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January 31, 2016 by Karen Jensen, MLS
Chances are you are not unaware of the controversy surrounding the book A Birthday Cake for George Washington, which was recently recalled by Scholastic Publishers. If you need some context, you can begin here, here and here. If you Google, and I recommend that you do, you will find a plethora of posts presenting many […]
January 29, 2016 by Robin Willis
This Week at TLT Sunday Reflections: Thinking About Flint Middle School Monday – Me and Miranda Mullaly by Jake Gerhardt – Guest Post and Review How Libraries Can Help Teens, by Librarian Dawn Abron Life Lessons from Gayle Forman Book Review: The Year We Fell Apart by Emily Martin 10 Things I Wish You Knew […]
January 29, 2016 by Karen Jensen, MLS
Our goal for the month of January was to have a post a day on Mental Health in YA Lit, which we basically met thanks to the help of a lot of intelligent, creative and amazing people. Today is our last post for January, but it is not the end of the #MHYALit Discussion, we […]
January 28, 2016 by Amanda MacGregor
Publisher’s description Burn is the thrilling companion to Elissa Sussman’s masterful and original fairy tale, Stray. This engaging and imaginative continuation of the original fairy tale begun in Stray will appeal to readers of Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale and fans of the musicals Wicked and Into the Woods. After helping to rescue Princess Aislynn, […]
January 28, 2016 by Karen Jensen, MLS
Today as part of the #MHYALIt Discussion author Tamara Ireland Stone presents an inteview with C, the teenage inspiration for the book Every Last Word. Yesterday, C shared with us 10 Things I Wish You Knew About OCD. Thank you to Tamara and especially to C for sharing her experiences. My newest novel, Every Last […]
January 27, 2016 by Karen Jensen, MLS
This is the second Animal Crossing that I have reviewed! If you want to read an introduction about the series or about the 3DS game Animal Crossing: Happy Home Academy click here. I bought this game for myself because I haven’t dabbled with Nintendo amiibo yet, so half of this post will be talking about […]
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January 27, 2016 by Karen Jensen, MLS
My newest novel, Every Last Word, is about a girl with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) who discovers a secret poetry club that changes her life in unexpected ways. It was inspired by a family friend who was diagnosed with OCD when she was 12-years-old. I call her C. I wrote this book for her, and with […]
January 26, 2016 by Amanda MacGregor
Publisher’s description In the tradition of Sarah Dessen, this powerful debut novel is a compelling portrait of a young girl coping with her mother’s cancer as she figures out how to learn from—and fix—her past. Few things come as naturally to Harper as epic mistakes. In the past year she was kicked off the swim […]
January 26, 2016 by Robin Willis
I was excited to be invited to help celebrate the paperback release of Gayle Forman’s I Was Here by sharing some of my favorite quotes from her books. I feel a special connection to I Was Here. You see, seven years ago I lost my best friend as well. While I didn’t have quite the same experience […]
January 25, 2016 by Karen Jensen, MLS
Today an experienced teen librarian shares with us some of her tips for helping teens who want to investigate mental health issues with anonymity navigate the library. As a teen librarian, we get to know a large number of teens. Many of the teens in our library see us as a nonjudgmental confidant and they […]
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