Category Archive: Giveaway for Readers

SYNC YA Lit Into Your Earphones

Why not listen to lit? SYNC YA Literature into Your Earphones Curious City is proud to partner with AudioFile Magazine each summer to create and manage SYNC, an audience building literacy project for Young Adult and Classic/Required Reading audiobooks. For the 4th summer, 24 audiobooks will be available as free downloads in the Summer of 2013. …

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Balloons Over Broadway: Puppet Play and Clever Classroom Exploration

Balloons Over Broadway

Reader Engagement Project: Turn Readers into Puppeteers In the non-fiction picture book, Balloons Over Broadway: The True Story of the Puppeteer of Macy’s Parade by Melissa Sweet (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), readers meet the brilliant and playful inventor / artist / puppeteer, Tony Sarg.  The young boy that made puppets and other clever creations became the one of …

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Into the Trap: Character Blog & Reader Giveaway

Reader Engagement Project: Read, Review, Win! Readers win a free map of Into the Trap‘s fictional setting when they review the book on the book’s website.  Until 12/1/12, young book reviewers can also be entered to win a $50 L.L. Bean Gift Certificate when they review the book!  (Reader’s Privacy Always Protected!) The Story Continues… …

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