Kicking Off the New Year With a Book Stack Giveaway!

Happy New Year! 🎉 It’s that time of year again—my Annual January Book Stack Giveaway! if you planned to start the new year reading more books, or expanding your library, here ya go!

Why do I do this in January? Beats me. I just do. :)

Here’s what’s included in this year’s book stack:

Everyone has a secret. Mine is a little different because it involves academics. My teachers think I’m uninterested in school. That’s only half true. I admit, school is BORING! I doodle through my lessons because I know everything they’re teaching.

But the truth is—and it’s also my secret—I’m a bonafide genius.

Don’t tell my mom because she doesn’t know yet. The problem is, even twelve-year-old geniuses have bullies to deal with. My friends and I are not just bullied but classified as “nerd zone” and ignored.

On a positive note, I’m going to change all that with a message that will put us in front of the world. So listen up. There’s a lot more to us than the color of our skin, disabilities, looks, or anything else you try to judge us on.

But will the message get to the one person who needs to hear it most?

My mom says I’m too smart for my own good. We are sure going to find out!

Stanley, my little bro, wants to build a robot. Suddenly, I’m his robotics engineer. 

My buddy Miguel is all aboard the let’s-build-a-robot train too. He recruited me for the school robotics crew, and we’re crafting a bot named Jericho. Soon, we will set out to conquer the Robotics World Championship. But first, we’ve got some local tournaments to win.

But things take a creepy twist when the school bully starts being friendly when no one’s around, and then I find someone is spying on me and leaving bizarre notes on my doorstep. Don’t tell my mom, because she will freak out and hire security to take me everywhere.

And just when I think things couldn’t get weirder, our robot, Jericho, gets swiped by some wannabe kid-supervillain who is dead set on sabotaging our journey to victory. Facing top-notch robotics teams, this is like a sci-fi movie with laughs, minus the aliens. 

Who knew robots could be this much trouble?

It's June’s first day at Huey House, and as if losing her home wasn’t enough, she also can’t bring her cherished viola inside. Before the accident last year, her dad saved tip money for a year to buy her viola, and she’s not about to give it up now.

Tyrell has been at Huey House for three years and gives June a glimpse of the good things about living there: friendship, hot meals, and a classical musician next door.

Can he and June work together to oppose the government, or will families be forced out of Huey House before they are ready?

When Aviva Davis and Holly Martin meet at the holiday pageant tryouts for their local senior’s center, they think they must be seeing double. While they both knew they were adopted, they had no idea they had a biological sibling, let alone an identical twin! The similarities are only skin deep, though, because while Aviva has a big personality and even bigger Broadway plans, Holly is more the quiet dreamer type who longs to become a famous author like her grandfather. One thing the girls do have in common is their curiosity about how the other celebrates the holidays. What better way to discover the magic of the holidays than to experience them firsthand? The girls secretly trade lives, planning to stage a dramatic reveal to their families. Two virtual strangers swapping homes, holidays, and age-old traditions–what could possibly go wrong? Find out in this sweet as a sugarplum and satisfying as a latke middle grade novel by Marissa Meyer, #1 New York Times-bestselling author of The Lunar Chronicles, and Joanne Levy, award-winning author of Sorry for Your Loss and several other books for tweens.

Eleven-year-old Roswell Johnson is obsessed with conspiracies about extraterrestrial life, an interest he inherited from his late father, who aptly named Roswell after the infamous UFO crash in Roswell, New Mexico.  

When Roswell is accidentally abducted by aliens, his biggest dream comes true—he learns that aliens are real! But when he discovers Earth is in grave danger, he must join forces with a team of quirky extraterrestrials, including two bickering Grays, a humorless Cyborg, a germophobic Mantis, an overly confident Furgarian, and an over achieving Pleiadean to save his planet from a tyrannical invasion. But can Roswell restore his own faith in humanity and Earth in time to save the world? 

On the day they are born, every Swift child is brought before the sacred Family Dictionary. They are given a name, and a definition. A definition it is assumed they will grow up to match.

Meet Shenanigan Swift: Little sister. Risk-taker. Mischief-maker.

Shenanigan is getting ready for the big Swift Family Reunion and plotting her next great scheme: hunting for Grand-Uncle Vile’s long-lost treasure. She’s excited to finally meet her arriving relatives—until one of them gives Arch-Aunt Schadenfreude a deadly shove down the stairs.

So what if everyone thinks she’ll never be more than a troublemaker, just because of her name? Shenanigan knows she can become whatever she wants, even a detective. And she’s determined to follow the twisty clues and catch the killer.

Deliciously suspenseful and delightfully clever, The Swifts is a remarkable debut that is both brilliantly contemporary and instantly classic. A celebration of words and individuality, it's packed with games, wordplay, and lots and lots of mischief as Shenanigan sets out to save her family and define herself in a world where definitions are so important.

Ever since Solimar was a little girl, she has gone to the ouamel forest bordering her kingdom to observe the monarch butterflies during their migration, but always from a safe distance. Now, on the brink of her quinceañera and her official coronation, Solimar crosses the dangerous creek to sit among the butterflies. There, a mysterious event gives her a gift and a burden--the responsibility to protect the young and weak butterflies with her magical rebozo, or silk shawl.

Solimar is committed to fulfilling her role, and has a plan that might have worked. But when her father, the king, and her brother, the prince, leave on an expedition, a neighboring king overthrows the kingdom and holds everyone left in the village hostage. It takes all of Solimar's courage to escape and then embark on a dangerous journey to save her kingdom, but she's not alone. Her pet bird, Lázaro, the butterflies she protects, and a magical rag doll, Zarita, are with her. Then, at a precarious moment, she meets a river boy who knows the rapids.

Even with help, can Solimar save her family, the kingdom, and the future of the monarchs from a greedy king?

It's time for one last fantabulous challenge with Mr. Lemoncello-the world's most famous gamemaker! This time everything is on the line—literally! Mr. Lemoncello has invited thirteen lucky 13 year-olds—including his biggest fan, Kyle Keeley— to compete in the final games. The winner of these games will become the new owner of Mr. Lemoncello's ENTIRE GAME MAKING EMPIRE!!! But uh-oh--someone is trying to destroy Mr. Lemoncello empire and all it stands for: imagination, games, books . . . knowledge! Can Kyle Keeley stop them and make his dreams come true?

Get ready for a whirlwind adventure that takes us from the lions of the New York Public Library to the Choose Your Own Thrill-Venture Roller Coaster inside the brand-new Lemoncelloland amusement park, filled with codes and clues, adventure and mystery, and surprise cameos from across Chris Grabenstein's many series. So sit back, relax and prepare to have your imagination take flight...you are on your way to Lemoncelloland!

All Nestor Lopez wants is to live in one place for more than a few months and have dinner with his dad.

When he and his mother move to a new town to live with his grandmother after his dad’s latest deployment, Nestor plans to lay low. He definitely doesn’t want to anyone find out his deepest secret: that he can talk to animals.

But when the animals in his new town start disappearing, Nestor's grandmother becomes the prime suspect after she is spotted in the woods where they were last seen. As Nestor investigates the source of the disappearances, he learns that they are being seized by a tule vieja―a witch who can absorb an animal’s powers by biting it during a solar eclipse. And the next eclipse is just around the corner… Now it’s up to Nestor’s extraordinary ability and his new friends to catch the tule vieja―and save a place he might just call home.

The Young Adult Books Included:

An author signed copy of Heart of the Sea.

Sometimes you have to trust the one sent to destroy you in order to save the one you love.

Willing to do whatever it takes to save her sister, Nerissa Elliot commandeers the ship of notorious pirate, Cyrus Crow.

But Crow has a mission: kill Nerissa and earn his freedom from the Queen who's controlled him half his life. However, Nerissa harbors powers over the sea. Powers she can't control. Powers that threaten to consume her.

With nothing but a tenuous facade of an alliance and sparks between them, they set sail to face sirens, sea dragons, betrayal, and Nerissa's own uncontrollable ability. Can they find the strength to trust each other? Or will they destroy one another for the sake of their quests?

An Author signed copy of What the Good Girl Knew

Sixteen-year-old Storm Davis has always lived in the shadow of her severe asthma, never certain if she’ll see another day. Despite her reputation as the “sick girl” in her small Georgia town, she is determined to live each day to the fullest.

But when her senior year takes a dark turn after witnessing a shocking incident at the town carnival, Storm is faced with an impossible choice: speak up and risk becoming the most despised person in school or keep quiet and preserve her reputation. Torn between right and wrong, Storm’s world spirals further when she starts finding mysterious red envelopes containing secrets about her past—truths that could shatter everything she thought she knew.

With the support of her fearless best friend and a curly-haired rebel boy, Storm sets off on a journey to uncover who she truly is before graduation day. But will she choose to embrace the truth—even if it changes everything—before time runs out?

What the Good Girl Knew is an addictive Christian fiction read perfect for readers ages 13-17 who love stories of courage, friendship, and self-discovery.

How to Enter

Entering the giveaway is simple! Just follow these steps:

1. Leave a comment on this blog post sharing which book in the stack you’re most excited to read.

2. Next:

Enter Here!

Important Details

You may enter until February 12th.

Winner Announcement: February 15, 2025 (I’ll notify the winner via email and social media)

🌎 Eligibility: Open to U.S. Residents Only

I’m so excited to share this book stack with one lucky winner and kick off 2025 with a celebration of great stories!

Good luck, and happy reading!

LB