It's Em's Sensational Seven Book Contest!
That's right - a contest to win books. And not just one book, but 7 books! One lucky winner will receive the following books, plus a snazzy tote bag from Harper Teen.1. The Faerie Path by Frewin JonesHere's how to enter. Just leave me a comment and tell me 1) your favorite teen book that you read this year and 2) a teen book that you want to read but don't own. I'll select a winner on December 31st so make sure that the comment has your blog address or a way to contact you. And if you want your name to go in the hat twice, then just spread the news on your blog and leave me a comment or send me an email with the link. emsbookshelf (AT) gmail (DOT) com
2. Princess Mia, The Princess Diaries vol IX by Meg Cabot (*ARC)
3. The Queen Geek Social Club by Laura Preble
4. Queen Geeks in Love by Laura Preble
5. The Redheaded Princess by Ann Rinaldi (*ARC)
6. Audrey, Wait by Robin Benway (*ARC)
7. a mystery book :-)
And be sure to check back in the next couple of weeks for some new book reviews and also my very first author interview with the lovely Beth Kephart!
*ARC - these books are advance reading copies. This means that they are paperbound proofs that do not usually have the final jacket, formatting, or binding of the finished edition. They may also contain grammatical and spelling errors. But they are still very awesome and not yet available to the public.
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Hmm...Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher comes to mind as a favorite teen book for this year. It was a very gripping read, and very well-written.
As for a book I don't own but would like to read: The Faerie Path by Frewin Jones. I've been wanting to read that for some time. :-P
Great contest!
MAKE LEMONADE by Virginia Euwer Wolff was one of the best YA books I read this year. Best verse novel ever!
I am dying to read: POISON APPLES by Linda Archer.
OOHHH!!! I want to join!
Okay let's see:
1. My favorite book: very hard to pick. I think I have thousands of favorites. But if I had to pick one....I'd pick New Moon of the Twilight Series.It's not many people's favorite in the series (because of Edward's absense throughout the book). But it's my favorite because it's kinda sorta sad and I can identify with characters who have to cope with tragedy more than I can the ones that are happy-go-lucky. I also loved it becuase it's irrevocably linked to my other favorite book--Romeo and Juliet. Plus I just love Jake (and werewolves).
2. I would love to read Tantalize by Cynthia Letich Smith because it's about vampires and werewolves set in the coolest place ever: my hometown! (Austin, Texas).
By the way--you said you had the ARC to The Host--you are incredibly lucky! Please tell us if you like it or not ^_^
(Sorry about the immensly long post)
Favortie book I read this year would have to be a tie between Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling.
There are so many books I would love to read, and haven't! If I have to pick one it would be Before I Die by Jenny Downham.
What an amazing contest! I'd love to be entered.
1) My favorite teen book that I've read this year was A Northern Light by Jennifer Donnelly. It didn't come out this year, but I just got around to it and I LOVED IT. It's just an altogether amazing book.
2) A teen book that I want to read but don't own. That would be Lock and Key by Sarah Dessen. It doesn't come out for a while, but I love all of her books.
Thanks for the opportunity to win these! Very nice of you.
1. I've read quite a few great books this year including Thirteen Reasons Why, Boy Toy, Bloom but I have to say my FAVORITE was Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist. AMAZING! :)
2. I'm dying to read Lock and Key...
We posted about your contest on our blog: http://teentroves.com/blog/?p=82
-Mollie
I would say that Right Behind You or Thirteen Reasons why would be my favorite books that I've read this year. I really want to read Luxe, but I don't have it yet.
My favorite book of the year is Girl at Sea by Maureen Johnson, and the book I want to read more than ANYTHING is the 9 Princess Diaries!!!
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Brittany!!!
A favorite I've read this year is Or Not by Brian Mandabach. It's a really fantastic book--you should read it if you haven't already!
One I'd like to read but don't own is Lock and Key by Sarah Dessen...and so long to wait until it comes out!
Evolution, Me & Other Freaks of Nature by Robin Brande probably, or Wildwood Dancing by Juliet Marillier are two of my favorites of this year.
I really want to read...I'm dying to read The Red Queen's Daughter by...I can't remember the author...
Advertised here: http://anidori-isilee.blogspot.com/2007/12/sigh.html
I like this contest!
1.) My favorite book this year has got to be Bloodline by Kate Cary.
2.) The book I most want right now is Ironside by Holly Black.
i read the uninvited by amanda barrone
meg cabot
i read the uninvited by amanda barrone LOVED ITTTTTTTTT
meg cabot
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I read Dear John, by Nicholas Sparks, and absolutely loved it. My ex-fiance is in the Army and is going to Afghanistan, and it's been hard. But like the book, you let that person go and find who loves you for you. and it was so well written, how things just tied together. everyone expects so much out of soldiers, but dosen't realize what they have to sacrifice and that they're really emotional deep down.
I am excited to read Sarah Dessen's new book, Lock And Key, just because she is a wonderful author. Her novels have really helped me want to find out who my true friends are. And it's been a rough year for me, my great gram had a stroke, my friend died two years ago, her books just mean so much to me.
my blog... myspace.com/emtmodel03131988.
This is great.
My favorite teen book for this year was definitely Shannon Hale's Book of a Thousand Days. It was wonderful, lyrical, and the heroine is very admirable.
The book I would like to read is probably Rebel Angels, by Libba Bray. *sigh* I've never gotten around to getting it.
I Heart You, You Haunt me was hard to put down. A very fast read and my 15 year old daughter also liked it. And I love to read any of 'em!!
Sweet. I'll enter.
The Goose Girl by Shannon Hale.
& I would really like to read The Kiki Strike Books, the first one.
just got twilght by stephanie meyers
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Ohh! So exciting!
Best Teen Book is a tie between Wicked Lovely and Sorcery and Cecilia.
One I really want to read and don't own: The Faerie Path (not trying to copy dance chica!).
I know I already commented but this is great! I'm getting all kinds of great recommendations. I've already reserved a bunch of the books mentioned from my library!
-Mollie
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Wow, there were really a ton of books that I read and loved. I would say Harry Potter 7, but how cliche is that? I guess I'll have to say Rainbow Boys...I was a bit late in reading it, but I loved it soo much, including the rest of the series.
A book that I want to read is Boy Toy because it looks amazing and I like the subject matter. A big issue nowadays and it should be interesting to see how the author addresses that in the book.
I guess a way to get ahold of me?
email:
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One of my favorite books of the year: The Nature of Jade by Deb Caletti.
A book I don't own but would like to read: The Sweet Far Thing by Libba Bray.
Book of a Thousand Days.
It's one of the very few books I have willingly lost sleep over (being a toddler mommy, sleep is tragically important).
Don't own but am dying to read (strike that, lose sleep over):
Tantalize. It just sounds so...tantalizing!
Holly
Cool, stuff Em. Let's see...probably one of the best I have read this year, would be Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. I loved it. So sad, but so good!
One I would love to read is Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac. That looks so good!
Very cool contest! I'll definitely post about this site on my blog! www.thecompulsivereader.blogger.com
Too many choices... I have to say my favorite teen book I have read this year is Life As We Knew It By: Susan Pfeffer. A book I want to read, but don't own is Cross My Heart, and Hope to Spy By: Ally Carter.
If I win, please contact me at jchoover2@yahoo.com.
King Dork was great. I've never been a teen boy, but it was everything I imagine the inside of a teen boy's mind would be like.
I've heard The Lightning Thief is great, and I've been wanting to read that.
1) Since I'm hovering right around ~250 books read in 2007 and most of those are YA, this is difficult for me.
However, with that said, I think that I'm going to have to vote for Beastly by Alex Flinn. I loved the new look at Beauty and the Beast and how Flinn kept a lot of the 'necessary' elements for the story in place while turning it into a modern fairy tale.
2) A teen book that I would like to read but don't own ... The Opposite of Love by Helen Benedict ... I just showed my 9th graders Freedom Writers and I think that many of the kids who were totally enraptured by the movie might be similarly interested in this book, based on what I've heard about it. But I never suggest books to my kids that I haven't read myself!
I can be found on Livejournal under the name Wytchchyld. This is a cool contest! Some of those books would be destined for the school library if I won, but Faerie Path would have to stay and be loved by me.
I read SOLD by Patricia McCormick and thought it was an amazing book. I would like to read Audrey Wait! Thanks for your consideration!
I'm having a fantastic time reading everyone's comments. And my book wishlist is growing immensely because of everyone's recommendations! :-)
Thanks for a fun contest!
1) It's hard to pick just one, but I'd say my fave of the year was The Off Season by Catherine Gilbert Murdock. I loved it as much as her first book, Dairy Queen, which is rare and a high compliment - I usually think sequels pale in comparison.
2) Also hard to pick just one! But one I really want to read is The Luxe by Anna Godbersen.
Ooh, I'd like to enter. My favorite teen book this year was The Invention of Hugo Cabret, though I'm reading Thirteen Reasons Why right now, and it's amazing.
One I don't own but want to read: The second book in the T.A. Barron Merlin series. I just finished the first one and really enjoyed it.
Happy holidays to you!
I have so many favorites this year. I loved The Off Season by Catherine Gilbert Murdock. I loved Twisted by Laurie Halse Anderson. I loved Brothers, Boyfriends, and Other Criminal Minds by April Lurie. A book that I would love to read but don't own...Sweet Far Thing by Libba Bray.
I have read some great books this year, but by far my favorite teen book this year was Freaks by Annette Curtis Klause. That book is high on my re-read list as I really found myself lost in its pages. A teen book that I want to read but have not yet is The Blue Girl by Charles De Lint. I am currently reading his teen book Little (Grrl) Lost and am really enjoying it.
I hope you have a wonderful rest of the holiday and I think this contest is great!
My favorite YA book I read this year was "The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian" by Sherman Alexie. yep, it beats Harry Potter.
And I want to read "Beastly" by Alex Flinn. If that's the one that rises to the surface when a person's read 250 books this year, it must be good.
Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher or Twilight by Stephenie Meyer would be tied for my favorite YA book this year.
The books I want to read but haven't yet are A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray and The Luxe by Anna Godbersen.
For the sake of honesty, I'm going to have to be highly unoriginal here. My favourite was "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows". Another favourite was Terry Pratchett's "Wintersmith".
A book I've been dying to read for years but have yet to get is Shannon Hale's "The Goose Girl".
This is very generous of you, Em! I posted about the giveaway at my blog, here.
1. Dreamland by Sarah Dressen. I thought it approached the topic of dating violence in a realistic way.
2. I want to read The King of Attolia
by Megan Whalen Turner. It's been on my "to-read" list since I read The Thief.
I too have tons of favorite YA books that I read this year, but one that rises to the top is The Book Thief by Markus Zusak. Loved it!
One I've been wanting to read lately is Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson.
Thanks for the fun contest!
My favorite teen book I have read this year is "The Outsiders," by S.E. Hinton It was recommended to me by a friend. I couldn't put it down, even up to the sad ending. I liked reading about Ponyboy, Soda Pop, and all the other boys they knew.
A teen book I would like to read but do not own is "Anahita's Woven Riddle" by Meghan Nuttall Sayres. I saw it on the ALA Top Ten Books for 2007 for Young Adults, and it interested me. I like reading about the lives of women in different cultures.
My favorite YA from this year was "Greensleeves" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw.
Book I want to read - Close Kin - book 2 of the Hollow Kingdom trilogy by Clare B Dunkle. And Ironside by Holly Black.
I spread the news in my blog, so here I am requesting my name in the hat twice. :) Thanks!
Betrayed by PC Cast and Kristin Cast was something I loved reading. I haven't read much YA and initially felt a bit odd reading it, but now I'm hooked. There's an entire genre I've missed and being the bookworm I am, I can hardly believe it!
What I missed reading? The first book in this series, Marked. Lol. I was hooked before I realized this was part 2.
I've also blogged about your contest on my blog "A Book Blogger's Diary", which is chock-full of book/author related contests and of course, my book reviews. The post about your contest can be found here : Em's Sensational Seven Book Contest
Thanks and have a great New Year!
please enter me thanks
Evening, I have read "That Summer" by Sarah Dessen. I am going to read is a first volume called, "Sloppy Firsts-
A Novel!" Please enter me in your contest. Thanks,Cindi
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I read the entire Gregor the Overlander series, teen sci-fi books, and I would like to read Twilight as well as How to Survive Middle School. Please enter me in your giveaway!
Cool giveaway!! This year, I read both Marked and Betrayed from PC Cast and Kristin Cast. It's a new series called The House of Night and I LOVED them!! (and the next book comes out in March!)
I love teen lit. It's one of my favorite genres!
Has to be "Twilight"...vampires and romance!
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is my fav.
I'd love to own Lock and Key!
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My favorite has to be, along with many others, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. I was devastated to see the series end.
A book I'd like to read but don't own is Girl Overboard by Justina Chen Headley.
A great blog and an incredible contest!
ugg.. SO many favorites.
I guess the first book in the Wilderking series is currently my favorite for this year.
Id really love to read The Chronicles of Faerie series as I haven't gotten around to that one yet.
I LOVED the book Dairy Queen, and I would like to read Enna Burning. Thanks for the contest!
1) My favorite teen book that I read this year was How to Be Popular by Meg Cabot.
2) I would love to read 13 Little Blue Envelopes by Maureen Johnson.
Thanks for hosting this great giveaway :)
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I have a few favorites from this year of course Harry Potter & the Golden Compass if you aren't into those Tithe by Holly Black was very good! I'd love to read the Amber Spyglass & then The Faerie Path by Frewin Jones! Great giveaway!
I read the Anne of Green Gables series again this year, and those are some of my favorite books...and the best books that I've read this year. I am interested in reading several new books, including "The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian".
Thanks!
My favorite has to be the first of the princess diarys
Favorite Teen Book I read this year: My UnScripted Life by Tricia Goyer
Teen book I want to read... not sure to be honest.
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I read Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows,
I want to read Anne of Green Gables!
Got here from Dewey's blog!
The book I read this year that was by far my favorite was The Off Season by Catherine Gilbert Murdock. It was an awsome sequel to Dairy Queen and was a fabulous story.
The book I dont own, but would LOVE to read is Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac by Gabrielle Zevin. It sounds absolutly awsome.
Hopefully I'm not too late to get my name in the hat again by blogging about it--http://teenbookreview.wordpress.com/2007/12/31/contest/.
Tough to name a favorite, but I really love two totally different books from England: This is All: The Pillow Book of Cordelia Kenn by Aidan Chambers and Candy by Kevin Brooks. The length of the titles corresponds to the book lengths. :)
I'd like to have A.S. King's The Dust of 100 Dogs, but it's not out yet!
My favorite teen book for this year is probably Before I Die by Jenny Downham...and a book I don't own but would like to read is Sloppy Firsts by Meg McCafferty (actually I'd like to read that whole series!!)
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There's still a few minutes left to December 31st right? :-)
My favorite Teen book for this year was probably the 2nd Kiki Strike... though maybe that's more middle grade? Bad Girls Club was good too.
As far as one I don't have... I'd love Redheaded Princess by Ann Rinaldi
1) my favorite teen book that i read this year was princess diaries one, it was so amazing and made me laugh a lot!
2) a book i would love to read is i'd tell you but i'd have to kill you, it seems pretty interesting
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My favorite book is walking on broken glass by Alma Fullerton because I can totally understand how the feels because his mother tried to commit suicide and got in a coma and a dad who can't handle whats happening to his family and losing friends because you actually want to be a leader and not fall under the influence.
The book I want but don't have is The Queen Geek Social Club because my friend told me that it was a great book. About a girl called chelbey who has no friends but a robotic machine or something until this new girl comes and shakes things up making life a whole lot interesting.
IzabellaGail@gmail.com
Uglies by Scott Westerfield, he is sucha great writer and his series is a one of a kind thriller.
I really want to read Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac by.Gabrielle Zevin. Ive been looking forward to reading this book since I read the review.
Umm, the best book of the year for me would have to be, Gingerbread by Rachel Cohn! And a book I want to read is Lock and key by Sarah Dessen.
My favorite book this year would have to be The Fortunes of Indigo Skye by Deb Caletti. It's true, money changes people, but who says they can't change back?
I would like to read... Lock and Key.
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