{"id":6765,"date":"2020-05-07T06:00:21","date_gmt":"2020-05-07T10:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/?p=6765"},"modified":"2020-05-06T18:53:45","modified_gmt":"2020-05-06T22:53:45","slug":"magical-readathon-2020-wrap-up-may-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/magical-readathon-2020-wrap-up-may-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Magical Readathon 2020 Wrap Up | May 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"

My Readathon TBR and Wizarding Career<\/a> completely changed (shocking, I know<\/em>), but I did complete NINE<\/strong> O.W.L.s last month, so I’m calling this year’s Readathon a success!<\/p>\n

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Even though my TBR was literally one book long<\/em><\/strong>, I uh… didn’t read it. But that’s not to say that I didn’t read anything! I actually read eleven books last month, and nine of them fit O.W.L.s prompts, so I did pretty well!<\/p>\n

I’m going to list all the prompts (even the ones I didn’t complete) and the books I read to fill them, then I’ll tell you what I decided to do for my Wizarding Career this year and what I need to complete N.E.W.T.s in in August!<\/p>\n

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Ancient Runes<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Read something with a heart on the cover or in the title<\/h4>\n

Book Read:<\/strong> Did Not Sit This Exam<\/p>\n

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Arithmancy<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Read something outside your favorite genre<\/h4>\n

Book Read:<\/strong> The Shadow Cipher<\/em> (a middle grade mystery)<\/p>\n

\"MagicalThe Shadow Cipher<\/strong> by Laura Ruby<\/a>
Series:<\/strong> York #1<\/a>
Published on<\/strong> May 16, 2017 by Walden Pond Press<\/a>
Genres:<\/strong> Middle Grade<\/a>, Mystery<\/a>, Alternate History<\/a>
Pages:<\/strong> 476
Add to <\/strong>Goodreads<\/a>

It was 1798 when the Morningstarr twins arrived in New York with a vision for a magnificent city: towering skyscrapers, dazzling machines, and winding train lines, all running on technology no one had ever seen before. Fifty-seven years later, the enigmatic architects disappeared, leaving behind for the people of New York the Old York Cipher\u2014a puzzle laid into the shining city they constructed, at the end of which was promised a treasure beyond all imagining. By the present day, however, the puzzle has never been solved, and the greatest mystery of the modern world is little more than a tourist attraction.
\nTess and Theo Biedermann and their friend Jaime Cruz live in a Morningstarr apartment house\u2014until a real estate developer announces that the city has agreed to sell him the five remaining Morningstarr buildings. Their likely destruction means the end of a dream long-held by the people of New York. And if Tess, Theo and Jaime want to save their home, they have to prove that the Old York Cipher is real. Which means they have to solve it.
\nFrom National Book Award Finalist Laura Ruby comes a visionary epic set in a New York City at once familiar and wholly unexpected.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\t\t