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Free Book Friday: Jane Yolen’s Trash Mountain

It’s time for another Free Book Friday! This week, enter to win Jane Yolen’s Trash Mountain. With illustrations by Monkey with a Tool Belt illustrator Chris Monroe, this middle-grade novel is sure to delight. The Star Tribune’s Ann Klefstad calls the book “a gripping story, right-sized for children but with all the authentic drama of any novel” in her review.

This you should know: Gray squirrels are almost always larger, faster, and more aggressive than reds. They out-eat the reds and out-breed them. Science says the grays will eventually win.

Nutley is a young red squirrel. For most of his life, he’s been content to live on local seeds and the cautious wisdom of his parents. But like so many young squirrels before him, he feels the call of the wild (and the hazelnuts) beyond the safety of his family’s own tree. Nutley wonders what it would be like to be Dangerous, like the growing band of gray squirrels that roam his neighborhood.

Nature, which is truly red in tooth and claw, forces Nutley to find out if he’s cut out for a life of danger. He must flee his familiar tree for the smelly shelter of the local landfill. There, with the help of some unlikely allies, he might just be able to make a stand against the grays. 

This you should know: No matter what scientists say is almost always true, the exceptions are almost always the best stories.

Also, download a free discussion guide here! 

If you’d like to win Trash Mountain, please leave a comment on this post (including your first and last name), or tweet this line: “Free Book Friday! Tweet to win TRASH MOUNTAIN by Jane Yolen from @LernerBooks.  bit.ly/1OrSN“

We’ll announce the winner on Friday, May 29, so check the blog then to see if you’ve won!

Comments

  1. Alyssa Annico
    May 22, 2015

    This looks like a great book!

  2. cp1935
    May 23, 2015

    This sounds like a good book. I always love to read about animals.

    Charlotte Padgettcp1935@oppcatv.com

  3. Anonymous
    May 24, 2015

    GREAT BOOK.
    Hope I win!

    jimpat34@wowway.com

  4. Jenny
    May 25, 2015

    Thanks for a chance to win this book! (Jennifer Moses)

  5. Anonymous
    May 27, 2015

    MY GRANDSON WOULD LOVE THIS BOOK

  6. Anonymous
    May 27, 2015

    very cute! would love to read to my neices and nephew.

  7. Anonymous
    May 27, 2015

    I would like to read the work of Jane Yolen.

    theyyyguy@yahoo.com

  8. Lisa Pecora
    May 27, 2015

    I would love to win this!

    motioncitycutie(at)aol(dot)com

  9. brendaelsner
    May 27, 2015

    My son would love this!!!

    brat52101 at yahoo dot com

  10. Daniel M
    May 27, 2015

    looks like a fun one! – regnod(at)yahoo(d0t)com

  11. lilyk
    May 28, 2015

    Thanks for the great giveaway!

    Lily Kwan

  12. Aubrey Fletcher
    May 28, 2015

    This book looks great I would love to win!

  13. Betty C
    May 28, 2015

    I'd love to win this one.

  14. Betty C
    May 28, 2015

    Sorry, I didn't leave my name. Betty Curran

  15. Desiree Grubbs
    May 28, 2015

    I would love to win this!
    zebracakez09@gmail.com

  16. Philip Lawrence
    May 28, 2015

    Interesting book!

  17. Buddy Garrett
    May 28, 2015

    It sounds like a great book. Thanks.

  18. Jennifer Herman
    May 28, 2015

    I would love to win this!

  19. John Herman
    May 28, 2015

    Thanks for the chance – would be great!

  20. Anonymous
    May 28, 2015

    Would like to check this out.

    Tim Moss, yupbucket@hotmail.com

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