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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 […]
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, […]
upon a time girls were locked in towers and saved by princes. Today, sometimes we lock boys in towers and the princess gets to save the day. Fairy tales are tricky business. Here we just spent the last week talking about YA lit and how it influences body image, and now we’re talking about fairy […]
I am a HUGE fantasy addict. HUGE. I will admit it. Give me a well written fairy tale, and I can curl up and be completely content for the afternoon. Even better, give me something that has a twist in it. Since we’re talking about Cinderella, here are my top ten retellings that fall within YA… […]
My early years growing up in Sacramento were filled with lots of confusion and fear. At the time, I knew something wasn’t quite right with my father but the one time I did confine in a friend? I was labeled ‘bad’ and a bad example. Only later did I found out that most of the […]
The past couple of days, we have been talking body image and the depiction of obese teens in teen fiction. So here’s our list of the Top 10 Titles that deal with body image with an emphasis on titles that deal with teens struggling with obesity. Obesity and Teens in Teen Fiction: a discussionEvery Day by […]
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 […]
TLT is 1! Although I began the TLT Facebook page in May of 2011, this blog went up and I did my first post on July 15th of 2011. {Insert confetti and streamers fanfare here} The first post was really just a post to say hi, and it was only uphill from there. Since that […]
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