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We at Teenreads.com are THRILLED with the response we’ve been getting to our brand new Grab Bag of Books contest. Every month five readers will be awarded a Teenreads.com signature tote bag filled with some of the hottest books --- and may even include a sneak peak at titles that haven’t been released yet!
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This contest period’s winners will each receive a copy of GENIUS SQUAD by Catherine Jinks, PRINCESS BEN by Catherine Gilbert Murdock, SIXTEEN CANDLES by Tia Williams, SUITE SCARLETT by Maureen Johnson and revised editions of the first two installments in Francine Pascal’s Sweet Valley High series --- DOUBLE LOVE and SECRETS. Click here for a listing of all our winners.
 GENIUS SQUAD
by Catherine Jinks
Harcourt Children’s Books
Thriller
ISBN: 9780152059859
448 pages
In GENIUS SQUAD by Catherine Jinks readers reconnect with Cadel Piggott, the computer mastermind first introduced in Jinks’s acclaimed novel EVIL GENIUS. In GENIUS SQUAD Cadel --- now a former evil genius --- tries to use his amazing intellect and skills to bring down the criminal empire that threatens his very existence.
GENIUS SQUAD picks up where EVIL GENIUS left off. The Axis Institute for World Domination has been blown up. Dr. Phineas Darkkon is dead. Prosper English is in jail awaiting trial. And Cadel is a boy without a country, caught in a sea of red tape, mired in foster care. His only bright spot is his friendship with Sonja Pirovic, a mathematical phenom trapped in a body wracked with spasms and convulsions. The two are approached by a secret organization of other teen whiz kids whose stated goal is to bring down GenoME, one of Darkkon’s pet projects. They offer Cadel a real home and all the technology his heart desires. But can they be trusted?
 PRINCESS BEN
by Catherine Gilbert Murdock
Houghton Mifflin Books for Children
Fantasy
ISBN: 9780618959716
344 pages
Benevolence is not your typical princess, and PRINCESS BEN is certainly not your typical fairy tale. With her parents lost to unknown assassins, Princess Ben ends up under the thumb of the conniving Queen Sophia, who is intent on marrying her off to the first available “specimen of imbecilic manhood.” Starved and miserable, locked in the castle’s highest tower, Ben stumbles upon a mysterious enchanted room. So begins her secret education in the magical arts: mastering an obstinate flying broomstick, furtively emptying the castle pantries, setting her hair on fire… But Ben’s private adventures are soon overwhelmed by a mortal threat facing the castle and indeed the entire country. Can Princess Ben save her kingdom from annihilation and herself from permanent enslavement?
Another spunky, lovable heroine from the creator of D. J. Schwenk and DAIRY QUEEN.
 SIXTEEN CANDLES
by Tia Williams
Jump at the Sun/Hyperion Books for Children
Fiction
ISBN: 9781423110323
272 pages
First-day-of-school buzz? So over! It’s the end of September, and the spotlight-loving, drama-obsessed It Chicks’ lives are getting juicier by the second.
With Skye getting ready for her very own “My Super Sweet Sixteen” episode on MTV, she’s finally back in the center of attention --- and she and Tangie are back to BFF status. Meanwhile, when Tangie least expects it, her secret fling with senior stud Trey Stevens takes a turn that leaves everyone wondering if true players really can have a change of heart. But will Skye’s jealousy get the best of her when Tangie’s love life takes center stage? And how long can CJ keep quiet before Izzy spills the secret that’ll change Tangie’s life forever?
This time around, Tangie’s friendship drama takes a back seat to her romance --- can they handle the heat?
 SUITE SCARLETT
by Maureen Johnson
Point/Scholastic
Fiction
ISBN: 9780439899277
368 pages
Scarlett Martin and her family live in and manage a small New York City hotel, and when Scarlett turns 15, she is given charge of the Empire Suite. Into this room moves Mrs. Amberson, an aging C-list starlet who has returned to New York to write her memoir. Soon, Scarlett is taking dictation and running around town with Mrs. Amberson. In the midst of it all, Scarlett falls in love --- or so she thinks.
 SWEET VALLEY HIGH #1: DOUBLE LOVE
by Francine Pascal
Laurel Leaf/Random House
Fiction
ISBN: 9780440422624
240 pages
Welcome to Sweet Valley High --- a world of good girls and bad girls, hot boys with fast cars, perfect tans and natural highlights…all under the Southern California sun.
Twin girls, identical in every way --- yet they couldn’t be more different. Jessica Wakefield is used to getting what she wants --- at school, with her friends, and especially with boys --- and she’ll stop at nothing to get it. Elizabeth Wakefield is used to letting her twin sister have her way. There’s not much that’s worth fighting her over --- lost earrings can be replaced, petty problems can be resolved, and rampant rumors can be doused like a fire. But when it comes to Todd Wilkins, Liz isn’t so sure she should step aside and make way for Jessica. This time, Jessica Wakefield is going to have some competition --- from her own sister.
 SWEET VALLEY HIGH #2: SECRETS
by Francine Pascal
Laurel Leaf/Random House
Fiction
ISBN: 9780440422631
176 pages
Jessica Wakefield only wants two things: to be chosen homecoming queen, and to dance in the spotlight with Bruce Patman. But there’s one girl standing in her way --- Enid Rollins, her twin sister Elizabeth’s best friend.
When Jessica discovers Enid’s deepest, darkest secret, she has a choice to make: be nice and keep quiet, or reveal it to the entire school and clinch the crown for herself.
The queen will be breathtaking. But the quest for royalty is never pretty.
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