Category: Kid Lit Giveaways

We’re giving away five copies of The Impossible Destiny of Cutie Grackle by Shawn K. Stout to five lucky Riot readers!

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Part outdoor survival adventure, part fantastical quest, this enchanting middle grade novel is a journey of hope, heart, and a willingness to believe in the impossible. Cutie Grackle is used to being different—she lives alone on a mountain with her feeble-minded uncle, sucks on pebbles to trick her stomach into feeling full, and chats with a weathered garden gnome for company. But when Cutie learns from a magical group of ravens that her family has suffered from a deadly curse for generations, and that it involves her long-lost mother, she knows it’s her destiny to break it.

We’re giving away three copies of Shinji Takahashi and the Mark of the Coatl by Julie Kagawa to three lucky Riot readers!

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From New York Times best-selling author Julie Kagawa. Shinji Takahashi and the Mark of the Coatl, is an all-new middle-grade adventure, that combines high-tech wizardry, old-world legends and a little bit of magic. Shinji Takahashi is just an ordinary homeschooled kid being raised by his aunt. But when a magical guardian decides to use him as a conduit to awaken its power, Shinji’s life takes a turn for the anything-but-ordinary.

We’re giving away three copies of If I Were a Park Ranger by Catherine Stier to three lucky Riot readers!

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If you were a national park ranger, you’d spend every day in one of the most treasured places in America. You’d have an amazing job protecting animals, the environment, and our country’s natural and historical heritage, from the wilds of Denali to the Statue of Liberty!

We’re giving away three copies of Simon B. Rhymin’ Takes a Stand by Dwayne Reed to three lucky Riot readers!

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From America’s favorite rapping teacher Dwayne Reed comes a book series about using your voice and taking a stand. Eleven-year-old Simon Barnes is a young rapper from Chicago who is small for his age and afraid to speak up. In Simon B. Rhymin’ he must gain the confidence to use his rhymes to help bring the community together, not to mention get an A in class. And in the sequel, Simon B. Rhymin’ Takes a Stand, Simon and his crew navigate inequality and injustice within their school and community. How will young readers use THEIR voices?

We’re giving away five copies of Little Monarchs by Jonathan Case to five lucky Riot readers! 

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In the graphic novel adventure, 10-year-old Elvie is on a crucial mission to save humanity from extinction after a sun shift has changed life on earth as we know it. Elvie and her caretaker, Flora, a biologist, are the only humans who can survive during daylight because Flora made an incredible discovery – a way to make an antidote to sun sickness using the scales from monarch butterfly wings.

Through both comic narrative and journal entries, readers learn the basics of star navigation, how to tie useful knots, and other survival skills applicable in the natural world.

We’re giving away five copies of All You Need by Howard Schwartz to five lucky Riot readers!

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A little girl grows up to be an accomplished artist in this sumptuously illustrated book about the small things that lead to a rich and fulfilling life.

In All You Need, poet Howard Schwartz’s graceful, deceptively simple text describes a handful of things anyone needs to live a rich and fulfilling life, made all the more potent by the illustrations of debut picture book artist Jasu Hu, who uses her talents to create a rich and powerful narrative describing her own journey, creative and otherwise, from a childhood in China to her arrival to study art in New York.

We’re giving away five copies of Falling Short by Ernesto Cisneros to five lucky Riot readers!

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Ernesto Cisneros, Pura Belpré Award-winning author of Efrén Divided, is back with a new novel about friendship, middle school, and masculinity!

Isaac and Marco already know sixth grade is going to change their lives. But it won’t change things at home—not without each other’s help.

This year, star basketball player Isaac plans on finally keeping up with his schoolwork. Better grades will surely stop Isaac’s parents from arguing all the time. Meanwhile, straight-A Marco vows on finally winning his father’s approval by earning a spot on the school’s basketball team.

Can the two boys keep each other from falling short?

We’re giving away five copies of Star & Stripe 1: Grand Opening by M.J. Offen and Ruth Bennett plus a child-sized apron to five lucky Riot readers!

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In this new, vibrant Richard Scarry-esque picture book series, a brother and sister cook up a sweet new business venture. Since they were calves, Star and Stripe have dreamed of running their own restaurant so they can share their mama’s grassburgers with the citizens of Critter City. There are so many decisions to make with their new business and the siblings constantly butt heads on the right solutions. But with Stripe at the grill and Star reeling in customers, the brother and sister realize that when they hold hooves and work together, great things happen! It’s grasstastic!

We’re giving away three copies of Solimar: The Sword of the Monarchs by Pam Muñoz Ryan to three lucky Riot readers!

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Newbery Honor Medal winner of the highly acclaimed novel Echo, Pam Muñoz Ryan’s newest middle-grade story features a soon-to-be princess named Solimar who encounters monarch butterfly magic and a greedy king prepared to do anything to overtake her kingdom. Can this princess-to-be save her family, the kingdom, and the future of the monarch butterflies from a greedy and dangerous king?