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What I Learned About “Representation Matters” While Reading BENEATH WANDERING STARS by Ashlee Cowles
By the time I graduated high school, I had attended 9 separate schools in three different states. Every time I would start a new school the first question everyone asks, after what’s your name, is “where are you from?” I have no good answer to this question. I am from nowhere and everywhere. I am […]
YA Book Club Discussion: This Is Where It Ends by Marieke Nijkamp
On December 12, the teen book club I run at the library talked about Marieke Nijkamp’s This Is Where It Ends, a story about a school shooting. Sourcebooks was nice enough to send us a box of books, some chalkboards, and chalk as part of a pre-publication event. Six very talkative teens took part in […]
TAB Book Discussion: THIS IS WHERE IT ENDS by Marieke Nijkamp
I have a secret: I have never been able to succeffully host a teen book discussion group at any of the libraries I have worked at. At most I ever got 3 people to attend, so I eventually gave it up and moved on to more successful programming. But I was contacted by Sourcebooks and […]
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Felicia Day and her joyous geeky ways, a model of an online book club
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