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ABOUT THE EVENT
Thank you for participating in the ON THE ISLAND Event! This week in addition to reviews and posts, select blogs are hosting a word from the author's favorite quotes in the book as a Scavenger Hunt! There is one quote from Anna and one from T.J. Visit each stop this week to find the hidden words (they will be numbered for order) and after July 22nd, submit your answer to the quotes here! Random winners for books and swag will be chosen and notified by July 29th.
Also, next week July 23-27, there will be even more events and chances to win the book and swag!
Also, next week July 23-27, there will be even more events and chances to win the book and swag!
- Monday, July 23 at 8:00 pm CST - Chat with the author Tracey Garvis Graves! We will be chatting with the author on Savor Chat: http://www.savorchat.com/chat/
on-the-island-chat Come join us! (You can sign in with twitter or facebook) - Each day look at #ontheisland on twitter for random shout outs to win books and swag! @Tale_of_Reviews
- ON THE ISLAND released in bookstores Tuesday, July 10th! If you see the book in stores or 'in the wild' take a picture. Please tweet it and use hashtag #ontheisland. Or you can post it to facebook! Please submit twitter and facebook links of your post/tweet here! All entries need to be submitted by July 29th.
ABOUT THE BOOK
Title: On the Island
Author: Tracey Garvis Graves
Publisher: Plume (Penguin)
Publication Date: July 17, 2012
When thirty-year-old English teacher Anna Emerson is offered a job tutoring T.J. Callahan at his family's summer rental in the Maldives, she accepts without hesitation; a working vacation on a tropical island trumps the library any day.
T.J. Callahan has no desire to leave town, not that anyone asked him. He's almost seventeen and if having cancer wasn't bad enough, now he has to spend his first summer in remission with his family - and a stack of overdue assignments - instead of his friends.
Anna and T.J. are en route to join T.J.'s family in the Maldives when the pilot of their seaplane suffers a fatal heart attack and crash-lands in the Indian Ocean. Adrift in shark-infested waters, their life jackets keep them afloat until they make it to the shore of an uninhabited island. Now Anna and T.J. just want to survive and they must work together to obtain water, food, fire, and shelter. Their basic needs might be met but as the days turn to weeks, and then months, the castaways encounter plenty of other obstacles, including violent tropical storms, the many dangers lurking in the sea, and the possibility that T.J.'s cancer could return. As T.J. celebrates yet another birthday on the island, Anna begins to wonder if the biggest challenge of all might be living with a boy who is gradually becoming a man.
When I first read this book, I knew it was one of those books that stick with you. The kind of book you recommend to everyone you meet, and I could not be happier that it is skyrocketing in popularity. I am excited to see it out in stores everywhere. Tracey deserves every bit of success that On The Island has brought her. If you haven't read On The Island yet, please do yourself a favorite pick up a copy!!
Feel free to read my review!
This time around, I have the pleasure of giving everyone a sneak peak at On The Island with an Excerpt!!
THE EXCERPT
I unbuckled and went back to sit beside
T.J. Not wanting to shout, I pulled him closer and said, “Listen, I’m pretty
sure Mick’s having a heart attack. He has chest pains and he looks awful, but
he’s blaming it on heartburn.”
“What! Are you serious?”
I nodded. “My dad survived a major
heart attack last year, so I know what to watch for. I think he’s scared to
admit there’s something wrong.”
“What about us? Can he still fly the
plane?”
“I don’t know.”
T.J. and I approached the cockpit. Mick
had both fists pressed against his chest and his eyes were closed. His headset
sat askew and his face had taken on a grayish cast.
I crouched down next to his seat, fear
rippling through me. “Mick.” My tone was urgent. “We need to call for help.”
He nodded. “I’m going to put us down on
the water first and then one of you will have to get on the radio,” he gasped,
trying to get the words out. “Put on life jackets. They’re in the storage
compartment by the door. Then get in your seats and buckle in.” He grimaced in
pain. “Go!”
My heart thundered in my chest and
adrenaline flooded my body. We rushed to the storage compartment and rifled
through it.
“Why do we have to put on life jackets,
Anna? The plane has floats, right?”
Because
he’s afraid he might not get us out of the air in time.
”I don’t know, maybe it’s standard
operating procedure. We’re landing in the middle of the ocean.” I found the
life jackets wedged between a cylinder-shaped container that said LIFE RAFT and
several blankets. “Here,” I said, handing one to T.J. and putting mine on. We
sat down and fastened our seatbelts, my hands shaking so badly it took me two
tries.
“If he loses consciousness I’ll need to
start CPR immediately. You’ll have to figure out the radio, T.J., okay?”
He nodded, his eyes wide. “I can do
that.”
I gripped the armrests of my seat and
watched out the window, the rolling surface of the ocean growing closer. But
then instead of slowing we picked up speed, descending at a steep angle. I glanced
toward the front of the plane. Mick was slumped over the yoke, not moving. I
unbuckled my seat belt and lunged into the aisle.
“Anna,” T.J. yelled. The hem of my
T-shirt slipped through his grasp.
WHERE TO FIND ON THE ISLAND
WHERE TO FIND THE AUTHOR
Tracey Garvis Graves
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4 comments:
I want this book really bad! Been trying to win it since it came out. Thanks so much for the giveaway!
@Lauren Good Luck!! It is such a wonderful book, I hope you get the chance to enjoy it!!
This just sounds like my kind of book and I know I would love it. I will ad this to wish list. Thanks for the giveaway!
This may not necessarily be my kind of book, but I'm open minded. LOL
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