Blog Tour- I SURVIVED: THE GALVESTON HURRICANE, 1900 by @laurentarshis With Excerpts & A #Giveaway! @Scholastic, & @RockstarBkTours

I am thrilled to be hosting a spot on the I SURVIVED, THE GALVESTON HURRICANE, 1900 by Lauren Tarshis Blog Tour hosted by Rockstar Book Tours. Check out my post and make sure to enter the giveaway!

 

About The Book:

Title: I SURVIVED, THE GALVESTON HURRICANE, 1900 (I Survived #21)

Author: Lauren Tarshis

Pub. Date: Paperback, eBook, & audiobook: September 7, 2021. Hardcover: November 2, 2021

Publisher: Scholastic Inc.

Formats: Hardcover, Paperback, eBook, Audiobook

Pages: 144

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

More than a century later, the Galveston Hurricane of 1900 is still America's deadliest disaster. Lauren Tarshis's story of one child surviving the horrible event churns with page-turning action and bold hope.

The city of Galveston, Texas, was booming. Perched on an island off the southern coast of Texas, Galveston had been founded in the 1830s. By 1900, it was Texas's richest and most important city. Boats loaded up with American cotton and wheat steamed from Galveston to countries around the world. Arriving ships were crowded with immigrants. The streets, paved with crushed oyster shells, sparkled like they'd been sprinkled with diamonds.

True, this glittering city was prone to flooding. But just a few years before, a weather forecaster had said the idea of a hurricane striking Galveston was absurd.

So when a storm started brewing on September 8, 1900, no one believed it would be any worse than previous storms. They gathered on the beach to cheer on the wild waves. But what started as entertainment soon turned into a nightmare as those wild waves crashed into the city. By morning, hundreds of homes were destroyed. Eight thousand people were dead. The city had all but disappeared,

In this thrilling installment of Lauren Tarshis's New York Times bestselling I Survived series, one child finds safety only to head back into the treacherous waters to make sure his neighbors are safe.

Check out all of the I SURVIVED BOOKS! Each can be read as a standalone.

 

Excerpt:

 

About Lauren Tarshis: 

LAUREN TARSHIS’ New York Times bestselling I Survived series (which has over 34 million copies in print!) tells stories of young people and their resilience and strength in the midst of unimaginable disasters and times of turmoil. Lauren has brought her signature warmth and exhaustive research to topics such as the battle of D-Day, the American Revolution, Hurricane Katrina, the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the attacks of September 11, 2001, and other world events.

Lauren is also the Senior Vice President and Editor-in-Chief/Publisher of Scholastic Classroom Magazines, where she oversees more than 25 classroom magazines. In her more than 25 years with Scholastic, Lauren has helped transform the company’s print magazines into the powerful learning tools they are today. In her current role, she is helping to expand the magazines’ deep connection to American classrooms and ensure their vital role in providing teachers and students with an understanding of the contemporary world. She lives in Connecticut with her family, and can be found online at laurentarshis.com.

 

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Giveaway Details:

3 winners will win a finished copy of I SURVIVED, THE GALVESTON HURRICANE, 1900, US Only.

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Tour Schedule:

Week One:

8/30/2021	Celia's Reads	Excerpt
8/30/2021	jillpiscitello	Excerpt
8/31/2021	Kait Plus Books	Excerpt
8/31/2021	#BRVL Book Review Virginia Lee Blog	Excerpt
9/1/2021	@lexijava	Review
9/1/2021	BookHounds YA	Excerpt
9/2/2021	The Bookwyrm's Den	Review
9/2/2021	wottaread	Excerpt
9/3/2021	Lifestyle of Me	Review
9/3/2021	Nerdophiles	Review

Week Two:

9/6/2021	Lily Luchesi's Blog	Excerpt
9/6/2021	The Momma Spot	Review
9/7/2021	Don't Judge, Read	Excerpt
9/7/2021	Books and Zebras @jypsylynn	Review
9/8/2021	Nonbinary Knight Reads	Review
9/8/2021	@Curlygrannylovestoread	Review
9/9/2021	Locks, Hooks and Books	Review
9/9/2021	Little Red Readz	Review
9/10/2021	Two Points of Interest	Review
9/10/2021	Two Chicks on Books	Excerpt

Blog Tour: SQUIRREL DO BAD by @stephanpastis With An Excerpt & #Giveaway! @SimonKIDS, & @RockstarBkTours

I am thrilled to be hosting a spot on the SQUIRREL DO BAD by Stephan Pastis Blog Tour hosted by Rockstar Book Tours. Check out my post and make sure to enter the giveaway!

 

About the Books:

Title: SQUIRREL DO BAD (Trubble Town #1)

Author: Stephan Pastis

Pub. Date: August 31, 2021

Publisher: Aladdin

Formats: Hardcover, Paperback, eBook

Pages: 288

Find it: Goodreads, Amazon, Kindle, B&N, iBooks, Kobo, TBD, Bookshop.org

From the author of the “Pearls Before Swine” comic strip and New York Times bestselling Timmy Failure series comes a laugh-out-loud, heartwarming, full-color graphic novel series about a quirky town—just right for young readers starting to read longer books!

Wendy the Wanderer has lived in Trubble Town her whole life but never had the chance to go exploring. For this reason, she thinks she was definitely misnamed. Her dad likes to know where she is to make sure she’s safe, so she’s never been anywhere on her own. Then, her dad leaves on a trip and the babysitter doesn’t reinforce all the usual rules. Or any of the usual rules! Suddenly, Wendy is free to do what she wants, and what she wants is to live up to her name…and find Trubble.

Turns out, there’s lots going on in Trubble Town. As she encounters endearingly goofy animals and hilariously hapless townsfolk, Wendy’s very first adventure takes more twists and turns than she could have ever expected. She learns some really valuable life lessons and even teaches a few of her own.

 

Excerpts:

 

About Stephan Pastis:

STEPHAN PASTIS is an attorney turned cartoonist. A graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, and the UCLA School of Law, he worked as a lawyer before trying his hand at cartooning. Pastis lives in the Bay Area, with his wife and two children.

 

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Giveaway Details:

3 winners will receive a finished copy of SQUIRREL DO BAD, US ONLY.

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Tour Schedule:

Week One:

8/2/2021	Don't Judge, Read	Review
8/2/2021	BookHounds YA	Excerpt
8/3/2021	@curlygrannylovestoread	Review
8/3/2021	Little Red Readz	Review
8/4/2021	Rajiv's Reviews	Review
8/4/2021	Unconventional Quirky Bibliophile	Review
8/5/2021	Pickagoodbook	Review
8/5/2021	onemused	Review
8/6/2021	A Gingerly Review	Excerpt
8/6/2021	Jazzy Book Reviews	Review

Week Two:

8/9/2021	@fictitious.fox	Review
8/9/2021	Fyrekatz Blog	Review
8/10/2021	Adrianna.reads	Review
8/10/2021	Feed Your Fiction Addiction	Review
8/11/2021	booksaremagictoo	Review
8/11/2021	Books a Plenty Book Reviews	Review
8/12/2021	#BRVL Book Review Virginia Lee Blog	Excerpt
8/12/2021	The Momma Spot	Review
8/13/2021	Locks, Hooks and Books	Review
8/13/2021	Two Points of Interest	Review
8/13/2021	Two Chicks on Books	Excerpt

Blog Tour- SPIRIT FIRE by @SusanBMcCauley With an Excerpt & #Giveaway!

I am thrilled to be hosting a spot on the SPIRIT FIRE by Susan McCauley Blog Tour hosted by Rockstar Book Tours. Check out my post and make sure to enter the giveaway!

About the Book

Title: SPIRIT FIRE (Ghost Hunters #3)

Author: Susan McCauley

Pub. Date: September 28, 2021

Publisher: Celtic Sea Publishing

Formats: Hardcover, Paperback, eBook

Find it: Goodreads, Amazon, Kindle, B&N, TBD, Bookshop.org

Kindle Unlimited members will be able to read this for FREE!

Who—or what—is causing the fires in the French Quarter? A little girl? A long-dead prisoner? An evil presence calling to those beyond the grave?

In this spooky, fast-paced adventure, twelve-year-old Alex must fight smoke, flames, and ghostly prisoners to stop whatever’s causing the blazes—before more lives are lost.

 

Haven’t started the series yet? Grab books 1 & 2, BONES IN THE WALL & PIRATE’S CURSE for FREE with a KU subscription! Or get the audiobook for book 1 for FREE on Audible!

 

BONES IN THE WALL: Kindle, Audible

PIRATE’S CURSE: Kindle

 

 

Excerpt:

From the opening of Ghost Hunters: Spirit Fire (Book 3 in the Ghost Hunters series) by Susan McCauley.

The remains of wood and stone poked through ash and broken glass like charred bones. They were bones, in a way—the building’s bones. I sighed and took in a deep breath of smoke-tinged air. At least the coroner had taken away the victims. I didn’t want to see them. Seeing their ghosts could be scary enough.

I walked over a scorched beam that had fallen from the ceiling, leaving a gaping hole open to the sky, letting the autumn sunlight illuminate the building’s steel ribs. Tattered bits of a singed paper skeleton dangled loosely from a door, hanging lopsided on its hinge. Halloween was only a few days away.

“The fire marshal hasn’t been able to determine the cause of the fire yet, but we’re glad it didn’t reach the Cablido,” said Frank Martinez, my mentor. “That museum is filled with artifacts.” Frank was not only my teacher, but he was also a famous psychic investigator and a retired officer from the head branch of the Office of Psychic Investigation (OPI) in Washington, D.C. If it hadn’t been for Frank, I would have been sent off to some boarding school for psychic kids, which would have been super hard—especially since I was the only kid in history to become psychic at the ripe old age of twelve. I was an anomaly. A freak. An oddball. And the accident that caused it all had turned my life upside down.

            “Do you sense anything?” Frank sniffed the air. I knew he was smelling for something more than smoke and mildew.

            I closed my eyes and let out a deep breath. I could almost feel the fear and pain of the people who had been trapped inside. Just a few days ago they’d been laughing, talking, alive. Now . . . gone. Accidents happened so quickly, but they could definitely make permanent changes. My heart ached for the people who’d died in the fire. For their fear. For their pain. For their families’ loss. The ache in my chest was real enough, but I didn’t feel any ghosts. Not right now. I couldn’t feel the energy of what people had felt in the past; that part was my imagination. What I could see and feel and hear were actual ghosts; that was part of being psychic.

 

 

About Susan:

Susan is an award winning author of paranormal, fantasy, and horror for adults, young adults, and middle grade readers. She first fell in love with the paranormal when she was three years old and scared witless on Disney's Haunted Mansion ride, but begged her parents to ride again and again!

Susan has lived on all three coasts of the United States, as well as having spent a few years in the U.K. She loves to travel, scuba dive, practice taekwondo (she's not a black belt - yet!), read, see movies, and go to the theatre. She's also passionate about animals and has a special place in her heart for cats. You can visit her on the web at www.sbmccauley.com

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Giveaway Details:

2 winners will receive a finished copy of book 1 in the GHOST HUNTERS series & swag (Ghost Hunters bag, Evil Eye pendant from Turkey, series branded bookmark), US Only.

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Tour Schedule:

Week One:

9/6/2021	Two Chicks on Books	Excerpt
9/7/2021	A Dream Within A Dream	Guest Post
9/8/2021	Lexijava	Excerpt
9/9/2021	Writer of Wrongs	Guest Post
9/10/2021	Rajiv's Reviews	Review
9/11/2021	Jazzy Book Reviews	Excerpt

Week Two:

9/12/2021	bellesmiddlegrade	Review
9/13/2021	BookHounds YA	Excerpt
9/14/2021	YA Books Central	Excerpt
9/15/2021	Rockstar Book Tours	IG Post
9/16/2021	Wottaread	Excerpt
9/17/2021	Amy's Book Nook	Review
9/18/2021	Books a Plenty Book Reviews	Review

Week Three:

9/19/2021	dinipandareads	Review
9/20/2021	Don't Judge, Read	Excerpt
9/21/2021	I'm Shelfish	Excerpt
9/22/2021	Jaime's World	Excerpt
9/23/2021	The Bookwyrm's Den	Review
9/24/2021	hauntedbybooks	Review
9/25/2021	#BRVL Book Review Virginia Lee Blog	Review

Week Four:

9/26/2021	@Curlygrannylovestoread	Review
9/27/2021	Locks, Hooks and Books	Review
9/28/2021	Books and Zebras @jypsylynn	Review
9/29/2021	The Momma Spot	Review
9/30/2021	Two Points of Interest	Review