Suzanne Costner (comment #20), you are the final winner in our month of book giveaways! Thank you to everyone who entered our contest. We hope you’ll keep reading and commenting for another great year at Books in Bloom. 
Happy spring!
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Week 4 Winner!
Week 3 Winner!
Elsa (comment #40), you are the winner of this week’s prize. Please email us at booksinbloom@mackin.com with your mailing address, so we can send you your prizes.
There is still one more chance to win. Next Friday we will select a winner for books 1-3 in the Benny Imura series by Jonathan Maberry.
Good luck!
Week 2 Contest Winners!
I’m excited to announce two winners this week! Each will receive a copy of The Obsidian Blade by Pete Hautman and an ARC of the upcoming sequel The Cydonian Pyramid.
Without further ado, our winners are magpot (comment #58) and Judy Behling (comment #60). Please email us with your mailing address, so we can send you your prizes.
Thanks to everyone who entered. There are still two more chances to win, so keep checking back on Fridays in March. Next week, one winner will get two books by A.S. King!
Good luck!
Reminder: If you’ve already left a comment on the original contest post, you’re already entered for all the drawings this month. If you haven’t commented yet, you still can. Follow the instructions here.
Week 1 Contest Winner
Creslibrary, you are our first winner! Congratulations! We will send you the signed copy of Neal Shusterman’s new book UnWholly.
Next Friday. two lucky winners will each get a copy of Pete Hautman’s The Obsidian Blade and an ARC of The Cydonian Pyramid (Book Two), which has a May 2013 publication date.
You can enter the contest by leaving a comment on this post. If you’ve aleady left a comment, there’s no need to comment again. You’re automatically included in the drawings all month long.
Thanks everyone! Good luck!
Two Year Anniversary Contest!
It’s that time of year again! We are celebrating another year of Books in Bloom. We’ve seen some changes this year. We said good-bye to two of our original bloggers as they moved on to new opportunities, and we added new voices to the mix. Overall, it has been another great year, and we are glad that we get to share so many great books with you.
As a thank you to all of you for reading, we want to give away some books! Every Friday in March, starting with March 8th, we will choose a lucky Books in Bloom reader to receive a prize. We have several teen novels to give away, and we are excited to hear what you’ve been reading. To enter the contest, leave a comment on this post with the title of best book you’ve read in the past month. Please comment only once—that’s all you need to enter the Friday giveaways for the whole month.
Please note that our prizes this year are all teen novels. This Friday’s prize book is a special signed edition of Neal Shusterman’s UnWholly, sequel to Unwind.
Good luck!
The 5th Wave Winners
Stephanie Quinn and Meredith Fickes! You are the winners of the advance copies of Rick Yancey’s upcoming novel, The 5th Wave. Please email us at booksinbloom@mackin.com with your mailing address, so we can send out your prizes.
Thanks to all who entered the contest, and thanks to our friends at Penguin for providing the prize books.
Promising Bloom & Giveaway: The 5th Wave
The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey. May 2013. 9780399162411. Gr. 9-12
It has been a while since we declared a book a Promising Bloom, but we just can’t resist with Rick Yancey’s upcoming book, The 5th Wave. It doesn’t come out until May 2013, so you have a few months to wait. Once you get your hands on it, though, you won’t want to put it down. I know I didn’t.
The book begins with a quote from Stephen Hawking:
“If aliens ever visit us, I think the outcome would be much as when Christopher Columbus first landed in America, which didn’t turn out very well for the Native Americans.”
Forget all alien movies you’ve seen or the science fiction novels you’ve read about the aliens we’d like to visit us. In The 5th Wave, the aliens aren’t cute or nice. They aren’t here to make friends with us or share their superior technology. They are here to destroy us, and they seem to know just how to do it. As each wave of attack devastates the earth’s population, the survivors are forced to remake their lives with whatever is left. The first wave left them without the technology on which they’ve come to rely. The second and third waves took many lives and homes. Cassie has managed to stay alive through each wave, but now she’s on her own with no one to trust. You can’t trust anyone anymore, not after the fourth wave.
This is a science-fiction-adventure-thriller that will have wide appeal among teens looking for action. But it’s also a novel about courage, love, and identity that explores big questions about what it means to be human.
Don’t want to wait until May to read it? We have good news! We have two signed advance copies to give away to Books in Bloom readers!
- To enter, leave a comment on this post with your favorite alien or UFO related book or movie
- Contest is open until midnight tonight (Thursday, February 7th)
- We’ll choose two winners on Friday morning with help from Random.org
Good luck!
Blogger: Mindy R.
Kate DiCamillo Contest Winners!
Thank you to everyone who entered the contest! We loved reading about all of your connections to Kate DiCamillo’s books. We used Random.org to choose the winners from among the commenters. Without further ado, here are the lucky winners:
- Grand Prize goes to Margo Jantzi! You will receieve a complete set of DiCamillo’s Mercy Watson series along with two adorable Mercy Watson plush toys, and a tote bag.
- Second prize goes to Rhonda P! You will receive an autographed special edition of Because of Winn-Dixie along with a Winn-Dixie plush toy.
- Third prize goes to Kathy Evanilla! You will receive an autographed special edition of Because of Winn-Dixie and a Bink & Gollie T-shirt.
Margo, Rhonda, and Kathy: Please email us at booksinbloom@mackin.com with your mailing address, so we can send out your prizes.
Kate DiCamillo Contest
We here at Mackin are big fans of Kate DiCamillo and her body of work. Whenever a new book comes out, we fight over who gets to read the ARC first! We love her so much, we interviewed her for our latest Compendium! Check out the interview here. So we are so excited that Candlewick has provided some wonderful prizes for us to share with our readers! What are these wonderful prizes? We thought you’d never ask!
The grand prize winner will receive a complete set of DiCamillo’s Mercy Watson series along with two adorable Mercy Watson plush toys, and a tote bag.
The second prize winner will receive an autographed special edition of Because of Winn-Dixie along with a Winn-Dixie plush toy.
The third prize winner will receive also receive an autographed special edition of Because of Winn-Dixie and a fabulous Bink & Gollie T-shirt.
That’s right folks…THREE prizes! Three chances to win! All you have to do is leave a comment about your favorite Kate DiCamillo book, or if you haven’t had the pleasure of reading her work yet, which book you’ll like to start with.
We’ll announce the lucky winners next Friday! Good Luck!
Back to School Contest Winners!
A. Wright and Helen Wagner! You are the winners in our Back to School Contest! Please email us at booksinbloom@mackin.com with your address, and we will send you your prize pack, which includes an autographed copy of Carmen Agra Deedy’s new book Return of the Library Dragon along with a Library Dragon Flip Doll!
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