Read Around North America Challenge
Read at least one book by an author from each country in North America.
Best books from North America (2030)
1851.
The Hours Count by Jillian Cantor EN
Country: North America / 
United States of America
United States of America
Description:
A spellbinding historical novel about a woman who befriends Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, and is drawn into their world of intrigue, from the author of Margot. On June 19, 1953, Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were executed for conspiring to commit espionage. The day Ethel was first arrested in 1950, she left her two young sons with a neighbour, and she never came home to them again. Brilliantly melding fact and fiction, Jillian Cantor reimagines the life of that neighbour, and the life of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg.
1852.
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card EN
Country: North America / United States of America
United States of America
Description:
From New York Times bestselling author Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game—adapted to film in 2013 starring Asa Butterfield and Harrison Ford—is the classic Hugo and Nebula award-winning science fiction novel of a young boy's recruitment into the midst of an interstellar war. In order to develop a secure defense against a hostile alien race's next attack, government agencies breed child geniuses and train them as soldiers. A brilliant young boy, Andrew "Ender" Wiggin lives with his kind but distant parents, his sadistic brother Peter, and the person he loves more than anyone else, his sister Valent... continue
1853.
Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card EN
Country: North America / United States of America
United States of America
Description:
Ender Wiggin has an opportunity to atone for his earlier failures through a second alien race discovered by Portuguese colonists on the planet Lusitania.
1854.
Xenocide by Orson Scott Card EN
Country: North America / United States of America
United States of America
Description:
The war for survival of the planet Lusitania will be fought in the heart of a child named Gloriously Bright. On Lusitania, Ender found a world where humans and pequininos and the Hive Queen could all live together; where three very different intelligent species could find common ground at last. Or so he thought. Lusitania also harbors the descolada, a virus that kills all humans it infects, but which the pequininos require in order to become adults. The Startways Congress so fears the effects of the descolada, should it escape from Lusitania, that they have ordered the destruction of the entir... continue
1855.
Earth Unaware by Orson Scott Card, Aaron Johnston EN
Country: North America / United States of America
United States of America
Description:
Before Ender Wiggin was born, before the Battle School was built, the aliens brought war to Earth.
1856.
Earth Afire by Orson Scott Card, Aaron Johnston EN
Country: North America / United States of America
United States of America
Description:
Traces the events of the First Formic War a century before the events of Ender's Game, following the unsuccessful attempt of Victor Delgado to warn skeptical Earth governments of an imminent alien invasion and the efforts of Mazer Rackham and the Mobile Operations Police to meet unprecedented threats.
1857.
Day Zero by C. Robert Cargill EN
Country: North America / United States of America
United States of America
Description:
"From critically acclaimed author, screenwriter, and film critic C. Robert Cargill comes a harrowing apocalyptic adventure that explores the relationship between humans and robots, and the fight for purpose and agency in a crumbling world"--
1858.
1859.
La souris qui cherche un ami by Eric Carle FR
Country: North America / United States of America
United States of America
Description:
La petite souris se sent triste car personne ne veut devenir son ami. Quelqu'un pourtant en serait ravi, quelqu'un qui chérit les souris.
1860.
La araña muy ocupada by Eric Carle ES
Country: North America / United States of America
United States of America
Description:
Eric Carle's The Very Busy Spider has been a favorite for more than 20 years. This colorful, touch-and-feel story of an industrious spider is a classic, and now the Spanish-language edition is available as a board book, perfect for the youngest children who speak Spanish or who are beginning to learn it. A wonderful companion to The Very Hungry Caterpillar (La Oruga Muy Hambrienta), this lovable, hard-working spider will spin her way into your heart, no matter what language you speak.