Friday Finds – August 23, 2013
This Week at TLT:
Learn how teens are surprisingly like cats!
Read some of Heather’s opinions about the 2017 Mindset List from Beloit College.
This week’s Things I didn’t learn in Library School is a special guest post by second year school librarian Rachel Kammerer!
Karen talks memoirs for teens, highlighting Little Fish by Ramsey Bayer – win a copy of the ARC!
Interested in learning more about STEM? Read some of these.
Book Reviews
- Star Wars: Jedi Academy by Jeffrey Brown
- Coda by Emma Trevayne
- Song of the Quarkbeast by Jasper Fforde
- 3:59 by Gretchen McNeil
- The Coldest Girl in Coldtown by Holly Black
Previously at TLT:
We talk about Zombies – a lot.
We reviewed another book by Holly Black – Doll Bones.
Around the Web:
The Week posted some interesting news about LinkedIn – it will soon be open to teens. Get teens thinking about how their current web presence affects their future!
Is your library an advocate for civic participaion?
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There is an official trailer for The Book Thief movie!!!!
Librarians do Beastie Boys. Naturally. Via Huffington Post.
Filed under: Friday Finds News Roundup

About Karen Jensen, MLS
Karen Jensen has been a Teen Services Librarian for almost 32 years. She created TLT in 2011 and is the co-editor of The Whole Library Handbook: Teen Services with Heather Booth (ALA Editions, 2014).
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