Goodie Basket 56: Weekly Book Haul and Blog Recap

Goodie Basket...is a weekly feature hosted here at Word Spelunking that showcases all the goodies (books, bookish things, reviews, interviews/giveaways/guest posts, blog tours, etc) that popped up in the Goodie Basket that is Word Spelunking each week.

(This meme is inspired by other book haul memes such as In My Mailbox hosted by  The Mod Podge Bookshelf, Stacking the Shelves hosted by Tynga’s Reviews, Showcase Sunday hosted by Books, Biscuits & Tea and Sunday Post hosted by Kimba the Caffeinated Book Reviewer )

Welcome to another edition of Word Spelunking's Goodie Basket! I hope everyone had a fabby fab week. Before we get to my loverly haul, here's your weekly dose of Baby Aeicha cuteness...

Baby Aeicha says "Wow! Look at all those books!"


Let's see what I got in my Goodie Basket this week...

FOR REVIEW

From Simon & Schuster:

Blue Moon (Dead City #2) by James Ponti

From Random House Kids:

Joshua Dread: the Nameless Hero by Lee Bacon

Lion: Five Ancestors- Out of the Ashes #2) by Jeff Stone

Dragon Keepers #6: The Dragon at the North Pole by Kate Klimo

Sky Jumpers by Peggy Eddleman

Squirrels on Skis by J. Hamilton Ray

Queen of the World (Babymouse #1) by Jennifer L. Holm

Thanks to Lucy (Absolutely Lucy #6) by Illene Cooper

Dog Diaries #3: Barry by Kate Klimo

EBOOKS FOR REVIEW

Colony East (The Toucan Trilogy #2) by Scott Cramer

from author for blog tour

From Netgalley

Being Sloane Jacobs by Lauren Morill

(Random House)

Notable (Awkward #3) by Marni Bates

(K-Teen)

Made of Stars by Kelley York

(Entangled Teen)

PURCHASED

I went to Ollie's again and got all of these books for $1.99 or less each!

For me I got:

Sign Language by Amy Ackley 

And for Baby Aeicha's growing library I got:

The Night Before Halloween by Natasha Wing

and gorgeous editions of

The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie

WON

I won a Battling Boy prize pack from Macmillan, which includes an ARC, a comic, a poster, a t-shirt, and a signed print from the comic by Paul Pope!

I won Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell from the awesome Ashley at Bookaholics Anonymous Online!

And I won an adorable handmade Gryffindor House Uniform costume for Baby Aeicha from the awesome RaeGun Ramblings!

Big THANK YOUs to Simon and Schuster, Random House, K-Teen, Entangled Teen, Macmillan, Ashley, and RaeGun for all the bookish awesomeness this week!!

Weekly Blog Recap

This week on the blog I...

Spotlighted Alena Gouveia's YA fantasy The Ambrose Beacon with a giveaway for 20 ebook copies.

Reviewed Pictures Books with 5 Mini Reviews and 4 Mini Reviews

Reviewed Shadow Train (The Tracks #3) by J. Gabriel Gates and Charlene Keel

Interviewed J. Gabriel Gates and Charlene Keel

Am giving away 4 sets of all three books in The Tracks Series

Participated in the Lost Eden (The Soulkeepers #5) cover reveal

Posts you may have missed: Natasha Wing's Back To School Blog Tour, The Sweet Legacy Blitz and Interview, Icing on the Cake Blog Tour (review), the Rose Blog Tour (interview and review)

WHAT DID YOU GET THIS WEEK?!