Fall 2014 YASH Scavenger Hunt!
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 signed 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 72 hours!
Go to the YA Scavenger Hunt page to find out all about the hunt. There are SIX contests going on simultaneously, and you can enter one or all! I am a part of the ORANGE TEAM–but there is also a red team, a gold team, an blue team, a red team, and an indie team for a chance to win a whole different set of signed 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.
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Trisha Leaver lives on Cape Cod with her husband, three children, and one rather excitable black lab. She is an active member of the YA Scream Queens, The Cape Cod Children’s Writers and the SCBWI.Her co-authored, YA Psychological Horror, CREED, releases November 8, 2014 from FLUX. Her solo YA Contemporary, THE SECRETS WE KEEP, releases April 28, 2015 with FSG/ Macmillan.
EXCLUSIVE CONTENT
Three went in. Three came out. None even a shadow of who they once were.
When their car breaks down, Dee, her boyfriend Luke, and his brother Mike walk through a winter storm to take refuge in a nearby town called Purity Springs. When they arrive, the emergency sirens are blaring and the small farming town seems abandoned. With no other shelter, they spend the night in an empty house. But they soon discover that not everything in Purity Springs is as it seems. When the town’s inhabitants suddenly appear the next morning, Dee, Luke, and Mike find themselves at the mercy of the charismatic leader, Elijah Hawkins, who plans to make Dee his new wife. Elijah’s son, Joseph, offers to help them escape . . . but the price of his help may be more than Dee and her friends can bear.
First one is Dee in the bloodletting room.
Second is the Elijah Hawkins’s closet…where the Board of Education is stored!
And don’t forget to enter the contest for a chance to win a ton of signed books by me, Trisha, and more! To enter, you need to know that my favorite number is 17. Add up all the favorite numbers of the authors on the orange team and you’ll have all the secret code to enter for the grand prize!
CONTINUE THE HUNT
IfIif ther is one thing I’d like to change about the world, it would be the inequality between males and females. A person should not be defined by his gender but by his/her skills and abilities 🙂
I agree Ailla! The world would be a much better place if everyone was given the chance not because of race gender, or sexuality, but because of their skills and abilities.
I would make every education free, because it costs so much money I currently can’t study what I want to become and I hate it xD
That’s a good one. It would be great if money wasn’t an issue for anyone getting their education.
I would change the cost of health care, it’s expensive for people that can’t afford it (like myself). I would also change the price of minimum wage, i would raise it to about $10 an hour just so people can afford to pay their bills without having to kill themselves with multiple jobs to do it
I would change the levels of apathy and the reactionary way that people, especially from my generation, solve issues. We wait until something bad happens then try to change things–we need to look forward and find solutions, not try to catch up to mistakes.
I would change the famine and the amount of violence we have in the world if I could. Along with diseases.
I agree with the above statement on making education free!! Tuition is too expensive.
I want the abusers of any kind to be punished
Give all children a happy childhood.
NO VIRUSES!
I’d love for people to be rewarded based on their merits and not their gender, race, sexuality, or anything else.
I would probably change the way feet smell. YUKKKK!!!
I would love to eradicate animal abuse.
I would change our education system to be available to everybody.
I hate seeing children without a family to love them…I would like to see more love and less hate.
I would make all books free XD
I would stop trafficking and abuse
cancer would be an abolished disease
If I could change one thing about the world, I would remove bigotry from the world. There is too much bigotry in the world and the only thing it breeds is hate. It’s horrible to think about people that are discriminated against based on their skin color, their intelligence, their gender, their sexual orientation and/or preference (for those who feel that it’s a preference for themselves). Some day, we will get there. I have to believe that we will.
That flying would be cheaper.
I would give food to the poor.
If there was one think I could change about the world, I would eliminate all mirrors. That way, no one can judge others, we wouldn’t be self-conscious all the time, and everybody would love each other!
Cure for cancer!
II’d like to have the cure for several diseases.
How people treat each other
Free health care for everyone.
Equality for all.
i would make it fair for every one
My wish would be that everyone could learn to get along.rn to mget along
Everyone would have a warm place to sleep and plenty of food to eat
If I could really change something I’d change the way the media handles news!!
I’I’d ,make all politicians honest. Just a suggestion please changed the background or text color on the comment form because I can’t see what I’m typing. Right now it’s showing up white on white so I have to keep selecting text to see what I’ve written.
This is going to sound very goody-goody, but if I could change one thing about the world, I would make it easier for people to let go of their anger. Holding grudges doesn’t get anyone anywhere.
there are so many things to change, I can’t choose only one. Maybe solve the world hunger.
There are so many things out there I would want to change…. world hunger, disease, war, free college… I can’t choose just one but those are some my wishes.
No sickness, EVER!
I would make everyone equal and give everyone a desire to serve.
I would change it so that no one would have to worry about disease.
The ignorance of the people about everything, when something don’t care you, you ignore it. That is so bad!!
i would want people to appreciate what they have. Not just material things but people and the beauty of life around them.
Equality would be pretty legit.
If I could change one thing I would get rid of all ebooks. they are stupid . I like physical books
Kids dying of cancer
Tanks for the giveaway! If I could change one thing it would be to eliminate prejudice of all kinds.
I would change the way people treat eachother!
Force teenagers to raise pigs for bacon. Not only would there be more bacon in the world, they would grow disgusted eating it and there would be more me. The teenager part is because kids might get eaten by the pigs, and adults are all lazy.
Mmm…. to change the world…If only!
I’d destroy all weapons and corrupt politicians – oh and appoint woman presidents/prime misters in every country!
Thank you for the giveaway – you don’t mention if it is international – but I’m hoping!
If I could change the world, I’d appoint all politicians that are trustworthy. I’m not pointing out that today we don’t have any trustworthy politicians, I just want the corruption and cheating to end.
I’ll eliminate all the cities to live only in the nature!
It’s crazy I know, but we have to keep an eye on our poor earth!
I’d make sure that everyone had access to clean, free drinking water! Thanks for the giveaway 🙂
Cryptic, but I would change human nature. The existence of good is wonderful, but the amount of evil that there is in this world is scary sometimes.
Allow stem cell research so many diseases and injuries could be cured.
I’d want everyone to have free access to education and build fully shelved libraries to areas without to a library.
Not sure if anyone has said this yet but, if I could change one thing about the world we live in today it would be inequality of all things. The inequality that some people can spend $40,000 on a shopping trip when people can’t afford to eat. The inequality of how men and women are treated. How people of minority groups are treated. How people see each other. If people could see each other as equals we would all be better for it.
I would want every child to have a home and a family that loves them.
I would want there to be no such thing as orphans, I would want everyone to have some kind of family.
If I could change one thing I would improve women’s rights
If I could change one thing I would improve women’s rights
I would change how much people disagree. If everyone got along, the world would be so much nicer!
I would change how people live in poor conditions and give to erase offensive words used towards others’ differences.
I would get rid of poverty
people’s attitudes
I would get rid of war
If I could change one thing about the world it would be the number of bookstores in the world and maybe lessen world hunger somehow
Fun hunt #DOONLOVE
Although there are a lot of bad things about the world, I don’t think I would change anything about it. There are too many to choose from.
I would change people’s view on Christians/religious people.
For people to have more respect for the environment.
Only one?? Well, I wouldn’t mind changing the way society thinks about sizes and weight. ESPECIALLY in girls. I think it’s ironic that back in the sixty’s it was the norm to have “plus size” women be models to showcase all fashion when the norm was that the majority of people were actually a healthy size and now the roles are reversed. I hope that one day we’ll come to a more neutral, healthy balance of healthy-looking and “plus size” models on the catwalks and have a better universal sizing system for women’s clothing!
Thanks for hosting and sharing!!
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I’d like people to be nicer and more tolerant of others who are different than them.
I would change greed. Nothing good comes out of it.
I would change the hearts of people, make them kind and good, and let everyone know what it truly feels like to be loved.
I would change the prevalence of apathy and indifferenec
in the world.
I would change poverty so we would not have any.
If I could change one thing in the world, I would reduce the amount of violence. I’m not asking for world peace, that’s not very realistic, just a reduction.
Gender equality 🙂
I would have people care more about the environment – it is the only world we have.
If I could change one thing in the world, I would make all schooling free. Everyone should have the chance to go to college regardless of money.
Rape culture needs to not be a thing. Like, ever. (Thanks for the bonus giveaway!)
\People to be kind to one another!
If I could change one thing about the world. It would be that people could get along.
I would change the fact that people just up and leave your life without an explanation.