Are you villainous enough to attend H.I.V.E? (apparently I’m not lol) but we can still follow the blog tour for the final book in this fabulous series by Mark Walden.
The tour will be making a stop here on Books 4 Teens on the 15th August 2011 (and trust me there’s a very good reason to stop by )
I’ll be posting reviews of the series throughout August and early September and I have to say that I absolutely adore these books.
The lovely people over at The Awfully Big Blog Adventure are celebrating their third Birthday with the first ever online literary festival and it’s going to be run entirely by children’s authors – over FORTY of them!
The festival will run on the 9th and 10th of July 2011 and will include children’s authors from the Scattered Author’s Society including Adele Geras, Mary Hoffman, Liz Kessler and Celia Rees who will be bringing something new and special every half hour from 9.30am to 7.30pm.
As part of the new design I’ve also decided to include more newsy posts here (and I have two for you today, both of which you’ve probably heard of but I haven’t mentioned them so :p
The first one is for anyone who loves the Harry Potter series and it is the announcement of the new Pottermore website which in my eyes just sounds fabulous and I can’t wait for it to launch later in the year.
As JK Rowling can describe it better than I could here is her announcement video
Two weeks ago today I launched a giveaway where you could win 1 of 2 copies of Witch & Wizard by James Patterson – the results are in, drum roll please…
brr br brr (looks more like I’m saying I’m cold lol)
Thanks to Random.org which generated comment numbers 1 and 2 the winners are…
Emma & Naomi
Congratulations – emails are now on there way to you
Are you aged between 12 and 18 and love books? Yes? Then your eligible to sign up to the Atomics, a brand new young adult book reviewing programme from Atom Books – you know the people who brought to the UK the massively popular Twilight Saga by Stephanie Meyer not to mention Pretty Little Liars.
Atom are after anyone between the age of 12 and 18 who love’s books and would be interested in reviewing their books. The reviews which in Atom’s words can be as brief or long as you want will be posted to the dedicated Atomics section of the Atom website, which can be found here.
If you’re interested in joining the programme (and they are committed to expanding their list to include the best in young adult fiction including mystery, adventure and humour alongside our favourite paranormal authors so you’ve no fear of them being (again in there words not mine) a bit too girly for you) check out the website and fill out a form.
Throughout November several YA authors are offering you the opportunity to buy signed copies of their books. And what lovely presents they would make (of course you could always buy one or two signed copies for yourself).
The fabulous teen book review blog, Chicklish have compiled a very helpful list of the authors they are aware of to make it easy for you to find them.
The Authors include Sophia Bennett, Keren David, Nicola Morgan, Tamsyn Murray, Luisa Plaja, Ellen Renner, Keris Stainton and Kay Woodward.
I am once again really late with the latest news, but anyhoo I digress.
This years Queen Of Teen is Cathy Cassidy, congratulations Cathy!
According to the Queen Of Teen website Cathy taught Art at Coventry secondary school for a few years and worked for as an Agony Aunt for Shout magazine. Her books include Indigo Blue, Sundae Girl and Lucky Star and have sold over 700,000 in just the UK!
You can find out more about Queen Of Teen on the official Queen Of Teen website.
If you’re a budding author, you like eating pizza and (or) are a fan of Malorie Blackman then this is the competition for you.
You could win a a creative writing masterclass for you, Malorie Blackman and up to 10 of your mates at your local branch of Pizza Express.
The compeition has been launched by Sugar Book Club and Malorie Blackman to celebrate the release of Malorie’s latest new teen novel, Boys Don’t Cry which looks at life from a teen dad’s perspective.
More from Amazon You’re waiting for the postman–he’s bringing your A level results. University, a career as a journalist–a glittering future lies ahead. But when the doorbell rings it’s your old girlfriend; and she’s carrying a baby. You’re fine to look after it, for an hour or two, while she does some shopping. Then she doesn’t come back and your future suddenly looks very different.
Sounds pretty good to me!
To be in with a chance of winning this fantastic money can’t buy prize head over to Sugarscape and write them an introduction to an amazing story. Deadline for entry is the 15th October 2010.
I’ve been thinking about adding a rating system to Books 4 Teens for a little while but wasn’t really sure which way to go with it and how would it work – I have an idea for one system which I’ll explain below which should also be kind of self explanatory on the reviews and also will allow you to see how the rating was reached.
This could all go horribly wrong, wish me luck
The System
Ok, so I wanted the system I used to allow you to see how the final rating for each review was reached while at the same time giving you an at a glance idea as to what I thought of the book.
Soooo, this system is going to be a little bit like the GCSE grading system using letters starting from U (I’m pretty certain no book will recieve this rating) moving up to G through, H up to A*.
In addition to recieving a ‘grade’ each book will get a percentage out of 100. For example a fantastic book could potentially get a grade of A* and a percentage of 100 on the other hand an equally good book but not the best book ever could still get a grade of A* but get a percentage of say 85.
This way not only do I have a way of indicating which books I highly recommend (ie grade C and upwards) but you also get to see more accuratley how each book review compares with another (if you wanted to that is).
Finally at the bottom of each review will be a breakdown of what I am looking at, with each of the 5 sections below getting a mark out of 20.
Characters
Plot
Ending
Writing Quality
Enjoyment
These marks are added together to get the final mark out of 100 and this final mark will be used to get the ‘grade’ for the book as follows.
Welcome to Books 4 Teens, a blog about, well books for teens. It contains a mixture of news reviews and interviews run be me, Jesse, a 26 year old YA book adorer.
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Throughout November several YA authors are offering you the opportunity to buy signed copies of their books. And what lovely presents they would make (of course you could always buy one or two signed copies for yourself).
I am once again really late with the latest news, but anyhoo I digress.
If you’re a budding author, you like eating pizza and (or) are a fan of Malorie Blackman then this is the competition for you.
