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Showing posts with label Guys Read. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Guys Read. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Back to the Books Giveaway Hop!

It's time for the Back to the Books Giveaway Hop!

We are linked with over 300 participating blogs, each offering book related giveaways. Check out our giveaway and hop to the next one using the links at the bottom of this post. The hop runs from Thursday, August 1st through Wednesday, August 7th. Thanks to  I am a Reader, Not a Writer and Buried in Books for hosting!

We have 2 prize packs to give away, one winner for each pack.

Giveaway #1:   
Walden Pond Press Back-to-School Prize Pack
Win Walden Pond Press books guaranteed to get your child or student back into the school state of mind. You will receive:
1. The Fourth Stall by Chris Rylander
2. Advance Reader Copy of The Fourth Stall, Part II, by Chris Rylander
3. Guys Read: Funny Business, edited by Jon Scieszka



Giveaway #2:
Walden Pond Press Book Set
Win a most of our published books, including:
1. Cosmic by Frank Cottrell Boyce
2. Guys Read: Funny Business by Jon Scieszka
3. Juniper Berry by M.P. Kozlowsky
4. The Billionaire's Curse by Richard Newsome
5. The Emerald Casket by Richard Newsome
6. Max Cassidy: Escape from Shadow Island by Paul Adam
7. The Last Words of Will Wolfkin by Steven Knight


GIVEAWAY DETAILS
To enter the giveaway, please follow this blog and fill out the form below. 
Last day to enter is 9/7/11. Good luck!






Sunday, July 31, 2011

Summer Giveaway Hop!

Welcome to the Summer Giveaway Hop!

Over 300 participating blogs are offering a book related giveaway and we are all linked up together so you can easily hop from one giveaway to another.  The hop runs from Monday, August 1st through Sunday, August 7th. Thanks to  I am a Reader, Not a Writer and BookHounds for hosting this hop!

We have 2 prize packs to give away, one winner for each pack.


GIVEAWAY #1
Never-Read-Before Prize Pack: Win Advance Reader copies of two 2012 Walden Pond Press titles. Only a few people have read these tiels, so you will be one of first! You will receive:

Neversink by Barry Wolverton
Along the Arctic Circle lies a small island called Neversink, whose jagged cliffs and ice-gouged rocks are home to a colony of odd-looking seabirds called auks, including one Lockley J. Puffin. With their oceanfront views and plentiful supply of fish, the auks have few concerns. But all of this is about to change. Rozbell, the newly crowned king of Owl Parliament, is dealing with a famine on the mainland of Tytonia - and he has long had his scheming eyes on the small colony to th enorth. Now Neversink's independence hangs in the balance. An insurgence of owls will inevitably distroy life as the auks know it - unless Lockley can do something about it.

The Fourth Stall, Part II  by Chris Rylander
The tween-noir saga continues. The life of crime is good. Mac has taken down legendary high school crime boss Staples, business has been booming and Mac and Vince are getting ready for middle school baseball tryouts. But this can't last. Mac has always tried to keep his friends close and his enemies closer. But what happens when you can't tell the difference? A dilemma walks into the fourth stall in the form of Trixie Von Parkway - an eighth grader with a mean look and an even meaner predicament. Seems that the new science teacher is terrorizing her, and she needs Mac to get him off her back. Sounds simple enough, but as Mac starts to dig deeper, he finds even more trouble brewing at his school, including a new administrator bent on destroying his business and indicating that Trixie isn't who she claims to be. The worst that could have happened to Mac before was that he might lose a little money, maybe catch a beating. In THE FOURTH STALL PART II, though, the stakes are even higher than that.

GIVEAWAY #2

Guys Read Prize Pack: Win a hardcover copy of Guys Read: Funny Business (with a bookplate signed by Jon Scieszka) and an Advance Reader Copy of Guys Read: Thriller, the first two titles in Jon Scieszka's Guys Read Library!

Guys Read: Funny Business:
If you know the Guys Read initiative, you already know what you’re in store for: ten hilarious stories from some of the funniest writers around. Before you’re through, you’ll meet a teenage mummy; a kid desperate to take a dip in the world’s largest pool of chocolate milk; a homicidal turkey; parents who hand over their son’s room to a biker; the only kid in his middle school who hasn’t turned into a vampire, wizard, or superhero; and more. And the contributor list includes bestselling author, award winners, and fresh new talent alike: Mac Barnett, Eoin Colfer, Christopher Paul Curtis, Kate DiCamillo (writing with Jon Scieszka), Paul Feig, Jack Gantos, Jeff Kinney, David Lubar, Adam Rex, and David Yoo. Guys Read is all about turning young readers into lifelong ones—and with this book, and each subsequent installment in the series, we aim to leave no guy unturned.

Guys Read: Thriller
In this second installment in Jon Scieszka's Guys Read Library, you'll find a roomful of snakes, the world's worst private detective, a teenage terrorist and more, from the likes of M.T. Anderson, Patrick Carman, Gennifer Choldenko, Margaret Peterson Haddix, Bruce Hale, Anthony Horowitz, Jarrett J. Krosoczka, Walter Dean Myers, and James Patterson, not to mention illustrations from Brett Helquist. If you're a young reader looking for the best writing around, look no further than Guys Read.

GIVEAWAY DETAILS
To enter the giveaway, please follow this blog and fill out the form below. 
Last day to enter is 8/7/11. Good luck!



Wednesday, May 25, 2011

Giveaways and Contests Galore!

We have A LOT of giveaways and one awesome writing contest going on right now. Feel free to enter them all! 

Win an iPad! Juniper Berry Writing Contest (Ends 7/1/11)
*Prize: iPad loaded with WPP books, winning story published online!*
- Open to anyone age 9-14 (with parent's permission)
- Write a story inspired by Juniper Berry in minimum 500 words, start with "Mother and Father aren't quite right"
- Submit story with entry form via email or snail mail
- Details and entry form found here: www.walden.com/win/juniperberry

Skype Visit (Giveaway ends 5/31/11)
- Author of The Billionaire's Curse and The Emerald Casket is offering a free Skype visit for teachers and librarians over at There's A Book. To enter: http://ow.ly/4YDmL (*Click on the link and scroll down for entry form*)

Free Books
- Five signed copies of Breadcrumbs by Anne Ursu on Goodreads
(Giveaway ends 6/1/11): 
http://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/show/10629-breadcrumbs

- One signed copy of Juniper Berry by M.P. Kozlowsky at MundieKids
(Giveaway ends 6/7/11):
http://mundiekids.blogspot.com/2011/05/blog-tourinterview-for-juniper-berry.html (*Click the link and scroll down for entry form*)

- Selection of WPP titles at There's A Book (Giveaway ends 5/31/11):
Almost all titles are either signed or have a signed bookplate included: http://www.theresabook.com/2011/05/book-publishers-101-walden-pond-press-book-sets-giveaway/

Good luck!

Monday, May 16, 2011

The Guys of GUYS READ are Coming to Book Expo America!

The guys of Jon Scieszka's Guys Read Library will be at BEA in New York City on Tuesday, May 24th. If you are planning to attend the conference, these events are not to miss!

Tuesday, May 24th:
9:30 to 10:30am - Jon Scieszka, Matt de la Pena, and Jarrett J. Krosoczka will be signing Advance Reader Copies of Guys Read:Thriller in the Autographing Area, Table 15. *Please note* this is a ticketed event which means admittance to the author signing requires a free ticket distributed on a first come, first served basis beginining at 7am in the Javits Center lobby. For more info on ticketed events: http://ow.ly/4VTay.

11:00 to 11:30 am - Authors Jon Scieszka, Mac Barnett, Eoin Colfer, Matt de la Pena, Jack Gantos, and Jarrett J. Krosoczka will talk guys and reading at the Midtown Stage on a panel moderated by Walden Pond Press editor Jordan Brown.

Hope to see you all there!