Weekend Book Giveaway: Emerald Green

This week's book is the hotly awaited third book in The Ruby Red Trilogy by Kerstin Gier - Emerald Green:

Gwen fulfills her destiny in this thrilling final book of the romantic time-travel trilogy.Gwen has a destiny to fulfill, but no one will tell her what it is.She's only recently learned that she is the Ruby, the final member of the time-traveling Circle of Twelve, and since then nothing has been going right. She suspects the founder of the Circle, Count Saint-Germain, is up to something nefarious, but nobody will believe her. And she's just learned that her charming time-traveling partner, Gideon, has probably been using her all along.This stunning conclusion picks up where Sapphire Blue left off, reaching new heights of intrigue and romance as Gwen finally uncovers the secrets of the time-traveling society and learns her fate.

46 people are waiting to get their hands on this.  To get a beautiful brand new gift-worthy hardback of this title, tell me just why you want it and convince me to send it to you.  No random drawing this week.  I want to be persuaded.

Winner will be selected by Dawn on Tuesday, December 10, 2013. Be sure to leave a name with your entry, and check back to see if you won. To win you must be a teen (6th-12th grade, or 12-18) who uses a Sno-Isle Library.

Weekend Book Give-Away: The Cydonian Pyramid

Did you read The Obsidian Blade?  Then you will be excited to get to read this week's book is the The Cydonian Pyramid by Pete Hautman before the library copies have even come in!

More than half a millennium in the future, in the shadow of the looming Cydonian Pyramid, a pampered girl named Lah Lia has been raised for one purpose: to be sacrificed through one of the mysterious diskos that hover over the pyramid's top. But just as she is about to be killed, a strange boy appears from the diskos, providing a cover of chaos that allows her to escape and launching her on a time-spinning journey in which her fate is irreversibly linked to his. In this second volume of the Klaatu Diskos trilogy, Tucker Feye and Lah Lia each hurtle through time, relating their stories in alternating viewpoints that converge at crucial moments. Fans of the first adventure will be intrigued by the chance to see the world through Lah Lia's eyes -- no matter how disturbing the vision might be.

For a chance to win, tell me about a time you gained understanding by seeing things from a different perspective...or about a good book you've read that does this.

Winner will be selected with Random Number Generator on Tuesday May 14, 2013. Be sure to leave a name with your entry, and check back to see if you won. To win you must be a teen (6th-12th grade, or 12-18) who uses a Sno-Isle Library.  

Weekend Book Give-Away: Poison Princess

Looking for something fresh and interesting to read?  This week's book Poison Princess by Kresley Cole, looks like it has lots of potential:

Sixteen year old Evangeline "Evie" Greene leads a charmed life, until she begins experiencing horrifying hallucinations. When an apocalyptic event decimates her Louisiana hometown, Evie realizes her hallucinations were actually visions of the future--and they're still happening. Fighting for her life and desperate for answers, she must turn to her wrong-side-of-the-bayou classmate: Jack Deveaux.

Clearly our readers are getting excited about this one as we have 14 people waiting for it and it just came out!  If you are excited to read this one and want a chance to win your own Advanced Readers Copy, tell me what you are thankful for this week.


Winner will be selected with Random Number Generator on Tuesday November 27, 2012 (we are taking a little break for Thanksgiving). Be sure to leave a name with your entry, and check back to see if you won. To win you must be a teen (6th-12th grade, or 12-18) who uses a Sno-Isle Library.

Weekend Book Give-Away: Promised

This week's book is the third in the Birthmarked series, Promised by Caragh M. O'Brien, which I'm sure some of you must be excited about, as there are 19 holds on this book right now!

After defying the ruthless Enclave, surviving the wasteland, and upending the rigid matriarchy of Sylum, Gaia Stone now faces her biggest challenge ever.  She must lead the people of Sylum back to the Enclave and persuade the Protectorat to grant them refuge from the wasteland.  In Gaia's absence, the Enclave has grown more cruel, more desperate to experiment on mothers from outside the wall, and now the stakes of cooperating or rebelling have never been higher.  Is Gaia ready, as a leader, to sacrifice what--or whom--she loves most?

For a chance to win this book, tell me what has been your biggest challenge ever, and how you dealt with it.  Just three or four sentences will do.

Winner will be selected with Random Number Generator on Tuesday November 13 , 2012. Be sure to leave a name with your entry, and check back to see if you won. To win you must be a teen (6th-12th grade, or 12-18) who uses a Sno-Isle Library.

Weekend Book Give-Away: Monstrous Beauty

Looking for something both magical and spooky to read?  Maybe you would like Monstrous Beauty by Elizabeth Fama:

Fierce, seductive mermaid Syrenka falls in love with Ezra, a young naturalist. When she abandons her life underwater for a chance at happiness on land, she is unaware that this decision comes with horrific and deadly consequences. Almost one hundred forty years later, seventeen-year-old Hester meets a mysterious stranger named Ezra and feels overwhelmingly, inexplicably drawn to him. For generations, love has resulted in death for the women in her family. Is it an undiagnosed genetic defect . . . or a curse? With Ezra’s help, Hester investigates her family’s strange, sad history. The answers she seeks are waiting in the graveyard, the crypt, and at the bottom of the ocean—but powerful forces will do anything to keep her from uncovering her connection to Syrenka and to the tragedy of so long ago.

For a chance to win a lovely new hardcover copy of this book, tell me the biggest thing that would you be willing to give up for love?  Creative answers encouraged!  Winner will be selected with Random Number Generator on Tuesday November 6, 2012. Be sure to leave a name with your entry, and check back to see if you won. To win you must be a teen (6th-12th grade, or 12-18) who uses a Sno-Isle Library.

Weekend Book Give-Away: The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight

Do you believe in true love?  How about love at first sight?  This week's book giveaway, The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight by Jennifer E. Smith, is for all you romantics out there: 

Who would have guessed that four minutes could change everything? Today should be one of the worst days of seventeen-year-old Hadley Sullivan's life. Having missed her flight, she's stuck at JFK airport and late to her father's second wedding, which is taking place in London and involves a soon-to-be stepmother Hadley's never even met. Then she meets the perfect boy in the airport's cramped waiting area. His name is Oliver, he's British, and he's sitting in her row. A long night on the plane passes in the blink of an eye, and Hadley and Oliver lose track of each other in the airport chaos upon arrival. Can fate intervene to bring them together once more? Quirks of timing play out in this romantic and cinematic novel about family connections, second chances, and first loves. Set over a twenty-four-hour-period, Hadley and Oliver's story will make you believe that true love finds you when you're least expecting it.

Ten people are waiting to read this now, but you have a chance to skip the line.  Tell me about the most romantic book you have ever read, and why you think it is romantic (mine is The Princess Bride by William Goldman).

Winner will be selected with Random Number Generator on Tuesday October 30, 2012. Be sure to leave a name with your entry, and check back to see if you won. To win you must be a teen (6th-12th grade, or 12-18) who uses a Sno-Isle Library.

Weekend Book Give-Away: Confessions of a Murder Suspect

This week's book is an exciting one. Right now we have 51 people waiting to read Confessions of a Murder Suspect by James Patterson...and if you are lucky, you might get a free brand new hardback next week!

On the night Malcolm and Maud Angel are murdered, Tandy Angel knows just three things: 1) She was the last person to see her parents alive. 2) The police have no suspects besides Tandy and her three siblings. 3) She can't trust anyone-maybe not even herself. Having grown up under Malcolm and Maud's intense perfectionist demands, no child comes away undamaged. Tandy decides that she will have to clear the family name, but digging deeper into her powerful parents' affairs is a dangerous-and revealing-game. Who knows what the Angels are truly capable of? 

Does that not sound like a thrilling mystery? For your chance to win, make up a completely outrageous and ridiculous family secret that you recently "discovered".  Keep it under a paragraph, but make it exciting!

Winner will be selected with Random Number Generator on Tuesday October 23, 2012. Be sure to leave a name and library with your entry, and check back to see if you won. To win you must be a teen (6th-12th grade, or 12-18) who uses a Sno-Isle Library.

Weekend Book Give-Away: Shadow and Bone

This week's awesome book give-away is Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo.  At least 20 people are waiting to read this, but if you win you can get it much sooner!

Surrounded by enemies, the once-great nation of Ravka has been torn in two by the Shadow Fold, a swath of near impenetrable darkness crawling with monsters who feast on human flesh. Now its fate may rest on the shoulders of one lonely refugee. Alina Starkov has never been good at anything. But when her regiment is attacked on the Fold and her best friend is brutally injured, Alina reveals a dormant power that saves his life--a power that could be the key to setting her war-ravaged country free. Wrenched from everything she knows, Alina is whisked away to the royal court to be trained as a member of the Grisha, the magical elite led by the mysterious Darkling. Yet nothing in this lavish world is what it seems. With darkness looming and an entire kingdom depending on her untamed power, Alina will have to confront the secrets of the Grisha...and the secrets of her heart.

Never been good at anything?  So sad...surely everyone is good at something, no?  For a chance to win this book, tell me 1) something you are good at (not matter how small) and 2) what you would like your dormant power to be.

Winner will be selected with Random Number Generator on Tuesday October 16, 2012. Be sure to leave a name with your entry, and check back to see if you won. To win you must be a teen (6th-12th grade, or 12-18) who uses a Sno-Isle Library.

Weekend Book Give-Away: Origin

Do you think your parents are overprotective?  Wait until you read about Pia in Origin by Jessica Khoury:

Pia has grown up in a secret laboratory hidden deep in the Amazon rain forest. She was raised by a team of scientists who have created her to be the start of a new immortal race. But on the night of her seventeenth birthday, Pia discovers a hole in the electric fence that surrounds her sterile home--and sneaks outside the compound for the first time in her life. Free in the jungle, Pia meets Eio, a boy from a nearby village. Together, they embark on a race against time to discover the truth about Pia's origin--a truth with deadly consequences that will change their lives forever...

This new book is pretty hot right now, and getting hotter...11 people are waiting to read it right now.  But you, faithful readers, have a chance at winning your own brand new copy!   Just tell me a short story (3-7 sentences)  about your (totally imaginary) secret origin to be entered in the drawing. 

Winner will be selected with Random Number Generator on Thursday October 11, 2012. Be sure to leave a name with your entry, and check back to see if you won. To win you must be a teen (6th-12th grade, or 12-18) who uses a Sno-Isle Library.

Weekend Book Give-Away: Fire Season

Sometimes a book sneaks up on me.  Usually if a new book is coming out by a popular author, I'll have heard some buzz about it, or at least be familiar with the author.  But I confess I am totally unfamiliar with David Weber's Honorverse books and had no idea he had spun of some teen books off as origin stories for a popular character.  So I was surprised to see this book come across my desk with 26 people waiting for it!  Fire Season looks to be an awesome read:

Fire weather... That's what the treecats call those rare seasons when the slightest spark can set aflame the the vast green reaches they call home. Teenager Stephanie Harrington rapidly learns just how deadly those fires can be. Guided by her treecat companion, Lionheart, Stephanie and her good friend Karl Zivonik venture into the heart of a raging inferno to rescue twin treecats put at risk by human carelessness. Only the trio's absolute trust for each other stands between them and disaster.

Apparently this series has six legged telepathic tree cats who bond with humans!  How had I not heard about this?  It sounds AWESOME.

For a chance to win a shiny brand new paperback of Fire Season, tell me what you hope your favorite cat would say to you if it could talk, and what you think it actually would say.

Winner will be selected with Random Number Generator on Tuesday October 2, 2012. Be sure to leave a name with your entry, and check back to see if you won. To win you must be a teen (6th-12th grade, or 12-18) who uses a Sno-Isle Library.

Weekday Book Give-Away: Above

Ooops!  I forgot to post this Friday!  So you have until this Thursday to respond now :)

Do you ever feel like you don't fit in?  That you wish there was some place you could go to be with other people like you?  This week's book is Above by Leah Bobet, about a community of mutants that has to venture out of their safe place to make some crucial discoveries about the world:

When insane exile Corner and his army of mindless, whispering shadows invade Safe, a secret, underground community of freaks and disabled outcasts, Matthew, traumatized shapeshifter Ariel, and other misfits go to the dangerous place known as Above, where Matthew makes a shocking discovery about the histories entrusted to him. 

What is your safe place?  Or where do you go to find like minded souls?  Tell me about it, for a chance to win a ARC of this exciting book!

Winner will be selected with Random Number Generator on Thursday September 27, 2012. Be sure to leave a name with your entry, and check back to see if you won. To win you must be a teen (6th-12th grade, or 12-18) who uses a Sno-Isle Library.

Weekend Book Give-Away: Waking Storms

In case you haven't noticed, there is a serious mermaid trend going on it teen lit right now.  Why mermaids?  I don't have a theory yet, but as someone who LOVES swimming and hasn't been able to for months now due to an injury, I totally get the longing some readers might have for the water.  Really, swimming is the next best thing to flying...and mermaids don't have to worry about pesky trips to the surface to breath, right?

So this week's book is and advance reader copy of the in-demand (5 holds as we speak) sequel to Lost Voices by Sarah Porter: Waking Storms.

As a mermaid versus human war looms on the horizon, Luce falls in love with her sworn enemy Dorian and assumes her rightful role as queen of the mermaids. 

Here is a cheesy trailer if you weren't sold yet:

Why, why, why are sworn enemies so darn attractive?  For a chance to win this ARC, tell me either:

1. Your theory on why mermaid books are so popular all of the sudden.
2. Your theory on why sworn enemies are so attractive.

Winner will be selected with Random Number Generator on Tuesday September 18, 2012. Be sure to leave a name with your entry, and check back to see if you won. To win you must be a teen (6th-12th grade, or 12-18) who uses a Sno-Isle Library.

Weekend Book Give-Away: Friends With Boys

This week's book is a perfect back to school story, or rather a story about starting public/high school for the first time.  In Friends With Boys by Faith Erin Hicks Maggie is in for some culture shock:

After an idyllic childhood of homeschooling with her mother and three older brothers, Maggie enrolls in public high school, where interacting with her peers is complicated by the melancholy ghost that has followed her throughout her entire life.  

Wait, what...ghost?!  Ok, so this isn't your typical high school comic book.  For a chance to win this fun book, tell me about something you will never forget about starting school, or homeschooling if that is your thing.

 Winner will be selected with Random Number Generator on Tuesday September 11, 2012. Be sure to leave a name with your entry, and check back to see if you won. To win you must be a teen (6th-12th grade, or 12-18) who uses a Sno-Isle Library.

Weekend Book Give-Away: Dust Girl

I like books with big surprises in them.  And that is just what Callie gets in Book One in The American Fairy Trilogy:  Dust Girl by Sarah Zettel.

On the day in 1935 when her mother vanishes during the worst dust storm ever recorded in Kansas, Callie learns that she is not actually a human being.  

That is a pretty big shocker, no?  For a chance to win this book tell me this:  if you were a character in what seemed like a historical fiction book who learned you were not human...where and when would your book take place, and if not human, just what are you?

Winner will be selected with Random Number Generator on Thursday September 6, 2012. Be sure to leave a name with your entry, and check back to see if you won. To win you must be a teen (6th-12th grade, or 12-18) who uses a Sno-Isle Library. 

Weekend Book Give-Away: Between the Lines

Do you ever wish you could meet the characters in a book you were reading? Just sink right into the story, or maybe have it pop out of the page? In this week's book is Between the Lines by Jodi Picoult and Samantha Van Leer, a girl gets to do just that.

Told in their separate voices, sixteen-year-old Prince Oliver, who wants to break free of his fairy tale existence, and fifteen-year-old Delilah, a loner obsessed with Prince Oliver and the book in which he exists, work together to seek his freedom. 


For a chance to win this book, tell me what character from a book you would like to meet, why you want to meet them, and what you would do or say.

Winner will be selected with Random Number Generator on Thursday September 6, 2012. Be sure to leave a name with your entry, and check back to see if you won. To win you must be a teen (6th-12th grade, or 12-18) who uses a Sno-Isle Library.

Weekend Book Give-Away: Unraveling

Looking for a great story about near-death experiences, avoiding falling for the wrong guy, and trying to prevent the end of the world?  This week's book is Unraveling by Elizabeth Norris might be just what you've been looking for!

Two days before the start of her junior year, seventeen-year-old Janelle Tenner is hit by a pickup truck and killed—as in blinding light, scenes of her life flashing before her, and then nothing. Except the next thing she knows, she’s opening her eyes to find Ben Michaels, a loner from her high school whom Janelle has never talked to, leaning over her. And even though it isn’t possible, Janelle knows—with every fiber of her being—that Ben has somehow brought her back to life.

Right now there are 8 people waiting to check this out from Sno-Isle Libraries, but you can win your own copy right here!  For your chance to win, tell me in the comments if you could go back to any point in the last 100 years and save one person from an untimely death, who would it be and why?

Winner will be selected with Random Number Generator on Tuesday August 21, 2012. Be sure to leave a name with your entry, and check back to see if you won. To win you must be a teen (6th-12th grade, or 12-18) who uses a Sno-Isle Library. 

Weekend Book Give-Away: When the Sea is Rising Red

This weeks' book is When the Sea is Rising Red by Cat Hellisen.  The cover of this book reminds me of Pacific Northwest summers, and when I joke like that it makes me feel a little better about the fact that I haven't been able to go swimming all summer. 

Felicita fakes her own suicide to escape from the strict confines of her aristocratic family and an arranged marriage, only to be confronted with the harsh realities of living in the slums and the ultimate discovery that the boy she has fallen in love with is plotting a rebellion to destroy her family. 

Ok, so being frustrated about not being able to go swimming is nothing compared to having to deal with arranged marriages, abandoning your family, living in a slum, or having a complicated relationship.  Which is why I guess reading can be so great...it really puts our own problems in perspective, no?  

To win this book, tell me about a book that made you feel better about your own complaints, not matter how small or large, and what about it helped.

Winner will be selected with Random Number Generator on Tuesday August 14, 2012. Be sure to leave a name with your entry, and check back to see if you won. To win you must be a teen (6th-12th grade, or 12-18) who uses a Sno-Isle Library. 

Weekend Book Give-Away: A Midsummer's Nightmare

What were you hoping to do this summer?  Have you done it yet?  Well it is not over yet...plenty of time to do the things you want to do, review books, and maybe win some prizes!

This weekend's book give-away is A Midsummer's Nightmare by Kody Keplinger.  If you have read Keplinger's other books (The DUFF: (Designated Ugly Fat Friend) and Shut Out) you know she is a young author who knows what teens are really like, and doesn't pull punches.  This new book looks as edgy as ever, when Whitley's summer got off to a bad start almost immediately:

Suffering a hangover from a graduation party, eighteen-year-old Whitley is blindsided by the news that her father has moved into a house with his fiancée, her thirteen-year-old daughter Bailey, and her son Nathan, in whose bed Whitley had awakened that morning. 

Yipes!  Definitely sounds like a read for mature teens.

For a chance to win this book, tell me about a time someone blindsided or disappointed you, and how you got over it.

Winner will be selected with Random Number Generator on Tuesday August 7, 2012. Be sure to leave a name with your entry, and check back to see if you won. To win you must be a teen (6th-12th grade, or 12-18) who uses a Sno-Isle Library.

Weekend Book Give-Away: Struck

How is your summer going?  Anything exciting going on?  If you are getting the mid-summer duldrums, Struck by Jennifer Bosworth (featured as this week's Tuesday Trailer) could be the book to kick you right out of it. 

Mia Price is a lightning addict. She’s survived countless strikes, but her craving to connect to the energy in storms endangers her life and the lives of those around her.  Los Angeles, where lightning rarely strikes, is one of the few places Mia feels safe from her addiction. But when an earthquake devastates the city, her haven is transformed into a minefield of chaos and danger. The beaches become massive tent cities. Downtown is a crumbling wasteland, where a traveling party moves to a different empty building each night, the revelers drawn to the destruction by a force they cannot deny. Two warring cults rise to power, and both see Mia as the key to their opposing doomsday prophecies. They believe she has a connection to the freak electrical storm that caused the quake, and to the far more devastating storm that is yet to come.


Lightning addict?!  A little too thrilling a hobby for me.  I'm assuming none of you do anything that crazy either.  But if you want to win this book, tell me about what sorts of thrills you do seek out for excitement.  No thrill too small!

Winner will be selected with Random Number Generator on Tuesday July 31, 2012. Be sure to leave a name with your entry, and check back to see if you won. To win you must be a teen (6th-12th grade, or 12-18) who uses a Sno-Isle Library.

Weekend Book Give-Away: The Stalker Chronicles

Labels are the worst, right?  Nobody likes getting them, unless maybe you pick one out for yourself.  But when other people stick you with one, getting rid of them can be so hard!  This week's book The Stalker Chronicles by Carley E. Moore features a girl trying to shake a label, she may or may not have earned:

Sophomore Cammie Bliss has long been labeled a stalker by her peers, but when a cute new boy named Toby arrives at her small town high school, Cammie has a chance to be "normal." Trouble is, she can't really help herself and she's up to her old tricks of "intense observation and following" pretty quick. Making things worse, her younger brother is dating one of the most popular girls in the school, her parents have separated, and her dad has begun to watch their house most nights. Cammie has simply got to figure out why she behaves the way she does, and end it once and for all.

Have you (or a friend) ever done anything embarrassing that got you a label that was hard to shake?  If you are willing to admit to it here, you will get a chance to win this week's book!

Winner will be selected with Random Number Generator on Tuesday July 3, 2012. Be sure to leave a name with your entry, and check back to see if you won. To win you must be a teen (6th-12th grade, or 12-18) who uses a Sno-Isle Library.