Friday Finds – June 12, 2015

This Week at TLT

Sunday Reflections: The Myth of Just Moving Where the Jobs Are

TPiB: Comic Book Creations

Middle Grade Monday – Vacation, Week 1

Review From This Month’s School Library Journal: About a Girl by Sarah McCarry

Circulating Maker Kits: A Twist on Library MakerSpaces

Consent is Sexy, Consent is Required: a #SVYALit guest post by THE DEVIL YOU KNOW author Trish Doller

Thinking About Gender, Again

Review from This Month’s School Library Journal: Summer Love: An LGBTQ Collection

Around the Web

WNDB Announces Internship Project Recipients

Cassandra Clare and Maggie Stiefvater talk fandom

This was an eye opening read, and important in light of recent events.

Helping children develop the ‘reading habit.’

A.S. King is writing a Middle Grade novel!

NPR’s Linda Holmes interviews Judy Blume for Politics and Prose, discussing her new novel In the Unlikely Event.

Speaking of NPR, they have an interesting article on High School graduation rates. With a slideshow you’ll actually want to click through.

This is appalling.

For the lighter side of news, imagine working here.

And this is just straight-up useful information from the New Jersey State Library.

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