Events

Jennifer Chambliss Bertman, author of the Book Scavenger series, competes against a big fan of the series in this 25th episode of Author Fan Face-Off, hosted by author Steve Sheinkin and school librarian Stacey Rattner. How well would you have done with these Book Scavenger trivia questions?

Sunday, June 2, marks four years since Book Scavenger has been published!

Want to help celebrate Book Scavenger’s birthday? Here’s something easy you can do: Hide a book!

Any children’s book—it doesn’t have to be part of the Book Scavenger series. Chose a book you’d like to share with others!

Here’s what you do:

Once you’ve chosen the book you’d like to hide . . .

1. Print out a game plate here.
2. Get a tracking number for your book here.
3. Write the tracking number on the game plate and secure that to your book.
4. Put the book in a plastic bag to protect it.
5. Pick a public hiding spot and hide your book.
6. Submit a Hidden Book form.

That’s it! If your hiding spot is some place where people not playing the game might find the book, leave a friendly note asking for the book to be left alone unless they want to play the game. Something like this:

“Hi! This book is part of a game called Book Scavenger. Please leave me here if you don’t want to play the game. Someone will find me soon!”

When your hidden book post is on the Book Scavenger website, share it with others to celebrate Book Scavenger! Examples:

Happy birthday, Book Scavenger! To celebrate, I hid The Train of Lost Things by Ammi-Joan Paquette.

Book Scavenger is turning 4! To celebrate, I hid Jasmine Toguchi, Mochi Queen by Debbi Michiko Florence.

If a book is hidden near you, go see if you can find it! If you do, fill out a “Found a Book” form so we can update the Hidden Book post.

Also, if you’ll be in the San Francisco Bay Area on June 9, please come celebrate Book Scavenger in person at Books Inc. in Palo Alto at 2:30! There will be games like Pin the Cowlick on James, you can pose as Emily and James in a Book Scavenger photo booth, and there will be more fun and games too!

This week (April 15 2019) you can buy the Book Scavenger ebook for only $2.99 at the ebook retailer of your choice! And did you know independent bookstores often sell ebooks, in addition to paper books? So if you prefer to read digitally, you can still support local small businesses by purchasing through them! Find out more about buying digital books through indie stores here or call/visit your local independent bookstore.

If you pre-ordered a copy of The Alcatraz Escape then you should soon (or maybe already!) receive the Book Scavenger map I had designed by Curious City and illustrated by the talented Marty Braun. You will also discover on the map A PUZZLE!

Please submit your answer to the puzzle to me at fromthemixedupfiles@gmail.com by midnight PST on June 1, 2018. I will announce one randomly drawn winner to receive a $50 gift card to the bookstore of your choice in this space on June 2.

Congratulations to Brielle, the winner of the gift card!

We’ll be playing games and talking books! It will be a lot of fun and I hope you can come if you will be near one of the following cities!

PARTICIPATING BOOKSTORES INCLUDE:

Alexander Book Co. (Downtown San Francisco)

Book Passage (Corte Madera and San Francisco locations)

Books Inc.  (all San Francisco locations)

BookShop West Portal (West Portal)

The Booksmith (Haight-Ashbury)

Christopher’s Books (Potrero Hill)

DIESEL, A Bookstore (Larkspur and Oakland locations)

Folio Books (Noe Valley)

A Great Good Place for Books (Oakland)

Green Apple Books (San Francisco)

Mrs. Dalloway’s Literary & Garden Arts (Berkeley)

The Reading Bug (San Carlos)

Russian Hill Bookstore (Russian Hill)