Traveling ARC Tours

Title: Extraordinary
Author: Nancy Werlin
Publisher: Dial
Release Date: Sept 2010
Donated by: Nancy Werlin

Phoebe finds herself drawn to Mallory, the strange and secretive new kid in school, and the two girls become as close as sisters . . . until Mallory’s magnetic older brother, Ryland, shows up during their junior year. Ryland has an immediate, exciting hold on Phoebe, but a dangerous hold, for she begins to question her feelings about her best friend and, worse, about herself. Soon she’ll discover the shocking truth about Ryland and Mallory: that these two are visitors from the faerie realm who have come to collect on an age-old debt. Generations ago, the faerie queen promised Pheobe’s ancestor five extraordinary sons in exchange for the sacrifice of one ordinary female heir. But in hundreds of years there hasn’t been a single ordinary girl in the family, and now the faeries are dying. Could Phoebe be the first ordinary one? Could she save the faeries, or is she special enough to save herself?

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1. Tracee (WI) Rc’d 8/11, Mail by 8/18  BOOK STOLEN; TOUR WILL NOT CONTINUE
   
2. Ky (NE)
3. Danielle (CA)
4. Amber (TX)
5. Jamie (LA)
6. Kate (CT)
7. Ashley (GA)
8. Heather (NC)
9. A.M.Y. (MI)
10. Tiffany (PA)
11. Steph Su (PA)
12. Katelyn (MD)
13. Laurie (NY)
14. Sharon (NY)

Title: Wildwing
Author: Emily Whitman
Publisher: Greenwillow Books
Release Date: Sept 2010
Donated by: Rebecca

Addy knows there’s so much more to life than what she has. She must be destined for more than being a maid to an eccentric elderly man. And so when she finds a mysterious contraption in the gentleman’s study, of course she steps inside. Of course she bumps into the wrong button. Suddenly Addy is in medieval England, mistaken for the young woman betrothed to the lord of the nearby manor. It’s destiny. But is it home? And will she ever find her way back to her own time? Will she want to, once she’s met the shy, handsome falconer’s apprentice?

6 spots still open. Email Drea or Sara to be added to the tour.

1. Shanna (CO) Rc’d 8/14, Mailed 8/25
   DC:0308-3390-0000-1206-6940
2. Melissa (UT) Rc’d 8/27, Mailed 9/4
   DC: 0496 9001 2840 1610 0122
3. Heather (IL) Rc’d 9/7, Mailed 9/14
   DC: 0309 1140 0000 7513 5852
4. Laurie (NY) Rc’d 9/18, Mailed 9/25
   DC: 0306 1070 0001 2621 8690
5. Katelyn (MD) Rc’d 10/2, Mailed 10/9
6. Lorraine (AB, Canada) Rc’d 10/20, Mail by 10/27

Title: Paranormalcy
Author: Kiersten White
Publisher: HarperTeen
Release Date: Aug 2010
Donated by: Sara

Sixteen-year-old Evie’s job is bagging and tagging paranormals. Possessing the strange ability to see through their glamours, she works for the International Paranormal Containment Agency. But when someone–or something–starts taking out the vamps, werewolves, and other odd beasties she’s worked hard to help become productive members of society, she’s got to figure it out before they all disappear and the world becomes utterly normal.

Normal is so overrated.

Signups are closed. This tour will be limited to 10 spots.

Sent: 7/23 DC: 03082040000120127329

1. Madeleine Rex Rc’d 7/29, Mailed 8/5
   DC: 0309 3220 0002 1056 0191
2. Heather (WA) Rc’d 7/7, Mailed 7/12
   DC: 0310 0480 0000 7281 6017
3. Jessica (CA) Rc’d 8/16, Mailed 8/25
   DC: 9102 0105 2129 7658 0727 26
4. Patricia (AZ)  – States book sent. No DC. Book possibly stolen or lost in mail.
5. Taylor (OH)
6. Celi.a (VA)
7. Crystal (NC)

Title: Halo
Author: Alexandra Adornetto
Publisher: Feiwel & Friends
Release Date: Aug 2010
Donated by: Drea

Nothing much happens in the sleepy town of Venus Cove. But everything changes when three angels are sent from heaven to protect the town against the gathering forces of darkness: Gabriel, the warrior; Ivy, the healer; and Bethany, a teenage girl who is the least experienced of the trio. They work hard to conceal their true identity and, most of all, their wings. But the mission is threatened when the youngest angel, Bethany, is sent to high school and falls in love with the handsome school captain, Xavier Woods. Will she defy the laws of Heaven by loving him? Things come to a head when the angels realize they are not the only supernatural power in Venus Cove. There′s a new kid in town and he′s charming, seductive and deadly. Worst of all, he′s after Beth.

Signups are closed. This will be limited to 10 people.

Title: Beautiful Darkness
Author: Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Release Date: Oct 2010
Donated by: Drea

Ethan Wate used to think of Gatlin, the small Southern town he had always called home, as a place where nothing ever changed. Then he met mysterious newcomer Lena Duchannes, who revealed a secret world that had been hidden in plain sight all along. A Gatlin that harbored ancient secrets beneath its moss-covered oaks and cracked sidewalks. A Gatlin where a curse has marked Lena’s family of powerful supernaturals for generations. A Gatlin where impossible, magical, life-altering events happen.

Sometimes life-ending.

Together they can face anything Gatlin throws at them, but after suffering a tragic loss, Lena starts to pull away, keeping secrets that test their relationship. And now that Ethan’s eyes have been opened to the darker side of Gatlin, there’s no going back. Haunted by strange visions only he can see, Ethan is pulled deeper into his town’s tangled history and finds himself caught up in the dangerous network of underground passageways endlessly crisscrossing the South, where nothing is as it seems.

Tour signups closed.

1. Heather (IL) Rc’d 7/26, Mailed 8/2
   DC: 7009 3410 0002 4405 2647
2. Tara (IL) Rc’d 8/2, Mailed 8/10
   DC: 03092880000180964567
3. Lisa (CO) Rc’d 8/13, Mailed 8/21 (multi-book ext)
   DC: 0310 0480 0003 2415 2337
4. Enna Isilee (UT) Rc’d 8/24, Mailed 9/3
   DC: 03093220000221064301
5. Cindy (CA) Rc’d 9/13, Mailed 11/2
   DC:  0309 2880 0002 3725 7550
6. Amber Skye (Tx) Rc’d 11/6, Mail by 11/20
   DC: 0308 2040 0002 1231 0554
7. Andrea F (LA) Rc’d 11/23, Mail by 11/30
8. Crystal (NC)
9. Heather (NC)
10. Lizzy (VT)
11. A.M.Y. (MI)

Title: Wicked Girls
Author: Stephanie Hemphill
Publisher: HarperCollins
Release Date: July 2010
Donated by: Monica

Wicked Girls is a fictionalized account of the Salem witch trials based on the real historical characters, told from the perspective of three young women living in Salem in 1692—Mercy Lewis, Margaret Walcott, and Ann Putnam Jr.
When Ann’s father suggests that a spate of illnesses within the village is the result of witchcraft, Ann sees an opportunity and starts manifesting the symptoms of affliction. Ann looks up to Mercy, the beautiful servant in her parents’ house. She shows Mercy the power that a young girl is capable of in a time when women were completely powerless. Mercy, who suffered abuse at the hands of past masters, seizes her only chance at safety. And Ann’s cousin Margaret, anxious to win the attention of a boy in her sights, follows suit. As the accusations mount against men and women in the community, the girls start to see the deadly ramifications of their actions. Should they finally tell the truth? Or is it too late to save this small New England town?

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Monica mailed 7/14; DC: 03093220000231763232

1. Crystal (NC) Rc’d 7/16, Mailed 7/20
   DC: 9102 1480 0860 0974 5126 49
2. Katelyn (MD) Rc’d 7/21, Mailed 7/28
   DC: 0309 1830 0000 1613 8054
3. Laurie T (NY) Rc’d 8/3, Mailed 8/10
   No DC for Canada
4. Kelly (Ontario) Rc’d 8/25, Mailed 9/2
5. Heather (IL) –Still has not been received, possibly lost in mail.
6. Sami (TX)
7. Patricia (AZ)

Title: Indigo Blues
Author: Danielle Jospeh
Publisher: Flux
Release Date: July 2010
Donated by: Sara

Indigo:

I never asked to be famous—or infamous. Such is my fate for briefly dating (and dumping) Adam Spade. Yes, the Adam from the indie rock band who wrote “Indigo Blues”—the song that gave the band overnight success, propelled them to New York City, and stole my precious anonymity. Now I’m pawed by fans, stalked by reporters, and pegged as a vicious heartbreaker. And Adam is still calling me. Doesn’t he have better things to do?

Adam:

With a hit single and a promising career, I should be on top of the world. People on the street are beginning to recognize me, which is cool. And scary. The band is counting on me to write another hit, but I can’t stop thinking about Indigo. Why won’t she answer the phone?

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Sent 7/23. DC: 0308 2040 0001 2012 7343

1. Gail (MA) Rc’d 7/26, Mailed 8/2
   DC: 0308 3390 0001 6836 2187
2. Katelyn (MD) Rc’d 8/4, Mailed 8/11
   DC: 0309 1830 0000 1614 4697
3. Erika Lynn (NC) Rc’d 8/13, Mailed 8/23
   DC: 0310 0480 0000 3540 3421
4. Alisha (SC) Rc’d 8/25, Mailed 9/1
   DC: NO DC
5. Sarah (CO) Rc’d 9/4, Mailed 9/08
   DC: 0308 2690 0001 6354 8821
6. Cindy (CA) Rc’d 9/13, Mailed 11/2
   DC: 0309 2880 0002 3725 7567
7. Heather (MA) Rc’d 11/9, Mailed 11/16
   DC: 0309 2880 0001 0013 4452
8. Laurie (NY) rc’d 11/18, Mail by 11/26

Title: Sapphique
Author: Catherine Fisher
Publisher: Dial
Release Date: Dec 2010
Donated by: Jen

Finn has escaped from the terrible living Prison of Incarceron, but its memory torments him, because his brother Keiro is still inside. Outside, Claudia insists he must be king, but Finn doubts even his own identity. Is he the lost prince Giles? Or are his memories no more than another construct of his imprisonment? And can you be free if your friends are still captive? Can you be free if your world is frozen in time? Can you be free if you don’t even know who you are? Inside Incarceron, has the crazy sorcerer Rix really found the Glove of Sapphique, the only man the Prison ever loved. Sapphique, whose image fires Incarceron with the desire to escape its own nature. If Keiro steals the glove, will he bring destruction to the world? Inside. Outside. All seeking freedom. Like Sapphique.

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Jen mailed 7/17; DC: 0306 0320 0004 5066 4298

1. Ashley (GA) Rc’d 7/19, Mailed 7/27
   DC: 0309 2880 0002 3078 1212
2. Andrea (LA) Rc’d 7/31, Mailed 8/9 (Multi-book extension)
   DC:04969002439007041758
3. Heather (IL) Rc’d 8/12, Mailed 8/17
   DC: 0310 1230 0000 7669 413
4. Tara (IL) Rc’d 8/20, Mailed 8/27
   No DC
5. Michelle (Ontario) Rc’d 9/8, Mailed 9/16
6. Weronika (NY) Rc’d 10/2, Mail by 10/09
7. Tara T (IL) Rc’d & Mailed
8. Trini (TX) Rc’d & Mailed

Jen has Rc’d

Title: Adios, Nirvana
Author: Conrad Wesselhoeft
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Books for Children
Release Date: Oct 2010
Donated by: Jen

When you piss off a bridge into a snowstorm, it feels like you’re connecting with eternal things. Paying homage to something or someone. But who? The Druids? Walt Whitman? No, I pay homage to one person only, my brother, my twin.
In life. In death.
Telemachus. Since the death of his brother, Jonathan’s been losing his grip on reality. Last year’s Best Young Poet and gifted guitarist is now Taft High School’s resident tortured artist, when he bothers to show up. He’s on track to repeat eleventh grade, but his English teacher, his principal, and his crew of Thicks (who refuse to be seniors without him) won’t sit back and let him fail.

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Jen mailed 7/17; DC: 0306 0320 0004 5066 4274

1. Lisa (CO) Rc’d 7/19, Mailed 7/24
   DC: 0310 0480 0003 2414 2864
2. Jan (MO) Rc’d 7/26, Mailed 8/2
   Fedex #: 46863201500219
3. Andrea (LA) Rc’d 8/5, Mailed 8/12
   DC: 9405503699300313237024
4. Erika Lynn (NC) Rc’d 8/14, Mail by 8/21

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Title: Virgin Territory
Author:
Publisher: Egmont
Release Date: September 2010
Donated by: Jen

VIRGIN TERRITORY is the not-so-miraculous story of how 15-year-old Dylan Flack is awakened to the beauty of his own life when the B.V.M (Blessed Virgin Mary) begins making appearance at the golf course where he’s working for the summer.

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Jen mailed 7/17; DC: 0306 0320 0004 5066 4281

1. Cindy (CA) Rc’ 7/19, Mailed 7/26
   DC: 0309 3220 0000 3443 8603
2. Andrea (LA) Rc’d 7/28, Mailed 8/4
   Lost DC
3. Kathy (IN) Rc’d 8/7, Mailed 8/28
   DC: 0310 0480 0000 8055 2365
4. Maria (NY) Rc’d 8/30, Mailed 9/7
5. Michelle (Ontario) Rc’ 9/15, Mailed 9/24