Friday Finds – October 18, 2013
This week at TLT
Three word book talks – with contest!
See some of the resulting booktalks here
Victoria Scott gives us her take on the state of Teen Fiction.
Horrifying Reads for October with Kearsten
Add your new words to our Twitter Dictionary!
Use these posters to celebrate current trends in YA at your library.
Book Reviews
- Ketchup Clouds by Ann Pilcher
- Rebel Belle by Rachel Hawkins
- Gina Damico’s Scorch and Croak
- Something Deadly This Way Comes by Kim Harrison
- The Wrap-Up List by Steven Arntson
Previously at TLT
We reviewed Necromancing the Stone by Lish McBride.
We reviewed Darynda Jones’ novels Death and the Girl Next Door and Death, Doom, and Detention.
Around the Web
Awesome 13 year old girl donates 1 million books
Some books are way scarier than movies
There’s a new teaser video from Catching Fire!
Why our future depends on libraries by Neil Gaiman
Filed under: Friday Finds News Roundup
About Karen Jensen, MLS
Karen Jensen has been a Teen Services Librarian for almost 30 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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