Book Giveaway: Capture the Flag by Kate Messner

 

CAPTURE THE FLAG, by Kate Messner (Scholastic Press, 2012)

Category: Middle-grade Novel

 

Do you know what I loved as a kid? Nancy Drew mysteries. I devoured them, kept checklists of those I’d read and wishlists of those I needed desperately to get my mitts on. Each summer, my friend Kelley and I re-opened our private detective agency–G&G Detectives–in homage to our heroine. When business was slow, we read more Nancy Drew books. Or wrote mysteries of our own. Eventually we’d read and written so many mysteries that we had no choice but tho share them: one dog-day, on a whim, we closed G&G Detectives and opened The Garland Street Library instead. It was made up almost entirely of Nancy Drew books.

Do you know what else? If there were a way to go back and talk to eleven-year-old Loree, she’d be tickled to know that she’d one day be friends and writing partners with Kate Messner. And that Kate would create a mystery series that starred a trio of kid detectives. Little Loree would love that trio of kids as much as Not-so-Little Loree does, I’m sure of it. And she would demand Not-so-Little Loree share the love.

So, in celebration of good mysteries, good books, good friends, and the long, lazy days of summer, I’d like to send YOU an advanced copy of my friend Kate Messner’s newest mystery, CAPTURE THE FLAG. You can read a little about Kate here, and a little about the book here. If you’d like an advanced copy for yourself or for your best friend or for that neighbor kid with a detective agency, and if you live in the continental United States, just leave a comment on this post before midnight on Friday, June 22. On Saturday morning, I’ll put all the names in a hat, pull one out, and let you know who the lucky detective is.

Good luck!

30 Replies to “Book Giveaway: Capture the Flag by Kate Messner”

  1. Oh how my kids would love to read this book! Absolutely adore… Totally the kind of thing our little “family book club” would enjoy sharing 🙂

  2. I would love to share a good mystery with my neice, who devours books, and my 5th graders. 🙂

  3. Oh, my, the memories come flooding back of all those days of waiting for the next Nancy Drew to come out. I collected all I could by saving my allowance. We passed those mysteries around among us like the treasure they were. I would love to have a copy to share with neighborhood kids or students.

  4. Had a great Skype session with Kate re: Marty McGuire and. Am looking forward to Capture the Flag

  5. I’m in constant awe of Kate’s ability to juggle great writing and parenting and (until recently) full-time teaching. Can’t wait to read this!

  6. I love all of Kate Messner’s books! She always makes the characters seem so real and she knows how to engage kids too. For the past 2 years, she skyped with a book club in my classroom after they read her book, Sugar and Ice – they loved the experience! Thank you for offering this giveaway for Capture the Flag!

  7. I remember when I spent summers at my grandparents house. The first day tradition was to go to the local library because they let me stay up as late as I wanted to read. I read all of the Nancy Drew series, (the original series….yes I am showing my age. LOL!), one summer. I would love to win this book! Thank you for offering this book as a giveaway. 🙂

  8. I am counting down the days until the release of this book. I’m sure it will be another page-turner for my sixth graders (and myself):). Thank you!

  9. I would love to win a copy! I love Kate’s writing and I cannot even express how sad I was when I went to a local bookstore last night and asked for it and said sorry maam not until another two weeks

  10. I’d love a copy. I have been talking about the release date with my students. We are all anxious to read it.

  11. I remember the books in my junior high library having category labels on the spines. I always looked for the mysteries. I know teach at that school and some of the older books still have the labels.

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