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May 3rd, 2010

Congratulations to our newest Great Scavenger Hunt Contest winners!

Huge congrats go to our newest monthly winners of the national Great Scavenger Hunt Contest reading program for kids and teens! Please join me in cheering on the winning hunter:

** Sarah D. **

And the winning librarian:

** Patricia McClune **
      from Lancaster, PA

Enjoy your prizes!!

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May 3rd, 2010

New Trivia Challenges Available – May ’10

Check out the May 2010 additions to the national Great Scavenger Hunt Contest reading program for kids and teens!

Faithful by Janet Fox  (YA)
Harmonic Feedback by Tara Kelly  (YA)
The Red Umbrella by Christina Diaz Gonzalez  (MG/Tween)
The Rise of Renegade X by Chelsea M. Campbell  (YA)
The Riverboat Phantom by Chris Eboch  (MG/Tween)
Secrets of a Lab Rat: No Girls Allowed (Dogs Okay)
      by Trudi Trueit  (MG/Tween)
Still Sucks to Be Me by Kimberly Pauley  (YA)
The Tension of Opposites by Kristina McBride  (YA)

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February 8th, 2010

Congratulations to our newest Great Scavenger Hunt Contest winners!

Huge congrats go to our newest monthly winners of the national Great Scavenger Hunt Contest reading program for kids and teens! Please join me in cheering on the winning hunter:

** Esther P. **

And the winning librarian:

** Kelly White **
      from Salisbury, MD

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February 8th, 2010

New Trivia Challenges Available – Feb ’10

Check out the February 2010 additions to the national Great Scavenger Hunt Contest reading program for kids and teens!

The Dark Days of Hamburger Halpin by Josh Berk  (YA)
Dirty Little Secrets by C.J. Omololu  (YA)
The Iron King by Julie Kagawa  (YA)
A Match Made in High School by Kristin Walker  (YA)
The Naughty List by Suzanne Young  (YA)
Operation YES by Sara Lewis Holmes  (MG/Tween)
Secret Society by Tom Dolby  (YA)
Sucks to Be Me by Kimberly Pauley  (YA)

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January 7th, 2010

Congratulations to our newest Great Scavenger Hunt Contest winners!

Huge congrats go to our newest monthly winners of the national Great Scavenger Hunt Contest reading program for kids and teens! Please join me in cheering on the winning hunter:

** Kelly R. **

And the winning librarian:

** Dianna Lyons **
      from Lowell, MI

AND…

Our surprise 2009 grand prize winning hunter:

** Eric D. **

And the 2009 grand prize winning librarian:

** Bonnie Mickler **
      from Dubois, IN

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January 7th, 2010

New Trivia Challenges Available – Jan ’10

Check out the January 2010 additions to the national Great Scavenger Hunt Contest reading program for kids and teens!

8th Grade Superzero by Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich  (MG/Tween)
Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl  (YA)
Coffeehouse Angel by Suzanne Selfors  (YA)
Haven by Beverly Patt  (MG/Tween)
Leaving Gee’s Bend by Irene Latham  (MG/Tween)
Mare’s War by Tanita S. Davis  (YA)
The Mark by Jen Nadol  (YA)
The Secret Year by Jennifer R. Hubbard  (YA)

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December 6th, 2009

Congratulations to our newest Great Scavenger Hunt Contest winners!

Huge congrats go to our newest monthly winners of the national Great Scavenger Hunt Contest reading program for kids and teens! Please join me in cheering on the winning hunter:

** Hannah S. **

And the winning librarian:

** Kim Murdock **
      from Lapel, IN

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December 6th, 2009

New Trivia Challenges Available – Dec 09

Check out the December 2009 additions to the national Great Scavenger Hunt Contest reading program for kids and teens!

The Brilliant Fall of Gianna Z. by Kate Messner  (MG/Tween)
The Dark Divine by Bree Despain  (YA)
Dial M for Mongoose by Bruce Hale  (MG/Tween)
Gentlemen by Michael Northrop   (YA)
Jungle Crossing by Sydney Salter  (MG/Tween)
Magic Under Glass by Jaclyn Dolamore  (YA)
Scones and Sensibility by Lindsay Eland  (MG/Tween)
Wings by Aprilynne Pike  (YA)

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November 7th, 2009

Congratulations to our newest Great Scavenger Hunt Contest winners!

Huge congrats go to our newest monthly winners of the national Great Scavenger Hunt Contest reading program for kids and teens! Please join me in cheering on the winning hunter:

** Emylee L. **

And the winning librarian:

** Samantha Baer **
      from Wilmington, NY

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November 7th, 2009

New Trivia Challenges Available – Nov 09

Check out the November 2009 additions to the national Great Scavenger Hunt Contest reading program for kids and teens!

Bug Boy by Eric Luper  (YA)
DupliKate by Cherry Cheva  (YA)
The Espressologist by Kristina Springer  (YA)
Food, Girls, and Other Things I Can’t Have by Allen Zadoff  (YA)
Hate List by Jennifer Brown  (YA)
The Maze Runner by James Dashner  (YA)
Quest by Kathleen Benner Duble  (YA)
The Shifter by Janice Hardy  (MG/Tween)

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THE CINDERELLA SOCIETY is about a secret society of good populars dedicated to defeating the mean girls of the world. Do you have what it takes to be a Cindy?






Kay Cassidy's 10-in-10-teen-chick-lit-challenge book recommendations, reviews, favorite quotes, book clubs, book trivia, book lists



#1 – GOOD GRIEF by Lolly Winston

#2 – THE HUNGER GAMES by Suzanne Collins

#3 – CATCHING FIRE by Suzanne Collins

#4 – THE NAUGHTY LIST by Suzanne Young

#5 – THE MAGICIAN’S ELEPHANT by Kate DiCamillo

#6 – WINGS by Aprilynne Pike

#7 – EIGHTH GRADE SUPERZERO by Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich

#8 – THE MIRACULOUS JOURNEY OF EDWARD TULANE by Kate DiCamillo

#9 – HOW TO TRAIN A DRAGON by Cressida Cowell

#10 – THE SEASON by Sarah MacLean

#11 – THE SEVEN RAYS by Jessica Bendinger

#12 – WHISPER by Phoebe Kitanidis

#13 – SHADOW HILLS by Anastasia Hopcus

#14 – NIGHTSHADE by Andrea Cremer

#15 – MOLLY MOON’S INCREDIBLE BOOK OF HYPNOTISM by Georgia Byng

#16 – GRACELING by Kristin Cashore (This is a second reading which is super rare for me. One of my all-time faves!)

#17 – FIRE by Kristin Cashore

#18 – THE REPLACEMENT by Brenna Yovanoff

#19 – HEIST SOCIETY by Ally Carter

#20 – NEED by Carrie Jones

#21 – BRIGHTLY WOVEN by Alexandra Bracken

#22 – CAPTIVATE by Carrie Jones

#23 – PROPHECY OF DAYS by Christy Raedeke

#24 – THIS WORLD WE LIVE IN by Susan Beth Pfeffer

#25 – THE LOST SYMBOL by Dan Brown

#26 – PLAIN KATE by Erin Bow

#27 – THE OVERTON WINDOW – by Glenn Beck

#28 – THE THIEF by Megan Whalen Turner

#29 – PARANORMALCY by Kiersten White

#30 – THE DUFF by Kody Keplinger

#31 – MOCKINGJAY by Suzanne Collins

#32 – ONLY THE GOOD SPY YOUNG by Ally Carter

#33 – THE LONELY HEARTS CLUB by Elizabeth Eulberg