NO PURCHASE NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN. A PURCHASE WILL NOT IMPROVE YOUR CHANCES OF WINNING.

Eligibility:
Sweepstakes is open to legal residents of the 50 United States and D.C. (excluding Florida) age 18 or older. Winners must be full time librarians. Employees of vendors of services and products to libraries are not eligible. Employees of Reed Business Information (the "Sponsor"), New Line Cinema, Walden Media, Random House Inc., and Flashlight Readers and their parent, subsidiaries, affiliates, advertising and promotion agencies and their immediate family members and/or those living in the same household of each are not eligible to enter. Subject to all applicable federal, state and local laws and regulations. Void where prohibited by law.

Entry:
Method #1: To enter, follow all entry instructions to complete and submit the online entry. Online entries must be received between 12:01 AM Eastern Time ("ET") on 02/24/06 and 11:59 PM (ET) on 04/07/06. Online entrants subject to all notices posted online including but not limited to privacy policy. Limit: One online entry per person or email address. In the event of a dispute, online entries will be deemed to have been submitted by the Authorized Account Holder of the email address submitted at the time of entry. "Authorized Account Holder" means the natural person who is assigned to an email address by an internet access provider, online service provider, or other organization that is responsible for assigning email addresses for the domain associated with the submitted email address.

Method #2: To enter via US mail, mail a postcard with your name and address to:Hoot Sweepstakes, c/o: School Library Journal, 360 Park Avenue South, Room 13-004, New York, NY 10010. Each postcard must be mailed separately. Mail-in entries must be postmarked between 02/24/06 and 04/01/06 and received by 04/07/06. Photocopied, illegible, or mechanically reproduced entries are not eligible. All entries and requests become Sponsor's property and will not be returned or acknowledged. Sponsor is not responsible for lost, late, damaged, misdirected or postage due mail/entries.

Prizes/Approximate Retail Values ("ARV")
 Grand Prize (ARV: $3000 each)
1 Winner will receive
• Round trip economy air for two from any airport in the 50 United States or the District of Columbia to Los Angeles.
• 2 nights accommodation at a four-star (or equivalent) hotel
• Ground transportation to and from the airport and to and from the premiere.
• 10 copies of the book Hoot and 10 copies of the audiobook version

Random Drawing:
Winners will be selected in a random drawing from all eligible entries received. Random drawing will be conducted on or about 04/08/06. Winners will be notified by phone or e-mail, and at the judges' discretion, may be required to complete and return an Affidavit of Eligibility and Liability and a Publicity Release ("Affidavit/Release"), if permissible, within 3 days of date specified on notification, or an alternate winner will be selected. Prizes awarded within 90 days after receipt of Affidavit/Release. If Affidavit/Release or prize is returned as undeliverable, it will result in disqualification, and the corresponding prize will be awarded to an alternate winner in a separate random drawing. If a winner is otherwise eligible under these Official Rules, but is nevertheless deemed a minor in his or her state of primary residence, the prize will be awarded in the name of winner's parent or legal guardian. Prize is non-assignable or transferable except to a surviving spouse. Prize winner is responsible for all federal, state, local and sales and income taxes. Prizes awarded to winners on behalf of their institution. Entry and acceptance of any prize constitute permission to use each winner's name, prize won, institution name and likeness for online posting and promotional purposes without further compensation, except where prohibited by law. All prizes are guaranteed to be awarded.

General: Participating entrants agree to these Official Rules and the decisions of the Sponsor, and release the Sponsor and their affiliated companies, and all other businesses involved in this Sweepstakes, as well as the employees, officers, directors and agents of each, from all claims and liability relating to their participation, acceptance and use of each prize. Winners assume all liability for any injury or damage caused or claimed to be caused, by participation in this Sweepstakes or use or redemption of any prize. Sponsor is not responsible for any typographical or other error in the printing of the offer, administration of the Sweepstakes or in the announcement of the prizes. Winners acknowledge that the Sponsor, its parent companies, affiliates and all other companies concerned with this Sweepstakes and their agents do not make, nor are in any manner responsible for, any warranty, representations, expressed or implied, in fact or in law, relative to the quality, conditions or fitness of any aspects of the prizes.
For a list of winners (available after 04/15/06), send a stamped, self-addressed envelope by 05/15/06 to: "Hoot Sweepstakes" winners c/o: School Library Journal, 360 Park Avenue South, Room 13-004, New York, NY 10010.

Sponsor:
School Library Journal, 360 Park Avenue South, New York, NY 10010.

Confidentiality:
By entering you may be contacted by the Sponsor with future promotional offers. Information provided by you to participate in this Sweepstakes is subject to Sponsor's privacy policy.

In the event of a dispute over the identity of an online entrant, entry will be deemed submitted by the "Authorized Account Holder" of the e-mail address submitted at time of entry. Authorized Account Holder means the natural person who is assigned to an e-mail address by an Internet access provider, online service provider, or other organization that is responsible for assigning e-mail addresses for the domain associated with the submitted e-mail address. Entry materials/data that have been tampered with or altered, or mass entries or entries generated by a script, macro or use of automated devices are void. The Sponsor is not responsible for: (i) lost, late, misdirected, damaged, illegible or postage due mail/entries; or (ii) error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, delay in operations or transmission, theft or destruction or unauthorized access to or alterations of entry materials, or for technical, network, telephone equipment, electronic, computer, hardware or software malfunctions of any kind, or inaccurate transmission of or failure to receive entry information by Sponsor on account of technical problems or traffic congestion on the Internet or at any web site or any combination thereof; or (iii) any injury or damage to entrant's or any other person's computer related to or resulting from participating in the Sweepstakes. By participating in the Sweepstakes, you (i) agree to be bound by these official rules, including all eligibility requirements, and (ii) agree to be bound by the decisions of Sponsor and the independent judging organization, which are final and binding in all matters relating to the Sweepstakes. Failure to comply with these official rules may result in disqualification from the Sweepstakes. Sponsor reserves the right to: (i) permanently disqualify from any sweepstakes it sponsors any person it believes has intentionally violated these official rules; and (ii) withdraw the online method of entry if it becomes technically corrupted (including if a computer virus or system malfunction inalterably impairs its ability to conduct the Sweepstakes), and to select winners from among all eligible entries received prior to withdrawal.

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