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Princess Bookie is hosting a Contest Craze: Mini Challenge. This challenge is to post our top 5 books we’re looking forward to release in 2012. So here’s my list!

Insurgent
by Veronica Roth
Release May 2012
Divergent #2

Out of Sight, Out of Time
by Ally Carter
Release March 2012
Gallagher Girls #5

Clockwork Prince
by Cassandra Clare
Release December 2011 (almost 2012)
Infernal Devices #2

The Secrets of Ashona
by Kaza Kingsley
Release February 2012
Erec Rex #5

Endlessly
by Kiersten White
Release 2012
Paranormalcy #3

I made a new blog button! Please replace the old one with my beautiful new one. The html code is in the box below my button in the right column. I also updated my background. Fun fun! I love change.

I participated in the Labor Day Weekend Read-a-Thon hosted by Katie’s Book Blog, and now the weekend is already over!

Ok, so I definitely didn’t reach my goals. End Results:

• I read and LOVED Waterfall by Lisa T. Bergren. Click HERE for my review.

• I also started Lucky by Rachel Vail and didn’t finish it. I just wasn’t into the story. The main character was 14 and a little spoiled. There wasn’t anything really bad in the first few chapters, but nothing really very good either. Since I only have a limited time to read each day I didn’t want to waste my time on a book I wasn’t interested in. So I didn’t read Lucky or the next 2 in the series Gorgeous and Brilliant. (Note: I don’t post about books I don’t like, find not ‘clean’ enough for my blog, or an adult book. I want to keep my book reviews upbeat and positive and reserved for teen books.)

• I then decided I should probably read the book for my book club tonight! It’s My Antonia by Willa Cather. It’s an adult book so I won’t be posting a review. I’m only a 10th of the way through it and not into the story at all.

I think I’m still stuck in the world of Waterfall! That’s all I want to read about! I need to get the 2nd book Cascade very soon!!

I hope y’all had a wonderful Labor Day weekend with lots of fun reading!
Happy Reading!

Katie’s Book Blog is hosting a Labor Day Weekend Read-a-thon! I’m just supposed to set a goal to read more books than I normally would over a weekend. If I’m really into a book (especially a series) I can read 2 books over a 3 day weekend. So to push myself, I’d like to read 3 or 4 this weekend. With 3 young children to take care of (and my garage to tackle!) we’ll see how it goes.

If while I’m reading I feel any of these books are not ‘clean’ enough to post on my blog I’ll stop reading it and move on to the next on my list.

These are the books I got from the library to choose from for the weekend:

Waterfallby Lisa T. Bergren
Luckyby Rachel Vail
Brilliantby Rachel Vail
Gorgeousby Rachel Vail
The Maze Runnerby James Dashner
The Iron Kingby Julie Kagawa
Shiverby Maggie Stiefvater

I will definitely not finish all of these over the weekend, but I hope to finish a few. I started Waterfall yesterday afternoon. So far it is great! I’m loving it! Look for the review of these books soon.

Happy Read-a-Thon!

A blog I follow called Reading Teen has ‘reading clean spotlights,’ and this one is a giveaway. CLICK HERE to check it out. The book is Waterfall by Lisa T. Bergren. I haven’t read it, but I definitely will now. Look for a review coming soon.

For those of you reading this post on a reader, you’ll have to check my blog regularly to see my list of giveaways, in the right column, going on in the blogging world.

Happy Reading!

I did some research and found some book giveaways happening on other book blogs. Click on my new ‘Giveaways’ tab to find the links. Check back often for new giveaways I hear about, and recruit more followers so I can have a 100 followers giveaway on this blog. So exciting! I love free books! I think I’m a book hoarder.

Ok the winner of the book giveaway is…. Sarah S! Yea, congratulations Sarah! I guess those 4 entries really helped. I’ll message you on facebook so you can give me your address. Thanks to everyone who participated! 

It’s time for a book giveaway! I will use random.org to select my winner. To be entered to win you must be a follower and leave a comment on this post. You can get another entry if you talk about this blog/ giveaway on your facebook status. You can get another entry by posting about this blog/ giveaway on your blog. If you put a link on your blog sidebar to cleanteenfiction.blogspot.com I’ll give you another entry. You can get up to 4 entries in the random.org pool. I must have at least 15 followers to do the giveaway so tell your friends! You have until May 14!

The book I’ll be giving away is The Alchemyst (The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel) by Michael Scott (paperback). The fifth book in this series comes out next month. This series is exciting and fun! Seth and Sophie are twins who get pulled into the world of the Alchemyst, the Immortal Nicholas Flamel. Seth and Sophie set out on an adventure to stay alive and save the world. A great read!

Leave a comment and let me know if you’re a follower and if you left a message on your facebook status, blog post, and/or blog sidebar.