Now’s your chance to start your summer getaway (even if it’s just by being submerged in a hot summer read) — and win great prizes.  Join our 2012 Summer Reading Challenge!  Are you up for the challenge?  Make this your summer reading list, read each book, share your reviews, get to know the authors and enter to win weekly prizes.  The challenge kicks off next week on the 25th and will go through September 25th.  Join the event on Facebook for more information.

Keep an eye out during the challenge for bonus picks to earn more points towards the prizes. The more you read and the more you share, the more you win.  Happy reading!

Without further adieu here is the fourth book in our list of 10 books that are included in the challenge. So Far Away by Meg Mitchell Moore

More about So Far Away;

Thirteen-year-old Natalie Gallagher is trying to escape: from her parents’ ugly divorce, and from the vicious cyber-bullying of her former best friend. She discovers a dusty old diary in her family’s basement and is inspired to unlock its secrets. Kathleen Lynch, an archivist at the Massachusetts State Archives, has her own painful secrets: she’s a widow estranged from her only daughter. Natalie’s research brings her to Kathleen, who in Natalie sees traces of the daughter she has lost. What could the life of an Irish immigrant domestic servant from the 1920s teach them both? In the pages of the diary, they will learn that their fears and frustrations are timeless.

 

Deadline is August 5th at midnight.