~*GIVEAWAY*~ 50 Follower Giveaway

Thank you for visiting my blog. This post will serve as the OFFICIAL start of my 50-follower giveaway (though I reached the 50 follower mark on Monday - you can read about that here)! As mentioned in the link I just referred, this will be a "from my shelf to yours"-type giveaway, and five lucky followers will each win a book! Should I reach 100 followers, I will be adding another $10 B&N Online Gift Certificate. Because I have reached 100 followers, I am adding a $10 Barnes & Noble Online Gift Certificate! Rules and prizes are listed below.

Books up for grabs -

• No More Dead Dogs by Gordon Korman
• Wolf Tower by Tanith Lee
• Walk Two Moons (Newbery) by Sharon Creech
• Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
• Mayflower by Nathaniel Philbrick

About the books (summaries from Amazon) -

No More Dead Dogs by Gordon Korman
Nobody understands Wallace Wallace. This reluctant school football hero has been suspended from the team for writing an unfavorable book report of Old Shep, My Pal. But Wallace won't tell a lie-he hated every minute of the book! Why does the dog in every classic novel have to croak at the end? After refusing to do a rewrite, his English teacher, who happens to be directing the school play Old Shep, My Pal, forces him go to the rehearsals as punishment. Although Wallace doesn't change his mind, he does end up changing the play into a rock-and-roll rendition, complete with Rollerblades and a moped! (Ages 9-12)

Wolf Tower by Tanith Lee
All her life, Claidi has endured hardship in the House, where she must obey a spoiled princess. Then a golden stranger arrives, living proof of a world beyond the House walls. Claidi risks all to free the charming prisoner and accompanies him across the Waste toward his faraway home. It is a difficult yet marvelous journey, and all the while Claidi is at the side of a man she could come to love. That is, until they reach his home . . . and the Wolf Tower. (Ages 9-12 - it is in the YA section of my library)

Walk Two Moons ('95 Newbery) by Sharon Creech
Thirteen-year-old Salamanca Tree Hiddle's mother has disappeared. While tracing her steps on a car trip from Ohio to Idaho with her grandparents, Salamanca tells a story to pass the time about a friend named Phoebe Winterbottom whose mother vanished and who received secret messages after her disappearance. One of them read, "Don't judge a man until you have walked two moons in his moccasins." Despite her father's warning that she is "fishing in the air," Salamanca hopes to bring her home. By drawing strength from her Native American ancestry, she is able to face the truth about her mother. (Young Adult)

Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
Sorely wounded and fatally disillusioned in the fighting at Petersburg, a Confederate soldier named Inman decides to walk back to his home in the Blue Ridge mountains to Ada, the woman he loves. His trek across the disintegrating South brings him into intimate and sometimes lethal converse with slaves and marauders, bounty hunters and witches, both helpful and malign. At the same time, the intrepid Ada is trying to revive her father’s derelict farm and learning to survive in a world where the old certainties have been swept away. As it interweaves their stories, Cold Mountain asserts itself as an authentic odyssey, hugely powerful, majestically lovely, and keenly moving. (Adult Fiction)

Mayflower by Nathaniel Philbrick
Nathaniel Philbrick became an internationally renowned author with his National Book Award– winning In the Heart of the Sea, hailed as "spellbinding" by Time magazine. In Mayflower, Philbrick casts his spell once again, giving us a fresh and extraordinarily vivid account of our most sacred national myth: the voyage of the Mayflower and the settlement of Plymouth Colony. From the Mayflower’s arduous Atlantic crossing to the eruption of King Philip’s War between colonists and natives decades later, Philbrick reveals in this electrifying history of the Pilgrims a fifty-five-year epic, at once tragic and heroic, that still resonates with us today. (Adult Non-Fiction)

Rules -
I'm sorry to be "mean" again, but unfortunately this is your fair warning that failure to comply by any of the following rules throughout the remainder of this post will result in a removal of your post and you will not be entered.

• You MUST be 16 or older to enter.
• You MUST be a follower of this blog (new or old). After all, it is a celebration of thanks to my followers.
• Your post MUST contain your name AND your e-mail address. You're getting free books, here, guys. I shouldn't have to stalk your profile to find your name or e-mail address.
• Open to US only.

Extra entries -

• +2 for adding my button to your blog/site
• +5 for making me a new button
• +1 for posting about my giveaway on your blog

To enter -
Be(come) a follower and comment on this post with the following information:

• Your name and e-mail address.
• Your 1st - 5th choices of the books, should your name be chosen. Ideally, I would like to get all of the winners their first choice.
• You MUST let me know if you have earned any extra entries (above) - I'm not a mind reader!
• *I actually find it easier if you just add up all your extra entries in ONE post. Please do not comment multiple times for each entry you have earned. Fresh out of college math, I should be able to divide the entries myself.*

This giveaway will end on March 13th or whenever I reach 20 entries - whichever comes last. Winners will be chosen through http://www.random.org/ and notified via e-mail. If winners do not respond within 72 hours, they forfeit their prize and I will be contacting a replacement winner.