As part of our Book of the Month promotion for February, and thanks to HarperTeen, we’ve got five copies of Carolyn Mackler’s fantastic new novel, Tangled, on offer for giveaway.

Blurb from Amazon:

Paradise wasn’t supposed to suck.

Not the state of being, but a resort in the Caribbean.

Jena, Dakota, Skye, and Owen are all there for different reasons, but at Paradise their lives become tangled together in ways none of them can predict. Paradise will change them all.

It will change Jena, whose first brush with romance takes her that much closer to having a life, and not just reading about those infinitely cooler and more exciting.

It will change Dakota, who needs the devastating truth about his past to make him realize that he doesn’t have to be a jerk just because people think he’s one.

It will change Skye, a heartbreakingly beautiful actress, who must come to terms with the fact that for once she has to stop playing a role or face the consequences.

And it will change Owen, who has never risked anything before and who will take the leap from his online life to a real one all because of a girl he met at Paradise. . . .

From confused to confident and back again, one thing’s certain: Four months after it all begins, none of them will ever be the same.

All you need to do is leave your details in the comments field below. Competition open to US residents only and closes on February 28, 2010.

Another day, another contest! The lucky winner of the Dream Life by Lauren Mechling is Jennibear! Congrats Jenni! An email should be coming your way right now requesting your postal details.

As January is now officially over, it’s time to draw the giveaway. We had a record breaking number of entrants for this contest, with 106 people entering to win just one single copy of the book, Beautiful Creatures.

We’re excited to announce that the lucky winner of Beautiful Creatures is none other than Jason! Congratulations Jason. An email should be on its way to you right now requesting your postal details.

To everyone else, thanks so much for participating in this exciting giveaway and stay tuned for more free stuff coming your way!

Lauren Mechling co-authored the Tenth Grade Social Climber series and is the author of the Dream Girl series. The second novel in the Dream Girl series, Dream Life, hits book stores in January 2010.

To celebrate its release, we’re offering one lucky yaReader the chance to win a signed copy of Dream Life. All you need to do it leave your details below in the comments field.

To read what people are saying about the Dream Girl series, click here

Competition closes January 30, 2010.

As part of our Book of the Month promotion this month, we’ve got one signed copy of Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl’s, Beautiful Creatures, to give away.

That’s right guys, we’ve only got one copy. You’ve got to be in it to win it, though, so leave your name in the comments field to officially enter the contest.

Contest will be drawn on January 31, 2010.

And the five lucky winners of the Battle Boy series are:

Aria

Cheekyrelle

Casey

Jennie

Rebecca

Congratulations guys and thanks for participating!

And the lucky winners are:

YAN

TEGAN

MICHELLE M

Congratulations guys! There should be an email on its way to you right now requesting your postal details. Stay tuned for more awesome giveaways coming your way soon.

In celebration of our Male Interest Reads themed month for December, courtesy of Pan Macmillan Australia, we’ve got some awesome prize packs to give away for our Australian and New Zealand based readers.

We’ve got five copies of the first four books in the Battle Boy series by Charlie Carter to give away. Never heard of Battle Boy before? Then take a look below:

Battle Boy

(CLASSIFIED) MISSION 1: OPEN FIRE
- Spain, 1587, Sir Francis Drake’s ship
- Mission objective: collect Drake’s DNA for the Warrior Gene Bank

OPERATIVE PROFILE:
Code name: Battle Boy 005 (BB005)
Real name: Napoleon Augustus Smythe
Age: 11 years old
Assignment: Operation Battle Book
Controller: Professor Perdu
Duty: To operate as a Human Data-Collecting Device (HD-CD)
Survival gear: SimulSkin (high-tech, skin-coloured body armour)
Mission motto: Spying on the past

If you live in Ausrtalia or New Zealand and would love a chance to win one of these prize packs, all you need to do is leave your details in the comment field below! Competition closes on December 31, 2009.

Our Book of the Month for December here at yaReads is the second novel in Lili St Crow’s Strange Angels series, Betrayals.

As part of our Betrayals promo, thanks to Penguin Books Australia we’ve got three copies of the novel to give away to our lucky readers.

All you have to do is leave your name below and let us know whether you’re Team Graves or Team Christophe. If you’re nuetral, say so too!

Competition closes on the last day of December!

And the winners of this fabulous, compelling read are…

Patrick M from the USA

and

Deedles from the USA

Congrats guys. There should be an email coming your way requesting your postage details today. Make sure you respond promply so we can organize your prize!

All right folks, we’ve got the winners for this awesome comp for you. Our two lucky winners from North American are:

Niza & Jean L

Our international winner is:

Yolanda (from Australia)

Congratulations to all. We’ve sent an email to you confirming that you won. Please reply to the email with your postal details so we can organize to get your package shipped out to you as soon as possible.

Stephanie Kuehnert’s new novel, Ballads of Suburbia, is our Book of the Month during the month of November. As part of this promotion, Stephanie has kindly offered two copies of the book to give away to the yaReads community.

Never heard of Ballads of Suburbia? Here’s a synopsis for you…

Kara hasn’t been back to Oak Park since the end of junior year, when a heroin overdose nearly killed her and sirens heralded her exit. Four years later, she returns to face the music. Her life changed forever back in high school: her family disintegrated, she ran around with a whole new crowd of friends, she partied a little too hard, and she fell in love with gorgeous bad-boy Adrian, who left her to die that day in Scoville Park….

Amid the music, the booze, the drugs, and the drama, her friends filled a notebook with heartbreakingly honest confessions of the moments that defined and shattered their young lives. Now, finally, Kara is ready to write her own.

To win, all you need to do is leave your name and your country of origin at the bottom of this post.

Happy reading!

Drum roll please…

The winners are:

Starinatstars03 and Erica

Congratulations guys and stay tuned for more yaReads giveaways coming your way!

Love vampires and werewolfs? Then you’re going to dig this…

In celebration of Halloween, we’ve got three awesome prize packs to give away. Each pack contains a copy of Vampires by Joules Taylor and Werewolves by Jon Izzard. Never heard of these books before? No problem… we’ve got the low down for you.

Vampires - Joules Taylor - Dangerous yet seductive, the vampire plays with our heart as he preys with our soul, commanding respect and inspiring complete devotion.

For anyone touched by the vampire’s flight through recent movies, TV shows and novels, here is a feast of vampire stories and lore. Charting the development of the vampire from prince of pure evil to poignant anti-hero, the VAMPIRE HANDBOOK, is a comprehensive guide to the vampire’s nocturnal realm, exploring the dark mysteries of his eternal allure, irresistible charm and vulnerability.

Werewolves - Jon Izzard - From ancient legend to pop-culture icon, from monster to antihero, here is a complete look at werewolves.

Fans of the complex beasts will howl with pleasure at this passionate handbook incorporating legend, lore, trivia and art. Author Jon Izzard stalks both the fiction and the facts: transformations, inner rage, extra-human strength, silver bullets, mysterious curses, modern cures and more.  With werewolves now haunting movie screens and literature the way they have haunted our nightmares for millennia, readers won’t wait for the full moon to devour this fascinating volume.

Note that these are not fictional works, but we figured yaReaders of the supernatural and paranormal would dig them all the same. We’re drawing this one on October 31, 2009. If you want the chance to win, leave your name in the comments field below. Two of the prize packs are being offered to North American readers only, with the third being offered to the rest of the world. Please note that this was decided by the supplier, not yaReads. This means that when you enter, you need to leave your country of origin with your name. Any entrants that fail to do this will be removed from the pool.

Remember, you’ve got to be in it to win it!

Good luck!

Again, we realize this is a couple of days late, but we’re happy to announce that we now have four official winners of the Australian Only contest. The following people are the lucky winners of Someday This Pain Will Be Useful To You by Peter Cameron and The Other Side of the Island by Allegra Goodman:

Aimee

Aria

Christina

Aimee

I’ve sent you guys all an email, so please respond with your postal details so I can ship out your prize! Congratulations to all our winners, and stay tuned for more fabulous competitions!

We realize that this is a few days late, but we’re happy to announce that we now officially have two winners for the Shiver contest. The winner of the audiobook is Brianna, and the winner of the book is Makayla. Congratulations guys, we hope you enjoy your prize.

We would like to extend a huge thankyou to Maggie Stiefvater for donating those two fabulous prizes! Stay tuned for more awesome contests coming your way!

Thanks to the fabulous people at the Penguin Group, we’ve got two copies of John Green’s award winning novel, Paper Towns, to give away. All you have to do is leave your name at the bottom of this post in the comment field.

This one is open to US residents only.

Never heard of Paper Towns? Then check out the synopsis here:

Quentin Jacobsen has spent a lifetime loving the magnificently adventurous Margo Roth Spiegelman from afar. So when she cracks open a window and climbs back into his life—dressed like a ninja and summoning him for an ingenious campaign of revenge— he follows. After their all-nighter ends, and a new day breaks, Q arrives at school to discover that Margo, always an enigma, has now become a mystery. But Q soon learns that there are clues — and they’re for him. Urged down a disconnected path, the closer he gets, the less Q sees the girl he thought he knew.

Contest closes on October 10, 2009.

This is a shout out to all our American readers. We’ve got an awesome competition coming your way. We’re offering three copies of Cayla Kluver’s new novel, Legacy, to our American readers only.

Never heard of Legacy before? Then here’s a quick synopsis for your reading pleasure:

An an award-winning YA fantasy debut, 16-year-old novelist Cayla Kluver brings a magical touch to an unrelentingly suspenseful coming-of-age tale. Duty-bound to wed her father’s choice in successor to the  throne, Princess Alera of Hytanica believes that she is being forced into the worst of all possible fates—a marriage to the arrogant and hot-tempered suitor, Steldor. When a mysterious boy from enemy Cokyri appears bearing secrets and an entirely different view of what’s appropriate behavior for a young lady, Alera learns that her private desires threaten to destroy the kingdom. When Narian’s shocking past comes to light, Alera finds herself in a shadowy world of palace intrigue and ancient blood feuds, facing an uncertain future with dwindling options—and must learn to decide between right and wrong all alone. Marked by witty, rapid-fire dialogue and dramatic complexity that belie the writer’s age, Legacy brings a fresh, new sensibility to age-old questions of duty and inheritance and to a young heroine’s quest to find her true voice. Legacy was Bronze Medalist in Young Adult Fiction in the 2008 Moonbeam Children’s Book Awards; Finalist in Young Adult Fiction in the National Best Books Awards 2008, sponsored by USA Book News.

To enter, simply leave your name in the comment box below. Competition closes on October 10, 2009. Please do not enter unless you live in the United States of America.

This time, we’ve got one for the Aussies. Courtesy of Scribe, we’re giving away four competition packs for Australian readers only. Each pack will contain one copy of Peter Cameron’s Someday This Pain Will be Useful to You and one copy of Allegra Goodman’s The Other Side of the Island.

From New York Times bestselling author Allegra Goodman comes a post apocalyptic novel about love, loss, and the power of human choice.

Honor and her parents have been reassigned to live on Island 365 in the Tranquil Sea. Life is peaceful there—the color of the sky is regulated by Earth Mother, a corporation that controls New Weather, and it almost never rains. Everyone fits into their rightful and predictable place. . . .

Except Honor. She doesn’t fit in, but then she meets Helix, a boy with a big heart and a keen sense for the world around them. Slowly, Honor and Helix begin to uncover a terrible truth about life on the Island: Sooner or later, those who are unpredictable disappear . . . and they don’t ever come back.

Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You is the story of James Sveck, a sophisticated, vulnerable young man with a deep appreciation for the world and no idea how to live in it. James is eighteen, the child of divorced parents living in Manhattan. Articulate, sensitive, and cynical, he rejects all of the assumptions that govern the adult world around him–including the expectation that he will go to college in the fall. he would prefer to move to an old house in a small town somewhere in the Midwest. Someday This Pain Will BE Useful to You takes place over a few broiling days in the summer of 2003 as James confides in his sympathetic grandmother, stymies his canny therapist, deplores his pretentious sister, and devises a fake online identity in order to pursue his crush on a much older coworker. Nothing turns out how he’d expected.

To enter, all you need to do is leave you name at the bottom of this post in the comments box. Competition is open until September 30. Just a reminder, this is open to Australian residents only.

As part of our Book of the Month promotion for September, we’re giving away one hardcover copy of Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater and one audiobook of the same title.

Just to clarify that we’re all on the same page here, there will be two winners for this competition - one will receive the book and the other will receive the audiobook. Please don’t ask for one or the other as we’ll be drawing this one via an online randomiser. We believe that this is the fairest method in circumstances like these.

Competition is open until Wednesday September 30, and is - unfortunately - open to US residents only.