Politics in Practice
July 29, 2016 by Robin Willis
This Week at TLT Sunday Reflections: It Starts in Local Communities – And it Starts with You! MakerSpace: Making Fingerprint Pokemon Go Buttons Middle School Monday: Summer. Yes, Summer. By Julie Stivers Book Review: A Week of Mondays by Jessica Brody #ARCParty: July 2016 New #YALit Releases Book Discussion: Autism in AFTERWARD by Jennifer Mathieu […]
July 29, 2016 by Amanda MacGregor
A couple of weeks ago we opened our inbox to see there was a request for titles on mental health that featured POC characters. A brief scan of the #MHYALit Discussion index proved that we didn’t have a good resource for this. Karen, Ally, and I are always talking about what book lists we’d like […]
July 28, 2016 by Karen Jensen, MLS
Edited August 4, 2016 to add: Faythe Arredondo is one of the many individuals I have seen express some concerns about Ghosts on Twitter. On August 4th, 2016 she wrote a post about her thoughts on Teen Services Underground, which I highly recommend you read. At ALA this year I was excited to pick […]
July 28, 2016 by Karen Jensen, MLS
The Teen recently read 8 books in 3 weeks, none of them of course were the ones she needed to read for school. I had the honor of going to ALA in Orlando for a quick trip this year, and came home with several ARCs, many of which she has already read. She also read […]
July 27, 2016 by Karen Jensen, MLS
When I initially began reading AFTERWARD by Jennifer Mathieu, I was certain I would be coming to you today to discuss this title as part of the Sexual Violence in YA Literature Project (The #SVYALit Project). However, as I got further and further into the book, this book became an important read – to me […]
July 27, 2016 by Karen Jensen, MLS
Here’s a look at some new #YALit releases coming out in June, July and August of 2016. Storify by TeenLibrarianToolbox Thu, Jul 21 2016 20:13:46 Edit #ARCParty for July 2016 #YALit Releases We are getting to go through July #yalit ARCs #arcparty TeenLibrarianToolbox · Mon, Jul 11 2016 19:24:31 “There is nothing innocent about Shadow […]
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July 26, 2016 by Amanda MacGregor
Publisher’s description When I made the wish, I just wanted a do-over. Another chance to make things right. I never, in a million years, thought it might actually come true… Sixteen-year-old Ellison Sparks is having a serious case of the Mondays. She gets a ticket for running a red light, she manages to take the […]
July 25, 2016 by Robin Willis
It’s summer! A magical time for school librarians… [First, a shout-out to my colleagues in our school district and around the country who are librarians at year-round schools. You get no summer break. You transition directly from year to year. You are amazing. I couldn’t do it….] For those of us on traditional schedules, what […]
July 25, 2016 by Karen Jensen, MLS
Pokemon Go is big – you’ve probably heard. So my library is like many libraries and we are trying to plan a Pokemon Go program for our patrons while the program is still hot. Yes, I know Pokemon has been popular for 20 years now, but this is a new level of popularity and we […]
July 24, 2016 by Karen Jensen, MLS
A man laid down on the ground with his hands up in the air, he was shot anyway. There were bombings in Kabul and a mass shooting in Germany. The Republican convention ended with the notion that we should hang the democratic presumptive nominee for treason and the leaked news that members of the DNC […]
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