MORE 'POVERTY' POSTS
A funny thing happened on the way to the school year. This year, the school is doing basically everything online. Registering online. Communicating online. Signing forms online. Online, online, online. The 2 weeks before school started we had long lines of parents and students waiting for computers at the public library trying to register and […]
Poverty is one of the growing issues our tweens and teens face today. Since 2008, many people who have never had to worry about feeding their children now do. We are doing a series that focuses on the issue of growing poverty, how it is affecting the lives of our patrons, and what it really […]
Several years ago, the world fell apart and many of us who didn’t know what suffering was except in the pages of a book learned. I watched as my friend and co-worker for almost 10 years lost her job. I watched her pack up her home, give things away, and move in with a family […]
Friday Finds – July 26, 2013
Abortion, Friday Finds News Roundup, Poverty, Reproductive Rights, Sexual Harassment, Simon Teen Tastemakers, Street Harassment
|This week at TLT: This week’s Sunday Reflections discusses the presence of violence in YA and why it’s important. We have book reviews of: Infinity Glass by Myra McEntire The Girl with the Iron Touch by Kady Cross Fire & Ash by Jonathan Maberry Heather and Karen took a group of teens to the Simon […]
As I began my 2013 reading, I kept noticing an interesting trend: really rich kids dominating teen fiction. The reason it stood out to me was because it doesn’t seem to reflect the reality of our current economic situation. The news keeps discussing how more and more people are sliding out of the middle class […]
I don’t want to talk about the statistics – they’re depressing. The truth is, unless you work in an extremely posh community, as a youth librarian you come into regular contact with patrons who are living in poverty. If you’re anything like me, you have never been, nor will you likely ever be, in danger of […]
This week we begin EgmontUSA week here at TLT. We also begin celebrating the second year of this blog. But let’s go back in time and talk about how TLT started . . . Round 1 of losses in the 2011 flood. Before I lived in Texas, I lived in Marion, Ohio. In 2010, Marion […]
Sunday Reflections: Going to Bed Hungry
Daniel Kraus, Hunger, Poverty, Rotters, Teen Issues, Tom Hiddleston
|Violence. Bullying. School testing. We talk a lot about the issues affecting the lives of teens, but we don’t talk enough about one of the biggest: poverty and food insecurity. 1 out of 5 children don’t know when – or if – they are going to get to eat today. “It was during such a […]
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