Spooktacular Giveaway Hop – WINNERS!

The winners of the giveaway are BN100 and Diana Stanhope! Yay! Please get in touch with your mailing addresses so I can send the books to you ASAP!

Thanks to everyone who entered!

Spooktacular Giveaway Hop – Two Spooky Middle Grade Books – BOO!

Welcome to my Spooktacular Giveaway!

I’m giving away two books for this giveaway:

MY SISTER THE VAMPIRE: LOVE BITES by Sienna Mercer. I reviewed this book here. It’s a great series for kids who like to a bit a little bit scared and also laugh while they read.

The second book is HYDE AND SHRIEK: A Monsterrific Tale  by David Newbar. Here’s what Goodreads says:

There’s something strange going on at Washington Irving Elementary School. People are turning into monsters—literally!

Ms. Clevis is one of the most popular teachers at Washington Irving. Until the morning she accidentally puts some of the wrong ingredients into her breakfast smoothie. Suddenly she finds herself switching back and forth between mean substitute teacher Ms. Hyde and a sweet sixth grade girl named Jackie. Will Jackie figure out the cure before she changes into the horrible Ms. Hyde forever?

To enter all you have to do is follow this blog and comment below. If you add my mom’s book on Goodreads, Let me know and I’ll give you an extra entry. She’s also doing  giveaways for this book here and here.

I hope you enter my giveaway. All you have to do is leave a comment. If you follow my blog you get an extra entry. Don’t forget to enter all the other giveaways on this great blog hop.

Marvelous Middle Grade Monday: LOVE BITES

Sorry for not posting for a while but I got caught up in other things…but here’s a review for Shannon Messenger’s Marvelous Middle Grade Mondays.

Anyway now I have joined the Spooktacular Book Giveaway which starts October 15 !!!!! I’m going to do two giveaways!!!!!!!!

This is the first book I’m going to give away – My Sister the Vampire: Love Bites

“The twins are traveling to Transylvania…”

“Olivia’s really nervous because she’s meeting her vampire family for the first time—there’s a lot at stake. Plus it doesn’t help that she’ll be there for Valentine’s Day and her new boyfriend Jackson, the hot movie star, doesn’t seem bothered that he won’t be with her. But Ivy turns out to be the one who feels out of place, despite being surrounded by vampires!!!!!!”

That’s what Goodreads says, here’s what I say.

When Ivy and Olivia’s bio-dad says they’re going to Transylvania they’re sooooo haaaaapppppyyyyy but Olivia is worried she won’t fit in but really it’s Ivy who won’t fit in…

I really like this because it’s mysterious, scary and funny all at the same time. Sienna Mercer did a really good job writing it.

Check back on this blog on October 15th to enter the giveaway. And don’t forget to visit other MMGM posts today!

VerseDay! Interview with Sharon Creech about LOVE THAT DOG and HATE THAT CAT

Booksylvania: What inspired you to start writing in verse?

Sharon Creech: I’ve always written both verse and prose, ever since I was very young, so both forms feel natural to me. The voice of each book arrives in its own special way: sometimes it is verse, and sometimes prose. The verse novels seem to be best for stories with a tight focus and for those that feel like ‘songs’, with a distinctive rhythm.

B:Which do you prefer, cats or dogs? And why?

SC: I love both cats and dogs, but I’m very allergic to cats so I’m not able to live with any. 

B: My mom says that LOVE THAT DOG and HATE THAT CAT are particularly appealing to boys. What kind of letters do you get from boy readers?

SC:  The letters from boys are similar to those from girls, although perhaps boys more often comment on loving the funny bits in the books. Boys tend not to like the kissing/smoochie bits.

B: Who inspired you to write LOVE THAT DOG?

SC: I think there’s a good explanation for that on my website (click on Books/Novels/Love That Dog). (B: I looked it up, and it was inspired by Walter Dean Myers’ poem Love That Boy)

B: What are you working on now? Will you write more books in verse?

SC: I’ve recently finished a novel, THE BOY ON THE PORCH, that will be published in September.  I’d love to write another book in verse — maybe that will be next.

B: Yay! We can’t wait, either way. Thanks so much for answering my questions.

Sharon’s other books include THE GREAT UNEXPECTED, HEARTBEAT and Newbery Winner WALK TWO MOONS.