Book Battle Royale, Mockingjay & Grand Prizes, Oh My!
A reminder that final Book Battle Royale contributions & Mockingjay Mini-Contests entries are welcome until Friday, Sept. 3 and that the cut off for the Grand Prizes submissions is Wednesday, Sept. 8. Good luck, y'all!
A GOODBYE FROM LEAH THE ADMIN
Our final author chat and our final answers to TeenRC's 5 Get Into Character Questions! A big thank you to all the authors who came to the TeenRC chatroom during the spring and summer and an even **BIGGER** thank you to all the wonderful teens who joined us!
So....how did Author ALLAN STRATTON answer our 5 questions? Read on to find out!
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We asked the same five questions to each author who came on TeenRC for a chat in the spring and summer, and we got VERY different answers from each!
Find out what author VICKI GRANT had to say about her fav villain, the character she'd like to bring to life, the character she finds most trustworthy, her fav character from her own writing, and writing tips for TeenRCers.
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How did author LESLEY LIVINGSTON answer our 5 questions? Read on to find out!
QUESTION #1 -- Who is your favourite villain from a book?
Some of you might be aware of this little book series called The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. Some of you might also be aware that the third book in the series, Mockingjay, is being released on Tuesday, August 24th. You didn't think TeenRC was going to let a momentuous...
Can you believe that the summer has flown by so fast? Man, school is starting just around the corner! The only remedy to back to school blues that we can think of here at TeenRC is PRIZES!!
Every year at TeenRC we give away at least one grand prize. We are pleased to announce that this year, we have one iPod Touch 32G and six $100 bookstore gift certifcates to give away this year, making seven teens mighty happy!!
To be eligible to win one, all you need to do...
Bonjour! Did you know that today, August 15th, is National Acadian day? What's an Acadian, you ask? Well read on to find out!
Acadians are people from Acadia (seems obvious, doesn't it!). Acadia is an area of land in Eastern Canada that was populated by French Settlers way back when Canada was being founded. This area includes land in New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, PEI, and even Maine.
Everything was just fine for the Acadians until 1755, when the British accused the...
Have you been enjoying the Book Battle Royale? Well, we want to hear from even *more* of you! Maybe some prizes will entice you....
We have 5 TeenRC bags stuffed with each book that has been battling it out on the Book Battle Royale battlefield, plus a TeenRC journal, a maze pen, and sticky note pad...And we are just *dying* to give them away!
How Do I Win?...
Earlier this month, the fabulous teen author Cassandra Clare announced that she will be writing two more books in her wildly popular Mortal Instruments series.
That will make six titles in all in this series, as follows
On August 9th 1988, the saddest event in Canadian Hockey History occured. Yes my friends, I am referring to the day that Canada's dearly beloved hockey star Wayne Gretzky was traded from The Edmonton Oilers to the LA Kings. Gretzky, who is often referred to as "the Great One", is considered by many to be the greatest hockey player ever to grace the ice, and Canada did not take the news that he would be playing for an American team well. "The Trade", as it has...