Allyson Valentine is the first-time author of How (Not) to Find a Boyfriend (Philomel, 2013). From the promotional copy:
Sophomore Nora Fulbright is the most talented and popular new cheerleader on the Riverbend High cheer squad.
Never mind that she used to be queen of the nerds—a chess prodigy who answered every question first,
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The following giveaways are all author sponsored and available to U.S. residents only.
Enter to win one of three signed hardcover copies of Towering by Alex Flinn (HarperTeen)(excerpt). From the promotional copy:
High in my tower I sit.
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Michaela MacColl‘s latest book is Nobody’s Secret (Chronicle, 2013)(discussion guide). From the promotional copy:
One day, fifteen-year-old Emily Dickinson meets a mysterious, handsome young man. Surprisingly, he doesn’t seem to know who she or her family is. And even more surprisingly,
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Laurie Boyle Crompton is the first-time author of Blaze (or Love in the Time of Supervillains) (Sourcebooks, 2013) and looks forward to the release of
Adrenaline (FSG/Macmillian, 2014) and
The Real Prom Queens of Westfield High (Sourcebooks, 2014).
Houghton Mifflin/Harcourt
By Lisa Jahn-Clough
for Cynthia Leitich Smith‘s Cynsations
All dead. No one survived. All dead.
This morbid chant haunts seventeen-year-old Blue as she trudges through the countryside with just the clothes on her back, heading to her childhood home on the ocean.
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Enter to win a signed copy of Ball by Mary Sullivan (Houghton Mifflin, 2013). From the promotional copy:
A dog with a ball is one of the most relentlessly hopeful creatures on Earth.
After his best little-girl pal leaves for school,
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Celebrate the Australia-New Zealand release of Feral Nights (Book 1 in the Feral series) and Eternal: Zachary’s Story, illustrated by Ming Doyle (a graphic novel from the Tantalize series) by entering to win copies of your very own! Eligibility is international; anyone can win!
By Karen Rock
Scott Blagden is the debut YA author of Dear Life, You Suck (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt). The novel has received a starred review from School Library Journal as well as a rave in The Wall Street Journal.
It’s a humorous, raw, coming-of-age novel in which an orphan who faces graduation,
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By Kathy Duval
Stories ideas generally come to me in bits and pieces. Their arrival can be troublesome when I’m trying to concentrate on something else.
For example, when I’m watching a great movie and I don’t have any paper, and it’s too dark in the theater to write, anyway.
I lovingly collect the fragments I do manage to capture and am ecstatic when one sparks an idea for a story.
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By Lena Coakley
Susin Nielsen got her start feeding cast and crew on the popular television series, “Degrassi Junior High.” They hated her food, but they saw a spark in her writing. Nielsen went on to pen sixteen episodes of the hit TV show.
Since then,
