I Am Number Four, starring Alex Pettyfer and Dianna Agron, took the number two spot at the box office over the weekend…and that only makes us even more excited for “The Power of Six” to come out.

The second novel in The Lorien Legacies by Pittacus Lore, “The Power of Six” doesn’t come out until August, but that didn’t stop us from reading an excerpt of the novel.

Just the book’s description makes us wish August was here already: “I’ve seen him on the news. Followed the stories about what happened in Ohio. John Smith, out there, on the run. To the world, he’s a mystery. But to me . . . he’s one of us.

Nine of us came here, but sometimes I wonder if time has changed us—if we all still believe in our mission. How can I know? There are six of us left. We’re hiding, blending in, avoiding contact with one another . . . but our Legacies are developing, and soon we’ll be equipped to fight. Is John Number Four, and is his appearance the sign I’ve been waiting for? And what about Number Five and Six? Could one of them be the raven-haired girl with the stormy eyes from my dreams? The girl with powers that are beyond anything I could ever imagine? The girl who may be strong enough to bring the six of us together?”

Source: Just Jared Jr.

If you’re a fan of the first book, what do you think, just from the excerpt, of how good the next book is going to be?

CultBox.co.uk is running a competition to giveaway five I Am Number Four goody bags containing LED light pens, waterproof flashlights and t-shirts to give away to 5 of their Twitter followers! All you have to do to enter is follow them on twitter!

Winners will be selected on February 28th.

Jenifer at EZ Read e-mailed us this morning to let us know about an I Am Number Four Giveaway for a movie ticket and a copy of the book!

Rules:
1. We will only count one entry per user name.
2. All winners will be chosen using random.org. Winners of the movie tickets will be notified on the 17th, and winners of the books will be notified on March 1st. You have (3) days to respond back with your necessary user information, or we will select another winner. Please check your spam!
3. If you are a Mogadarian fan. We have nothing to say to you except: good luck trying to destroy Earth!

How to Enter:
1. Log on or register to your EZ Read account. After the log in page, click on the “I Am Number Four” link that appears.
2. You will have to answer a very serious trivia question: Are you a fan of The Lorien? Or of the Mogadarian?
3. Answer correctly, and you are automatically entered to win!

The tickets are awarded on the 17th, but users can keep entering to win the books until the 28th!

I’ve just added a HQ photoshoot into the gallery thanks to Carol!

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Lily Collins has a huge year coming up!

The 21-year-old actress recently sat down with MTV to chat about not only her role in Abduction opposite Taylor Lautner, but also about her new role as Clary Fray in Mortal Instruments. Check out what she had to say:

On her role in Abduction: “I’m extremely proud. This was my biggest role to date. Of course I was nervous. Especially because there was so much action and all those stunts and I’m trying not to fall when I’m going through rivers at 4:30 in the morning. There was so much going on, and every single emotion you can think of we had to go through in the span of 30 seconds because so much happens too quickly. From what I’ve seen, I’m thrilled.”

On scoring the lead in Mortal Instruments: “That is going to be a whole new world for me. When I found out I was cast, I found out that people were tweeting about me getting cast as their heroine. I know that I’m playing a character in a book that is very popular, but I forget that books have so many fans, that if they don’t agree with the casting, it could go terribly wrong. I was so grateful that all these people were tweeting like, ‘Oh, we’re so excited. We totally see her as Clary, and we can’t wait to see what she’ll do.’ I don’t know what I would have done if people responded negatively.”

On who she thinks should play Jace: “A lot of the fans has been tweeting that [they want] Alex Pettyfer. I don’t know the process. He’s also going to have a great 2011. The fans of a series like this have such a strong opinion on who they feel would be great as a character, and I feel that’s very backed up because they know the characters in and out. I trust a lot of the fans in their opinions. I don’t know if there are going to be auditions or anything. I’ve heard Logan Lerman thrown out for Simon.”

Source: Just Jared, Jr.