Free/Bargain Children's/YA 2016

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We point out free and bargain Children's and YA titles to each other, and recommend certain books that are/were free (or the opposite!).

Because Kindle freebies are easiest to find, the majority of the books listed are from Amazon, but freebies and bargains from other retailers and in other formats are more than welcome!

In case no retailer is specifically mentioned in a post, it is safe to assume it's for Amazon US.

Be aware that many freebies are only free for a day, so grab them fast!

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Sale: $1.99 (US, other countries may vary)

Steelheart by Brandon Sanderson

The #1 New York Times bestseller that James Dashner called “fantastic,” with “relentless” suspense and an “explosive” climax. And don’t miss the rest of the Reckoners series, including Firefight—now a #1 New York Times bestseller—and Calamity, coming soon!
Brandon Sanderson, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Words of Radiance, coauthor of Robert Jordan’s The Wheel of Time series, and creator of the internationally bestselling Mistborn trilogy, presents Steelheart, the first book in the Reckoners series, an action-packed thrill ride that will leave readers breathless.
How far would you go for revenge if someone killed your father?
If someone destroyed your city?
If everything you ever loved was taken from you?
David Charleston will go to any lengths to stop Steelheart. But to exact revenge in Steelheart’s world, David will need the Reckoners—a shadowy group of rebels bent on maintaining justice.
And it turns out that the Reckoners might just need David too.
Look for book two in the Reckoners series, Firefight, available now.

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[ATDrake]

X-link to the DRM-free megathread for:

Humble Book Bundle Origami Yoda featuring the popular Star Wars-referential sixth-grade schoolboy adventure novels by Tom Angleberger.

[GtrsRGr8]

Ran across this freebie just a while ago. It's Crushes, Blushes and Friends Forever, in the "Best Friends' Club" series. All that I have been able to find is a pdf-format version, but I'll do some more looking around.

I unapologetically know nothing about teenage girls' books. I don't know if the text is identical or not, but an edition of a later date (2009) garners a 4-star rating at Amazon, but from only 1 review. At GoodReads, however, there are 20 ratings, with a 3.95 average rating (that's very good at GoodReads).

Here's a brief book description, in case you want to read a little about the book before mentioning it to your teenybopper daughter or whoevever. This is from GoodReads (a book description at Amazon is basically non-existent), and again is for the 2009 edition:
The BFC is all about being friends forever, but it's not always easy. Can Aliesha and Noelle's sisterly bond survive the test of Noelle's new crush? Or will Aliesha's jealousy finally break the BFC?

The ebook is available, again free, from the publisher's (Parragon Books') website. Here's the direct link: http://www.parragon.com/bfc/bfc_1.pdf.

I hope that one or more people will enjoy this ebook!

[koland]

Authors: Becky Brookes, Rennie Brown, Sarah Delmege, Kirsty Neale and Caroline Plaisted

[GtrsRGr8]

Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8

Ran across this freebie just a while ago. It's Crushes, Blushes and Friends Forever, in the "Best Friends' Club" series. All that I have been able to find is a pdf-format version, but I'll do some more looking around.
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Originally Posted by koland

Authors: Becky Brookes, Rennie Brown, Sarah Delmege, Kirsty Neale and Caroline Plaisted

Ha. Yeah, that was an abbreviated post. Didn't use the template and all.

One other piece of information that I like to include is the price at Amazon. Well, you can't get it there in a digital form, apparently. The lowest price for a physical copy is 51 cents, I think that it is, for one in a "good" condition. Not much saved there, but you do avoid a third-party $3.99 shipping charge. And if you want it in a digital form, it looks like you'll either need to get the pdf freebie or buy a physical copy and fire up the ole scanner (ack!), assuming you legally can do that under Fair Use provisions and all of that, of course.

[koland]

Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8

...but you do avoid a third-party $3.99 shipping charge. And if you want it in a digital form, it looks like you'll either need to get the pdf freebie or buy a physical copy and fire up the ole scanner (ack!), assuming you legally can do that under Fair Use provisions and all of that, of course.

I think for most people, the time involved would "cost" more than the shipping. PDF's don't look bad on an iPad....

[GtrsRGr8]

Originally Posted by koland

I think for most people, the time involved would "cost" more than the shipping. PDF's don't look bad on an iPad....

I was being facetious. I forgot to put a "ha!" or something to let peeps know that. But what I mentioned has probably been done somewhere by someone at some time in the past!