Seventeen Ultimate Guide to Style Giveaway

Whether you think you have a savvy fashion sense or not; go for designer clothes or stick to bargains, Seventeen Ultimate Guide to Style is sure to appeal and will have you inspired in no time. Which style are you? Girly, glam, indie, edgy, boho, or classic? Skim through all these different looks for new ideas on outfits, accessories, trends, and tips on how to alter what you already have in your closet. Not sure how to fit yourself with jeans and swimwear? Pick your body-shape/style and let the guide book find your "perfect look" with its nifty notes on body types.
While I do think of myself as fashion conscious, I don't always consider wearing the "latest fad"–I try very hard to find my own style and be up to-date in my own unique way. Everyone who wants to be fashionable or stylish more or less strives to do the same and with guides like this, it will enhance your abilities to pick-out or know what you like and broaden your shopping horizon.


Morgan's Fashion Guide
Which style did I turn out to be? Girly style to the max! As I could have already guess, but don't be surprised to see at least a tinsy bit of variety in my taste. I could easily go for an indie look and lets not forget those classic pieces that always catch my eye. 

• If I could give only one single piece of fashion advice...it would be to NEVER buy anything that will be out-of-date the following season.
• Don't get something just because its popular...get something you know you will keep wearing again and again.
• Be careful about those designer clothes. While they may look expensive and of course its a designer label (duh!) most every piece of clothing is made oversees, more or less in the same factory!!!!
• If you have trouble finding your style, stick to what you like...or classic pieces that will never do you wrong. Pencil skirt, pumps, and a snazzy but neutral blouse.
• If you are an indecisive person or have a hard time looking for fab finds on the sale rack, bring a *shopping fairy* (your sister, mom, or best friend).

Seventeen Ultimate Guide to Style Giveaway

- 3 copies are available via publisher for giveaway

- US or canadian residents

- July 12th, midnight EST

Read, Remember, Recommend for Teens by Rachelle Rogers Knight

Read, Remember, Recommend for Teens offers more than 2,400 award-winning and notable reading suggestions in many genres, cross-referenced to help parents and teens chose the right books for them. This unique journal sold out its first print run, attracting readers with recommended lists of fiction, manga, historical fiction, romance, westerns, crime novels, and poetry, as well as nonfiction sections focusing on biography and autobiographies. College-bound readers will find a section to help guide their reading selections. The journal also provides room to record books, read, jot down thoughts and ideas, and keep track of recommendations and books to read next. Unlike anything on the market, Read, Remember, Recommend for Teens keeps readers coming back to bookstores to purchase recommended books and urges users to spread their joy to other book lovers.

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This is a really awesome book. All you readers and bloggers out there: you need to get this journal! It not only has a section for recording what you've read or recommend, it has pages and pages of notable books to read and resources on where to find book reviews! I had great fun checking off which books I've read, want to read, or own. I also found a lot of books that I've heard about but didn't know won an literary award. This is also a great book to get for gift to teens, maybe hold a contest for it at your book club! Heck, you can even use it as your official book club idea guide to record everything your group as read together. Don't forget to check out Rachelle's blog/website www.bibliobabe.com to find out more!

A Thousand Years of Pirates by William Gilkerson

For as long as they’ve existed, pirates have conjured up visions of high-seas adventure and skullduggery, sea chases and bloody battles, dangerous coastal lairs and buried treasure. Rightly so, for ever since ships have carried valuable cargo, pirates have enraged monarchs and struck terror into the hearts of honest seamen with their willingness to risk life and limb for an undeserved share of the riches. Whether the cargo was gold or silver, spices or silks, animal or human, there have always been villains ruthless enough to kill or be hanged for it.

From the days of the Vikings to the present and in all the oceans of the world, pirates have made their presence known and feared. Recorded here are their stories along with striking images of ships, storms at sea, and secret harbors where “black ships” could be re-stocked and refitted.

Award-winning author and artist William Gilkerson has spent years researching and painting their colorful history. From the terrible Black Beard to the fascinating Granuaile, or Grace O’Malley as the English called her, they have come to life under his brush. One can almost hear the creak of timbers, the snap of canvas while turning the pages. This gift book is a rich treasure in its own right.

I love books about pirates. I don't know why. Maybe it's the adventure? The mystery and fiction that surrounds these figures in history? Or maybe I just like history. "Pirates" or rather privateers and buccaneers have been continually fictionalized by Hollywood movies, books, and other works of fiction for at least a century. Ever since their role in the Revolutionary War, pirates on a big scale have almost vanished. True, there will always be "pirates", people who steal, but the buccaneers were special, they were different. Gilkerson's book was very fascinating for me because not only did it bring new light these courageous beings, but explained a lot about who the buccaneers really were like. Forget Captain Jack Sparrow and his eye for gold, the buccaneers stole and plundered for an entirely different reason while the privateers were paid to attack. If "pirates" in general were just common thieves and thugs, who were these noble Privateers and rebel Buccaneers? Why did history cover them up as criminals? What were they really like?
I really enjoyed all of Gilkerson's paintings and drawings throughout the book and I can't wait to read his award-winning YA novel, Pirate's Passage. 

|Pages: 94|Year Published: Nov. 2009|Publisher: Tundra|
|Genre: Nonfiction, pirates|Age Group: Ages 10+|
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