06/23/09
YA Book Carnival Giveaway!
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I’m joining up with a slew of Book Bloggers for the first ever YA Book Carnival! I think there are over 60 contests going on, so you have a ton of chances to win some very cool books! You can head over to Shooting Stars Mag to find all the contests, just click the “Mister Linky: You’re Next” button at the end of the post and it will give you all the links to the contests. I think I might even have to enter a few! There are even some international ones for all you international readers! So definitely head over there and check that out. Now to announce my contest:
I’m giving away an advance readers copy of Front and Center by Catherine Gilbert Murdock. This is part of the Dairy Queen Trilogy, which are AWESOME books. The first book is titled Dairy Queen and the second is The Off Season. If you haven’t read them yet, I’d really recommend that you do! You might not want to read the synopsis if you haven’t read the other books! Stop reading now!
D.J Schwenk is once more in the halls of Red Bend High School and just wants to fade into the background again. No suck luck. The pressures of love, family and school all collide during basketball season, when D.J. is forced to make some life-changing decisions. Her friendship with Beaner turns into something more, but her ex, Brian Nelson, lingers in the back of her mind. Win and her dad are on D.J. about verballing to Big Ten schools, while Coach K has scouts sitting in the bleachers to watch her lead the team and call the shots, literally. The stress and chaos leaver her doubting herself- can she really handle Big Ten ball?
How to enter: (please leave separate comments for each extra entry, if you leave one comment with all 4 things, you’ll just get one entry.)
- +1 leave a comment (anything this is a freebie)
- +1 in the Dairy Queen trilogy D.J. becomes a football player for her high school football team, what stereotypical roles would you like to see broken?
- +1 link post about this contest on your blog and link to this post. (sidebars are fine!)
- +1 what book are you looking forward to most this summer?
Contest info:
- this contest is open to everyone. that includes you international readers!
- the deadline is June 27, 2009 @ midnight eastern time
- good luck!
For all the official stuff check out the contest policy page.
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I would love to win!! cnhand84 at yahoo dot com
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Hi! I absolutely adore your blog (and I totally mean that) and I just wanted to say that you are just so awesome. Okay, I'll stop being such a kiss up now XD
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Please count me in – sounds like a great book
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I can't wait to read Swimsuit by James Patterson this summer
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Looks like a good read, please enter me into this drawing.
Thanks for hosting this giveaway.
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Just wishing all good luck.
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Count me in! And I'm a follower.
behapppppppy(at)hotmail(dot)com
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Ooo cool contest
+1 follower
+1 I would like to see stay at home dads
+1 looking forward to After coming out -
Thanks for the awesome giveaway!
+1 I would love to see the Mean Girls stereotype broken.
+1 I am looking forward to SHIVER by Maggie Stiefvater this summer.
lesly7ch(at)yahoo(dot)com
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I have just recently discovered your blog and am amazed at how frequently you post and just love the layout.
Brenda Kahn
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Please enter me!
celialarsen(at)gmail(dot)com
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+1 Stereotypical role I would like to see broken: male-dominant reporting on ESPN. I want to women commentators front and center. You have plenty of them doing the play-by-play for tennis and womens' sports, but do you see them doing the back-and-forth banter any time except during the Olympics? No. That needs to break down.
celialarsen(at)gmail(dot)com
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+1 Linked to the sidebar of my blog at: http://ceceliabedelia.blogspot.com.
celialarsen(at)gmail(dot)com
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+1 I'm looking forward to Suzanne Collins' Catching Fire. But if September 1st doesn't count as 'summer,' I'd have to say Nalini Singh's Branded by Fire. Then again, that's adult romance…umm…Ash?
celialarsen(at)gmail(dot)com
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Hi again. I posted a link to your blog from the comment section of mine. http://proseandkahn.livejournal.com/
Brenda
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What I'm looking forward to most this summer? That's a tough one b/c I have about 100 books already lined up. I grabbed a bunch of arcs at BEA and have a ton that I have bought.
Sarah Dessen's Along for the Ride.
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Thanks for the contest!
Sara
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+1 I'm really excited about the new Vampire Academy book that comes out this summer in August.
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I'm looking forward to reading The Hunger Games -yes I haven't read it yet- Im catching up slowly..
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Oh my gosh, you have just made my day/night.
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I would like to see more minority MCs who don't deal exclusively with "I'm a minority, my life is difficult" issues. Why can't one's minority race or ethnicity simply be a part of one's identity, and not the whole thing? I'd love to find more books that balance the divide well.
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I have linked to this in my sidebar!
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There are a ton of good books coming out this summer, so I'm just going to go with something light and fun right now, since that's what I'm in the mood for: Coffeehouse Angel by Suzanne Selfors.
Thanks for the great giveaway, Kristi!
stephxsu at gmail dot com
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+1 stereotypical role: more female engineers please (let's face it, there's still gender bias here.)
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Please enter me. I loved the first two.
Seahn
seahn-gallagher(at)hotmail(dot)com
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+1 book I'm most looking forward to this summer.
There are two but the YA is Blood Promise by Richelle Mead- I want to know about Rose and Dimitri.Seahn
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+1 Stereotype broken. Fathers in the home,women in executive positions while having children.
Seahn
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Please count me in.
mj.coward[at]gmail.com
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I want to read Return to Sullivan's Island.
mj.coward[at]gmail.com
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Stereotype broken…more male preschool teachers…most of my kinder kids have no male figure in the household. This would be great for them!
mj.coward[at]gmail.com
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Enter me, please!
+1 I would to see stay at home dads.
+1 I am looking forward to The Faceless Ones by Derek Landy this summer.
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I have the first two books in this series, but haven't read them yet so I'd love to get the third that way I don't have to wait when I do get to them! =D
Thanks for the giveaway
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I'm looking forward to reading The Hate List by Jennifer Brown…kind of late summer, but I really, really want to read it.
Amber
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I have the first two in this series so completing it would be awesome!
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I would like to see all stereotypes broken! At least the ones that are completely irrelevant.
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I am most looking forward to Rampant by Diana Peterfreund. It's been highly recommended to me.
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Please enter me! Looking forward to Silver Phoenix by Cindy Pon!
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This sounds like a great book, I'd love to read it.
I am looking forward to Catching Fire, now that I finally got to read Hunger Games
I would like to see more male teachers in the lower grades — I think the stereotype exists that it's more for women but I think it's important that boys have some male teachers to guide them during those early years as well.
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+1 in the Dairy Queen trilogy D.J. becomes a football player for her high school football team, what stereotypical roles would you like to see broken?
I would love to see the pretty-girl/volleyball player cliche broken. I want to see a breakdown on the team where some of the girls are just different than that almost cheerleader image.
+1 what book are you looking forward to most this summer?
GIVE UP THE GHOST by Megan Crewe. I was a beta reader for her (many times) for this book year and years ago and I really want to see how it has changed.larkingk
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I love these books! Sign me up, please!
+1 I am really looking forward to Shiver and Rampant, both coming out late summer. Can't wait!
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These books are so amazing and I can't wait for Front and Center! Excellent contest.
+1 Linked in sidebar
+1 There's so many good books coming out, but I'm really looking forward to Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater
+1 I would like all stereotypes to be broken really, but since that is highly unlikely in the near future, I'll pick the dorky nerds that have no life but school. Really, one can be smart and still have a life.Alex (& Lauren) at aflightofminds(at)hotmail(dot)com
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this series is great!
teensatthelibrary(@)yahoo.com
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* +1 in the Dairy Queen trilogy D.J. becomes a football player for her high school football team, what stereotypical roles would you like to see broken? I would like to see more guys who become cheerleaders or volleyball players.
teensatthelibrary(@)yahoo.com
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+1 linked in sidebar
teensatthelibrary(@)yahoo.com
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+1 I am most looking forward to Ballads of Suburbia!
teensatthelibrary(@)yahoo.com
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+1 I'm most looking forward to reading Along for the Ride by Dessen!
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I love the Dairy Queen books! Please enter me in the contest.
LiddypooL2(at)aol(dot)com
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+1 I'm really looking forward to reading Blue Moon by Alyson Noel. I loved Evermore and can't wait to read the sequel.
LiddypooL2(at)aol(dot)com
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Oooh, I would LOVE to enter!!
+1 I'm most looking forward to reading Fairy Tale by Cyn Balog.
+1 I would love the whole mean girl or "nerdy" teen stereotype broken.
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Enter me!
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Hi I'd love to be entered!
-Bee
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+1 The stereotype I'd like to see broken is the Nerdy Guys Are Always Skinny And Ugly!
-Bee
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+1 The book I am most looking forward to this summer is The Treasure Map of Boys by E. Lockhart. I love Ruby Oliver!
-Bee
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Awesome conteset. loved the first two books. cant wait for this one!
+1 stereotypical roles id like to see broken – guys that think they have to act tough and be all macho
+1 looking forward to the hunger games sequel: catching fire and hush hush (Oct.)
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I love this series to death!
I'd like to see less prejudice in positions of power. I've noticed that guys usually get the high paying jobs and women are still paid less for the same job. It's sad.
I'm most looking forward to Catching FIRE!!!!!!!
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This is so cool!
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I would love to see the old maid librarian stereotype broken.
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Posted a contest link in my sidebar!
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I loved, loved, loved the first two–can't wait to read this!
Stereotypical roles . . . maybe the bun-wearing, shushing librarian
can disappear! (except at Halloween!)Looking forward to . . . Front and Center, Best Friends Forever, Catching Fire, and Scarlett Fever
And, you're in my sidebar! http://bedtimebooktalks.blogspot.com/
Thanks for the great contest!
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So many books I'm looking forward to – this week – Hush, Hush by Becca Fitzpatrick
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+1 I'm most looking forward to the new Stephanie Plum book, Finger Lickin Fifteen. I know it's not YA but I am always excited for the new Steph Plum adventure.
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Awesome contest–dying to read this one!
ebcellaATcomcastDOTnet
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Linked to my sidebar!
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Question time….
+1 For the stereotypes, I think Brian's character should be changed. He's just so typically the football-playing-hunk who's really a jerk, but when he works on the farm for a summer, he starts seeing the world differently and even falls in love with the girl who thinks she hates him….
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I'm really looking forward to lots of upcoming summer reads, but I'm really excited to read "Goddess Boot Camp" by Tera lynn Childs (ordered this one off of Amazon 2 days ago–yay!). I'm also excited about As You Wish, Tro High, Bedeviled, and a couple more! -
@ Steph Su, I so agree w/ your comment.
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Oh wow – I love this series and can't wait to read the latest one! Dairy Queen was my favorite though – hopefully this next one will be just as good!
mmillet at gmail dot com
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+1 Ok, I'd love to see the whole 'only women can cook' stereotype broken. I know it's starting to make headway, but there is still a long way to go!
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* +1 leave a comment (anything this is a freebie)
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* +1 in the Dairy Queen trilogy D.J. becomes a football player for her high school football team, what stereotypical roles would you like to see broken?
The Chess Club Members-type are always taken for sth that is not always true. Just because someone like to be in these type of clubs doesn't make them geeks or nerds, sometimes they're not!
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* +1 link post about this contest on your blog and link to this post. (sidebars are fine!)
http://theclockmonkey2.blogspot.com/
Posted on sidebar!
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+1 what book are you looking forward to most this summer?
Twenty Boy Summer! I know it's out, but I won it in a giveaway and I'm still waiting for it!
Thanks for making this International!
Argentinian Girl here!xo, Ella
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Would love to win, I've been waiting for the rest of DJ's story!
Thanks.
JHolden955 (at) gmail (dot) com
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One book I'm looking forward to this summer is Don't Judge a Girl by her Cover, by Ally Carter.
JHolden955 (at) gmail (dot) com
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Please count me in!
Thanks
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Also, a book that I'm looking forward to reading this summer is the treasure maps of boys by e. lockhart. I just loved The boyfriend list and The Boy book. Reading about Ruby is so fun
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Please enter me in this contest, this books sounds really good!
* +1 in the Dairy Queen trilogy D.J. becomes a football player for her high school football team, what stereotypical roles would you like to see broken?
I like seeing the 'Geek' stereotype being broken.* +1 link post about this contest on your blog and link to this post. My sidebar:
http://caprubia.blogspot.com/* +1 what book are you looking forward to most this summer?
Hmm… I'm looking forward to reading Fire by Kristin Cashore and Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld. I own both of the books but I wont get a chance to read them for a few weeks b/c I have a huge stack to read before. A book that I don't own and I'm looking forward to this summer– (re)Cycler by Lauren McLaughlin. -
Looks like a great summer read!
I look forward to reading The AbCs of kissing boys and Perfect Chemistry – both on their way to my mail box! sara
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in the Dairy Queen trilogy D.J. becomes a football player for her high school football team, what stereotypical roles would you like to see broken?
I want to see the mean girl one broken or that all cheerleaders have to stick thin blonde and popular.(at my high school nobody liked the cheerleaders and the cheerleaders was a group you didn't to be in since they weren't popular and it considered not cool to be a cheerleader)
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I 'll put in another comment to
I am really looing foward to blue moon by Alyson Noel
Megan
bookworm8675309@yahoo.com(I also put this in my first comment)
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Please enter me – thanks!
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Swimsuit is one I'm looking forward to reading!
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+1 I am looking forward to SHIVER by Maggie Stiefvater this summer.
lesly7ch(at)yahoo(dot)com
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Thanks for the contest! I am looking forward to Fairy Tale, by Cyn Balog.
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This looks like a really good book, as the other two in the series were. =)
email me at: lightningstreak123(at)comcast(dot)com
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Summer Read:
Well, the book i really can't wait to read is not released until October.(Van Alen Legacy by Melissa De la Cruz)
So, my summer read is going to have be (ALONG FOR THE RIDE by Sarah Dessen) because it is the first book on my Goodreads To-Read list released in Summer. =)
email: lightningstreak123(at)comcast(dot)com
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I'd really like to read this series–I've been meaning to for a while-and winnign this book would be just the thing to do it!
book.splotATgmailDOTcom
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and I'm most looking forward to Intertwined by Gena Showalter
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I think it would be nice to see more female sports on network TV–I'm not sure that's a stereotype per se except that we see boys as sporty and girls as not….There are sports for women but it's still the male teams on the main channels (and I don't even watch them
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This sounds wonderful, I'd love to be counted in! Thanks for the sweet contest =)
lucidconspiracy at gmail dot com
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+1 The whole nerds can't do anything athletic sterotype is kind of annoying.
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This summer, I'm really looking forward to SHIVER by Maggie Stiefvater =)
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Great contest!
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The book I am most looking forward to reading doesn't come out in the summer. It is The Van Allen Legacy.
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I tihnk the geek/nerd stereotype needs to be broken.
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There are a lot of stereotypes I hate. One of them is that jocks are stupid and jerks. It's always refreshing to read about a jock that's smart and is nice to everyone.
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I'd love to enter.
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The book sounds so cool…count me in!
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I want the nerd stereotype to be broken…it's terrible. I mean, why should you get punished for being smart or hardworking or ambitious?
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I'm really looking forward to reading Along for the Ride by Sarah Dessen this summer.
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Love to win!
kherbrand at comcast dot net
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Stereotypes – that only moms make good stay at home parents…
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Looking forward to reading Ravens by George Dawes Green.
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+1 I'd love to win this! I have benn waiting to read it.
dsym_06(AT)yahoo(DOT)com
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+1 I would have to say the typical mean/ popular girl. Who says they are all skinny and pretty. I have met some that don't fit that description. It's all about confidence.
dsym_06(AT)yahoo(DOT)com
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+1 I am looking forward to reading Blood Promise by Richelle Mead (book 4 in the Vampire Academy series)
dsym_06(AT)yahoo(DOT)com
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Please include me in your giveaway.
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bluebelle0367(at)hotmail(dot)com
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enter me please. thanks for the giveaway
nekokittyangel01[at]gmail[dot]com
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I absolutely love THe Off Season and Dairy Queen. They're sooo good!
I would like to see the stereotypical roles of girls be broken. DJ already broke that in a way when many people think girls can't play sports, but breaking more of the stereotypes towards girls would be great.
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I'm most looking forward to Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins!
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What an amazing idea for a contest!
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I'm most looking forward to Grace by Elizabeth Scott!
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Haha, wow, I just realized this was a year old. Silly me…
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What an amazing idea for a contest!
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I'm most looking forward to Grace by Elizabeth Scott!
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Haha, wow, I just realized this was a year old. Silly me…
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