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I recently received an email from ABC Family asking me if I wanted to participate in a game that takes place in the three weeks prior to the premier of their new show, The Nine Lives of Chloe King. I was lucky enough to participate in last years Pretty Little Liars challenge and that was a lot of fun, so of course I said yes. While I was away at BEA, the "game box" showed up at my house. I wasn't able to see it until I came home on Friday, but what was inside was definitely exciting. Here's what came in the box: An custom Ipad2, or for the game, a "MaiPad" A Russian Birth Certificate A Letter A Circle Charm A Bib (The box itself is wooden with symbols carved into it) I've already completed the first two tasks (there is a total of 9). The first one consisted of folding up my birth certificate and finding a location. I then had to go to my "MaiMap," which was located on the MaiPad. I then had to look up the meaning of the location. The secon...

Tempest Rising by Tracy Deebs Publication Date: May 10th, 2011 Published By: Walker Books for Young Readers Hardcover, 352 Pages Souce: ARC received from the author/ Teen Book Scene Blog Tour Summary: "Tempest Maguire wants nothing more than to surf the killer waves near her California home; continue her steady relationship with her boyfriend, Mark; and take care of her brothers and surfer dad. But Tempest is half mermaid, and as her seventeenth birthday approaches, she will have to decide whether to remain on land or give herself to the ocean like her mother. The pull of the water becomes as insistent as her attraction to Kai, a gorgeous surfer whose uncanny abilities hint at an otherworldly identity as well. And when Tempest does finally give in to the water's temptation and enters a fantastical underwater world, she finds that a larger destiny awaits her—and that the entire ocean's future hangs in the balance." My Review: **** = 4 Stars I was very eager to re...

 I'm so pleased to host Tracy Deebs today, author of the recently released Tempest Rising (Walker Books for Young Readers, May 10th, 2011). For Into the Past, the question is:  What books do you think your past self would recommend at ages 5, 12, 17 and 20? Please welcome Tracy! :) *** Thanks for having me, Sherry! I’ve been a huge reader my whole life, so your prompt made me very, very excited! At 5 , I would have recommended the Hans Christian Anderson fairy tale, The Little Mermaid, and any book that had Wonder Woman in it (I’m still a huge fan of both to this day)  Oh, and If I Ran the Circus by Dr. Seuss. At 12 , I probably would have recommended the Sweet Valley High series and Forever by Judy Blume. I also loved the Sunfire Historical YA series, where each book was a girl’s name and she lived in a different time in history (the gold rush, New Orleans during pirating times, the American Revolution). A new one came out each month and I devoured them. This was also th...

As part of the blog tour for Heidi Ayarbe's Compulsion(which was just released from Balzer & bray/HarperCollins on May 3rd!), she's allowed us to see what the twitter feed of some of the characters from her books might look like. Featured in this feed is Luc from Compulsion, Cappy from Compromised, and Jason from Freeze Frame! ~~~~~~~ Character Tweets: If some of your characters had Twitter accounts, what would their tweet convos be like? (Character tweets between Jason (from Freeze Frame), Cappy (from Compromised) and Luc (from Compulsion) …) Jason: Hey, Cappy. Thought you couldn’t read and write. Cappy: Listen, Dead Boy, if you can do some other-world tweeting, I’ll take care on my end. At least I can touch the fuckin’ keyboard. Jason: Mind over matter. Cappy: You’ve got neither, dead boy. Or do you have a mind? Do dead people keep their minds? Luc: Hijueputa. And I thought M&M was nuts. I’m tweeting with dead guy and illiterate. I’ll take OCD...