Chapter by Chapter Blog Tours presents... BERTIE'S BOOK OF SPOOKY WONDERS by Ocelot Emerson - EXCERPT + GIVEAWAY!

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Today, we welcome Chapter by Chapter Blog Tours for a stop along their current promotion featuring a SPOOKIFIED Children's Fiction title ready and waiting for your reading pleasure.  So, if you're ready, let's introduce this BOO-tiful selection, get to the SPECIAL EXCERPT, and wind things up with a CHANCE TO WIN!  Ready, set, READ ALL ABOUT IT...

Bertie's Book of Spooky Wonders

by

Ocelot Emerson
 Publication Date: October 15, 2019
Publisher: Tantrum Books

 Twelve-year-old Bertie Blount is great at causing trouble. When she's forced to leave behind her dad and friends in North Carolina so her mom can marry the most boring optometrist in the world, Bertie has a chance at a fresh start.

But when Bertie arrives in Pennsylvania, she doesn’t just bring trouble; she brings disaster. In a moment of anger, Bertie unwittingly triggers an accident that puts her future stepbrother in a coma.

Broken and desperate to make things right, Bertie prays for a miracle. Instead, the universe gives her a pair of supernatural sunglasses, a wise-cracking doppleganger, and a terrifying ghost that sends Bertie on a dangerous mission to find the one thing that just might save her stepbrother’s life.



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"HOO-DOO SUNGLASSES"

“So what’s the story with these sunglasses? And who was that lady in the chapel?” I looked at Better Bertie beside me.

“You asked for help,” she said. “The glasses are that help, Alberta Einstein.”

    Hmm. She was mocking me. My kind of girl.

Ding. Fifth floor. 

As we entered the ICU, I gasped in shock. Better Bertie wasn’t the only one glowing. I stopped to stare at all the radiant people coming and going. Nurses and an orderly and visitors and an old woman hobbling past us with a walker.

“Freaky, huh?” Better Bertie said. All I could do was silently nod. “They are auras,” she said, walking two steps ahead of me. “Everyone, and everything that’s alive, has a certain… energy. The higher the energy, the brighter the aura.”

“I love it. I mean I really love it!” I said, watching the human light shows. 

“What’s that, young lady?”

Looking up, I saw the old woman with the walker, her aura a dull pea soup green.  She glared at me. “Did you just say you love me?”   

I hesitated, then said, “Well, yes.” 

The woman scoffed. But as she shuffled onward, her aura bloomed into a shiny emerald green. Better Bertie patted me on the back. “You’re a lot smarter than you look, Bertie.” Only no one heard her but me.  

My smile faded. 

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About the author...

 Ocelot Emerson is the freakish result of a mad scientist's experiment gone horribly wrong. Born half magnificent cat, half malicious human, Ocie escaped from the secret International Prison For Wayward Creatures, and into a deep dark woods, only to be captured by a pack of ravenous ghost wolves. In a stroke of good fortune, the Great Spirit Wolves set aside their natural disdain for all things feline and accepted the cat person into their pack, where they taught Ocie how to hunt and tell bizarre yet heartwarming tales. Bertie’s Book of Spooky Wonders is Ocelot’s first novel aimed at feral and phenomenally gifted children. That means you, kid!

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BLOG TOUR: Poppy Mayberry, The Monday by Jennie K. Brown - SPOTLIGHT + INTERVIEW!

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Today, we're playing host to a Chapter by Chapter Blog Tour starring the first book in a planned Children's Fiction series that'll have you wishing you were a Monday or Friday for more than just the obvious reasons.  You see, in her story, those born on those days, as well as the other outside and in-between, have special POWERS...and from the sound of things they sound like a blast!  But what if you feel you were born the wrong day?  Is there any hope to change your fate or are you doomed to suffer through the growing pains until infinity?  Only one way to find out.  Let's take a peek at today's featured title...

Poppy Mayberry, The Monday

by

Jennie K. Brown

Tantrum Books

About the book...
What if your teacher could read your mind just because she was born on a Thursday? Or the kid next to you in class could turn back the clock just because he was a ‘Wednesday”? In the quirky town of Nova, all of this is normal, but one thing is not—Poppy Mayberry. As an almost-eleven-year-old Monday, she should be able to pass notes in class or brush her dog, Pickle, without lifting a finger. But her Monday telekinesis still has some kinks, and that plate of spaghetti she’s passing may just end up on someone’s head. And if that’s not hard enough, practically perfect Ellie Preston is out to get her, and Principal Wible wants to send her to remedial summer school to work on her powers! It’s enough to make a girl want to disappear…if only she were a Friday.

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Sounds like fun, no?

Well, I thought it did, though I'm still not certain what day of the week I would want to be.  I did, however, want to know a little more from the mind behind the work, so I thought...why not ask?  Thus I give you, today's author guest...Jennie K. Brown!

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INTERVIEW:  AUTHOR JENNIFER K. BROWN

1) What inspired you to become a writer?

What inspires me most is reading other author’s works. There are so many awesome books out there that inspire me to write even more and better.

2)  Of all the genres in the bookish world, you landed in Children's Fiction.  By chance or by choice?  Care to elaborate?

Totally by choice. I am an English teacher, so I work with young adults on an almost daily basis. So I guess writing for that age group just comes naturally.

3)  The townspeople of Nova all have special powers of some sort based on the day they were born.  If YOU could have a special power, what would it be and why?

I would definitely have Tuesday’s teleportation power. I just like the idea of being one place in one moment, and in the blink of an eye being somewhere else … say … on the beach, reading a good book! ☺

Now for a little quid pro quo...

I’ll ask your FAVORITE and you supply the first thing that comes to you.  Ready?  FAVORITE..

...color? purple (Poppy’s favorite too!)

...season? Fall for sure

...Day of the week? (had to ask!) Saturday

...smell? Coffee

...author? William Shakespeare

...book? Pride and Prejudice

...writing space? At a local restaurant or coffeeshop

If you knew then what you know now, what advice would you share with your former self as well as those budding writers out there?

Keep on going. There will be rejection. And more rejection. And more rejection. And as cliché as it sounds, just don’t give up. And don’t stop writing!

Thanks so much for having me on your blog today! ☺

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About the author...

Jennie K. Brown is a high school English teacher by day, freelance magazine writer by night, and middlegrade/young adult author by late-night and weekend. When she isn’t teaching or writing, Jennie can be found reading a good book, traveling, or spending time with her awesome husband, amazing son and super-spoiled yorkie.In 2010, the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) named Jennie the Pennsylvania English teacher of excellence, and she currently serves as President of the Pennsylvania Council for Teachers of English and Language Arts (PCTELA). She is also an active member of SCBWI, NCTE and ALAN.

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Special thanks to MaryAnn at Chapter by Chapter Blog Tours for the chance to bring this promotion to you as well as to the author for indulging my curiosity.  (THANKS!)  For more information on this title, THIS TOUR, the author, the publisher, or those promotions on the horizon, feel free to click through the links provided above.  This title is available now via Tantrum Books, so be on the lookout for it on a bookstore shelf or virtual retailer of your choosing.  Don't forget to check out the other stops on the tour for reviews, guest posts, and YOUR CHANCE TO WIN!

Until next time, remember...if it looks good, READ IT!



HAPPY BOOK BIRTHDAY: Artifacts by Pete Catalano

 

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Artifacts by Pete Catalano!

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It's funny how one little letter can change a person's life. Jax and his friends have been planning the summer of a lifetime at Camp Runamuck. However, when one of them is facing summer at a school desk for failing English, they watch those plans crash and burn!

At the last moment they're given a way out.

An extra credit assignment to find several fake artifacts for a fairy tale display their teacher is presenting at the local library.

Thinking they've hit the easiest-extra-credit-ever jackpot, they begin rummaging through any piles of junk they can find. As they start putting the clues together, they realize that what they're really searching for is one authentic artifact that can rewrite fairy tales!

Enlisting the aid of the Lost Boys, Jax and his friends battle fairy tale villains to see who can get their hand, or their hook, on it first.

Artifacts by Pete Catalano

Release Date: May 17, 2016

Publisher: Tantrum Books

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Pete Catalano’s books are written for kids of all ages — and adults who secretly never grew up. He lives in Charlotte, NC with his adorably funny wife and two neurotic dogs. Pete was a theatre major in college and tries to keep the ‘suspension of disbelief’ in his life as much as he can.

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