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Got this in from Penguin today:
Check out an Audrey, Wait! contest on Votigo (http://www.votigo.com/audreywait/) where readers can submit their own lyrics and video performance. The prize is awesome: a $1000 American Express gift card and $250 Best Buy gift card!!
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Got this from HBGUSA, sounds very cool...
What do YOU think people can do to help end global warming?
Tell the world by creating your own Public Service Announcement! James Patterson’s # 1 bestselling book series Maximum Ride and Do Something are both all about the power of young people to change the world - so show us your ideas. Your video might be good enough for Fall Out Boy.
Click HERE for the official rules.
The winner with the best PSA will receive: A chance to appear in a PSA professionally produced by Do Something FEATURING Fall Out Boy A trip for 2 to NY or LA Your PSA aired nationwide A $500 grant to DO SOMETHING in your own community
Not sure what you can do to help the environment? Check out DoSomething.org for some cool ideas.
First she was watched. Then she was threatened. This is her FINAL WARNING.Maximum Ride is a perfectly normal teenager who just happens to be able to fly, the result of an out-of-control genetic experiment. Max and the other members of the flock - five kids who share her remarkable ability - have been asked to aid a group of environmental scientists studying the effects of global warming. The expedition seems like a perfect combination of adventure, activism - and escape from the government forces that are watching the flock all the time. But even in Antarctica, enduring the harshest weather on our planet, Maximum Ride is an irresistible target in constant danger. For whoever controls her powers could also control the world...
DID YOU KNOW?
The U.S. is the world's leader when it comes to global warming - we are responsible for 25% of the worldwide carbon dioxide emissions today. Through various political campaigns and scientific debates, global warming has become a "hot topic" for Americans. With continued global warming, our earth will face detrimental effects including more floods and infectious diseases. Look ahead to the future - instead of waiting for this stuff to happen, why not act now to prevent it? Upload your message encouraging your friends, family, and community to get out there and Do Something about global warming today!
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(This post is part of Kaza Kingsley's January Blog Tour promoting her latest Eric Rex book).
Here's a picture of Kaza in Paris with a waiter who mysteriously keeps popping up in all the pictures...hey, at least he's cute!
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I'm playing in a "paying it forward" game on my personal blog, if anyone wants to play along.
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I get a lot of queries (and some demands) for advice on how to get published from various people. Today I finally got around to writing up a page of hints and tips...so check out "So, you wanna be a published author?" Keep in mind, of course, that this is just one person's opinion. :-)
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Our very own Amber (the 2007 YABC Official Teen Reviewer/Demi-Goddess) is a finalist in the Seventeen Magazine Reader Model Contest! Woot! Amber was selected as one of the 17 finalists out of thousands of applicants and she's always wanted to be a model. If she wins, she'll be up for a $10,000 modeling contract with Ford Models and will appear in an editorial fashion shoot in Seventeen Magazine!!
You can check out all of the finalists or Amber's profile page. When you're ready to vote, go to this form and just select Amber from the drop down list. You'll also be entered to win a Francesca Dress from Single, so that's a bonus. Voting is limited to once per day and you have to be between the ages of 13 to 27. So go forth and vote (every day, if you can)! Voting ends on December 3rd.
Good luck, Amber!!
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Yep, it's that time of year again. This year's Teen Demi-Goddess (Amber) has done a spectacular job (just like last year's Dominique). But it is just about time for the changing of the guard.
If you are interested in being the next YABC Demi-God or Demi-Goddess, please check out the offical application form. Applicants must be between 13 - 19 during the calendar year 2008.
Application deadline is December 15th this year. Good luck, everyone!
Maybe this will help you decide on whether or not to apply: final thoughts from Amber, the 2007 Demi-Goddess:
It's November already, and my days as Official Teen Book Reviewer for YABooksCentral are winding down. I just wanted to write you a little note and thank you for this amazing opportunity and for working so incredibly hard to maintain the high quality of YABooksCentral. So many people enjoy the site, and it's been my honor to contribute to YABC for the past year.
I will enjoy my last couple of months here, and I hope that my reviews have lived up to your expectations. The experience has exceeded my wildest expectations, and whomever is the 2008 Teen Demi-God/Goddess is a very lucky person indeed.
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Create a mnemonic or slogan to help kids (and adults!) remember the order of the planetsin our new solar system—which includes dwarf planets Ceres, Pluto, and Eris.
The firstletter of each word stands for one of the planets. The order of the planets is: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Ceres, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, Eris.
For example: My Very Excellent Mother Can Jump Slowly Under Nelly’s Plastic Elephant.
Prizes:The winner’s name and slogan will be featured in an upcoming National Geographic book about the planets, 11 Planets: A New View of the Solar System by David Aguilar, and the winner will receive a tote bag filled with books, a National Geographic tee shirt and hat, toys and other merchandise! Schools across the country will use the winning slogan to teach kids about the solar system!
Enter the contest!
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Flux, the young adult imprint of Llewellyn Worldwide, is holding a contest at http://www.fluxnow.com/ to fill the pages of a new, reader-written section in this fall’s re-release of Blue is for Nightmares by Laurie Faria Stolarz. The first book in a four book series that includes White is for Magic, Silver is for Secrets, and Red is for Remembrance, Blue has sold over one hundred thousand copies since it was published in November 2003.
BIFN hopefuls should invent their own BIFN-inspired spell or poem, not to exceed 100 words. On April 2, Laurie will select twenty entries to be included in this new bonus section. The lucky winners will receive an autographed copy of the new edition, along with other cool Flux paraphernalia (and glory).
How cool is this? Get out there and enter now at http://www.fluxnow.com/enter_contest.php?contest_id=1
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Today is the 50th birthday for the Cat in the Hat. Please visit www.catinthehat.com to send the Cat a birthday e-card. For each e-card received, Random House will donate a book to First Reads to support literacy. Send more than one! Tell your friends!
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I got this email from Justina Chen Headley (you might remember YABC sponsored a contest giving away her awesome book Nothing But the Truth (And a Few White Lies) awhile back) a week or two ago and am just now getting around to posting it here (sorry, everyone, but this moving to another state business is keeping me seriously occupied!!). So, everyone, you need to go check out Readergirlz. Like now! It looks really great! I'm always behind any site/author that wants to encourage reading.
We are four young adult authors (Dia Calhoun, Janet Lee Carey, Lorie Ann Grover & Justina Chen Headley) who are launching readergirlz, a new online book community celebrating gutsy girls in life & lit. Our goal is to encourage teen girls to read and reach out. Every month, we will gather readers online to discuss a novel with us and participate in a community service project related to that book.
We'll kick off readergirlz on March 1, 2007, in honor of National Women's History Month. In addition, we will embark on a tour, Today's Girls, Tomorrow's History, where we'll take our message of girl empowerment via literature and community service to schools, libraries, bookstores, and conferences. We have been absolutely stunned by the reception readergirlz has been getting! Since our sneak peek at ALA Midwinter, librarians across the country have been e-mailing us, enthusiastic about this project. Also, Publishers Weekly & NPR each want to do a feature story on the readergirlz movement. It is a bit surreal to us.
We welcome your feedback about readergirlz-especially what you think teen girls ought to be reading and which attributes you think they need to succeed in this millennium. Really--what do you think teen girls need to know before heading out into the real world? Tolerance? Self-acceptance? Courage? And which YA novels do you think feature the gutsiest girls?
For more information, you can check out our website at http://www.readergirlz.com/, www.myspace.com/readergirlz, or
http://readergirlz.livejournal.com.
