Hyperion has been running one of the cooler summer reading promotions for teens I’ve seen from a publisher recently. It’s called unRequired Reading, which I like, because so many times kids are assigned books that they HAVE to read, even over the summer. In our last update, we reviewed one of the books from the unRequired Reading list, Mercy by Rebecca Lim. With the book they sent us, the folks from Hyperion also sent us an unRequired Reading water bottle, a nice thing to have if you’re going to be reading outdoors in the heat (and here we’ve broken a heat record made in 1936) or really, doing anything in the heat. Know a teen who’s been reading up a storm this summer? Been reading like crazy yourself? Leave a comment telling me what your favorite summer read has been, and win yourself a water bottle. I’ll pick a winner randomly and announce it on August 15, so you’ll have a chance to use it before the school year kicks in and the summer heat is gone. And check back with us- because if you’re a winner and we don’t have your address, we can’t mail it to you.
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