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August 25, 2016 by Karen Jensen, MLS

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 […]

January 5, 2016 by Amanda MacGregor

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 […]

November 19, 2015 by Karen Jensen, MLS

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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Come explore “beneath the surface” of the waves with The Neptune Project, my new undersea adventure story about a group of genetically–altered teens fighting to survive in the sea. Voya claims the book “revels in the beauty of the underwater world and the creatures that inhabit it.” I’m thrilled with that description because I did […]

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December 3, 2012 by Karen Jensen, MLS

It’s December.  Wait – what? It’s December already?  Wow. Okay. Well, that must mean that it’s time for our second annual 12 Blogs of Christmas, where we highlight 12 of the blogs that help us do the things that we do as readers and librarians. Today I bring you, The Nerdy Book Club.  And here […]

Random Dystopia Generator; a journey through genre fatigue and what happens when the market becomes oversaturated (a not a book review)

November 28, 2012 by Karen Jensen, MLS

Without a doubt, Dystopian is a hot genre right now.  I have read a ton – I have bought a ton – and my teens are definitely asking for them.  But after a while, they are all starting to blend together.  Recently I began reading The Forsaken by Lisa M. Stasse (awesome cover), and I […]

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Felicia Day and her joyous geeky ways, a model of an online book club

July 3, 2012 by Karen Jensen, MLS

So, I woke up super early this morning and didn’t know what to post and was feeling amazingly uninspired.  Then, suddenly, someone (I don’t remember who, sorry but thank you so much for the entertainment this morning) Tweeted about this online book group by Felicia Day called the Vaginal Fantasy Hangout.  All hail the power of the […]

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