Every month in our Grab Bag of Books contest, five readers are 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 ABSOLUTELY MAYBE by Lisa Yee, ENVY: A Luxe Novel by Anna Godbersen, PRINCESS DIARIES, VOLUME X: FOREVER PRINCESS by Meg Cabot and WONDROUS STRANGE by Lesley Livingston.
ABSOLUTELY MAYBE
Lisa Yee
Arthur A. Levine Books/Scholastic
Fiction
ISBN: 9780439838443
288 pages
Meet Maybelline “Maybe” Chestnut. She may be named for her mother’s favorite brand of mascara, but she has a mind --- and a hair color --- all her own.
Meet her mother, Chessy --- that is, Chessamay Chestnut Abajian Wing Marshall Wing Sinclair Alvarez and soon-to-be Himmler. The one man she didn’t marry? Maybe’s father.
Meet Ted and Hollywood, aka Maybe’s best friends. When Chessy chooses her latest scuzzball fiancé over her daughter, the trio sets out to find Maybe’s dad in California.
Where they meet Los Angeles: city of swimming pools, movie stars, and a whole lot of surprises, including an aging screen goddess, a famous photographer, three makeovers, a Rolls-Royce, and a taco truck.
Hollywood makes a film; Ted makes his fortune. But the biggest surprise may be Maybe herself, as a charm-school dropout becomes a drop-dead charmer in Lisa Yee’s terrific new novel.
ENVY: A Luxe Novel
Anna Godbersen
HarperCollins Children’s Books
Historical Romance
ISBN: 9780061345722
416 pages
Two months after Elizabeth Holland's dramatic homecoming, Manhattan eagerly awaits her return to the pinnacle of society. When Elizabeth refuses to rejoin her sister Diana's side, however, those watching New York's favorite family begin to suspect that all is not as it seems behind the stately doors of No. 17 Gramercy Park South.
Farther uptown, Henry and Penelope Schoonmaker are the city's most celebrated couple. But despite the glittering diamond ring on Penelope's finger, the newlyweds share little more than scorn for each other. And while the newspapers call Penelope's social-climbing best friend, Carolina Broad, an heiress, her fortune --- and her fame --- are anything but secure, especially now that one of society's darlings is slipping tales to the eager press.
In this next thrilling installment of Anna Godbersen's bestselling Luxe series, Manhattan's most envied residents appear to have everything they desire: Wealth. Beauty. Happiness. But sometimes the most practiced smiles hide the most scandalous secrets…
PRINCESS DIARIES, VOLUME X: FOREVER PRINCESS
Meg Cabot
HarperTeen
Fiction
ISBN: 9780061232923
400 pages
What's a Princess to do?
It's Mia's senior year, and things seem great. She aced her senior project, got accepted to her dream college(s), and has her birthday gala coming up…not to mention prom, graduation, and Genovia's first-ever elections.
What's not to love about her life? Well…
- Her senior project? It's a romance novel she secretly wrote, and no one wants to publish it.
- Prince Phillipe's campaign in the Genovian elections isn't going well, thanks to her totally loathsome cousin René, who decided to run against him.
- Her boyfriend, J.P., is so sweet and seemingly perfect. But is he the one?
- And her first love, Michael, is back from Japan…and back in her life.
With Genovia's and her own future hanging in the balance, Mia has some decisions to make: Which college? Which guy? How can she choose? Especially when what she decides might determine not just the next four years, but…forever!
WONDROUS STRANGE
Lesley Livingston
HarperTeen
Fantasy/Romance
ISBN: 9780061575372
336 pages
For 17-year-old actress Kelley Winslow, faeries are just something from childhood stories. Then she meets Sonny Flannery, whose steel-gray eyes mask an equally steely determination to protect her.
Sonny guards the Samhain Gate, which connects the mortal realm with the Faerie's enchanted, dangerous Otherworld. Usually kept shut by order of icy King Auberon, the Gate stands open but once a year.
This year, as the time approaches when the Samhain Gate will swing wide and nightmarish Fae will fight their way into an unsuspecting human world, something different is happening…something wondrous and strange. And Kelley's eyes are opening not just to the Faerie that surround her but to the heritage that awaits her.
Now Kelley must navigate deadly Faerie treachery --- and her growing feelings for Sonny --- in this dazzling page-turner filled with luminous romance.
WONDROUS STRANGE is a richly layered tale of love between faerie and mortal, betrayal between kings and queens, and magic…between author and reader.
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