Sunday, May 11, 2014

Kid-Lit Giveaway Hop - Win a book!


As part of Children's Book Week, I'm giving you the chance to win a copy of An Unstill Life.  All you need to do is comment on this post, and on May 19th I'll use a random number generator to pick a winner.  Easy, huh?

About An Unstill Life...



Things at home are rough for fifteen-year-old Livvie Quinn. Jules, her beloved older sister is sick again after being cancer free for almost ten years.  Her mom becomes more frantic and unapproachable every day. School isn’t much better.  Just when she needs them most, her closest friends get boyfriends and have little time for Livvie – except to set her up on a series of disastrous blind dates.

Livvie seeks refuge in the art room - the one place her synesthesia helps rather than hinders her - and finds Bianca, the school ‘freak’.  Free-spirited and confident, Bianca is everything Livvie isn’t. Shaken by her mom’s desperation, her sister’s deteriorating condition, and abandoned by her friends, Livvie finds comfort and an attraction she never felt before with Bianca.

When their relationship is discovered, Livvie and Bianca become victims of persecution and bullying. School authorities won’t help and even forbid the pair to attend the Winter Formal as a couple. If Livvie defies them and goes, she risks expulsion and further ridicule from her classmates. At home, her mother’s behavior escalates to new levels of crazy and Jules is begging for help to end the pain once and for all.

While searching for the strength to make her life her own, Livvie must decide how far she’s willing to go for the people she loves  

And why not go and check out all the other books you could win on this hop?

Are you a children's book or teen literature blogger, an author, a publisher, or a publicist looking to share copies of a fabulous book?  Mother Daughter Book Reviews  and Youth Literature Reviews  are joining forces to provide you with the opportunity to take part in the Children's Book Week Giveaway Hop 2014, featuring links to giveaways for fabulous children/teen's books, gift cards, cash, or other prizes.  What better way to celebrate Children's Book Week?


15 comments:

  1. Hi Kate, the book cover looks so pretty and the story premise engaging. Thanks for making this giveaway worldwide!

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  2. I would love to read this book!

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  3. I would love to read this book thanks!

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  4. My fourteen year old daughter would love to read this, she is always looking for something to read.

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  5. I thought I recognized your name! I've seen your book a lot in the past few months.

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  6. Hi Kate! Love the cover, title, concept. Always glad to see more LGBT lit for girls, too.

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  7. This would be perfect for my child who is bullied at school.

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  8. This sounds like an interesting book. I am sure it will tackle bullying or speak on the horrors of it! Hope we win!

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  9. Wow that's a lot of participating bloggers! Anyone who gets your book and gets to read about Livvie is super lucky! :)

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  10. Thank you for the giveaway. this book sounds interesting! I hope I'll read it.

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  11. Sounds like an interesting story.

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  12. This is an interesting story and sounds eerily similar to something a couple in a high school in my area suffered through (without the synesthesia). michelle_willms at yahoo dot com.

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  13. thanks for joining us in the Giveaway Hop! Pinning and tweeting...

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