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Enter to Win a $220 Amazon Gift Card!

By Donna Galanti

220Wouldn’t it be wicked to win $220 to spend on books? This October I’ve banded together with 8 other authors to stir up a giveaway. In the cauldron is a $220 USD e-gift card to spend on Amazon.

Click on a Rafflecopter giveaway to enter or enter below! Contest runs from 11am EST October 10th through 5pm EST October 24th .

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Would you like to find out more about the authors behind this giveaway? Explore their websites…if you dare. Bwah-ha-ha-ha!

Amy Allgyer

Jennifer Bardsley

Jennifer DeGiovanni

Laurie Elizabeth Flynn

Donna Galanti

Shaila Patel

Caroline T. Patti

Meghan Rogers

Liza Wiemer

Click on the covers to check out each book! 

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Middle Grade Rewind Week + Readers Choice Awards & Fun Reads!

By Donna Galanti

It’s time!!! Readers, did you love Joshua and the Lightning Road? You can now vote for it HERE in the Month9Books 2015 Readers Choice Awards under your favorite MG book! Like the cover? You can vote on that too! I would shower you with chocolate kisses if I could but you’ll have to settle for a video of cutie Ian Somerhalder giving chocolate kisses instead. 🙂

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It’s also been soooo fun to be featured on ?#?MGRewind? this week where I share a middle grade flashback story to 1978! Check out all of the fun middle grade flashbacks by other Month9Books authors.

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Get it straight from my goofy young self about a day in the life of living at a campground in New Hampshire PLUS enter to win a pack of 5 awesome kids books!

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Me 1978!

41jcKkCPgiLLooking for more great reads for teens? Check out the talented nominees on the Young buy ativan Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) Best Fiction for Young Adults list!

What awesome book are you reading right now? I am having fun with the funny Dead End in Norvelt by Jack Gantos, winner of the 2012 Newbery Medal and the Scott O’Dell Award for Historical Fiction.

Melding the entirely true and the wildly fictional, Dead End in Norvelt is a wild, off-kilter novel about an incredible two months for a kid named Jack Gantos.

9780385744713Next on my reading list is just-released The Secret Files of Fairday Morrow by my friends Jessica Haight and Stephanie Robinson. Fans of the classic detective/spy story are sure to adore this highly illustrated debut middle-grade adventure featuring three young sleuths! I know I can’t wait to read it  🙂 .

You will want to follow Jess and Stephanie’s fun blog too – it’s chock full of cool authors and fun reads.

Happy reading all!

Being a Kid Again: Have You Tried It Lately?

By Donna Galanti

I’m excited to have my inaugural post this week over at Project Mayhem, a cooperative of cool middle grade authors that blog together! I’m over there talking about Finding Your Childlike Wonder.

And, in writing about finding your childlike wonder, it got me thinking about other ways I get to be a kid again through my son like reading the same books and discussing them. My big to-be-read list at the moment is (some I am in the middle of reading right now. I have a problem with one at a time):

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And I won a signed advanced reader copy of Mark of the Thief by Jennifer Nielsen. Woohoo!

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9997719525_13fe5a81cd_kTaking silly selfies. Videotaping each other in random skits. Making up nonsense songs and phrases (chunky butt nuggets is a favorite…umm, don’t ask!). And creating our very own Dancing Sock Wars. This I recommend!

Dancing Sock Wars
All you need are:
Lots of socks
Music that gets you moving (We like Irish jiggy music by Gaelic Storm)
A big space (clear space in the living room)
Goal:
To not get hit with socks. And if you get all of the other person’s socks you win the war!
Start:
Turn on music loud and dance as fast as you can while trying not to get hit by the “enemy’s socks”. At the same time whap your enemy with your socks and grab away theirs (jumping on couches totally allowed here, Mom and Dad.)

I dare ya not to jig to Gaelic Storm’s The Hills of Connemara that was featured in Titanic. My husband and I saw them play years ago in the park behind our house.

Do you enjoy being a kid again with your own children, or grandchildren? What kind of silly things do you do with them?

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