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Teen Read Week

October 14, 2013 by Karen Jensen, MLS

Talking Teen Fiction with Victoria Scott

This week many libraries across the nation will be celebrating Teen Read Week, a YALSA initiative designed to remind teens to read for the fun of it – even in the middle of the school year.  Yesterday we announced that this week we were doing a fun contest sponsored by YA author Victoria Scott.  Don’t […]

July 29, 2013 by Karen Jensen, MLS

From a Librarian in the Trenches: Thoughts on Themes (a guest post by Jennifer Wills)

I came into this Teen Librarian position all “Clear eyes, full hearts, can’t lose” about pretty much everything.  I was revved up by library school classes that stressed the importance of Programming For Teens and introduced me to the high holy days:  Teen Read Week, Teen Tech Week, and the Summer Reading Program.  Teen Read […]

October 19, 2012 by Karen Jensen, MLS

TRW: Bram Stoker’s Dracula vs YA Vampires

First published in 1897, Dracula by Bram Stoker is the godfather of everything vampire in today’s culture.  As history tells it, Stoker was a business manager for the Lyceum Theater in London during a time when Sherlock Holmes, The Time Machine, and The Jungle Book were all the rage.  Stoker’s Dracula would not gain cult and then critical […]

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Thursday Throw Down: Teen Read Week Genres

October 18, 2012 by Karen Jensen, MLS

So, this week on TLT we’re talking about Teen Read Week and different genres…  and we want to know WHICH genre is your favorite and why? Is it…. PARANORMAL ROMANCE that gets your heart aflutter? OR VAMPIRES that you can sink your teeth into? OR ALIENS that send you into orbit? OR BIOENGINEERING that tweaks your genes? Share […]

TRW: It Came From Outer Space

October 18, 2012 by Karen Jensen, MLS

Ever wonder where all the aliens are?  Back in the 1940’s and 50’s, during the Golden Age of science fiction, aliens were everywhere.  There were spaceman suits, and alien bazaars, and television shows.  People where rushing to see when we would meet our neighbors, and whether they would be peaceful or not.  Everyone was claiming […]

TRW: Frankenstein in 2012: Bio-Engineering

October 17, 2012 by Karen Jensen, MLS

So, if Mary Shelly were writing Frankenstein today, what path would she wander down?  I think that, instead of zombies or vampires, she’s wander down the road of BIOENGINEERING.  According to the history, Mary Shelly was having a storytelling contest with her future husband Percy, Lord Byron of She Walks in Beauty fame, and John William Polidori, […]

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TRW: Romancing the Paranormal

October 16, 2012 by Karen Jensen, MLS

As a teen librarian who knows their trends, you know that books like Twilight and The House of Night series are as popular with teens as chocolate and pizza.  What you may not realize is that they have a long and distinguished history within literature dating back to 1764.  Paranormal romance, a subset of romance that has […]

TPIB: Bring Out Your Dead! Zombie Programming Redux

September 5, 2012 by Karen Jensen, MLS

  Teen Read Week (a Yalsa event) and Halloween is coming, and the creepy crawlies are coming, and oh, what fun we get to have.  Personally, the best way to celebrate is with ZOMBIES!  Vampires?  Been there, done that.  Monsters?  Baby things.  But ZOMBIES- oh, mysterious appeal, grown-up creepiness that will fascinate your teens. THINGS TO THINK […]

Put the “Read” in Teen Read Week

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Every year teen librarians put together amazing programs at their library in celebration of Teen Read Week.  There are craft programs.  Zombie proms.  Sometimes there are even author events.  But how do you put the read in Teen Read Week? Read Around the Clock Me, I encourage my teens to read by offering incentives.  I know […]

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