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Robison Wells

September 10, 2014 by Karen Jensen, MLS

Take 5: Teens as Sci Fi Soldiers(ish) – When YA Lit meets The Bourne Identity or Red Dawn (or even 12 Monkeys)

When we read The Hunger Games, we like to think to ourselves that we know that would never happen – who sends kids out to kill? But the truth is, there are countries all over the world where children are in fact forced to become soldiers and fight for causes they know little about and […]

August 15, 2013 by Karen Jensen, MLS

Blackout by Robison Wells and How I Learned to Question What Teens Are Learning About the Government

Two interesting things happened last month: I read Blackout by Robison Wells and we learned that the NSA is getting access to a large amount of data about ordinary American citizens.  And this past week, Salon has been running a series of articles about militant police forces.  These combination of events really made me wonder:  […]

December 17, 2012 by Karen Jensen, MLS

The Murder of a Shopping Bag Lady: mental illness in three acts

Like many of you, the events of Friday, December 12th has me thinking and reflecting on the world that we live in.  It also has me thinking about my kids, not just the kids that I have given birth to – but to every kid I have loved along the way as a librarian, because […]

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August 30, 2012 by Karen Jensen, MLS

Variant by Robison Wells was one of my favorite books of 2011 and I became an instant fan of Robison Wells.  It’s a book that has one of those “What the Heck” just happened moments.  If you read my previous post, If You Give a Geek a Computer, you know that at some point I […]

Top 10 Tuesday: Top 10 Recs of the Week

May 1, 2012 by Karen Jensen, MLS

Every week here at TLT we declare a book our REC OF THE WEEK.  These are our favorites that we recommend you check out ASAP.  And because I like to pretend I am an artist (“I’m not an artist, I just play one on my blog.”), I like to come up with a unique pic […]

TLA Baby!

April 19, 2012 by Karen Jensen, MLS

Tuesday night I left work and drove 4 1/2 hours to make my pilgrimage to TLA.  TLA baby, here I came! It was a truly amazing day where I met a ton of amazing teen authors, talked to publishers and yes, I received some ARCs (which will get their own post). Although the exhibit halls […]

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