Book Spotlight - Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky (Tristan Strong Novel, A Book 1) by Kwame Mbalia + Giveaway

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About the Book

Title: TRISTAN STRONG PUNCHES A HOLE IN THE SKY

Author: Kwame Mbalia

Pub. Date: October 1, 2019

Publisher: Disney-Hyperion, Rick Riordan Presents

Formats: Hardcover, eBook, audiobook

Pages: 496

Find it: Goodreads, Amazon, Kindle, Audible, B&N, iBooks, Kobo, TBD

Seventh-grader Tristan Strong feels anything but strong ever since he failed to save his best friend when they were in a bus accident together. All he has left of Eddie is the journal his friend wrote stories in. Tristan is dreading the month he’s going to spend on his grandparents’ farm in Alabama, where he’s being sent to heal from the tragedy. But on his first night there, a sticky creature shows up in his bedroom and steals Eddie’s journal. Tristan chases after it-–is that a doll?-–and a tug-of-war ensues between them underneath a Bottle Tree. In a last attempt to wrestle the journal out of the creature’s hands, Tristan punches the tree, accidentally ripping open a chasm into the MidPass, a volatile place with a burning sea, haunted bone ships, and iron monsters that are hunting the inhabitants of this world. Tristan finds himself in the middle of a battle that has left black American gods John Henry and Brer Rabbit exhausted. In order to get back home, Tristan and these new allies will need to entice the god Anansi, the Weaver, to come out of hiding and seal the hole in the sky. But bartering with the trickster Anansi always comes at a price. Can Tristan save this world before he loses more of the things he loves?

About Kwame:

Kwame is a husband, father, writer, and pharmaceutical metrologist in that order.  His debut middle-grade novel, TRISTAN STRONG PUNCHES A HOLE IN THE SKY (October 15, 2019) is published by Rick Riordan Presents/Disney-Hyperion.  A Howard University graduate and a Midwesterner now in North Carolina, he enjoys impromptu dance sessions and Cheezits.

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Giveaway Details:

3 winners will receive a finished copy of TRISTAN STRONG PUNCHES A HOLE IN THE SKY, US Only.

 

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Tour Schedule:

Week One:

10/1/2019- BookHounds YA- Excerpt

10/2/2019- Little Red Reads- Excerpt

10/3/2019- Spoiled Girl- Review

10/4/2019- A Backwards Story- Review

Week Two:

10/7/2019- Lifestyle of Me- Review

10/8/2019- Sometimes Leelynn Reads- Excerpt

10/9/2019- Books a Plenty Book Reviews- Review

10/10/2019- Kait Plus Books- Excerpt

10/11/2019- Kyera's Library- Review

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10/14/2019- The Reading Corner for All- Review

10/15/2019- Feed Your Fiction Addiction- Review

10/16/2019- Eli to the nth- Review

10/17/2019- Feed Your Fiction Addiction- Review

10/18/2019- PopTheButterfly Reads- Review

Week Four:

10/21/2019- Savings in Seconds- Review

10/22/2019- Always Me - Review

10/23/2019- Fictitiouswonderland- Review

10/24/2019- Nerdophiles- Review

10/25/2019- Confessions of a YA Reader- Review

Week Five:

10/28/2019- Two points of interest- Review

10/29/2019- fictitious.fox- Review

10/30/2019- Jena Brown Writes- Review

10/31/2019- Fyrekatz Blog- Review

Book Spotlight and Listcle - The Curse of the Werepenguin by Allan Woodrow

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All orphan Bolt Wattle has ever wanted was to find his true family. When a mysterious baron in far-off Brugaria sends for Bolt, he wonders if he's getting closer to finding his long-lost parents. But Baron Chordata appears to be a twelve-year-old boy who wears tuxedos all the time, shouts at everyone, and forbids Bolt from asking questions. Things couldn't get any worse . . . until midnight, when the Baron bites Bolt and turns him into a half boy, half penguin. Then things really couldn't get worse-- nope, wait, they get a lot worse. With the help and hindrance of a plucky girl who just might be the world's greatest bandit, a whale cult led by a man whose weapon is a stale loaf of French bread, and a sinister but friendly fortune-teller who can't stop cackling, Bolt's on a quest to reverse the curse, return to human form, and stop the Baron from taking over the country of Brugaria with his army of mind-controlled penguins in what might be the weirdest--and funniest--middle-grade novel you've ever read.

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Topic - Chimeras -

I thought it would be a fun to create a mix of different species of animals by combining them with other animals! Just in time for some spooky Halloween fun!

1. Mongon - a monkey that is part dragon
2. Chickey - a chicken that is part donkey
3. Whader - a whale that is part spider 
4. Octoffe -  a octopus that is part giraffe 
5. Grassfly - a grasshopper that is part butterfly
6. Balrus - a bat that is part walrus
7. Snakadillo - a snake that is part armadillo

Let me know your favorites or any ideas! Have some fun and let your creative juices flow!

Book Review - The Upper Case: Trouble in Capital City by Tara Lazar + Giveaway

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Private I is enjoying the calm after solving the case of 7 Ate 9 when Question Mark bursts in with the mystery of the century.  Mark is worried that all the capital letters are missing! However, Private I has a hard time believing him since this is Capital City. As Private I is the last letter standing, he will have to solve the mystery before it's too late.

The book was a fun laugh out read. The cute book made learning fun with witty jokes and silly puns. An adorable read for any young child learning the alphabet.

 

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About the Book:

Title: THE UPPERCASE

Author: Tara Lazar & Ross Macdonald (Illustrator)

Pub. Date: October 15, 2019

Publisher: Disney-Hyperion

Formats: Hardcover, eBook

Pages: 32

Find it: Goodreads, Amazon, B&N, TBD

Just when Private I thinks all is calm-now that he's cracked the case of 7 Ate 9-Question Mark storms into the office.

Mark is worried. All the uppercase letters are M-I-S-S-I-N-G! But that's absurd. This is CAPITAL City!

Private I is the last letter standing. Will he solve his BIGGEST mystery yet, the UPPER CASE, before it's too late?!

Filled with the same humor, wit, and quirkiness of the hit 7 Ate 9: The Untold Story, comes another laugh-out-loud whodunit.

About Tara:

Street magic performer. Hog-calling champion. Award-winning ice sculptor. These are all things Tara Lazar has never been.

Instead, she writes quirky, humorous picture books where anything is possible.

Her picture books available now are:

• THE MONSTORE (Aladdin/S&S, 2013)
• I THOUGHT THIS WAS A BEAR BOOK (Aladdin/S&S, 2015)
• LITTLE RED GLIDING HOOD (Random House Children’s, 2015)
• NORMAL NORMAN (Sterling, 2016)
• WAY PAST  BEDTIME (Aladdin/S&S, 2017)
• 7 ATE 9: THE UNTOLD STORY (Disney*Hyperion, 2017)
• YOUR FIRST DAY OF CIRCUS SCHOOL (Tundra, June 2019)

Tara is represented by Ammi-Joan Paquette of the Erin Murphy Literary Agency.

Her last name rhymes with “bazaar”—you can listen to Tara pronounce her name on TeachingBooks.net. She’s not Tara Laser-beam (although that would be awesome).

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Giveaway Details:

3 winners will receive a finished copy of THE UPPERCASE, US Only.

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Blog Tour Schedule:

Week One:

10/14/2019	Twirling Book Princess	Excerpt
10/14/2019	Jill’s Book Blog	Review
10/15/2019	BookHounds YA	Review
10/15/2019	Little Red Reads	Excerpt
10/16/2019	Southern Girl Bookaholic	Review
10/16/2019	Lisa-Queen of Random	Spotlight
10/17/2019	Character Madness and Musings	Spotlight
10/17/2019	Ficticiouswonderland	Review
10/18/2019	The Try Everything / jenifer_reads	Excerpt
10/18/2019	I Read Kid's Books Journal / Ireadwhatuwrite	Excerpt

Week Two:

10/21/2019	YA Book Nerd	Review
10/21/2019	Wonder Struck	Review
10/22/2019	Satisfaction for Insatiable Readers	Review
10/22/2019	Two Chicks on Books	Excerpt
10/23/2019	books are love	Review
10/23/2019	Books a Plenty Book Reviews	Review
10/24/2019	Savings in Seconds	Review
10/24/2019	Lifestyle of Me	Review
10/25/2019	two points of interest	Review
10/25/2019	A Gingerly Review	Review

Instagram Tour Schedule:

Week One:

10/14/2019	Fictitious Fox	Review
10/15/2019	Ficticiouswonderland	Review
10/16/2019	BookHounds YA	Review
10/17/2019	Character Madness and Musings	Spotlight
10/18/2019	Savings in Seconds	Review

Week Two:

10/21/2019	I Read Kid's Books Journal / Ireadwhatuwrite	Review
10/22/2019	Satisfaction for Insatiable Readers	Review
10/23/2019	books are love	Review
10/24/2019	Storiesandplottwists	Review
10/25/2019	Little Red Reads	Review