Read Around North America Challenge
Read at least one book by an author from each country in North America.
Best books from North America (2031)
1761.
The Castle of Llyr by Lloyd Alexander EN
Country: North America / 
United States of America
United States of America
Description:
When Princess Eilonwy is kidnapped, Taran and his companions seek to rescue her.
1762.
Taran Wanderer by Lloyd Alexander EN
Country: North America / United States of America
United States of America
Description:
Juvenile fiction.
1763.
The High King by Lloyd Alexander EN
Country: North America / United States of America
United States of America
Description:
Taran and his allies carry the battle to the gates of Annuvin itself.
1764.
The Foundling and Other Tales of Prydain by Lloyd Alexander EN
Country: North America / United States of America
United States of America
Description:
Six short stories dealing with events that preceded the birth of Taran, a key figure in the author's five works on the Kingdom of Prydain.
1765.
Coll and His White Pig by Lloyd Alexander EN
Country: North America / United States of America
United States of America
Description:
A good-natured gardener of the Land of Prydain, aided by friends of the forest, rescues his white pig from his country's greatest enemy.
1766.
The Truthful Harp by Lloyd Alexander EN
Country: North America / United States of America
United States of America
Description:
The king of a small land in Prydain, unable to pass the test to be a bard, is given a harp whose strings keep breaking as he speaks.
1767.
Thunder Boy Jr. by Sherman Alexie EN
Country: North America / United States of America
United States of America
Description:
Thunder Boy Jr. is named after his dad, but he wants a name that's all his own. Just because people call his dad Big Thunder doesn't mean he wants to be Little Thunder. He wants a name that celebrates something cool he's done, like Touch the Clouds, Not Afraid of Ten Thousand Teeth, or Full of Wonder. But just when Thunder Boy Jr. thinks all hope is lost, he and his dad pick the perfect name...a name that is sure to light up the sky. National Book Award-winner Sherman Alexie's lyrical text and Caldecott Honor-winner Yuyi Morales's striking and beautiful illustrations celebrate the special rela... continue
1768.
The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven by Sherman Alexie EN
Country: North America / United States of America
United States of America
Description:
In this darkly comic short story collection, Sherman Alexie, a Spokane/Coeur d'Alene Indian, brilliantly weaves memory, fantasy, and stark realism to paint a complex, grimly ironic portrait of life in and around the Spokane Indian Reservation. These twenty-two interlinked tales are narrated by characters raised on humiliation and government-issue cheese, and yet are filled with passion and affection, myth and dream. There is Victor, who as a nine-year-old crawled between his unconscious parents hoping that the alcohol seeping through their skins might help him sleep, Thomas Builds-the-Fire, wh... continue
1769.
All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders EN
Country: North America / United States of America
United States of America
Description:
Childhood friends Patricia Delfine, a witch, and Laurence Armstead, a mad scientist, parted ways under mysterious circumstances during middle school. But as adults they both wind up in near-future San Francisco, where Laurence is an engineering genius and Patricia works with a small band of other magicians to secretly repair the world's ever growing ailments. But something is determined to bring them back together - to either save the world, or end it
1770.
My Diary from the Edge of the World by Jodi Lynn Anderson EN
Country: North America / United States of America
United States of America
Description:
Told in diary form by an irresistible heroine, this “heartfelt, bittersweet, and ever-so-clever coming-of-age fantasy” (School Library Journal, starred review) named one of Publishers Weekly’s Best Books of the Year from the New York Times bestselling author of the May Bird trilogy sparkles with science, myth, magic, and the strange beauty of the everyday marvels we sometimes forget to notice. Spirited, restless Gracie Lockwood has lived in Cliffden, Maine, her whole life. She’s a typical girl in an atypical world: one where sasquatches helped to win the Civil War, where dragons glide over Rou... continue