Friday Finds – October 10, 2014

October 10, 2014 by Karen Jensen, MLS Leave a Comment

This Week at TLT

Sunday Reflections: How I Came to Love School Uniforms, a discussion of girls, boys, and the dangerous message of dress codes

Middle Grade Monday – “I thought of you when I read this”

GLBTQ YA resources for building a collection and supporting teens

App Review & Lego MakerSpace Fun: Giffer – Using Legos to tell stories and learn how to make Gifs

Mirror Mirror: Discussing the Representation of Abuse Survivors in STITCHING SNOW, a guest post by author R. C. Lewis (The #SVYALit Project)

In Our Mailbox: Tweens and Teens Programming, the ages debate

Skin and Bones: talking about teens and eating disorders, a guest post by author Sherry Shahan

Around the Web

Malala Yousafzai and Kailash Satyarthi win Nobel peace prize 2014

Interested in trying to make sense of what is going on with our public schools and who is influencing decision making? Click here. Or, if you’re more the infographic type, click here.

Goodbye, Zilpha Keatley Snyder.

Andromeda Yelton on ebooks, libraries, and privacy.

Seattle takes a brave, and overdue, step in the right direction. My state will probably catch up in about 25 years.

Liz Burns smartly refutes the argument against non-fiction writing for young people.

New YA-Only Imprints Seek to Make Their Mark

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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).