ Place on hold

Shōgun/James Clavell

Shogun

When a mysterious European ship is found marooned in a nearby fishing village, Lord Yoshii Toranaga discovers secrets that could tip the scales of power and devastate his enemies.

Feb 27th/ Hulu/ Place on hold

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ALA Award Winners

The American Library Association just announced the winners for children’s book awards!

Caldecott Winner


Big 

Newbery Winner


The Eyes and the Impossible

Coretta Scott King


Nigeria Jones
An American Story

There Goes the Neighborhood
We Could Fly 

Pura Belpré Awards


MexiKid 
Saints of the Household

Theodor Seuss Geisel Award


Fox Has a Problem

Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award


The Mona Lisa Vanishes

Schneider Family Book Award


Henry, Like Always
The Fire, the Water, and Maudie McGinn
Forever is Now

William C. Morris Award

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Rez Ball

YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults

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Accountable

Stonewall Book Awards


Cross My Heart and Never Lie
Only This Beautiful Moment  

American Indian Youth Literature Awards


Forever Cousins 
A Letter for Bob
We Still Belong 
Rez Ball

Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature.

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The Truth About Dragons
Ruby Lost and Found
I’d Rather Burn Than Bloom

The Sydney Taylor Book Award


Two New Years
The Dubious Pranks of Shaindy Goodman
The Blood Years

Children’s Literature Legacy Award 


Pam Muñoz Ryan

Margaret A. Edwards Award

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Neal Shusterman
Learn more: ALA website.

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