Friday Finds – January 30, 2015

This Week at TLT

INTERVIEW+GIVEAWAY from YA Author Trisha Leaver (interview by Cuyler Creech) – still open for another few hours!

Sunday Reflections: A Road Trip, A Book Festival and a Teachable Moment

The #SVYALit Hangout on Hazing: January 28, 2015

Middle Grade Monday – Weeding in the Age of Online Subscriptions

Book review: Cut Me Free by J.R. Johansson

Book review: Better Than Perfect by Melissa Kantor

Serving Full T.I.L.T.: Teen Brain Science 101

The Spiritual Lives of Teens in YA Lit: A discussion of faith and science in Evolution, Me & Other Freaks of Nature by Robin Brande (guest post by Ramona Lowe)

The #SVYALit Hangout on Hazing – and a hazing book giveaway!

Around the Web

We Need Diverse Books has announced their Walter Award (honoring Walter Dean Myers) – find out more on their web site.

NPR discusses the Teen Brain

Tell me again why teens like to read dystopian YA?

Our own Heather Booth was interviewed by In the Library with a Lead Pipe.

This looks like a very important documentary on gender based human rights issues in the US.

Ferguson Library is getting a youth services librarian!

I’m excited about the all-female Ghostbusters cast announcement!

15 books that will be movies in 2015

Speaking of movies – the Insurgent trailer is here!

Read all about the splash Me, Earl, and the Dying Girl made at Sundance!

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