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Lawrence in the Fall Release Blitz and Giveaway

April 11, 2019 By Heather Leave a Comment

I am so excited that LAWRENCE IN THE FALL by Matthew Farina & Doug Salati (Illustrator) is out that I wanted to share the news!

If you haven’t yet heard about this wonderful book by Author Matthew Farina & Doug Salati (Illustrator), be sure to check out all the details below.

This blitz also includes a giveaway for 3 finished copies of the book, US Only, courtesy of Disney-Hyperion and Rockstar Book
Tours. So if you’d like a chance to win, enter in the Rafflecopter at the bottom of this post.

About the Book:

Title: LAWRENCE IN THE FALL

Author: Matthew Farina, Doug
Salati (Illustrator)

Pub. Date: April 9, 2019

Publisher: Disney-Hyperion

Formats: Hardcover, eBook

Pages: 48

Find it: Goodreads, Amazon, B&N, iBooks, Kobo, TBD

When Lawrence Fox’s teacher announces
that students will be presenting their collections at show-and-tell, Lawrence realizes he doesn’t have anything to share.
Luckily, Papa knows just what to do to
help! Together, they venture into the woods. Lawrence is scared at first, but as he grows comfortable in the forest, he starts to recognize its magic, and how beautiful and unique each tree and leaf is, allowing him to gather a splendid, one-of-a-kind collection of his own!

Excerpts

About Matthew

Matthew Farina is a painter and writer based in New York City. His
reviews and essays have appeared in the Brooklyn Rail, Hyperallergic,
ArtCritical, and elsewhere. Matthew received a BFA from the University of
Pennsylvania and an MFA from the School of Visual Arts. This is his first book.
Find Matthew online at matthewfarina.com.

Website | Goodreads

About Doug

Doug Salati is an illustrator living in New York City. He received his MFA from the Illustration as Visual Essay program at the
School of Visual Arts and was a 2015 Sendak Fellow. He is also the illustrator
of In a Small Kingdom by Tomie dePaola. See more of Doug’s work online at www.dougsalati.com.

Website | Instagram | Goodreads

Giveaway Details

3 winners will win a finished copy of LAWRENCE IN THE FALL, US Only.

a Rafflecopter giveaway

How I Became a Spy: A Mystery of WWII London Blog Tour

February 22, 2019 By Heather Leave a Comment

How I Became a Spy: A Mystery of WWII London
by Deborah Hopkinson
Hardcover, 272 pages
Published February 12th 2019
by Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers
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From the award-winning author of The Great Trouble comes a story of espionage, survival, and friendship during World War II.
Bertie Bradshaw never set out to become a spy. He never imagined traipsing around war-torn London, solving ciphers, practicing surveillance, and searching for a traitor to the Allied forces. He certainly never expected that a strong-willed American girl named Eleanor would play Watson to his Holmes (or Holmes to his Watson, depending on who you ask).
But when a young woman goes missing, leaving behind a coded notebook, Bertie is determined to solve the mystery. With the help of Eleanor and his friend David, a Jewish refugee–and, of course, his trusty pup, Little Roo–Bertie must decipher the notebook in time to stop a double agent from spilling the biggest secret of all to the Nazis.
From the author of The Great Trouble, this suspenseful WWII adventure reminds us that times of war call for bravery, brains and teamwork from even the most unlikely heroes.

About the Author

Deborah Hopkinson is as award-winning of picture books, fiction, and nonfiction for young readers. In 2013 she received a Robert F. Sibert Honor and YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction Award honor for Titanic: Voices from the Disaster.

She has won the SCBWI Golden Kite Award for Picture Book Text twice, for A Band of Angels and Apples to Oregon. Sky Boys, How They Built the Empire State Building, was a Boston Globe/Horn Book Honor awardee. She lives near Portland, Oregon.

The Great Trouble, A Mystery of London, the Blue Death, and a Boy Called Eel won the OCTE Oregon Spirit Award and was named a Best Book of 2013 by School Library Journal and an Oregon Book Award finalist.

In 2017, Deborah’s awards include the Leslie Bradshaw Oregon Book Award for Courage and Defiance; the Jane Addams Peace Association award for Steamboat School; and the Green Earth Environmental Stewardship Award for Follow the Moon Home, which was also a finalist for the Cook STEM prize. Her middle grade novel A Bandit’s Tale, The Muddled Misadventures of a Pickpocket was a Charlotte Huck Recommended book for fiction.

Visit her on the web at www.deborahhopkinson.com and follow her on Twitter at @deborahopkinson.

One-Third Nerd Blog Tour and Giveaway

January 23, 2019 By Heather 1 Comment

ONE-THIRD NERD Digital Assets

Title: ONE-THIRD NERD

Author: Gennifer Choldenko, Églantine Ceulemans (Illustrations)

Pub. Date: January 29, 2019

Publisher: Wendy Lamb Books

Formats: Hardcover, eBook, audiobook

Pages: 224

Find it: Goodreads, Amazon, Audible, B&N, iBooks, TBD

A funny, fast-paced, and heartfelt story from the Newbery Honor-winning author of the Al Capone series.

Fifth grade is not for amateurs, according to Liam. Luckily, he knows that being more than one-third nerd is not cool. Liam lives in the Bay area near San Francisco with his mom and two younger sisters. Dakota is fascinated by science and has a big personality but struggles to make friends; Izzy, a child with Down syndrome, makes friends easily and notices things that go past everyone else. Dad lives across town, but he’s over a lot. And then there’s Cupcake, their lovable German shepherd, who guards their basement apartment.

Recently, Cupcake has a problem–she’s peeing in the house. The kids need to make enough money to take her to the vet before their landlord upstairs finds out. And Mom and Dad have said if Cupcake doesn’t stop, they will find her a new home. But the kids will never let Cupcake go. Can they save her?

About Gennifer

Choldenko is best known for her Tales from Alcatraz series, which has sold more than 2 million copies. Book #1: Al Capone Does My Shirts was a Newbery Honor Book and the recipient of twenty other awards. Book #4: Al Capone Throws Me a Curve is due out in 2018. BookPage said of her most recent novel, Chasing Secrets: “Choldenko’s ability to research obscure yet intriguing topics is uncanny, and as she did with the popular Al Capone trilogy she turns a tough topic into a high interest read … a compelling work of historical fiction.” Gennifer lives with her loyal husband and naughty dog in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Website | Twitter | Instagram | Goodreads

Giveaway Details:

3 winners will receive a finished copy of ONE-THIRD NERD, US Only.

a Rafflecopter giveaway

Tour Schedule:

Week One:

1/21/2018- Savings in Seconds– Review

1/21/2018- Novel Novice– Excerpt

1/22/2018- Twirling Book Princess– Review

1/22/2018- FUONLYKNEW– Spotlight

1/23/2018- Miss Magee’s Reads – Review

1/23/2018- Little Red Reads– Excerpt

1/24/2018- Character Madness and Musings– Excerpt