It happens at the start of every November: the Scorpio Races. Riders attempt to keep hold of their water horses long enough to make it to the finish line. Some riders live. Others die.
At age nineteen, Sean Kendrick is the returning champion. He is a young man of few words, and if he has any fears, he keeps them buried deep, where no one else can see them.
Puck Connolly is different. She never meant to ride in the Scorpio Races. But fate hasn’t given her much of a chance. So she enters the competition — the first girl ever to do so. She is in no way prepared for what is going to happen.
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- Ends 10/25/11 at 11:59 pm EST
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From Maggie Stiefvater, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Shiver series (over 1.7 million copies in print!), comes a brand-new, heart-stopping novel. With her trademark lyricism, Maggie Stiefvater turns to a new world where a pair are swept up in a daring, dangerous race across a cliff – with more than just their lives at stake should they lose.
4 starred reviews:
- “A taut, chilling, romantic adventure [that] comes to a pitch-perfect conclusion. Masterful. Like nothing else out there now.” - Kirkus, starred review
- “A book with cross-appeal to lovers of fantasy, horse stories, romance, and action-adventure, this has a shot at being the next YA blockbuster.” - Booklist, starred review
- “As a study of courage and loyalty tested… it is an utterly compelling read.” - Publishers Weekly, starred review
- “Stiefvater sets not one foot wrong as she takes readers on an intoxicating ride of their own.” - Horn Book, starred review
Scholastic's This is Teen is also launching a Scorpio Races sweepstakes on Twitter TODAY. Check out the details below:
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Last Friday I was privileged to be included in a luncheon hosted by Scholastic Books and the New England Booksellers Association for YA writing sensations and all around awesome-women Libba Bray, Meg Cabot, and Maggie Stiefvater. The ladies were in town to visit the Wellesley Booksmith and to promote This is Teen, Scholastic's integrated teen community initiative, which works to unite teen
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Scholastic has partnered with SCVNGR, a location-based mobile gaming application platform, to create this is teen, a smartphone and Facebook-focused program to connect teens with some of their favorite teen fiction writers and books.
SCVNGR will develop book-related challenges at participating bookstores for this is teen users to solve with their smartphones; users will win points and also enter prize sweepstakes. The Facebook page will launch on April 26th along with Meg Cabot‘s new paranormal trilogy, Abandon. The ‘this is teen Live‘ tour will hit New York, San Francisco, Chicago, Boston, and Miami with authors Meg Cabot, Libba Bray, and Maggie Stiefvater starting May 24th.
Vice president of marketing Stacy Lellos had explained: “Our goal with ‘this is teen‘ is to create a destination and a community for readers—a virtual book club experience where the conversation starts with books. ‘this is teen‘ is about going where teens are and harnessing the connectivity of Facebook, the in-world exploration of SCVNGR, and the intensity that exists between readers and their favorite authors in order to create a fully interactive, reader-driven experience.”
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on 4/7/2011
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Scholastic debuts This Is Teen (aimed at getting more teens into reading by connecting them with authors and each other via a social network. Here’s a list of 50 books (every 11 year old should read. We second putting Treasure Island on the... Read the rest of this post
Love the trailer and I can't wait to read this book! I will tweet about this contest @teacher6th
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I just like the fact that everything is the trailer is drawn. Very interesting. Thanks for the giveaway!
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I love that the trailer is animated and that it is constantly moving like a race : )
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The music and the artwork fit so well together, but I was most impressed at finding that Maggie did it all herself. If I read that right at the end, WOW!!
Would love to read this!!
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The music. THE MUSIC. 100% the music! <3
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I love that little blood splatter on the corner when it shows the date!
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I really liked the music. I was jamming out there for a second!
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The animation!! for book trailers they always put people who look NOTHING like the characters or where it's super awkward with random pictures and just words.... yeah I just exit out of those but this is a unique way to make a trailer!
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I love you, Casey, so much for this giveaway! And, well, for other things. :D
I loved that book trailer! The music was awesome, the artwork was fantastic, and oooooooh, I like that blood. And wow, Maggie's really talented -- not only with writing!
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The whole thing remind me of Mulan and Chinese calligraphy. I love Mulan, and Puck reminded me of her. Strong and daring. In a way, I see this book kinda like a retelling of Mulan, except she doesn't doesn't have a sword and isn't battling the entire Hun army.
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thanks so much! this giveaway is the best one yet!
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I loved how the created the trailer with simple drawn artwork. It does make you curious as to what happens in the book.
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The jerky, rhythmic style of the animation goes really nicely with both the music and the subject matter (i.e. a horse race). I look forward to reading it, whether it's this copy or another one! :-)
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Oh, and I tweeted too: http://dft.ba/-11ku
I don't want to pick one specific thing since so much work was put into this trailer as a whole... and I'm very indecisive.
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Thanks for the giveaway!
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I love how artistic the trailer is. It's one of my favorite things about all Maggie's book trailers!
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That was one of the coolest trailers I have ever seen!! I loved how the drawings transformed like when the horse's tail became birds!
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