Friday Finds – July 31, 2015
- Sunday Reflections: On DUMPLIN’ by Julie Murphy, or why today I will choose to put on a bathing suit and make a memory with my daughters
- This is how I came to write a short story about my “first time” in the upcoming anthology The V Word edited by Amber Keyser
- Middle Grade Monday – Making your library work for you
- Book Review: Forever for a Year by B.T. Gottfred
- App Review: A Beautiful Mess
- 5 Reasons Why Maker Days/Labs/Spaces Can Trump Traditional Library Programming
- Simmons College Homecoming: The Summer Children’s Literature Institute
Around the Web
- 13-Year-Old Coder/Gamer/Former Cheerleader/Keynote Speaker On Being “Undefinable” | The Mary Sue
- Walden Award news!
- This week in censorship
- Strong and true perspective on respecting teens
- Ask for what you need, you never know what will happen
- 15 New Manga Series
- Random House has put out a Graphic Novels Educator’s Guide
- On the differences in the ways the media treats movie stars by gender
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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