Friday Finds – January 23, 2015

This Week at TLT

Sunday Reflections: Impoverished Youth: Over half of public school children now live in low income homes

Bearing Witness to Violence, a guest post by author Eric Devine

Middle Grade Monday – Publishing and Diversity

Book review: Alex as Well by Alyssa Brugman

In the most recent issue of SLJ

Serving Full T.I.L.T.: Sarcasm, Spice and Everything Awesome: The Developing Teen by Rebecca Denham

Early Word YA Galley Chat

Book review: The Prey by Tom Isbell

STEM/STEAM Programming for Teens (an Infopeople webinar) (TPiB)

YA Librarians Ally Watkins and Karen Jensen talk the spiritual lives of teens in YA lit, part 1

Around the Web

Lone Star author P.J. Hoover offers her thoughts about a Texas school library without a librarian.

We Need Diverse Books is holding a short story contest.

Meet Lee & Low Books’ 2014 New Voices Award Winner!

The Multiracial Population Is Growing, But Kid Lit Isn’t Keeping Up

This week, in very sad news.

A focus on test scores has led policymakers to overlook other important trends that affect U.S. public education.

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