MORE POSTS FROM DECEMBER 2016
This Week at TLT Sunday Reflections: But What Will the History Books Say? MakerSpace: Making a Photo Booth Prop Holder Middle School Monday: Non-Fiction Articles that You Know…Matter. 17 2017 YA Books To Have On Your Radar Sassy is gone forever, but lucky you, there’s Teen Vogue Video Games Weekly: Pokemon Sun and Moon #SJYALit: […]
After the election, we noticed that some of the teens we talked to were seriously worried about many themes: GLBTQA+ rights and safety, racism, and women’s rights, to name just a few. We heard them talking about them with each other. And sometimes, they talk with us. So we wanted to signal boost books about […]
Background: Pokemon Sun and Moon are attractive to gamers who have been dedicated Pokemon fans since the beginning, as well as returning gamers who want to experience a game with more substance than Pokemon Go. First, you need to know that Pokemon Sun and Moon are actually two separate games, meaning you have to pay […]
Women of a certain age are still lamenting the early demise of Sassy magazine. To those of you who are nodding your heads right now, I implore you: give Teen Vogue a chance, and while you’re at it, gift a subscription to a young woman in your life. Yes, Sassy was pivotal… Helmed by Jane Pratt, Sassy provided a marked […]
Like many of you (I’m guessing), I keep multiple reading-related lists. I keep track of what I read each year. I keep track of what ARCs I’ve gotten and hope to read. I keep track of what books I either want to get when they come out or hope to track down as ARCs but […]
Do you have a printer somewhere in your library? [Silly question.] If you’re like me, on certain days of the week, you see a slew of non-fiction articles printed to be used as ‘article of the week’ assignments for work on annotations. Like I hope we all have, I’ve been reading about the water protectors […]
Yesterday I completely re-arranged and marketed our Teen MakerSpace. As a librarian, this is indeed my idea of a good time. But one thing that has always bothered me is the way we display our Photo Booth Props. As you may know (if you don’t, hi new readers!), we have a lot of photo booth […]
I had written a fabulous piece about how newspaper headlines refer to women (for example – how they often don’t include their name and refer to their male partners name instead) to post here today. It’s a great piece and I will post it soon. But . . . last night the news came that […]
This Week at TLT Sunday Reflections: How the 2016 Election is Effecting Teens, Week 3 (A tweet story by Mary Hinson) Criticism, Boycotts, Free Speech and Censorship – Oh My Favorite YA Books of 2016 Middle School Monday: A Crucial Strand of PD. Part Two. Screening The 13th: Questions to ask yourself #SJYALit #MHYALit: What […]
When I was 18, I stopped eating. There are approximately a million different reasons that I made that choice, and there is no way to sum them all up, but at the heart of all the poor coping skills that came to a head at 18 was the simple reality that my brain is different […]
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