Friday Finds – April 3, 2015
Sunday Reflections: What I Learned While Trying to Put Together a Women’s History Display
Take 5: Comic Book/Strip Creation Tools
Middle Grade Monday – Reader’s Advisory and Reference Interviews with Tweens
Book Review: Rad American Women A-Z by Kate Schatz and Miriam Klein Stahl
Book Review: Beast in the Mirror by Laura Bradley Rede
#FSYALit: Hooking Up with Jesus, a discussion of Jackson Pearce’s PURITY by guest blogger Jen Leitch
5 Things Libraries Can Learn from Starbucks and Lego
The origami revelation: 1 program fail; 3 reminders
Take 5: Teens, illness, and hospitals
Around the Web
An interview at SLJ with Nova Ren Suma about her new novel, The Walls Around Us.
From CNN, Girls Behind Bars Tell Their Stories
Chuck Wendig on his decision to withdraw from speaking at the Midwest Writers Workshop in Indiana.
The New Statesman weighs in on a favorite international pastime, mocking teenage girls.
PBS’s NOVA on how the stress of poverty affects brain growth in children. Also at Huffington Post.
Empowering kids to help fight child hunger
The Audubon Society sets the bar for responding to Jonathan Franzen (and, by association, all YA ‘think pieces’) – h/t @MrsFridayNext
Filed under: Friday Finds News Roundup

About Robin Willis
After working in middle school libraries for over 20 years, Robin Willis now works in a public library system in Maryland.
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