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We at Teenreads.com are THRILLED with the response we’ve been getting to our Grab Bag of Books contest. Every month five readers will be awarded a Teenreads.com signature tote bag filled with some of the hottest books --- and may even include a sneak peak at titles that haven’t been released yet!
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This contest period’s winners will each receive a copy of AIRHEAD by Meg Cabot, CATHY’S KEY: If Found Call (650) 266-8202, THE MESSAGE: 100 Life Lessons from Hip-Hop's Greatest Songs by Felicia Pride, MORIBITO: GUARDIAN OF THE SPIRIT by Nahoko Uehashi, SHORTIE LIKE MINE by Ni-Ni Simone and SOVAY by Celia Rees. Click here for a listing of all our winners.
 AIRHEAD
Meg Cabot
Point/Scholastic
Fiction
ISBN: 9780545040525
352 pages
Emerson Watts didn't even want to go to the new SoHo Stark Megastore grand opening. But someone needed to look out for her sister, Frida, whose crush, British heartthrob Gabriel Luna, would be singing and signing autographs there --- along with the newly appointed Face of Stark, teen supermodel sensation Nikki Howard.
How was Em to know that disaster would strike, changing her --- and life as she'd known it --- forever? One bizarre accident later, and Em Watts, always the tomboy, never the party princess, is no longer herself. Literally.
Now getting her best friend, Christopher, to notice that she's actually a girl is the least of Em's problems.
But what Em's pretty sure she'll never be able to accept might just turn out to be the one thing that's going to make her dream come true…
 CATHY'S KEY: If Found Call (650) 266-8202
Running Press
ISBN: 9780762430857
144 pages
CATHY'S BOOK was a groundbreaking, interactive novel that was a teen sensation. Perhaps less noticeable was the heart of the book: a good story well told. Now in CATHY’S KEY, fans of Cathy Vickers return to the exciting, unpredictable world that made the first book such a success.
Cathy was your average high school student --- doodling in the margins of her journal, crushing on a cute boy, and hanging out with her best friend Emma. As this story begins, she’s trying to keep a job, her journal is stolen, the cute boy is not who he seems to be, and even Emma’s side project/start-up company, Doubletalk Wireless, is about to get caught up in the mystery surrounding Cathy and her search for the truth about her presumed-dead father. It’s just a simple story really: Girl loves Boy, Boy disappears, Girl discovers secret that will alter the course of humanity…
THE MESSAGE: 100 Life Lessons from Hip-Hop's Greatest Songs
Felicia Pride
Running Press
Music
ISBN: 9781568583358
304 pages
In this book of life lessons culled from hip-hop culture, author Felicia Pride examines a wide range of hip-hop songs and artists, interpreting life through their lenses. Growing up with hip-hop, Pride has come to realize the way it shaped how she thinks, writes, and reacts, making her the person she is today. By incorporating her own experiences and reflections with the rapper's message, she focuses on the positive, motivational influence hip-hop has on its audience.
With each life lesson aptly titled after a hip-hop song, such as Kanye West's "Jesus Walks" or GangStarr's "Here Today, Gone Tomorrow," THE MESSAGE explores spirituality, success, love, business, and more through hip-hop. Pride infuses these essential truths with examples from rappers' lives and music, providing positive reflections on hip-hop culture. For example, she tells you how to study how those with staying power, such as Missy Elliott and Russell Simmons, handle their business and how to incorporate similar tactics into your own life: be creative, diversify, handle your business.
THE MESSAGE shares the wisdom that Pride has learned from hip-hop, creating what is essentially a soundtrack to the hip-hopper's life.
 MORIBITO: GUARDIAN OF THE SPIRIT
Nahoko Uehashi
Arthur A. Levine Books/Scholastic
Fantasy
ISBN: 9780545005425
272 pages
Balsa was a wanderer and warrior for hire. Then she rescued a boy flung into a raging river --- and at that moment, her destiny changed forever. Now Balsa must protect the boy --- the Prince Chagum --- on his quest to deliver the great egg of the water spirit to its source in the sea. As they travel across the land of Yogo and discover the truth about the spirit, they find themselves hunted by two deadly enemies: the egg-eating monster Rarunga…and the prince's own father.
 SHORTIE LIKE MINE
Ni-Ni Simone
Dafina/Kensington Books
Fiction
ISBN: 9780758228390
230 pages
What happens when the girl everyone least expects gets the guy all the chicks want?
Sixteen-year-old Seven McKnight is fierce, fly and fabulous. With a cute face and a tight waist, she can rock Apple Bottoms jeans and stilettos like nobody’s business, but she’s got her share of issues. It’s not easy being the thickest one in her clique or hiding that her rebellious twin sister Toi is playing wifey to the neighborhood thug. And Seven is definitely not happy that she’s feelin’ the school’s hottest baller, Josiah, especially since he’s dating her high maintenance girlfriend, Deeyah. But when Deeyah decides to play Josiah and his worst enemy against each other, she’ll have everyone facing off in the worst way. The question is, can Seven try and set things right or does she end up trying to save herself from major heartbreak?
For more information, visit: www.kensingtonbooks.com.
 SOVAY
Celia Rees
Bloomsbury USA Children’s Books
Historical Fiction
ISBN: 9781599902036
416 pages
From the acclaimed author of PIRATES! comes the swashbuckling story of a gentlewoman turned highwayman.
It’s England, 1783. When the rich and beautiful Sovay isn’t sitting for portraits, she’s donning a man’s cloak and robbing travelers --- in broad daylight. But in a time when political allegiances between France and England are strained, a rogue bandit is not the only thing travelers fear. Spies abound, and rumors of sedition can quickly lead to disappearances. So when Sovay lifts the wallet of one of England’s most powerful and dangerous men, it’s not just her own identity she must protect, but that of her father. A dazzling historical saga in which the roles of thieves and gentry, good and bad, and men and women are interchanged to riveting effect.
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