Posts Tagged ‘young adult’

📚First Chapter: The Lightbound Saga by S.G. Basu #FirstChapter #ChapterOne

Title: The Lightbound Saga Trilogy Author: S.G. Basu Publisher: Dreamwater Press Genre: Middle Grade/Young Adult Series Blurb: 13-year-old Maia is a land-dwelling Solianese living on the planet of Tansi. She has been raised by her doting grandfather. Her mother, Sophie, supposedly deceased, is accused to be a traitor who fought for the Xifarians who have subjugated Tansi. Loathing her family’s history, Maia has put herself into self-exile, vowing to steer clear of the temptations that led her mother astray. But when she is drafted into a peace summit by the Xifarians, she must walk into Xif, the planet she has always wanted to avoid. Here she meets loyal teammates
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  • September 26, 2022
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📚 Book Trailer Of The Week: Grady Whill and the Templeton Codex By Carole P. Roman @caroleproman #BookTrailer #BookTeaser

About the Book Title: Grady Whill and the Templeton Codex Author: Carole P. Roman Publisher: Chelshire, Inc. Pages: 286 Genre: YA Blurb: Templeton Academy- the superhero high school is finally open! The prestigious academy is recruiting the best of the best to enroll in its student body. The school is as mysterious as it is exclusive. Grady Whill thinks there is nothing special about him to make the grade. However, his best friend, Aarush Patel has been selected and thinks Grady has the right stuff. Even school bully, Elwood Bledsoe is attending. If Grady is fortunate enough to be picked, his guardian has forbidden him to attend. Will a
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents GRADY WHILL AND THE TEMPLETON CODEX Virtual Book Publicity Tour #YA

  · ┈┈┈┈┈┈ · ꕥ · ┈┈┈┈┈┈ · Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Carol P. Roman’s Grady Whill and the Templeton Codex Virtual Book Tour September 19 – October 19. · ┈┈┈┈┈┈ · ꕥ · ┈┈┈┈┈┈ · · ┈┈┈┈┈┈ · ꕥ · ┈┈┈┈┈┈ · Inside the Book: Title: Grady Whill and the Templeton Codex Author: Carole P. Roman Publisher: Chelshire, Inc. Pages: 286 Genre: YA Blurb: Templeton Academy- the superhero high school is finally open! The prestigious academy is recruiting the best of the best to enroll in its student body. The school is as mysterious as it is exclusive. Grady Whill thinks there is
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Lost Boys Virtual Publicity Tour #YA

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you N.L. McLaughlin’s LOST BOYS: BOOK 2 OF THE AMERICAN NOMADS Virtual Book Tour March 29 – April 29. Inside the Book Title: LOST BOYS (The American Nomads Book 2) Author: Nancy McLaughlin Publisher: Twisted Sky, LLC Pages: 314 Genre: Young Adult Fiction BOOK BLURB: Life has returned to normal for the Nomads. Finn and Teague are closer than ever. The bond between River and Cash is evolving into something more, and Zac has his family of misfits. Even Beth has come into her own. No longer a greenie, she is now a full, contributing member of the group. Her internet
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents BANEWIND Virtual Book Publicity Tour #YA #Fantasy

  Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you M.B. Chapman’s BANEWIND Virtual Book Tour January 4 – March 31. Inside the Book Title: BANEWIND Author: M.B. Chapman Publisher: Light Messages / Torchflame Books Pages: 268 Genre: Young Adult / Fantasy / Fiction Almost two weeks ago I was just a normal girl getting ready to start my senior year of high school, deciding where I wanted my life to go. And now?   I’ve kissed a boy. I’ve been to another world. I’ve seen death.   And I don’t know what my life’s become. Banewind tells the spellbinding story of 18-year-old Genevieve DeWinter, a typical high school
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents OUR FRIENDSHIP MATTERS Virtual Book Trailer Blitz #YA

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Kimberley B. Jones’ OUR FRIENDSHIP MATTERS Virtual Book Trailer Blitz October 5 – 30! Inside the Book Title: OUR FRIENDSHIP MATTERS Author: Kimberley B. Jones Publisher: Rhetoric Askew Publishing, LLC Pages: 224 Genre: YA BOOK BLURB: Two teenage friends, Sasha and Leah, live a comfortable life in the affluent St. Louis suburbs. They attend a well-established private Christian academy and the only thing on their mind as they enter their senior year is graduation and their senior prom. When tragedy strikes, however, the best friends are torn apart because of social tensions, ignorance, miscommunications, and fear. Our Friendship Matters reveals
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Monsterland Virtual Book Publicity Tour #YA #Monsters

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Michael Okon’s MONSTERLAND Virtual Book Tour March 2 – 27! Inside the Book Title: MONSTERLAND Author: Michael Okon Publisher: Wordfire Press Pages: 232 Genre: Young Adult Monster Fiction BOOK BLURB: Welcome to Monsterland—the scariest place on Earth.Wyatt Baldwin’s senior year is not going well. His parents divorce, then his dad mysteriously dies. He’s not exactly comfortable with his new stepfather, Carter White, either. An ongoing debate with his best friends Melvin and Howard Drucker over which monster is superior has gotten stale. He’d much rather spend his days with beautiful and popular Jade. However, she’s dating the brash high-school quarterback
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Fairly Safe Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Deborah Ann Davis” FAIRLY SAFE virtual book tour August 1 – October 28! Inside the Book Title: FAIRLY SAFE Author: Deborah Ann Davis Publisher: D&D Universe Pages: 356 Genre: Young Adult When Mistaken Identity collides with Secret Identity, who wins? JACOB HAS COME A LONG WAY FOR AN ORPHANED FOSTER KID. He has a mentor, a great job, and has finally fallen in love. Granted, she mistook him for a stalker when they met, but every relationship has its little problems. Unfortunately, for the past few years, as the object of his affection pops in and out of his life, she has refused
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Pump Up Your Book Presents The Teddy Bear Eye Club Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Suzanne M. Hurley’s THE TEDDY BEAR EYE CLUB virtual book tour September 1 – 30! Title: The Teddy Bear Eye Club Author: Suzanne M. Hurley Publisher: Wings ePress Pages: 286 Genre: Young Adult Format: Kindle/Nook Depressed, fourteen-year-old Mayah Lewis hides from the world, until she befriends new girl, beautiful bald-headed Celeste Daniels. Everything begins looking up, until one day, Celeste disappears. For More Information The Teddy Bear Eye Club is available at Amazon. Pick up your copy at Barnes & Noble. Discuss this book at PUYB Virtual Book Club at Goodreads All her life, Suzanne M. Hurley had a secret.
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{Young Adult} The Teddy Bear Eye Club Blog Tour Sign Up

Suzanne M. Hurley will be touring September 1 – 30 with her young adult novel, THE TEDDY BEAR EYE CLUB! We are looking for: Reviews (PDF only) Interviews Book Spotlights Please sign up on the form below. If you are chosen to host, we will email you within 72 hours. Thank you! Title: The Teddy Bear Eye Club Author: Suzanne M. Hurley Publisher: Wings ePress Pages: 286 Genre: Young Adult Format: Kindle/Nook Depressed, fourteen-year-old Mayah Lewis hides from the world, until she befriends new girl, beautiful bald-headed Celeste Daniels. Everything begins looking up, until one day, Celeste disappears. ——————- All her life, Suzanne M. Hurley had a secret. She
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Grey Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Christi J. Whitney’s GREY virtual book tour May 4 – June 26! Title: Grey (The Romany Outcasts Series, Book 1) Author: Christi J. Whitney Publisher: HarperCollins/HarperVoyager Pages: 400 Genre: Young Adult (Urban Fantasy) Format: Paperback/Kindle Sebastian Grey always thought he was a fairly normal teenager – good friends, decent grades, and a pretty sweet job in his foster brother’s tattoo shop. But when strangers arrive in town, Sebastian soon realizes that his world is nothing at all what it seemed. Secretive gypsies surround him, shadowy figures stalk him, and the girl he’s been dreaming about turns up at school. Now
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Pump Up Your Book Presents The Ark Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Laura Liddell Nolen’s THE ARK virtual book tour May 4 – June 26! Title: The Ark Author: Laura Liddell Nolen Publisher: HarperCollins Pages: 239 Genre: YA Scifi Format: Paperback/Kindle/Nook There’s a meteor headed for Earth, and there is only one way to survive. It’s the final days of earth, and sixteen-year-old Char is right where she belongs: in prison. With her criminal record, she doesn’t qualify for a place on an Ark, one of the five massive bioships designed to protect earth’s survivors during the meteor strike that looks set to destroy the planet. Only a select few will be
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{YA} Grey Blog Tour Sign Up

Christi J. Whitney will be touring May 4 – June 26 with her young adult urban fantasy, GREY (Book 1 in the Romany Outcasts series)! We are looking for: Reviews (ebook only – you will be sent to NetGalley) Interviews Guest Posts Book Spotlights Please sign up on the form below. If you are chosen to host, we will email you within 72 hours. Thank you! Title: Grey (The Romany Outcasts Series, Book 1) Author: Christi J. Whitney Publisher: HarperCollins/HarperVoyager Pages: 400 Genre: Young Adult (Urban Fantasy) Format: Paperback/Kindle Sebastian Grey always thought he was a fairly normal teenager – good friends, decent grades, and a pretty sweet job
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{Young Adult} Believers: Truth in Deception Blog Tour Sign Up

Tamara D. Taylor will be touring March 2 – 27 with her young adult novel, BELIEVERS: TRUTH IN DECEPTION! We are looking for: Reviews (paperback U.S. only & ebook) Interviews Guest Posts Book Spotlights Please sign up on the form below. If you are chosen to host, we will email you within 72 hours. Thank you!     Title: Believers: Truth in Deception Author: Tamara D. Taylor Publisher: Tamara D. Taylor Pages: 330 Genre: Young Adult Format: Paperback/Kindle Mary lives in a world of the future where an anti aging drug has torn society apart, creating an insurmountable divide between the wealthy and the poor. Her life is thrown
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Pump Up Your Book Presents P.O.W.E.R. Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Lisa A. Kramer’s P.O.W.E.R. virtual book tour January 5 – 30! Title: P.O.W.ER Author: Lisa A. Kremer Publisher: Word Hermit Press Pages: 291 Genre: YA Speculative Feminist Fiction Format: Paperback/Kindle What would happen if women and girls joined their unique abilities together to change the world? In a world where access to the written word is reserved to men, Andra BetScrivener has been able to read and write ever since she was a little girl without anyone teaching her. She must keep her abilities a secret in the country of New North, or she could lose her hands, her eyes
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{Fiction/Comedy/Action/YA} Kato and the Fountain of Wrinkles Blog Tour Sign Up

Rhys Ella will be touring January 5 – 30 with her fiction/comedy/Action/YA, FOUNTAIN OF WRINKLES! We are looking for: Reviews (paperback & ebook) Interviews Author Guest Posts Character Guest Posts Book Spotlights Please sign up on the form below. If you are chosen to host, we will email you within 72 hours. Thank you!   Title: Kato and the Fountain of Wrinkles Author: Rhys Ella Publisher: Tate Publishing Enterprises, LLC Pages: 284 Genre: Comedy/Action/Adventure/Young Adult Format: Paperback For famous animal actor Kato Rhyan, being named “Cutest Pug Alive” by Pooch Magazine was cool (all right, really cool).  But for him, acting isn’t about fame, it’s a part of him buried
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{YA} K-9 Cop Blog Tour Sign Up

Erna Mueller will be touring October 6 – December 19 with her new young adult novel, K-9 Cop: Case #1 The Dreck Report! We are looking for: Reviews (ebook) Interviews Author Guest Posts Character Guest Posts Book Spotlights Please sign up on the form below. If you are chosen to host, we will email you within 72 hours. Thank you!   No one thought as highly of Lieutenant Spencer Watley as he did himself. This selfish cop met 14 year-old Justin Andrews during an important stakeout. Determined to nab a group of cyber killers, he wasn’t going to let anything get in his way, especially a smart mouthed teenager
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First Chapter: The Flight of the Griffin by C.M. Gray

Title: The Flight of the Griffin Genre: Young Adult Fantasy Author: C.M. Gray Publisher: C.M. Gray Pages: 219 Language: English ISBN: 9781471750359 Purchase at AMAZON The Kingdom is dying… The Darkness is coming… the balance between Order and Chaos is rapidly shifting and the world is falling towards evil and horror, and all misery that Chaos will bring. But there is hope… Pardigan’s had enough, he’s only 12, but he’s breaking into the home of one of Freya’s richest merchants… and he’s doing it tonight… A burglary that will change their lives forever sets four friends upon a quest, a race against time, to locate three magical objects and
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{Virtual Book Tour} Pump Up Your Book Presents Children of the Knight Virtual Publicity Book Tour

Join Michael Bowler, author of the edgy YA, Children of the Knight, as he tours the blogosphere August 5 – 30 on his second virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! {ABOUT CHILDREN OF THE KNIGHT} According to legend, King Arthur is supposed to return when Britain needs him most. So why does a man claiming to be the once and future king suddenly appear in Los Angeles? This charismatic young Arthur creates a new Camelot within the City of Angels to lead a crusade of unwanted kids against an adult society that discards and ignores them. Under his banner of equality, every needy child is welcome, regardless
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  • June 13, 2013
  • Authors on Tour, Featured
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{Virtual Book Tour} Pump Up Your Book Presents Keeper of the Black Stones Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Join PT McHugh, author of the YA fantasy/time travel, Keeper of the Black Stones, as he tours the blogosphere July 1 – August 30 2013 on his second virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! ————————————————-   ABOUT PT MCHUGH PT McHugh didn’t start out as a storyteller. He was, however, born into a family of that encouraged imagination. He became a fan of history in school and then went to college to become a construction engineer, to build a world of straight lines, angles, and equations. He was just as surprised as everyone else when he realized that he believed in magic, and might just know the
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  • May 11, 2013
  • Authors on Tour, Featured
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{Virtual Book Tour} Pump Up Your Book Presents OCD, the Dude & Me Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Join Lauren Roedy Vaughn, author of the contemporary humorous young adult, OCD, the Dude & Me, as she tours the blogosphere June 3 – July 26 2013 on her first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! ABOUT OCD, THE DUDE & ME Seventeen-year-old Danielle Levine is your typical high school teenager – if you count having OCD and ADHD as typical. Danielle’s “special” conditions lead her to a school for students with learning disabilities, and, even here, she struggles to fit in. How Danielle navigates her status as a “learning-challenged” teen pariah is told, with equal parts pain and hilarity, in Lauren Roedy Vaughn’s debut Young Adult
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Pump Up Your Book Chats with Ray East, author of ‘Voluspa’

Ray East and Sam D have moved to Voluspa and live in the Forest of Skotos with their 5 year old daughter and a pet Typhon. They visit Earth with the help of an Empath from time to time. Ray East did her masters in Phsychology from Univeristy of Sussex and has worked as a counselor for adolescents. Sam D used to teach at a SPJC before he moved to Voluspa. Their latest book is Voluspa: A Magical World. Visit their website at www.magicalworldofvoluspa.com. Thanks for the interview, Ray.  I’d love to know why writing Voluspa was so important to you? We wanted to present this magical world which
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Join ‘Voluspa’ Ray East & Sam D at Beyond the Books – Win a Free Kindle Fire HD!

Ray East and Sam D, authors of Voluspa: A Magical World, are stopping off today at Beyond the Books, as part of their colossal 3 month virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book where they are giving away a Kindle Fire HD! Visit today’s stop at http://beyondthebooks.wordpress.com/2012/09/11/character-interview-amy-benson-from-ray-east-sam-ds-voluspa/. Enter every day at a different blog for more entries! This contest begins August 6 and ends on October 26 2012. An extra bonus prize: $50 goes to the person who visits the most tour stops and leaves a comment. If there is a tie, we will choose a winner at Random.org. This contest is open to U.S. and Canadian citizens
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Join ‘Voluspa’ Ray East & Sam D. at Hollywood Daze & WIN FREE KINDLE FIRE

Ray East and Sam D, authors of Voluspa: A Magical World, are stopping off today at Hollywood Daze, as part of their colossal 3 month virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book where they are giving away a Kindle Fire! Visit today’s stop at http://www.valleygirlmusings.blogspot.com/2012/08/dream-cast-for-voluspa-magical-world.html. Enter every day at a different blog for more entries! This contest begins August 6 and ends on October 26 2012. An extra bonus prize: $50 goes to the person who visits the most tour stops and leaves a comment. If there is a tie, we will choose a winner at Random.org. This contest is open to U.S. and Canadian citizens only. Sorry
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Join ‘Voluspa’ Ray East & Sam D at Examiner & WIN FREE KINDLE FIRE!

Ray East and Sam D, authors of Voluspa: A Magical World, are stopping off today at Virginia Beach Publishing Examiner, as part of their colossal 3 month virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book where they are giving away a Kindle Fire! Visit today’s stop at http://www.examiner.com/article/in-the-spotlight-voluspa-a-magical-world-by-ray-east-sam-d. Enter every day at a different blog for more entries! This contest begins August 6 and ends on October 26 2012. An extra bonus prize: $50 goes to the person who visits the most tour stops and leaves a comment. If there is a tie, we will choose a winner at Random.org. This contest is open to U.S. and Canadian citizens
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  • June 24, 2012
  • Authors on Tour, Featured
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Voluspa: A Magical World Virtual Book Publicity Tour 2012 + Kindle Fire HD Giveaway

Join Ray East and Sam D., authors of the YA fantasy romance, Voluspa: A Magical World, as they tour the blogosphere August 6  – October 28 2012 on their first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! Voluspa: A Magical World Virtual Book Publicity Tour is part of a huge Kindle Fire HD promotional giveaway.  Not only can you win a Kindle Fire HD for your very own but you can also win $50 by following the authors’ tour and leaving comments. See details below. ABOUT SAM D. AND RAY EAST Ray East and Sam D have moved to Voluspa and live in the Forest of Skotos with their
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Mind Secrets Virtual Book Publicity Tour 2012

Join Chris Reynolds, author of the urban fantasy/young adult novel, Mind Secrets, as she tours the blogosphere August 6  – 24 on her first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! ABOUT CHRIS REYNOLDS Chris Reynolds is a lover of adventure stories. Chris spent her time growing up avidly reading them, watching them on TV and writing them in her school exercise books. She was often frustrated that stories written by other people didn’t go the way she wanted them to, so she decided to write her own. In the interim, she has worked for the BBC and independent radio as a journalist, written for magazines and some
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New Young Adult Urban Fantasy for Review: Mind Secrets by Chris Reynolds

Chris Reynolds will be touring August 6 – 24 with her young adult urban fantasy novel, Mind Secrets. On the run and without his memories, Michael escapes from a man called Carter onto the unfamiliar streets of London. There, he meets a gang of teenagers with the power to sense the thoughts and feelings of others. They live in fear of ‘the cure’, a mysterious process which takes away their power and, some believe, destroys their personality. Suspecting the cure caused his memory loss, Michael goes undercover to investigate the truth behind the doctors of the cure clinic. What he discovers leads him to a conspiracy that runs to
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First Chapters: The Star-Crossed Saga: Protostar by Braxton A. Cosby

The Star-Crossed Saga: Protostar By Braxton A. Cosby Firefly Publishing & Entertainment (September 25, 2011) YA Science  Fiction 378pages Chapter One Inside the chamber walls of the Capital Building, a young Prince stood approximately ten feet from his sparring partner. Sweat streamed from his forehead as he loosened his grip inside the leathery laced concussion gloves. As the sound of combat rang throughout the morning dawn, the two young men cautiously awaited each other’s next move. William was always taught to be patient in these times, holding only a slight lead over his formidable foe, he could easily finish this session off with one well timed blow. A small
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The Caldecott Chronicles (No. 1) Online Book Tour December 2011

Join R.G. Bullet, author of the YA novella The Caldecott Chronicles (No. 1) as he virtually tours the blogosphere in December 2011 on his first tour with Pump Up Your Book! About R.G. Bullet R. G. Bullet was born in Berkshire, UK. After living in nine different countries he has finally settled in Miami Beach, USA. He is addicted to tea, reading, writing, motorbikes and shamefully Call of Duty. His middle grade debut novel: The 58th Keeper has just been released. To learn more go to www.rgbullet.com Follow him on Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/RGBullet58 and join the fan page for the latest updates and fun competitions www.facebook.com/rgbullet About The Caldecott Chronicles
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