YA Scavenger Hunt! #YASH

Kelly St Clare
Dec 10, 2017
4 min read

Welcome to YA Scavenger Hunt! This bi-annual event was first organized by author Colleen Houck as a way to give readers a chance to gain access to exclusive bonus material from their favorite authors...and a chance to win some awesome prizes! At this hunt, you not only get access to exclusive content from each author, you also get a clue for the hunt. Add up the clues, and you can enter for our prize--one lucky winner will receive one book from each author on the hunt in my team! But play fast: this contest (and all the exclusive bonus material) will only be online for 120 hours from October 3rd - October 8th!

Go to the YA Scavenger Hunt page to find out all about the hunt. There are eight contests going on simultaneously, and you can enter one or all! I am a part of the RED TEAM--but there is also an orange team, a purple team, a gold team, a green team, a blue team, and a pink team for a chance to win a whole different set of books! If you'd like to find out more about the hunt, see links to all the authors participating, and see the full list of prizes up for grabs, go to the YA Scavenger Hunt page.

SCAVENGER HUNT PUZZLE!

Directions: Below, you'll notice that I've hidden my favorite number in bright red letters. Collect the favorite numbers of all the authors on the red team, and then add them up (don't worry, you can use a calculator!).

Entry Form: Once you've added up all the numbers, make sure you fill out the form here to officially qualify for the grand prize. Only entries that have the correct number will qualify.

Rules: Open internationally, anyone below the age of 18 should have a parent or guardian's permission to enter. To be eligible for the grand prize, you must submit the completed entry form by Oct 8th, at noon Pacific Time. Entries sent without the correct number or without contact information will not be considered.

SCAVENGER HUNT POST!

Today, I am hosting the amazing Jennifer Brody on my blog for the YA Scavenger Hunt!

Jennifer Brody’s award-winning novel The 13th Continuum sold to Turner Publishing in a 3-book deal and is being packaged into a feature film. Return of the Continuums and The United Continuums complete this epic trilogy. She is a graduate of Harvard University, a creative writing instructor at the Writing Pad, and a volunteer mentor for the Young Storytellers Foundation. She founded and runs BookPod, a social media group for authors. She lives and writes in LA.

Find out more information by checking out Jennifer's website or more about Jennifer's book here!

Gold Medal Winner, Young Adult Fiction ― Fantasy/Sci-Fi, Independent Publisher's Moonbeam Children's Book Awards One thousand years after a cataclysmic event leaves humanity on the brink of extinction, the descendants of the chosen survivors take refuge in thirteen contingency shelters buried deep underground, at the bottom of the ocean, and in the far reaches of outer space. In the underwater 13th Continuum, sixteen-year-old Myra Jackson has heard rumors and whisperings all her life of a magical place called "The Surface” where people could breathe fresh air, feel the warmth of something called sunlight on their skin, and see things known as stars and trees and mountains. Myra has never dared to ask whether the stories are true, since the act of speaking such words aloud is an offense punishable by death. But after she discovers that the air supply aboard her underwater colony is running out, she realizes that her only hope for survival is to find this mysterious place. To get there, she must first recover the only guide to the Surface―the Beacon, an ancient device that also connects her to Captain Aero Wright, a dashing young soldier from one of the only remaining space colonies. With the fate of all humankind depending on them, Myra and Aero must escape the tyrannical forces that rule their colonies, journey through the black depths of the ocean and across the cold void of space, to find each other on the Surface that their ancestors once called home.

EXCLUSIVE CONTENT FROM JENNIFER BRODY!

“Continuum Universe” Dream Casting—YASH Bonus Material Fall 2017

Hey there YASH hunters! I’m so thrilled to be back this fall on TEAM RED (the best team!). I’m pleased to announce here exclusively that Zero Gravity is attached to produce the film adaptation of my Continuum Trilogy. We have an amazing package with screenwriter and director, and we’re about to go pitch all the major studios. So keep your book-loving fingers crossed! In celebration of this great news, I’m sharing my dream casting ideas.

And check out my series BEFORE they blow up and become the next BIG THING! ;-)

(And yes, I’ve sent these ideas to my film producer!)

“Continuum Universe” Dream Casting—YASH Bonus Material Fall 2017

Sennia Nanau (The Girl with all the Gifts)—Myra Jackson

(smart, sassy, Engineering apprentice, lives in the underwater Thirteenth Continuum)

Jaden Lieberher (IT movie 2017)—Captain Aero Wright

(soldier, strong, leader, suppresses emotions, lives in the outer space Second Continuum)

Millie Bobby Brown (Stranger Things)—Seeker

(brave, hunter, strong, lives in the underground Seventh Continuum)

Kevin Klein (Beauty and the Beast 2017)—Professor Divinus

(Founder of the Continuum Project, Harvard professor, wise)

Taraji P. Henson (Hidden Figures, Empire)—Maude

(Hocker, clever, connected, lives in the underwater Thirteenth Continuum)

Kevin Costner (Hidden Figures)—Supreme General Brillstein (Aero’s Dad)

(leader of the outer space Second Continuum, Carrier of the Beacon, soldier)

Vin Diesel (Pitch Black, Fast & the Furious)—The Dark Thing

(Don’t want to give away SPOILERS)

YOUR NEXT CLUE!

Don't forget to enter the contest for a chance to win a ton of books by me, Jennifer Brody, and more! To enter, you need to know that my favorite number is 737. Add up all the favorite numbers of the authors on the red team and you'll have all the secret code to enter for the grand prize!