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Guest Blog: Stonewall Book Awards by Peter Coyl
ALA Midwinter, Awards, GLBTQ, Guest Post, Reader's Advisory, Stonewall Awards
|Looking to add children’s and young adult GLBTQ literature to your collection? Start with the Stonewall Book Award’s Mike Morgan and Larry RomansChildren’s and Young Adult Literature prize. Added in 2010 to the first and most enduring awards for GLBTQ books, the Stonewall Book Awards, it is now one of three awards annually given by […]
On the Sixth Day of Blogmas, my TLT gave to me
12 Blogs of Christmas, Blogs, Professional Development, Reader's Advisory
|I love Stacked. I always have. Stacked is one of my favorite blogs to visit because of the constant stream of reviews (esp. of books that I want to read) but more so because of the really introspective content. Some people have a way with words and all of the articles that I read penned […]
In case you missed how this all started, take a look at Karen’s post. I happen to work in a library where we have a ton of kids, and the day I started playing around with it was the middle of our week of Thanksgiving break. I knew that mustaches were popular and am […]
On the Fourth Day of Blogmas, my TLT gave to me . . .
12 Blogs of Christmas, Blogs, Professional Development, Reader's Advisory, Teen Involvement
|On the Fourth Day of Blogmas, my TLT gave to me, a teen boy (and his friend Jami) blogging . . . I first met Bryson McCrone because he was the winner of our Google Hangout with A. S. King. So Bryson and I got to hang out with A. S. King, by video chat but it […]
On the First Day of Blogmas, My TLT Gave to Me…
12 Blogs of Christmas, Blogs, Book Discussion, Maria Selke, Nerdy Book Club, Professional Development, Reader's Advisory
|It’s December. Wait – what? It’s December already? Wow. Okay. Well, that must mean that it’s time for our second annual 12 Blogs of Christmas, where we highlight 12 of the blogs that help us do the things that we do as readers and librarians. Today I bring you, The Nerdy Book Club. And here […]
Take 5: Weird Science
BZRK, Collection Development, Jessica Khoury, Kat Zhang, Kathy Reichs, Lauren Oliver, Mad Science, Michael Grant, Neal Shusterman, Reader's Advisory, Scholastic, Science, Science Fiction, Seizures, Virals
|I recently received a special grant from my Friends of the Library grant to update our YA collection. They tacked on an additional $500.00 with the challenge that they wanted me to add more math and science related books in the collection. So the challenge was this: Can you find some YA titles that talk […]
Random Dystopia Generator; a journey through genre fatigue and what happens when the market becomes oversaturated (a not a book review)
Book Discussion, Crewel, Delirium, Divergent, Dystopian, Fiction, Matched, Reader's Advisory, Science Fiction, The Hunger Games, Tropes
|Without a doubt, Dystopian is a hot genre right now. I have read a ton – I have bought a ton – and my teens are definitely asking for them. But after a while, they are all starting to blend together. Recently I began reading The Forsaken by Lisa M. Stasse (awesome cover), and I […]
Top 10: Middle Grade Fiction, Graphically Speaking
Artemis Fowl, Babymouse, Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Dork Diaries, Graphic Novels, Lunch Lady, MG Lit, Middle Grade Fiction, Nerds, Origami Yoda, Reader's Advisory, Top 10s, Tween
|If your job description is anything close to what I’ve seen, you get to fill in the blanks for the nebulous population known as the “tweens”- that 10-12 year old scary time where they can’t quite fit in with the teenagers because they’re “little” kids but they want to DO everything the teenagers do, from […]
What’s the (Short) Story?
Bullying, Collection Development, Fantasy, GLBTQ, GLBTQ Fiction, Paranormal, Reader's Advisory, Short Stories, Steampunk
|In my review of The Curiosities, I mention that short stories seem to be a hard sell to teens. Most often, they are also a mixed bag; I have yet to come across a short story collection where I thought every story was a divine work of inspiration (although The Curiosities comes close). But here […]
It all began because Kearsten, the teen services librarian at Glendale Public Library in Arizona, Tweeted us a picture of a display she put together. More accurately, she came up with the idea and her teen volunteers helped her put the display together. It was simple really, but genius. Her teens held up a fake […]
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