12 Days of Giving- #6

Pony up, people. It's time to dive in where it's going to hurt.

Give away a book (or two)

**covers ears to hide from the howls of dismay**

Before you protest too much, take an honest look at your TBR pile. And the pile of keeper books you own. And the ones on your computer/ebook reader etc. Hmmm. One of the nicest things to be abe to do is to hand someone a book and say "Hey, I liked this one. You want to try it?"

If you need an ulterior motive, giving away a couple books will make more room on your shelf for the new ones you're bound to get over the holidays. Right?

Here's my participation. I've got a Young Adult for you to try. I'll pull one commenter's name to receive a print copy of this incredible story.

A dancer driven to succeed.

A musical prodigy attempting to escape his past.

The summer they share.

And the moment it all goes wrong.

Dance is Soledad Reyes's life. About to graduate from Miami's Biscayne High School for the Performing Arts, she plans on spending her last summer at home teaching in a dance studio, saving money, and eventually auditioning for dance companies. That is, until fate intervenes in the form of fellow student Jonathan Crandall who has what sounds like an outrageous proposition: Forget teaching. Why not spend the summer performing in the intense environment of the competitive drum and bugle corps? The corps is going to be performing Carmen , and the opportunity to portray the character of the sultry gypsy proves too tempting for Soledad to pass up, as well as the opportunity to spend more time with Jonathan, who intrigues her in a way no boy ever has before.

But in an uncanny echo of the story they perform every evening, an unexpected competitor for Soledad's affections appears: Taz, a member of an all-star Spanish soccer team. One explosive encounter later Soledad finds not only her relationship with Jonathan threatened, but her entire future as a professional dancer.

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"All the pain, passion and consequences of first love, told from the heart of a bold, feisty heroine make this a hard-to-put-down read. Ferrer elegantly captures both the certainty and doubt of young love and combines it with the lessons of growing up and coping with change."– RT Book Reviews

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Comment: Which book would you give (if you're brave enough) off your shelf?