Monday -- What Am I Reading?

I'm signing up again for bookjourney's Monday check in, where everyone reports on what they've read and what they want to read and what they are currently reading.  It's a good chance to step back a bit and see the patterns.

• Emmy and the Home for Troubled Girls, Lynne Jonell
• Dragonbreath: No Such Thing As Ghosts, Ursula Vernon
• The Dragon Princess, E.D. Baker
• Nurk, Ursula Vernon
• The Littlest Pirate King, Peter B

There's a clear pattern -- I'm going for low-hanging fruit in my continuing quest to clear out my library pile.  These are all kidlit.  What am I reading right now? A lot.

• Toby Alone, Timothee de Fombelle (challenge book)
• The Last House-Party, Peter Dickinson.  From my shelves.
• Keeper, Kathi Appelt.  From the next library shelf.
• Nowhere to Run, C.J. Box.  Tragically, this is set in Wyoming, about the only western wilderness state I already have.
• I Now Pronounce You Someone Else, Erin McCahan. Cybils YA book, but so scary I can only read a few pages a day.  She's now engaged, planning her wedding for the summer after graduation.
• Buffy, Ballads, and Bad Guys Who Sing, ed by Kendra Leonard.  Essays on music in the Whedonverse.  My finisher award book.
• Dakota Ambush, by William Johnstone. I found it!!!  Right where we looked a dozen times.
• Born To Run, by Christopher McDougal. On my NOOK
• and a bunch of books I'm poking at but not really making progress with.

What will I read next? I'm working the next pile of almost-due library books.  I think I'm almost done recovering from my early summer spree, since all summer is about the limit for checking out books.  I think I'd like to stabilize around twelve books out, so I have options but aren't always racing the due dates. Onto my challenges:

A-Z: 43/52. Picked up the "J" author.

Cybils: 58/76. And I'm reading one more right now, the very frightening young wedding book.

Global Reading Challenge:12/21. Hmm, this one clearly needs work.

Read Around the World: 21/20. Done!

Science Book Challenge: 3.141/3.141... Done! And hey, Switch is sorta science. I should add that.

Stream: 3/3, 1/3, 3/3, 3/3.  I have to figure out how to register myself as done.

Take a Chance: 7/10. I have Room out for this.  Haven't read it yet, though.

20/11: 20/20. Done! 

What's In a Name?: 6/6.  Done!

Where Am I Reading?: 28/50. Found the Dakota book!  Now I just have to read it.