BREAKING NEWS! readergirlz and First Book are partnering to give away more than 125,000 brand-new books to low-income teen readers.
They’re great books, too, donated by generous publishers. Among the three dozen choices are P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast’s HOUSE OF NIGHT series and Alyson Noël’s SHADOWLAND.
We need your help getting the word out about the A Novel Gift campaign. Right now! Right now! As in, now!
Let's get organizations serving these teens registered with First Book so they can be matched with inventory during the holidays.
Here’s what we need you to do:
Post to Facebook and tweet your beak off about these books using the hashtag #novelgift.
Then, get in touch with every group you can think of that works with young adults–schools, after-school programs, church youth groups, community centers, etc.—and let them know that these books are available now.
Missing cities, lost princesses, vanished airplanes. All true, and all explained by current science. Explore nine different historical mysteries from around the world with Case Closed? by Susan Hughes. Click here to read more.
For all you TWILIGHT fans out there, don't miss this giveaway:
Win the Eclipse DVD before you can buy it all this week from ReelzChannel! To enter, reply to the Discussion post on Movie Trailers by Reelz with your favorite character from any Twilight movie. We’ll draw a random winner each day through 12/05/10. See the full sweepstakes rules for more details about the prizes. Open to U.S. residents only who are 18 years or older.
Tod Munn is in trouble. Big trouble. So what's he done? He takes kids' money. He breaks kids' glasses. He makes kids scared. Tod's a smart mouth with grown-ups, but even worse, he's just too smart for his own gang. After they all get caught, Tod has a choice: Juvenile Detention, or daily detention after school with Mrs. Woodrow. His punishment is to scrawl his thoughts and feelings in a composition notebook. His gang's punishment is to pick up trash from the school grounds. Tensions rise as the stakes get higher. Can the power of words free Tod from the terrible cycle he is in? To read more, click here.
Welcome to the future where only a select few live inside a wall. Those outside live a life without electricity and other modern day comforts. Gaia helps her mother deliver babies. In her society, it's the duty of the midwives to deliver up the first live births to those inside the wall. No one has questioned this. That is until the day Gaia comes home to find her parents have been arrested by those they have served. Birthmarked is a tale that keep you wondering what exactly is behind the quotas of babies and why some are marked.
Dancing moves people the world over, both physically and spiritually. The Barefoot Book of DanceStories invites readers to roam its pages, and thus the globe, through this universal language of dance. Eight individual folk/fairy tales ... Click here to read more.
In celebration of the release of The Curse of the Wendigo, the sequel to Rick Yancey's The Monstrumologist, we're giving away a Grand Prize Pack!
One (1) lucky YABC winner will receive:
- A $50 Cash Card -- Is money the root of all evil? Found out what evil really is with a $50 VISA
- Copies of both The Monstrumologist and The Curse of the Wendigo!
THE MONSTRUMOLOGIST
These are the secrets I have kept. This is the trust I never betrayed. But he is dead now and has been for nearly ninety years, the one who gave me his trust, the one for whom I kept these secrets. The one who saved me . . . and the one who cursed me.
So starts the diary of Will Henry, orphan and assistant to a doctor with a most unusual specialty: monster hunting. In the short time he has lived with the doctor, Will has grown accustomed to his late night callers and dangerous business. But when one visitor comes with the body of a young girl and the monster that was eating her, Will's world is about to change forever. The doctor has discovered a baby Anthropophagus—a headless monster that feeds through a mouth in its chest—and it signals a growing number of Anthropophagi. Now, Will and the doctor must face the horror threatening to overtake and consume our world before it is too late.
Rick Yancey is the author of The Monstrumologist series (Book #1 of which won the Michael L. Printz Honor Award in 2010) as well as the critically acclaimed series Extraordinary Adventures of Alfred Kropp. He has also written several novels for adults including The Highly Effective Detective and A Burning in Homeland. He earned a BA in English fromRoosevelt University in Chicago, and worked as a field officer for the Internal Revenue Service before turning to writing full time in 2004. Rick lives in Florida with his wife Sandy, three sons, two dogs and one lizard. Visit him at http://www.rickyancey.com for more info.
From all over the world, mama horses watch their foals run and frolic, and when they are tired, mamas guard the little ones while they sleep. From the plains to the moor to the barnyard, Jane Yolen captures the majesty and character of horses in this sleepy time tale. Click here to read more.
In celebration of Deathly Hallows Part 1 (Got your tickets yet?), coming this Friday, ReelzChannel is hosting Harry Potter Week! Check their site for exclusive tidbits like these:
Each day, Hollywood Dailies has a new cover story about the Harry Potter series, the new Deathly Hallows movie or the cast. Catch it at 5:30pm ET.
Maltin on Movies on Friday, November 19 at 11:30am ET/ 8:30am PT
Host Leonard Maltin reviews Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1. Don’t miss what Maltin has to say about the beginning of the end for the Harry Potter series.
Our week culminates with “Spotlight: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” on Saturday, November 20, 2010 at 10:30am ET
Hosted by Draco Malfoy himself—Tom Felton, we’ll look back on more than a decade of the Harry Potter series. With the conclusion drawing close, hear from the stars on what happened during filming for the final two movies and what their journey has been like. Hear from Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Ralph Fiennes, and director David Yates.
Each day, check out the fan results on Hollywood’s Top Ten. You voted on the lists and we put them together. Watch every day at 5:00pm ET and don’t miss how the fans voted.
A complete schedule and channel numbers are available on our website at www.reelz.com/watch
Also, make sure you enter the Harry Potter sweepstakes! Check out www.reelz.com/fbwin for more details.
Ok, I admit it. I'm a huge fan of the CW series The Vampire Diaries. I'm totally team Damon. One reason why I was so excited that Smart Pops let me read and review this anthology that includes essays from popular YA authors on their take on the series. **Yes, I'm not the only fan! A Visitor's Guide to Mystic Falls: Your Favorite Authors on The Vampires Diaries is a fun and insightful collection of essays. A must read for any fan of the series.
Formerly titled Big and Little, this 1987 book by Ruth Krauss has been reissued as And I Love You. The gentle book compares the love between a parent and child with the vistas they explore through the sharing of stories. Big forests love little trees and big fields love little flowers. In the same way, the mama cat in the story loves her kitten.
Mythical creatures don't exist, right? Well, Percy Jackson finds out the hard way that they do. And to make matters worse, he's angered a few of them. His crime? He's accused of stealing Zeus's lightning bolt. Now it's up to Percy to clear his name and also find out the truth of who he really is. Percy Jackson & The Olympians The Lightning Thief The Graphic Novel is a fun, action-packed adaptation of the popular series.
Betsy is finally old enough to walk to Grandma’s by herself! So she takes her sheep and her fellow shepherd, Zimmo the wolf, and sets off to deliver some cupcakes to Grandma. Then Zimmo takes off in the middle of the walk! Is he hurrying ahead to eat Grandma? (Wolves have eaten grandmothers before!)
It’s May 1910, and Halley’s Comet is due to pass thru the Earth’s atmosphere. And thirteen-year-old Hope McDaniels and her father are due to pass through their hometown of Chicago with their ragtag vaudeville troupe. Hope wants out of vaudeville, and longs for a “normal” life—or as normal as life can be without her mother, who died five years before. Hope sees an opportunity: She invents “anti-comet” pills to sell to the working-class customers desperate for protection. Soon, she’s joined by a fellow troupe member, young Buster Keaton, and the two of them start to make good money. And just when Hope thinks she has all the answers, she has to decide: What is family? Where is home? I LOVED THIS BOOK.
Not only is Hope's voice charming, quirky and mischievous, not only is her emotional arc captivating, and not only do I have a ginormous crush on Buster Keaton now - but Kristen O'Donnell Tubb could teach a class on how to write a historical novel that is both informative and entertaining.
Her writing style is brisk and tight, and the story never slows. The reader is immediately emotionally invested in Hope and her destiny. Her father is painted perfectly, the bumbling magician with more on his mind than his daughter. The rest of the carnival participants are not caricatures, which would have been easy, but living, breathing, jump-off-the-page human beings.
Betsy is determined to be the best shepherd BrayValley has ever known—and the Valley has known some lousy shepherds! Then Betsy faces Zimmo, a wolf with a plan and a growling stomach. Somehow she alone must protect her sheep from this very hungry fellow. But as it turns out, Zimmo longs for something more than just food …
We're giving away some awesome books this month. We've got Star Crossed: Gemini Night by Bonnie Hearn Hill, Labyrinth's Door by Jacquitta A McManus, and last but not least, The Mockingbirds by Daisy Whitney.
Click on the covers to enter the prize drawing. Good luck!
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