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Third Summer Giveaway WINNER (and our Fourth Summer Giveaway)!

Jul 22, 2010
Giveaways

The winner of our third summer giveaway is…

Kathleen

Congratulations, Kathleen! We’ll be sending you an email, so be watching for it.

If you didn’t win, don’t worry.   We will be giving away middle-grade books all summer, so there will be plenty of other opportunities.  And, since we’ve hit about the half-way mark for our summer giveaways, we wanted to do another big one, starting today!

We’ve chosen the following six MG titles to give to our next lucky winner:

Nice and Mean by Jessica Leader

The Red Umbrella by Christina Diaz Gonzalez

Secret Saturdays by Torrey Maldonado

Violet Raines Almost Got Struck By Lightning by Danette Haworth

The Witchy Worries of Abbie Adams by Rhonda Hayter

Jemma Hartman, Camper Extraordinaire by Brenda Ferber

To enter, simply leave a comment below. Earn extra entries by blogging, tweeting, or facebooking this giveaway (don’t forget to share a link to your blog or tweet).  This giveaway is for US/CAN residents only (sorry, we can’t ship these internationally).  The winner will be chosen on Tuesday, August 3, 2010.

A big THANK YOU to the authors who have donated copies of their books for our summer giveaways!  We really do appreciate your help in spreading the word about great middle-grade books out there.  Happy summer reading, everyone!

Written by: Elissa Cruz on July 22, 2010.on July 11, 2012.
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  1. Kristen  •  Jul 22, 2010 @12:31 am

    Congrats Kathleen! I probably won’t win, being the first comment, but it would be great to read all of those! Thanks for all the great giveaways!!

  2. Renae  •  Jul 22, 2010 @1:04 am

    I’m going to be starting my first Middle School Media Specialist position this fall, and I’m so excited!
    Looking to get acquainted with more middle grade authors. :)

  3. KatherineR  •  Jul 22, 2010 @7:44 am

    Ooooh more books! Yay!

  4. jpetroroy  •  Jul 22, 2010 @8:06 am

    Awesome! I’d love to enter!

  5. Mary  •  Jul 22, 2010 @8:17 am

    Count me in! What a great collection of books. They’d look wonderful in my classroom library…after I read them, of course! :)

  6. deniz  •  Jul 22, 2010 @8:23 am

    You guys are amazing with all these giveaways!

  7. Keri Lewis  •  Jul 22, 2010 @9:19 am

    Thanks for introducing everyone to so many new titles!

  8. Kelly Polark  •  Jul 22, 2010 @10:20 am

    Woo hoo! Congrats to the winner! And thanks for another great contest! Great selections of books!

  9. Casey Griffin  •  Jul 22, 2010 @10:51 am

    Hi! I’m entering.. and tweeted it :-)
    http://twitter.com/witticismsxo

  10. Jenny Schwartzberg  •  Jul 22, 2010 @10:51 am

    Oh these all look wonderful. I already have Witchy Worries and Jemma Hartman, but I’d love a chance to win the other four. Please enter me!

  11. Havah Hope  •  Jul 22, 2010 @11:26 am

    These books look good. My daughter (entering 5th grade) is very timid about trying new books, unless a friend tells her that the book is good. She would rather reread books she knows and likes than read new ones. I am always trying to widen her reading horizons, so winning these books would be great.

    If anyone has experienced this with a child before could you explain how you got them over it?

  12. susbg  •  Jul 22, 2010 @11:56 am

    Looks like some great new books for kids…& me too. I can’t wait to read them! :)

  13. Bianca  •  Jul 22, 2010 @2:34 pm

    You guys are wicked awesome. Thanks for the giveaway!

  14. Allison  •  Jul 22, 2010 @3:48 pm

    Thanks for a great giveaway!

  15. Alyssa Goodnight  •  Jul 22, 2010 @4:20 pm

    What a great giveaway! This is my first visit to the site, and I’M HOOKED!

  16. Ruth Donnelly  •  Jul 22, 2010 @5:25 pm

    Oh, please count me in! Several of these are books I’ve been dying to read! I blogged about your contest at:

    http://readatouille.blogspot.com/2010/07/book-giveaway-at-from-mixed-up-files.html

    and posted on facebook here:
    http://www.facebook.com/notes.php?imported#!/note.php?note_id=414619480767

  17. Larissa  •  Jul 22, 2010 @5:43 pm

    Cool giveaway! Count me in!:)

  18. Ann Best  •  Jul 22, 2010 @6:34 pm

    I’m also one who would love these books! So I’ve posted the contest on my blog:

    http://ann-jen.blogspot.com.

  19. Cathe Olson  •  Jul 22, 2010 @7:25 pm

    Please enter me in the contest. These books look great.

    cathe@simplynaturalbooks.com

  20. Liz S  •  Jul 22, 2010 @8:51 pm

    If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again.

    Love your site.

    I am in the process of setting up my own blog, but so many decisions to make. oy.

  21. Cathy Stakey  •  Jul 22, 2010 @8:52 pm

    Once again you have the titles I have on my “to be read” lists for the summer! Sign me up for your contest.

  22. Kiri Jorgensen  •  Jul 22, 2010 @10:36 pm

    About all I read is middle grade, and I’d love to read these books too! Count me in!

  23. Kim  •  Jul 23, 2010 @8:50 am

    Some of those look like fun! My library owns one already–time to get the other five.

  24. Laura Marcella  •  Jul 23, 2010 @10:26 am

    These summer giveaways you do are fantastic!

    Congrats to Kathleen!!!

  25. Melina  •  Jul 23, 2010 @11:53 am

    This is one of my favorite sites to visit. The topics are great and I like reading all the comments too. Please enter me in this contest.

    Oh, and congrats to your last winner.

  26. Marcia  •  Jul 23, 2010 @11:56 am

    I’d like to enter. Contest posted on my sidebar.

    http://marciahoehne.blogspot.com/

  27. Blythe  •  Jul 23, 2010 @3:16 pm

    What a beautiful collection.

  28. TRACY HEYER  •  Jul 23, 2010 @3:56 pm

    What a nice collection. Thanks for the chance.

    SWEETANGL5632@AOL.COM

  29. R.H.  •  Jul 23, 2010 @5:16 pm

    These look good!

  30. Destiny  •  Jul 23, 2010 @8:43 pm

    Love this blog! Got it from The Book Whisperer. Great site that I’ll happily share!

  31. Cindy  •  Jul 24, 2010 @12:28 pm

    I’d love to win every one of these books—love this site! Thanks to all of you who are working so hard on it.

  32. Lynne  •  Jul 25, 2010 @1:29 pm

    Certainly I’ll win this time, right?

    Thanks for having these fun contests!

  33. Traci VW  •  Jul 25, 2010 @4:08 pm

    Oh goody, books, books books! I could use some goods reads and these look like they’d fit the bill. Thanks for the fun giveaway!

  34. Patricia Cruzan  •  Jul 25, 2010 @8:32 pm

    Not only would I like to win the middle-grade books, but I have become more motivated to work on my own middle-grade book. After one of your members started posting her writing accomplishments, on another site, I started pushing harder on my writing again.
    Thank you for the contests and for your comments.

  35. Laura Wynkoop  •  Jul 27, 2010 @2:48 am

    What a great selection of books! You guys rock!

  36. Bridgette  •  Jul 29, 2010 @9:50 am

    Count me in! You have wonderful giveaways! :)

  37. gwendolyn b.  •  Jul 30, 2010 @3:32 pm

    We need these books at my house! Thanks for the chance to win them. I’ll be fighting off the kids to read them myself — especially THE RED UMBRELLA!!

    geebee.reads AT gmail DOT com

  38. gwendolyn b.  •  Jul 30, 2010 @3:37 pm

    Here’s my Tweet: http://twitter.com/ASeaOfBooks/status/19937676997

    geebee.reads AT gmail DOT com

  39. ShootingStarsMag  •  Jul 30, 2010 @8:33 pm

    This would be great. I need to read some new MG books!

  40. Bridget R. Wilson  •  Jul 31, 2010 @10:01 am

    Looks like a great bunch of MG books. Thanks for offering the giveaway.

  41. Julie H.  •  Aug 2, 2010 @9:19 pm

    Congrats to Kathleen!
    What a great selection of books for this giveaway. Thanks for the chance to win!