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Teamwork Makes the Dream Work! ~ A Year-Long Reading Challenge
Individual Challenge
January 1st - December 31st, 2025


Let's read books and complete tasks related to team and partner sports that are played and enjoyed around the world!


On the 1st and 15th of each month I will post a new team sport in the Playing Field Thread. You will have four tasks to choose from for each sport. You only need to complete one. Participate in as many or as few sports as you would like.


You will make your Completion Posts here IN YOUR OWN THREAD. Please use this format. {You are welcome to copy and paste the game tasks into your own thread if you would like.}


Completion Post
Team Sport:
Book:
Author:
Date Read:
Task:
How it Fits:


If you have any questions, please post them in the Referee's Table Q & A Thread.


Challenge Rules:
📘 Standard Rules Apply
📘I will create an individual thread for you prior to the start date.
📘Your first team sport will be posted on January 1, 2025.
📘Books must be completed after the team sport has been posted.

week 1 American Football
Read a book set in America
A Christmas Memoryby Richard Paul Evans
Completed 1/1/25
Set in Utah, USA

week 2 Soccer
⚽️ Read a book set in Europe.
Reserved for the Catby Mercedes Lackey
Set in England
4/13/25

Basketball
Read a book with "two sides" to the story. {Your interpretation.}
🏀 Read a book with the word TWO in the text.
Arrow's Flightby Mercedes Lackey
"Two blue clad guardsmen stood at the door." p 40
Completed 2/8/25

Baseball
⚾️ Read a book with double letters in the title.
Arrow's Fallby Mercedes Lackey
double letters in the title Fall
completed 2/15/25

Softball
Read a book with a female MC.
If I Asked You to StaybyBrianna Remus
Completed

March 15, 2025
Volleyball
🏐 Read a book where you see arms AND hands on the cover.
by Anne
McCaffrey
Completed 3/22/25

April 1
Rowing
Read a book where the title starts with a letter in COXSWAIN.
The Sleeping Beautyby Mercedes
Lackey
Completed 4/5/25

April 15 Polo
🏇🏼 Read a book where the MC could be a member of "high society." {Your interpretation.}
Easter Bunny Murderby Leslie
Meier
Date read: 4/16/25
How it fits: MC goes to a rich character's house for an easter egg hunt.

Water Polo May 1 2025
🤽🏽 Read a book where you think the MC could play a "highly physical and demanding sport."
Shatter Meby Tahereh
Mafi

Pages: 338
How it fits: MC seems to have special powers that give her super human strength.
Date read:5/3/25

Cricket May 15
Read a book with a white cover. {Your discretion.}
🏏 Read a book with an 11, intact, in the publication date.
🏏 Read a book with a 1 and a 6 in the page count.
🏏 Read a book with at least 20 chapters.

June 1
⚾︎ Read a book where the MC's first name starts with a letter in WIFFLE BALL.
Exile's Honor
MC's name starts with A
Alberich
Completed 08/10/25

June 15

🏉 Read a book where the author's first AND last initials are found in MIDDLE AGES.
Closer to the Heart
Completed 07/5/25

July 1
Beach volleyball
Read a book where someone serves another
Read a book with any two numbers in 1915 in the page count

Handball
July 15
🤾🏽‍♂️ Read a book where the MC's occupation should come with protective equipment.
Closer to Home
MC's occupation is king's spy which is a dangerous job.
Completed 8/4/25

August 1, 2025
Tennis
Read a book set in France.
🎾 Read a book where the MC is single.
🎾 Read a book with the word HAWK or EYE found in the text.
🎾 Read a book with at least two of these numbers in the publication date: 1988.

August 15
Pickleball
Complete ONE of the following:

🥒 Read a book with at
least one scene in kitchen.
🥒 Read a book set in the Pacific Northwest.
🥒 Read a book published in 2021, 2022, or 2023.
🥒 Read a book with a food item on the cover.

September 1 Ice Hockey
Read a book by a Canadian author.
🏒 Read a book where the title starts with a letter in MONTREAL.
Miss Amelia's Listby Mercedes
Lackey
Title starts with M.