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Welcome back to SUPER SWAG SUNDAY! If you stopped by yesterday then you know what to do. If you're just joining us, visit HERE first to find out what's going on. But in a nutshell, every day between now and June 30th, one winner will be chosen to receive a SUPER SWAG PACK filled with all sorts of book goodies signed by 50+ of today's hottest YA/MG authors! On the last day one very lucky winner will receive the MEGA SWAG PACK, a collection of first edition books signed by the authors and some other very cool stuff. For a complete list of items in the MEGA SWAG PACK, visit HERE. Be sure to enter the rafflecopter at the end of this post for a chance to win today's prize. Then stop by tomorrow for another chance to win. And spread the word!
TODAY'S BOOK SPOTLIGHTS
Ilsa J. Bick
Egmont USA
688 pp.
Ages 14 & up
Release Date: 9/10/2013
The Changed are on the move. The Spared are out of time. The End...is now.
When her parents died, Alex thought things couldn't get much worse—until the doctors found the monster in her head.
She headed into the wilderness as
a good-bye, to leave everything behind. But then the end of the world
happened, and Alex took the first step down a treacherous road of
betrayal and terror and death.
Now, with no hope of rescue—on
the brink of starvation in a winter that just won't quit—she discovers a
new and horrifying truth.
The Change isn't over.
The Changed are still evolving.
And...they've had help.
With this final volume of The
Ashes Trilogy, Ilsa J. Bick delivers a riveting, blockbuster finish,
returning readers to a brutal, post-apocalyptic world where no one is
safe and hope is in short supply.
A world where, from these ashes, the monsters may rise.
*Read my review of ASHES (The Ashes Trilogy Book I)
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THE KEY AND THE FLAME
Claire CatererMargaret K. McElderry Books
468 pp.
Ages 8 - 12
Publication Date: 4/2/2013
In this middle-grade fantasy adventure, a gusty girl unlocks a magical universe—and the danger that lies within.
Eleven-year-old Holly Shepard
longs for adventure, some escape from her humdrum life. That is
precisely what she gets when she is given an old iron key that unlocks a
door—in a tree.
Holly crosses the threshold into a
stunning and magical medieval world, Anglielle. And as she does so,
something unlocks within Holly: a primal, powerful magic. Holly is
joined on her journey by two tagalongs—her younger brother Ben, and
Everett, an English boy who hungers after Holly’s newfound magic and
carries a few secrets of his own.When Ben and Everett are sentenced to
death by the royals, whose fear of magic has fueled a violent, systemic
slaughter of all enchanted creatures, Holly must save them and find a
way back home. But will she be able to muster the courage and rise above
her ordinary past to become an extraordinary hero?
"The book’s pace is sprightly, and Holly’s adventures are exciting without being too scary." - Publisher's Weekly
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Dorine White
Cedar Fort
183 pp.
Ages 8-12
Publication Date: 5/14/2013
Sara Bogus's life turns upside down when she discovers an emerald ring
that once belonged to Cleopatra. The fun of discovering the ring's
unique abilities turns to fear when she finds out a dangerous cult bent
on restoring Rome to power is after the ring. Forced to choose between
keeping the ring and saving her friends, Sara learns the price of
bravery in this electrifying read!
*Read my review of THE EMERALD RING
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LOSING IT
Amazon Children's Publishing
272 pp.
Ages 10 - 14
Publication Date: 9/4/2012
Bennett Robinson loves baseball, especially watching Dodgers games with
his dad while munching on burgers and fries - the perfect “game food.”
Baseball even helped Bennett and his dad cope with his mom’s death from
cancer. But there’s no way Bennett could ever play baseball. Bennett is
fat, the kind of fat that gives you belly button sweat stains and makes
it tough to get off a sagging couch. But on one perfect,
baseball-watching day, everything changes. Bennett’s dad is taken away
on a stretcher, and Bennett doesn’t know if he will live or die. Now
Bennett has to move in with know-it-all Aunt Laura, who’s making it her
personal mission to Get Bennett Healthy - and take over his life. It’s
time for Bennett to step up to the plate. Because maybe there are some
things he can do . . . like talk to a girl, run a mile, and maybe even
save his own life. Erin Fry explores the issue of obesity with heart,
depth, and humor in this unforgettable debut novel.
"Fry's purposive debut is reminiscent of Chris Crutcher's works, but for
a younger audience. An energizing and ultimately uplifting tale of the
power to change." - Kirkus Reviews
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Erin Richards
F+W Media
304 pp.
Release Date: 7/18/2013
A "\good boy\" will do anything for
vengeance when a gang rite kills his twin sister. Will Lucas win, or
follow his sister Silver into the darkness?
After a hideous car wreck, Lucas
wakes from a coma to find that his world is gutted. Not only is his
beloved twin sister, Silver, gone forever, but Lucas is broken in body
and spirit. He will never be a college athlete, and is robbed of what he
now realizes was the most important bond of his life. Although they
weren't identical twins, Lucas and Silver shared a bond so fierce it
defied reason, and was nearly supernatural.
After her death, that bond seems
to endure when Lucas sees Silver everywhere he turns. Either he's crazy,
or Silver is trying to tell him something about the California gang
initiation they stumbled into that cost Silver her life. Lucas is bent
on revenge, turning on Raymond, Silver's former boyfriend; the one Lucas
never wanted her to date. He forms a posse of vigilantes to take out
the gangsters responsible for Silver's death, but he risks not only his
own life, but the love of the new girl on his block, who knows more
about Lucas and Silver than can be accounted for by mere chance.
"This book grabs you from page one and doesn't ever let go!" --Georgia McBride, author of Praefatio
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RUSH
HarperCollins
368 pp.
Ages 14-17
Publication Date 6/11/2013
Rush
pulls you headlong into the thrilling, high-stakes world of Eve Silver's
teen series The Game, about teens pulled into and out of an alternate
reality in which battling aliens is more than a game—it's life and
death. This teen debut novel offers science fiction and gaming fans
romantic thrills at a breakneck pace.
Seventeen-year-old Miki Jones's
carefully controlled life spirals into chaos after she's run down in the
street, left broken and bloody. She wakes up fully healed in a place
called the lobby—pulled from her life, pulled through time and space
into some kind of game in which she and a team of other teens are sent
on missions to eliminate the Drau, terrifying and beautiful alien
creatures.
There are no practice runs, no
training, and no way out. Miki has only the guidance of secretive but
maddeningly attractive team leader Jackson Tate, who says that the game
is more than that, and that what Miki and her new teammates do now
determines their survival and the survival of every other person on this
planet. She laughs. He doesn't. And then the game takes a deadly and
terrifying turn.
"Mind candy for those teen readers who love the thrill of the game." - Kirkus Reviews
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REUNITED Hillary Weisman Graham
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
336 pp.
Ages 12 & up
Publication Date: 6/4/2013
1 concert. 2,000 miles. 3 ex-best friends. Can a road trip restore harmony?
Alice, Summer, and Tiernan used
to be best friends—as well as the self-proclaimed biggest fans of the
band Level3. But when the band broke up, so did their friendship.
Now, four years later, they’ve
just graduated from high school. When Level3 announces a one-time
reunion show in Texas, Alice impulsively buys tickets and invites her
two former friends along for the trip. Reluctant at first, both girls
agree to go, each with her own ulterior motive. But old resentments and
other roadblocks—from unintended detours to lost concert tickets—keep
getting in the girls’ way. Will their friendship get an encore, or is
the show really over?
"Fans of teen-targeted television and movies, as well as popular music fans, will also enjoy this book." - Voya
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PARADIGM
PARADIGM
CreateSpace
396pp.
Ages 14-17
Release Date: 8/22/2013
The story begins one hundred years from now in a future in which
nearly all today’s dire warnings have become reality, the America of Paradigm
has been reduced to a few powerful city states and the vast Wilds where
local strongmen battle for power over a scattered, impoverished people.
Sam Cooper was taken to the Wilds by his parents when he was five.
He’s now seventeen and has been alone for six years, getting by through a
combination of wit, gambling and barter. When his erstwhile friend,
Nathan, suggests they try their luck in one of the city states, Sam is
reluctant – his parents had warned him about such places. However, he
eventually agrees to travel to Century City, setting into motion a chain
of events in which he discovers who is really in control of this not so
brave new world as well as the reason his parents tried to hide him as
far away as they could. On the way he meets the mysterious Alma, a Maori
warrior who repeatedly saves his life, but who has secrets of her own;
Rob, a would-be revolutionary leading a small group of followers
plotting global change from a small house among the rubble of San
Francisco; and the deliciously psychotic Carolyn Bast.
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So many awesome books today! Rush sounds so amazing I still need to read Ashes!
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