Welcome to my first stop on the Reading Road Trip, the great state of Alabama, hosted by Britta at I Like These Books and Hafsah at Icey Books!
This is the state flag.
Here are some interesting facts about Alabama:
- Alabama became the 22nd state on December 14, 1819
- Alabama is known as the Yellowhammer State
- The first rocket to put humans on the moon was built in Huntsville, Alabama.
- The word Alabama means tribal town in the Creek Indian language.
- Alabama's Constitution has over 100,000 words and more than 700 amendments, making it one of the longest in the United States.
- Mail is delivered by boat in Magnolia Springs, Alabama. This city has the only all-water mail route in the United States.
- In Scottsboro, you'll find the Unclaimed Baggage Center, which buys lost luggage from airlines.
I've visited Alabama many times, and I think it is a very interesting state. If any of you have the chance to ever visit, I would take the opportunity. Many important Civil War battles and Civil Rights battles took place in Alabama; it is just oozing with awesome history. But if you're unable to visit, I'm offering some books that I hope will help take you there!
There will be ONE winner who can pick ONE book from the choices above.
(All books will be in paperback format & may not be the exact edition seen above)
This giveaway is also INTERNATIONAL, as long as the Book Depository ships to you!
Check the schedule to make sure you visit ALL the stops.
I also have a stop in Louisiana on July 16th, so don't forget to come back!
To enter:
Fill out the rafflecopter below
(make sure BD ships to you first here)
The winner will be contacted by email
The winner will have 48 hours to respond before a new winner is chosen.
Must be 13 years of age
Washington State!
ReplyDeleteYes...to go to Forks haha. Not just that though, from the pictures I've seen it looks beautiful and I really like the small city, small town thing.
I've always wanted to go to Alabama and Alaska, because they seem to be most different and unique than the other states.
ReplyDeleteI would love to visit ALL of the states, but right now I really want to visit Rhode Island because I was born & raised in the Midwest, and my husband is from New Hampshire, and during visits I have seen all the states in New England EXCEPT Rhode Island. :) And I love lighthouses! Thank you for the giveaway!
ReplyDeleteI would love to visit Pennsylvania because I used to live there and I still have family there. Thanks for the great giveaway! :D
ReplyDeleteI'd love to visit Alaska! Something so far away and foreign about it...and I totally don't mind the cold. :D
ReplyDeleteDefinitely Alaska or Hawaii. I hear the cruises to Alaska are great.
ReplyDelete---Markella
Oh, I'd love to go to Manhattan. I hear it's haunted. LOL.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the chance!
I'd love to visit Alaska first I think. Just NOT in Winter.
ReplyDeleteI'd love to go to New York. I had a chance to, but missed out on it. :(
ReplyDeleteAlaska! I'm a cold freak so hot summers don't work for me. The climate up there sounds right up my alley and there is just so many landscapes that my camera would be clicking non-stop. That and I want to see the Northern Lights.
ReplyDeleteI would love to visit New Mexico. My husband has been there, and it is so beautiful, and there is so much history to see.
ReplyDeleteI would love to visit Pennsylvania! It has such a rich history and I'd love to see the sites. :) Thanks for the giveaway!
ReplyDeleteI would love to visit Maine in the fall and do a lighthouse tour!
ReplyDeleteI wish i could visit California because it sounds soo beautiful plus the weather there is gorgeous:)
ReplyDelete-JennyC
I wish I could visit all of them! Maybe the most California and Washington.
ReplyDeleteI'm not sure...somewhere awesome?
ReplyDeleteI wanna visit Alabama and Tennesse and Lousiana, I've hear they all got great food... haha
ReplyDeleteI wish to visit Washington one day because I would love to live there :)
ReplyDeleteNew Orleans, because of Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles.
ReplyDeleteNew Orleans, Louisiana, of course. :)
DeleteI'd love to visit Hawaii. I could spend hours upon hours swinging in a hammock on the beach reading :)
ReplyDeleteI'm going cliche and saying Hawaii. I've always wanted to go since I was a kid. I'd love to be able to hike and get outdoors, see the volcanoes... ahhh... dreaming as I write!
ReplyDeleteNew York, Hawaii, Manhattan....I have never been to US so would LOVE to visit all the states!
ReplyDeleteWell, I love Texas and hope to live there someday. But I would also like to visit New York, Florida, Hawaii.
ReplyDeleteI wish I could visit California!
ReplyDeleteI want to go back to florida, i love it there
ReplyDeleteWashington or Maine. I think they would both be beautiful and I think I'd get a lot of writing done! Thanks for the giveaway!
ReplyDeletexo Stephanie
I would like to visit California because of all the sights and HOLLYWOOD of course. But I would also like to visit Loisiana because of the food or Pennsylvania because the history seems interesting. :) Thanks for the giveaway!
ReplyDeleteProbably New York just because...well, New York sounds awesome :)
ReplyDeleteRight now, I'd have to say Washington. Specifically Spokane, since my fiance' lives there. I'd also like to someday vist FL & CA as well.
ReplyDeleteI live in Alabama, so that's why I'm very interested in this giveaway.
California, because I live on the east coast and I think it would be cool to bee on the other side of the states for once.
ReplyDeleteI would love to go to Cali since I never been on the west coast. Thanks for holding the giveaway.
ReplyDeleteHmm I'd probably choose California. I've never been to the US so I'd want to visit different states. :)
ReplyDeleteI would want to visit California. I have never been to California and I would love to take an across-country trip. I have never been on the west coast; so, I would like to experience it.
ReplyDeleteLouisiana. I've always wanted to go to New Orleans.
ReplyDeleteHawaii (I went there as a toddler -___- mom and dad, I don't remember that far back!) and Louisiana– I wanna go to New Orleans! Thanks for the amazing giveaway :D
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