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Listen to Your Hearts
| Booklists, Harlequin Teen, Love Stories, Reader's Advisory, Romance, Valentine's Day
Conversation hearts: that chalky sweet reminder of Valentine’s Day that lingers (in your molars) long after the chocolate has melted away. Their phrases are by turns charming and mystifying, but we love them just the same. So much so, that it’s time we do a little Reader’s Advisory love match for these desperately seeking sweets. […]
“Dear Abby, My parents don’t let me go out with my friends, even though I’m an A student.” “Dear Abby, My dad is overseas in the military and my mom seems like she’s under a lot of stress and is taking it out on me.” Dear Abby wrote a book for teens in 1960. Image […]
5 GNs for Halloween Scares by Karen D
| Book Reviews, Booklists, Collection Development, Graphic Novels, Halloween
5 Great Graphic Novels for Halloween Scares Ghost Huntby Shiho Inada PARTNERS IN FEAR The decrepit building was condemned long ago, but every time the owners try to tear it down, “accidents” start to happen–people get hurt, sometimes even killed. Mai Taniyama and her classmates have heard the rumors that the creepy old high school […]
You can’t talk about the scary and the macabre without mentioning books that have an edge of your seat scare you silly graveyard scene. And this is definitely the month for talking graveyards. So take a walk with me through the graveyard, if you dare . . . It was the greatest night of my […]
TRW: It Came From Outer Space
| aliens, Booklists, Reader's Advisory, Science Fiction, Teen Read Week
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
| Bioengineering, Booklists, Reader's Advisory, Teen Read Week, Top 10s
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, […]
TRW: Romancing the Paranormal
| Booklists, Paranormal Romance, Reader's Advisory, Teen Read Week, Top 10s
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 […]
Top 10: For Annie and Liza
| Booklists, GLBTQ, GLBTQ Fiction, Reader's Advisory, Teen Issues, Top 10s
I love Annie on My Mind. I personally think it should be a book choice for those in schools, not a forced book, but a reading choice for those reading classes where you have to choose one of five books on relationships and write about themes, and what did you learn from these books. Yes, […]
Yesterday we talked about the 100 Best Young Adult Books list put together by NPR. Today, I am going to share with you 10 books that I would have liked to have seen on the list and why. Click here to see the Top 100 Young Adult Books on the NPR list Monster by Walter […]
Best or Favorite? A look at the NPR “Best” Young Adult Novels list
| Booklists, Contemporary Fiction, Fiction, GLBTQ Fiction, NPR, Racial Stereotypes, Racism, Teen Fiction, YA Lit
I watch So You Think You Can Dance every week without fail. Here is a show where you can call in and vote for your “favorite” dancer. This favorite part is important, every year they make a point of making this distinction: it is not the best dancer, but your favorite. Because that’s how voting […]
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