Win a signed copy of THE SEA OF MONSTERS

I have one Rick Riordan-signed paperback copy of Percy Jackson #2, The Sea of Monsters.

In order to win, you must:

1. be 12-18 years old,
2. able to pick it up at one of the Sno-Isle Libraries,
3. watch the following video, (all of it)
4. answer in the comments the questions I ask after the video:

(Yes, I know, I ask so much of you)



Would you want to read on one of those, or are you going to hold onto reading your paper books? What do you guys think about ebooks in general? What do you like/dislike about this whole issue? Why?

You have until 11:59pm on Sunday, March 14 to answer.

I'll draw one lucky winner from the comments. If you add interesting discussion by returning and interacting with other comments, you can earn more entries per substantive comment (meaning: only if those comments add something to the discussion), up to 3 entries per teen.

Hunger Games 2: Catching Fire

Currently there are 117 people waiting for The Hunger Games. Now, it hasn't hit Twilight status (down to a mere 251!), but that's still a lot of you out there wanting to read this fast-paced action novel that no one I've known has been able to put down.

Scholastic just revealed the cover for the second book in the series, Catching Fire, out September 8, 2009:



Don't know what I'm talking about? Read the first chapter of The Hunger Games.

Ranger's Apprentice! Free Online!

For the next month, Penguin, the publisher of Ranger's Apprentice series is making the first book, The Ruins of Gorlan available free online! If you haven't already read any of this great series, now's your chance! If you prefer the paper version, I know that I have 2 copies sitting on the shelves here at Lynnwood (there were 3, but I already gave one away this morning!)! Read it here now!

Free Meg Cabot?

It's been eight years in the making - the last book in Meg Cabot's PRINCESS DIARIES series, FOREVER PRINCESS, is out on January 6th. Why am I telling you this? Well, the publisher, HarperCollins, is making an electronic copy of the first book available free online in celebration. FREE. No, really. To anyone who wants it. I read it on Meg Cabot's blog, so it's got to be true. Read it here.

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A Free Book? On the Computer?

Ok, well that's not really too terribly unusual these days, but this is one I really like. If YOU like smart and snarky main characters and you haven't read Something Rotten by Alan Gratz, well, now's your chance.

In honor of yesterday's publication of the sequel, Something Wicked, they have put an electronic version online until November 30th. So you can give it a go without even moving from the chair you're sitting in right now. Give it a try.

How can you go wrong? Besides, there's a skull in that "o," and a dagger for that "i."

That's a good sign, right?