Tracy L. Keeley, School Library Media Specialist for Union 8th Grade Center Media Center in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma sent this photo of four students enjoying Erin Dionne's MODELS DON'T EAT CHOCOLATE COOKIES!

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Lindsey Tomsu, Teen Coordinator for La Vista Public Library in La Vista, NE sent this photo of a young patron enjoying Sarah Rees Brennan's THE DEMON'S LEXICON! Are you a library professional? You can enter to win 46 brand new YA & MG novels for YOUR collection! See this entry for details.

Jamison Hedin, Library Media Specialist for Ludlow High School, Ludlow, MA sent this entry to our contest, and says:

A photo of three of my students with Carrie Ryan's THE FOREST OF HANDS AND TEETH (donated to our library by a staff member and so new that it isn't wasn't even processed yet!) is attached. Seniors Jon, Taylor and Liz were happy to take a break from Calculus homework to pose and potentially help win all those debut novels for our school library!

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Abby Harrison, librarian for Creekview High School Library in Carrollton, Texas sent this entry to the contest- Abby herself with Jennifer Brown's HATE LIST!

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Denise Byers, Librarian for R. C. Loflin Middle School in Joshua, TX sent this entry of two fresh-faced students hanging out with Carrie Ryan's THE FOREST OF HANDS AND TEETH!

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Leanna Chappell, Head of Children's Services for Swanton Public Library in Swanton, OH, sent in this entry featuring three very happy readers and Megan Crewe's GIVE UP THE GHOST. As one of our end of the year debuts, it's great to see Megan's book out and about in the libraries already!

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Darla Kline, librarian for Harrold Middle School in Greensburg, PA sent this lovely picture of herself with Pam Bachorz' CANDOR. I hope she's sufficiently shielded against all the messages that might be sneaking out of that book and right into her brain- maybe main character Oscar could help?

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Lexi Henshel, Fiction Librarian and Reader's Advisor at North Kingstown Free Library in North Kingstown, RI sent in this entry, with kind words about Sarah MacLean's THE SEASON! In May, Sarah takes us into the realm of Regency romance for adults with NINE RULES TO BREAK WHEN ROMANCING A RAKE, and if you peek, you can catch glimpses of your favorite SEASON characters there as well!

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This entry comes to us from Erin Purcell, Library Support Specialist for Leslie Thomas Junior High in Lower Sackville, Nova Scotia. And I quote:

These students are all members of the Library Crew here at LT. They help out in the library with circulation, shelving, fundraising and events like Teen Read Week. They also travel to a local elementary school to read with students and help out with their book fairs.

And as you can see, the Library Crew are kicking back with some cookies and Erin Dionne's MODELS DON'T EAT CHOCOLATE COOKIES. And just as tasty, Erin's next novel, THE TOTAL TRAGEDY OF A GIRL NAMED HAMLET, will arrive January 5, 2010!

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Dierdre Morley, YA Librarian for Oldham County Public Library in LaGrange, KY sent this pic of their handsome library cat, Jasper, with Jennifer Brown's HATE LIST. And I quote:

Unfortunately, he must remain in the staff offices, but people often peek at him through the glass door separating the offices from the public area of the library.

Aww, poor Jasper! At least he has books to keep him company! :D

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When granddaughter, Jada, was born with leukemia, a donor-match was located and Jada made a miraculous recovery. In honor of her grandaughter's health, Jeanna has decided to walk across the country (in the dead of winter) to raise awareness and build support for the bone marrow registry (all that's required is a cheek swab). Follow Jeanna's remarkable journey as she travels the United States by foot.

Amy Bloom of Wilson Middle School in Natick, MA sent this entry to our contest, and I will quote her here:

Here is one of our Middle school students having just picked out TWENTY BOY SUMMER to read. It has been a very popular title in our collection. I take pictures of all of our readers and put them up in the library, and found that we a few of the debut titles, and they have found quite a following.

That's so awesome to hear- and I have faith that Amy's readers will enjoy Sarah's next novel, FIXING DELILAH HANNAFORD- coming in Fall 2010!

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Betsy Halvorsen, Children & Teen Librarian for Woodward Memorial Library in LeRoy, NY sent this lovely picture of herself with Carrie Ryan's THE FOREST OF HANDS AND TEETH. Watch out for the companion novel next year, THE DEAD-TOSSED WAVES.

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Donna Phillips, Librarian for the McAfee Library at Middleboro High School sent in this entry with Jon Skovron's STRUTS & FRETS, which just came out in November. He's one of our last Debs, but certainly not one of the least!

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Wow.

It's been a whole year. Twelve months, sixty books, twelve Debsness bags-- and we want to say thank you. Thank you to all of you for celebrating our debuts with us! For coming back each month for each new celebration.

You can't believe it's the last bag? We can't believe it either. This time last year, we were just writers waiting for our first books to come out. Now we're all published authors, in part thanks to you.

In fact, entirely thanks to you. So thank you, every single one of you, and now it's our pleasure to announce the winner of the LAST DEBSNESS EVER:

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Congratulations to you, and thank you all so much for entering! We're not going anywhere- soon we'll have Debs Books into the Future page for you.

We would like to take this chance to wish the 10_ers the best of luck in their debut year! They have some amazing titles already coming out in December, so please stop by and celebrate their first novels with them!

The very last Debsness giveaway EVAR is now closed! Stay tuned tomorrow for the LAST winner of 2009!!!!!!

Welcome back, friends- for the last time ever! All year long, we've been celebrating our debut year with you, and now it comes to our last month. We only have one Deb left to make her appearance in 2009 (HI RHONDA!) and this is the absolute final Debsness bag! Each one is packed with more than thirty-five treats, delights, novelties and oddities!

And this time, because it's our last time, to make it special there will be EXTRA SURPRISE PRIZES. Can't tell you what they are, except they're probably four or five Debs books with special covers, oops, I told! ANYWAY!

( Take a peek at the bags! )


Enter by leaving a comment in this entry. Anonymous and OpenID entrants, please include your name and an e-mail address where we may contact you if you're the winner. The winner will be chosen at random from all the entrants- but don't hesitate!

This post will be open from 12.01am EST until 11:59pm EST, December 15, 2009 only! This is the LAST Debsness bag ever, so if you ever wanted to win, enter now before they're gone and we pass the debut torch on to the 10_ers!!

Good luck, Happy Debsness, and thanks to all of you for celebrating our debut year with us!

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Boring Small Print:

Anyone, anywhere is eligible! Entrants must be 13 years of age, or have their parents enter the giveaway for them. Debs and their immediate families are, sadly, ineligible to win. This means you, Snoop and Baxter, sorry. You may only win ONE Debsness bag, but winning a Debsness bag does not disqualify you from other Debs giveaways during the year.

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