So here is the over-due conclusion to the blog tour, with my sincere apologies to Nancy, who is, at the moment, somewhere in Japan, I believe.

We ended up with 8 bloggers with 13 posts which included:

8 Reviews:

• The Hungry Reader
• My Own Little Corner of the World
• Reading is my Superpower
• 5 Minutes for Books
• Becky’s Book Reviews
• Fireside Musings
• Whispers of Dawn
• My Utopia

3 Interviews:

• With Nancy Bo Flood, at Whispers of Dawn
• With Nancy Bo Flood, at Fireside Musings and here is the conclusion
• With Stephen Roxburgh at Whispers of Dawn

Thank you all.

Here are some of the posts we have so far…

Reviews:

• The Hungry Reader
• My Own Little Corner of the World
• Reading is my Superpower
• 5 Minutes for Books
• Becky’s Book Reviews
• Fireside Musings
• Whispers of Dawn

Interviews:

• With Nancy Bo Flood, at Whispers of Dawn
• With Nancy Bo Flood, at Fireside Musings

Monday we start the blog tour for Warriors in the Crossfire, by Nancy Bo Flood.

Warriors is a wonderful middle grade WWII novel, with a lyrical voice. I hope you all enjoyed reading it. I’m looking forward to your reviews of this one. It was haunting, wasn’t it?

The book can be found on Amazon here:  
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1590786610/allabowha-20

The book cover can be found here:
 http://kidzbookbuzz.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/warriors.jpg

The author’s website is here:
http://www.nancyboflood.com/

Here is a link to the book trailer:
http://animoto.com/play/eT5szYoiwuuha1b2TP0O5g?utm_source=nancyboflood.com&utm_medium=player&utm_campaign=player

Here are the links to participating bloggers:

For a paragraph listing like this:

Whispers of Dawn, Cafe of Dreams, The Hungry Readers, My Own Little Corner of the World, KidzBookBuzz.com, Reading is My Superpower, 5 Minutes for Books, Becky’s Book Reviews, Fireside Musings, My Utopia

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<br /> <a href="http://www.sally-apokedak.com/whispers_of_dawn/">Whispers of Dawn</a>, <a href="http://cafeofdreams.blogspot.com">Cafe of Dreams</a>, <a href="http://thehungryreaders.com">The Hungry Readers</a>, <a href="http://molcotw.blogspot.com">My Own Little Corner of the World</a>, <a href="http://kidzbookbuzz.com">KidzBookBuzz.com</a>, <a href="http://superfastreader.com/">Reading is My Superpower</a>, <a href="http://www.5minutesforbooks.com/">5 Minutes for Books</a>, <a href="http://blbooks.blogspot.com">Becky’s Book Reviews</a>, <a href="http://firesidemusings.blogspot.com/">Fireside Musings</a>, <a href="http://myutopia36.blogspot.com/">My Utopia</a><br />

For a list like this:

Whispers of Dawn
Cafe of Dreams
The Hungry Readers
My Own Little Corner of the World
KidzBookBuzz.com
Reading is My Superpower
5 Minutes for Books
Becky’s Book Reviews
Fireside Musings
My Utopia

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<br /> <a href="http://www.sally-apokedak.com/whispers_of_dawn/">Whispers of Dawn</a><br /> <a href="http://cafeofdreams.blogspot.com">Cafe of Dreams</a><br /> <a href="http://thehungryreaders.com">The Hungry Readers</a><br /> <a href="http://molcotw.blogspot.com">My Own Little Corner of the World</a><br /> <a href="http://kidzbookbuzz.com">KidzBookBuzz.com</a><br /> <a href="http://superfastreader.com/">Reading is My Superpower</a><br /> <a href="http://www.5minutesforbooks.com/">5 Minutes for Books</a><br /> <a href="http://blbooks.blogspot.com">Becky’s Book Reviews</a><br /> <a href="http://firesidemusings.blogspot.com/">Fireside Musings</a><br /> <a href="http://myutopia36.blogspot.com/">My Utopia</a><br />

Please link to participants at least once during the tour.

Thanks!

A review at My Own Little Corner of the World
Directions for making a zine on Never Jam Today
A short review at All About Children’s Books

That leaves us, at the end of the tour with thirteen posts which included 8 reviews:

1. The 160 Acre Woods
2. The Hungry Readers
3. GreenBeanTeenQueen
4. Book Crumbs
5. Reading is my Superpower
6. Never Jam Today
7. Carrie’s YA Bookshelf
8. Cafe of Dreams

No interviews for this tour because I was sick and didn’t send out the author’s email address and remind the bloggers to send the questions out. I’m sorry I dropped the ball on that. My apologies to Houghton Mifflin, to Charise, and to you bloggers who love to have author interviews. I believe that Charise would still be happy to give you interviews if you’d like to contact her. There is nothing to say we have to stop talking about books we love just because the tour is over.

Also, you bloggers who just decided to not post for this tour—feel free to post late. We all know that this is a busy time of year and I, for one, am well aware that sickness sometimes comes in and messes with our good intentions. There is no reason for you not to post a review or an interview later this week or next week.

We must really be in the winter doldrums because only one blogger went three days: Noel, check your email inbox for your 25 dollar Amazon gift certificate.

Thanks to those of you who took the time out of your busy holiday schedules to post about this lovely little book with its plucky and opinionated young protagonist!

• The Hungry Readers give a thoughtful review along with their usual suggestions for projects that would go well with the book.
• GreenBeanTeenQueen has her review up.
• Book Crumbs also reviewed the book and liked it a lot.
• My Own Little Corner of the World gives us some background info on the author.
• Superfast Reader loved Grace
• Noel’s little sister Adeline gives her review at Never Jam Today
• Carrie, a children’s librarian who blogs at Carrie’s YA bookshelf, is a new Just Grace fan. I love turning people on to new authors and series they can love.
• Another enthusiastic review at Cafe of Dreams

Never Jam Today
The 160 Acre Woods

Huge apologies, first, to Jason Joyner, from Spoiled for the Ordinary, who joined the tour this time and was inadvertently left out of the list of participating bloggers. Please go by and read his review.

Other Saturday posts:

• Becky’s review at A Christian Worldview of Fiction.
• My own review of the book at All About Children’s Books.
• Becky’s review at Becky’s Book Reviews.
• DO NOT MISS Marie’s quotations from the book over at Fireside Musings.
• Julie calls attention to the creatures and artwork over at My Little Corner of the World.
• Maggie is still in the process of reading the book at My Utopia.
• And SJ Kessel climbs onto a feminist soapbox over at Through a Child’s Eyes. (I’m going to comment over there this afternoon, as soon as I have time, so go on over if you want to see a cat fight between two female warriors, just like Kessel is itching for.)

  

  

• A review from the 160 Acre Woods
• Becky at, A Christian Worldview of Fiction, urges her readers to buy and read the first book, first.
• At Becky’s Book Reviews, Becky sings Andrew’s praises and gives us several song clips.
• A review from Booking Mama–she liked it.
• A review from Dolce Bellezza–not so much.
• Marie, at Fireside Musings gives us character sketches and a review. Don’t miss this one. 
• Another great reviews from Homeschool Buzz.
• Oohh, Jill at Novel Teen gives it five stars and she doesn’t just pass those out willy nilly.
• At Olive Tree, we get a clever interview with Mr. Peterson’s website.  
• At Reading is my superpower, Annie also liked the book.
• And, finally, SK Kessel gives us her thoughts about the book at Through a Child’s Eyes.

Enjoy!

Today is the first day of blog tour for North or Be Eaten, the second book in Andrew Peterson’s Wingfeather Saga.

Here are the posts that have come in so far today:

Several of us posted or linked to our review of the first book in the Wingfeather Saga, On the Edge of the Dark Sea of Darkness:

• I did at All About Children’s Books
• Becky did at  Becky’s Book Reviews 
• Jill did at Novel Teen
• SJ Kessel did at Through a Child’s Eyes 

Becky over at A Christian Worldview of Fiction kind of liked this second book just a little (makes me want to read the book! I have set aside tomorrow for that purpose.)

Marie gives us a review at Fireside Musings

Kathy introduces us to Andrew Peterson at Homeschool Buzz

Julie at My Little Corner of the World gives a glowing review.

Jump onboard the blog tour and head North or Be Eaten.

North or Be Eaten, the second in Andrew Peterson’s Wingfeather Trilogy, is on tour this week!

The Amazon link we will use is: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1400073871 You are welcome to use your own Amazon link as well, but please do use this specific link at least once in every post. This is how we get Technorati ratings.

The book cover is here: http://paraklesis.com/reviews/north or be eaten.jpg

Andrew’s web site is here: http://andrew-peterson.com/index.php?nid=76652&s=hm

The Wingfeather blog is here: http://wingfeathersaga.com/

Here’s a bio (music) with a picture: http://andrew-peterson.com/index.php?s=au&nid=77799

And finally the list of participating bloggers. Please link to participants at least once during the tour.

For a paragraph listing like this:

The 160 Acre Woods, A Christian Worldview of Fiction, All About Children’s Books, Becky’s Book Reviews, Booking Mama, Cafe of Dreams, Dolce Bellezza, Fireside Musings, Homeschool Book Buzz, KidzBookBuzz.com, My Own Little Corner of the World, My utopia, Novel Teen, Olive Tree, Reading is My Superpower, Through a Child’s Eyes

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<br /> <a href="http://the160acrewoods.com">The 160 Acre Woods</a>, <a href="http://rebeccaluellamiller.wordpress.com/">A Christian Worldview of Fiction</a>, <a href="http://paraklesis.com/childrens_publishing_news/">All About Children’s Books</a>, <a href="http://blbooks.blogspot.com/">Becky’s Book Reviews</a>, <a href="http://bookingmama.blogspot.com/">Booking Mama</a>, <a href="http://cafeofdreams.blogspot.com/">Cafe of Dreams</a>, <a href="http://www.dolcebellezza.wordpress.com/">Dolce Bellezza</a>, <a href="http://firesidemusings.blogspot.com">Fireside Musings</a>, <a href="http://homeschoolbuzz.com/">Homeschool Book Buzz</a>, <a href="http://kidzbookbuzz.com/">KidzBookBuzz.com</a>, <a href="http://molcotw.blogspot.com">My Own Little Corner of the World</a>, <a href="http://myutopia36.blogspot.com/">My utopia</a>, <a href="http://www.novelteen.com ">Novel Teen</a>, <a href="http://herdofsteph.blogspot.com/">Olive Tree</a>, <a href="http://superfastreader.com">Reading is My Superpower</a>, <a href="http://sjkessel.blogspot.com/">Through a Child’s Eyes</a>

For a list like this:

The 160 Acre Woods
A Christian Worldview of Fiction
All About Children’s Books
Becky’s Book Reviews
Booking Mama
Cafe of Dreams
Dolce Bellezza
Fireside Musings
Homeschool Book Buzz
KidzBookBuzz.com
My Own Little Corner of the World
My utopia
Novel Teen
Olive Tree
Reading is My Superpower
Through a Child’s Eyes

Use this code:

<br /> <a href="http://the160acrewoods.com">The 160 Acre Woods</a><br /> <a href="http://rebeccaluellamiller.wordpress.com/">A Christian Worldview of Fiction</a><br /> <a href="http://paraklesis.com/childrens_publishing_news/">All About Children’s Books</a><br /> <a href="http://blbooks.blogspot.com/">Becky’s Book Reviews</a><br /> <a href="http://bookingmama.blogspot.com/">Booking Mama</a><br /> <a href="http://cafeofdreams.blogspot.com/">Cafe of Dreams</a><br /> <a href="http://www.dolcebellezza.wordpress.com/">Dolce Bellezza</a><br /> <a href="http://firesidemusings.blogspot.com">Fireside Musings</a><br /> <a href="http://homeschoolbuzz.com/">Homeschool Book Buzz</a><br /> <a href="http://kidzbookbuzz.com/">KidzBookBuzz.com</a><br /> <a href="http://molcotw.blogspot.com">My Own Little Corner of the World</a><br /> <a href="http://myutopia36.blogspot.com/">My utopia</a><br /> <a href="http://www.novelteen.com ">Novel Teen</a><br /> <a href="http://herdofsteph.blogspot.com/">Olive Tree</a><br /> <a href="http://superfastreader.com">Reading is My Superpower</a><br /> <a href="http://sjkessel.blogspot.com/">Through a Child’s Eyes</a><br />