Spaceheadz Giveaway: A Simon & Schuster Middle Grade Book Pack
By Bianca Schulze, The Children’s Book Review
Published: August 23, 2010
The first National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature, Jon Scieszka, has an exciting, new book: Spaceheadz.
To celebrate, one extremely lucky winner will receive a Simon & Schuster MG book pack, including:
Spaceheadz by Jon Scieszka
Brixton Bros: The Case of the Case of Mistaken Identity by Mac Barnett
Amelia Rules! The Tweenage Guide to Not Being Unpopular by Jimmy Gownley
Nightmare at the Book Fair by Dan Gutman
Keepers of the School: We the Children by Andrew Clements
Reading level: Middle Grade
Spaceheadz overview: The perfect combination of the age old experience of holding and pouring over a physical book with newest media technology that kids love!
Michael K. just started fifth grade at a new school. As if that wasn’t hard enough, the kids he seems to have made friends with apparently aren’t kids at all. They are aliens. Real aliens who have invaded our planet in the form of school children and a hamster. They have a mission to complete: to convince 3,140,001 kids to BE SPHDZ. But with a hamster as their leader, “kids” who talk like walking advertisements, and Michael K as their first convert, will the SPHDZ be able to keep their cover and pull off their assignment?
Jon Scieszka
About the author: Jon Scieszka is the first National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature, named by the Library of Congress. He is the author of some of the best known and funniest books written for children including The True Story of the Three Little Pigs, The Time Warp Trio series and the Caldecott Honor Book The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales. He is the creator of the Trucktown series, of which Smash! Crash! was an NY Times bestseller for many weeks. Jon is a former elementary school teacher, and a avid promoter of literacy—particularly for boys. His website www.guyssread.com focuses on his national campaign. Jon lives with his family in Brooklyn, NY.
Visit: Simon & Schuster
At sphdz.com, you can sign up to be a SPHDZ and help stop the Earth from being turned off.
At antialienagency.com, you can see what the government is doing to protect the Earth from the alien menace.
At mrshalleyscomets.com, you can see Michael K.’s fifth-grade class website.
Follow: @GuysRead and @MajorFluffy
How to enter:
- Leave a comment in the comments field below.
- An extra entry will be given for each time you twitter about the giveaway and/or blog about it. You will need to paste the link in a separate comment to make this entry valid. Click here to follow us on Twitter.
- Maximum entries: 3
Giveaway Rules:
- Shipping Guidelines: This book giveaway is open to participants with a United States mailing address only (international readers can enter if they have a friend in the United States who can accept their prizes by mail.)
- Giveaway begins August 23, 2010, at 12:01 A.M. PST and ends September 20, 2010, at 11:59 P.M. PST, when all entries must be received. No purchase necessary. See official rules for details.
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Category: Ages 9-12, Giveaways, Reluctant Readers
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The Children's Book Review, named one of the ALSC Great Web Sites for Kids, is powered by Bianca Schulze, mother to two daughters. Bianca has almost a decade’s worth of experience working with children and is passionate about continuing to work with children. Combined with her love of books and experience as a childrens specialist bookseller, the goal is to share her passion through this blog.Subscribe
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My daughter would love this book
tbarrettno1 at gmail dot com
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Would be great for my classroom!
teacher6th : twitter
How can you go wrong with Jon?
Wow! We would love to win..thanks for the chance!
Jon Scieszka, is one of my favorite children author, his work is just lovely.
Please enter me into this drawing, our school library will be happy to win a copy.
Thank you,
Great book! I think some of my more reluctant readers would love it! Would like to win this for our school library.
Great giveaway! Thanks for the chance!
We love Jon Scieszka’s books! I can’t count the number of times we’ve read The Stinky Cheese Man. I’d love to read Spaceheadz too!
This would be a great addition to my library!
This set looks fantastic. What a great bunch of authors. Thanks for the the opportunity to win this set! akhertz at aol com
A wonderful selection of books. All my kids would love reading those.
danellejohns at gmail dot com
My kids would love to add these to our home library!
I would love to win this for my grandchildren! Thank you for the giveaway!
My niece would love these books—please enter me to win!
skkorman AT bellsouth DOT net
This set of books sounds wonderful. I would really love to win them for my good friend who has just started teaching fourth grade at a new school. Of course, I would need to check them out for her by reading them.
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I would love to be entered. My nephews would love this!
This is a great giveaway! My 6th grade daughter who is homeschooled would love to win this book pack…. we can never have enough books at home to read.
What a great giveaway for the middle school set. I’d love to win this set of books for my daughter. Thanks for the opportunity.
I tweeted about the giveaway: http://twitter.com/PicPocketBooks/status/23225303885
My son in the 5th grade would love these books, especially Nightmare at the Book Fair.
Tweeted. http://twitter.com/theladya/status/23225606508
I’m sure my friend’s son would enjoy these books tremendously!
Would love to win this for my school library!
I would love to win this for my classroom library. Thanks for the giveaway.
Looks like a fun pack!
janemaritz at yahoo dot com
Please include me.
Thanks for the chance to win.
lkish77123 at gmail dot com
I think my students would love this!
bgcchs(at)yahoo(dot)com
One of our favorite authors! My son would love this.
wmmahaney(at)atT(dot)net
This Giveaway is now closed. Thank you to everyone who entered to win this fantastic Middle Grade prize pack.
Our lucky winner is Nancy: Would love to win this for my school library!
Congratulations, Nancy!