Here’s something a little different, but is in reply to a lot of email requests I have received over the past few weeks – a special post on the various Young Adult / Children’s books that are free from the Amazon Kindle store. With summer here, a lot of parents, grandparents, aunts, and uncles are trying to get their children to read more vs. playing the latest video game (and as a parent I can’t blame them!). If you would like to write to me, my email address is Michael at fkbooksandtips dot com
In addition to the six free Kindle book offers below, you can always check the shortcut links to the Amazon website I saved to see what free offers are listed on any day at any time vs. waiting on me to tell you about them:
http://amzn.to/kindlekids or http://amzn.to/kindlechildren
You may want to bookmark those links in your web browser (I have), but please make sure you check the pricing before you hit the buy button on the Amazon website as the pricing changes every hour!
Here are the children / young adult books in no particular order (and a lot of you adults may like these books, also):
The Rock Star’s Daughter by Caitlyn Duffy has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 142 customer reviews.
USA subscribers: click here or type in http://amzn.to/Jf5PU7 into your web browser to pick up your free copy.
UK subscribers: click here or type in http://amzn.to/L7mxR6 into your web browser to pick up your free copy.
Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:
At the age of 15, Taylor Beauforte has only met her father twice in person. After all, he is the lead singer of a world-famous rock band, constantly on the cover of music magazines and giving interviews on MTV. He pays for Taylor to attend the Treadwell Academy, a prestigious boarding school in Massachusetts, and provides her mother with monthly checks to cover her basic needs, but has never made much of an effort to play an active part in Taylor’s life. Taylor’s mom Dawn is the only family she has ever really known, and because of Dawn’s hard-partying Hollywood lifestyle, studious Taylor is happiest on the other side of the country in Massachusetts with her nose buried in a book.
When Taylor ‘s mom unexpectedly dies the summer before Taylor starts her junior year, she receives a crash course in fame. She has no choice but to join her father and his new family on their summer concert tour before she has even had a chance to mourn the loss of her mother. Life as the daughter of a rock star seems like it would be enviable, but Taylor can’t figure her dad out. He seems like a supportive authority figure (even if he’s kind of a fashion tragedy) , but she is collecting a growing pile of evidence that he’s a liar and a cheat. Her stepmother, Jill, can’t seem to decide if she wants to treat Taylor like a girlfriend or a nuisance. Having had no time to grieve and say goodbye to her childhood before being thrust into the limelight, Taylor is suddenly finding herself in situations she could have never imagined before this summer.
With no one else to turn to, Taylor falls head over heels in love with Jake, the teenage son of one of the band’s touring groupies. Taylor has growing concerns about Jake’s background and the suspicious relationship between his mom and her own father, but is desperate for something real in her life onto which she can build a future. When Jake offers Taylor an opportunity to join him on a whirlwind adventure and leave her problems with her father far behind, Taylor has to decide – should she carve out her own way in the world, or try to repair the relationship she has with her only living parent?
Over the course of the summer with the band, Taylor learns the depths of her own strength, the difficulty of overcoming loss, and that the definition of family means much more than shared bloodlines.
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Oceans of Red, Volume One by Willow Cross has received a perfect 5 out of 5 stars based on 29 customer reviews.
USA subscribers: click here or type in http://amzn.to/MThTpQ into your web browser to pick up your free copy.
UK subscribers: click here or type in http://amzn.to/LwanHC into your web browser to pick up your free copy.
Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:
By 2015 the streets of Los Angeles have been transformed from a thriving metropolis to a hostile world ravaged by demons bent on assimilating the human race. Standing between this total apocalypse of humanity and their chance for survival is 19 year old Remy Martin.
A warrior in her own right, trained to think on her feet and kill if the situation requires, she is flanked by her older brother and younger sister. Together, they devise a plan to take back the streets. Against the wishes of their father, who commands the resistance forces, they venture into unknown realms of the supernatural in a race against time with the fate of the entire world in their young hands.
Join them on their mission into darkness where death lies around every corner, it is virtually impossible to distinguish your enemies from your allies, and a single mistake could result in the annihilation of everyone you’ve ever known and loved.
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Honey the Hero by Emlyn Chand and Sarah Shaw has received a perfect 5 out of 5 stars based on 19 customer reviews.
USA subscribers: click here or type in http://amzn.to/Ol5mCY into your web browser to pick up your free copy.
UK subscribers: click here or type in http://amzn.to/Mwa3nI into your web browser to pick up your free copy.
Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:
Evolved Publishing brings you the first of the “Bird Brain Books” by Emlyn Chand, “Honey the Hero.” This children’s picture book, with full color illustrations by artist Sarah Shaw, is for kids 4 to 6 years old.
Honey, an inquisitive, young parakeet living in the Australian Outback, decides to become a superhero after she spies a human family watching Superman. Since she already has the power of flight, all she needs to do is create a costume to conceal her true identity and then fly off in search of animals that need rescuing.
Unfortunately, every time she tries to help, Honey only ends up making matters worse. She spoils Kangaroo’s game of hide-and-go-seek by revealing his hiding place to Wallaby; Mr. Anteater must go hungry when she alerts the ants to his presence, and Mrs. Koala is made a laughingstock among bears when Honey pretends to be her Joey. Finally realizing that she’s not as heroic as she’d like, Honey gives up her day-saving efforts.
But what happens when someone actually needs Honey’s help? Will she rise to the challenge?
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Watched by Cindy M. Hogan has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 48 customer reviews.
USA subscribers: click here or type in http://amzn.to/KyYUB0 into your web browser to pick up your free copy.
UK subscribers: click here or type in http://amzn.to/MTiXdm into your web browser to pick up your free copy.
Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:
Change.
She longs for it.
A murder.
She will never be the same.
It takes more than a school trip to Washington, D.C. to change Christy’s life. It takes murder.
A witness to the brutal slaying of a senator’s aide, Christy finds herself watched not only by the killers and the FBI, but also by two hot guys.
She discovers that if she can’t help the FBI, who want to protect her, it will cost her and her new friends their lives.
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Darkhouse (Experiment in Terror #1) by Karina Halle has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 129 customer reviews.
USA subscribers: click here or type in http://amzn.to/v3udYF into your web browser to pick up your free copy.
UK subscribers: click here or type in http://amzn.to/MvxP6f into your web browser to pick up your free copy.
Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:
With all the vampire, werewolf and faerie books out there, it’s easy to become numb to all things supernatural. The antidote? Darkhouse introduces two real and unforgettable characters, Perry Palomino & Dex Foray, amateur ghost hunters who are “attractive, relatable and oddly heroic,” “flawed but loveable,” “slightly crazy” and just the most endearing pair to ever tackle the paranormal…just don’t call them normal. Darkhouse is a thrilling and sexy new take on concepts like Supernatural and The X-Files, bringing a breath of fresh air to a genre that has been inundated with the dead.
“There’s always been something a bit off about Perry Palomino. Though she’s been dealing with a quarter-life crisis and post-college syndrome like any other twentysomething, she’s still not what you would call “ordinary.” For one thing, there’s her past which she likes to pretend never happened, and then there’s the fact that she sees ghosts. Luckily for her, that all comes in handy when she stumbles across Dex Foray, an eccentric producer for an upcoming webcast on ghost hunters. Even though the show’s budget is non-existent and Dex himself is a maddening enigma, Perry is instantly drawn into a world that both threatens her life and seduces her with a sense of importance. Her uncle’s haunted lighthouse provides the perfect catalyst and backdrop for a horrific mystery that unravels the threads of Perry’s fragile sanity and causes her to fall for a man, who, like the most dangerous of ghosts, may not be all that he seems.”
Rated 16+ for language and gore
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The Key of Kilenya by Andrea Pearson has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 37 customer reviews.
USA subscribers: click here or type in http://amzn.to/NsTw3x into your web browser to pick up your free copy.
UK subscribers: click here or type in http://amzn.to/KXG50G into your web browser to pick up your free copy.
Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:
Two monstrous wolves drive fourteen-year-old Jacob Clark down a path to a different world near his small-town home. The creatures of this new world are peculiar, and he is surprised to learn that they know everything about him. Even the evil, immortal Lorkon, who stole the Key of Kilenya. They are jealous of Jacob and wish to control powers he doesn’t know he possesses.
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June 25th, 2012 at 3:48 pm
Enjoy your posts.
June 25th, 2012 at 5:18 pm
Well, I’ve spent a few days stumbling, cursing and trying to follow the theme of what I originally subscribed for: FREE BOOKS. This has slowly changed to where I reload, scroll down to the end, hit “Next”, wait, scroll down, hit “Next”, wait, etc. There, finally, at the very end I find what I’ve been promised.
It’s not that what is in-between isn’t supportive, (although I cannot use Apps and am not, repeat, NOT, interested in books at a reduced price!
You’ve got your priorities backwards (up-side-down?). What I would like would be for: 1) free book listing, 2) tips for using Kindle (even if you’ve repeated them a dozen times), 3) answering e-mail, 4) the daily reduced special and/or 5) appss
Otherwise, keep up the very good work, I look forward to it each day (been retired several years, living on Social Security (thus my avid interest in “FREE”. Thanks a whole lot – Bob Wilmington
June 25th, 2012 at 6:34 pm
Bob-
Call me confused but today you’ve had three posts for a combined 19 free book offers (that’s just for today), one post on answering email, one free app for the Kindle Fire, and one notification of the Kindle Daily deal. What priorities do I have backwards? Based on your list you just mentioned, I just hit 4 out of your 5 requirements.
Michael
June 26th, 2012 at 1:34 am
Sorry if I was unclear: It’s the order of each listed item in the separate segments of your blog, not the content.
Again, thanks for making my days lighter, Bob Wilmington
June 29th, 2012 at 3:35 pm
Bob, Michael, that was comical! Thanks for the smiles!
I’m glad we can all enjoy the blog and the free books that get listed.
June 29th, 2012 at 4:53 pm
Mike,
Free Books app is the best app for books available. I almost visit your app daily. Thanks alotttttttt! What Bob is saying about order is correct but nothing wrong with that. Your app is the best app.
June 30th, 2012 at 7:28 am
Just want to tell you how much I enjoy your free app and also how you make it personnel by sharing a bit of yourself….thanks for the great job that you do!
June 30th, 2012 at 2:31 pm
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June 30th, 2012 at 8:08 pm
I love this blog. Your work is amazing and very appreciated. I am finally able to indulge my love of books without breaking my pocketbook!
July 1st, 2012 at 12:18 am
Just wanted to say thank you so much for your app and for taking the time to keep us updated with all the great books,apps and kindle info!
I look forward to your posts and updates everyday (no matter what order there in) “)
Thanks so much!
Sarah