Archive for June 6, 2007

Win Some Books

Here are two contests for you. Entries are due by June 30.
Win a copy of Dairy Queen and its sequel Off Season by Catherine Gilbert Murdock
DairyQueen.gif OffSeason.gifDairy Queen was one of my favorite books of 2006. D. J. Schwenk is a football-loving 15-year-old who takes over the chores on her family’s small Wisconsin dairy farm when her dad is sidelined by an injury. Like the rest of the tongue-tied Schwenks, D.J. is not much of a talker. Then she meets Brian, a snooty quarterback from a rival team who she agreed to train, and she finally learns who she is and what she wants. A unique look at girls who like ‘guy’ sports.
In Off Season, life is looking up for D.J. She’s in eleventh grade. After a rocky summer, she’s reconnecting with her best friend, Amber. She’s got kind of a thing going with Brian. And she’s starting for the Red Bend High School football team—the first girl linebacker in northern Wisconsin, probably. However, as autumn progresses, D.J. struggles to understand Amber, Schwenk Farm, her relationship with Brian, and most of all her family. As a whole herd of trouble comes her way, she discovers she’s a lot stronger than she—or anyone—ever thought.
Cut and paste the URL below and enter. http://www.yabookscentral.com/cfusion/index.cfm?fuseAction=home.OffSeason
Win of copy of Beige by Cecil Castelluci
Beige.gifCastelluci, author of Boy Proof and The Queen of Cool, has written another page turner. Now that she’s exiled from Canada to sunny Los Angeles, Katy figures she’ll bury her nose in a book and ignore the fact that she’s spending two weeks with her father — punk name: the Rat — a recovered addict and drummer for the famously infamous band Suck. Even though Katy doesn’t want to be there, even though she feels abandoned by her mom, even though the Rat’s place is a mess and he’s not like anything she’d call a father, Katy won’t make a fuss. After all, she is a nice girl, a girl who is quiet and polite, a girl who smiles, a girl who is, well, beige. Or is she?
Cut and paste the URL below and enter to win a copy of Beige. http://www.yabookscentral.com/cfusion/index.cfm?fuseAction=home.Beige
Ed Goldberg
Teen Services Librarian