MORE POSTS FROM JUNE 2012
Since we are now about half way through the year, and because yesterday I announced a book that was one of my front runners, today’s Friday Fill-Ins is about the 2013 Printz Award. Fill in the blanks by leaving your choice in the comments One of my front runners for the 2013 Printz Award is […]
TLT is proud to announce that we will soon be joining with The Library as Incubator Project, The Real Fauxtographer and EgmontUSA for an epic Teen Read Week (Teen Read Week is trademarked by Yalsa) Art Contest. It Came from a Book The premise is simple: your teens can turn their favorite books into any type of […]
It’s not every day that you get to read a book that can be described as stunningly brilliant, but Every Day by David Levithan is, in fact, that book. “We all contain mystery, especially when seen from the inside.” (David Levithan) Meet A. Every day A wakes up in a new body and for 24 […]
Hatchet (Gary Paulsen) as discussed by Lindsay Cummings
Gary Paulsen, Hatchet, Lindsay Cummings, The Murder Complex, Why YA?
|Today, as author Lindsay Cummings waits for her thrilling new ya book The Murder Complex to be published, she stops by to write a Why YA? post about a book that means a lot to her. You can write one too. Everyone reads, at some point in their life. Some of us read in school. […]
Yesterday I was hanging out with my friends on Twitter, and things got out of control. Suddenly, we found ourselves writing a rock opera where our friends from Twilight break out into various songs from the 80s. It went something like this . . . [View the story “When Twilight met the 80s” on Storify] […]
Fourteen kids. One superstore. The end of the world. Your mother hollers that you’re going to miss the bus. She can see it coming down the street. You don’t stop and hug her and tell her you love her. You don’t thank her for being a good, kind, patient mother. Of course not—you launch yourself […]
Why YA? Where the Red Fern Grows (Wilson Rawls) as discussed by author Craig MacLachlan
Craig MacLachlan, Where the Red Fern Grows, Why YA?, Wilson Rawls
|Today, while author Craig MacLachlan waits for his first ya novel to be published, he spends some time talking to us about YA books as part of our ongoing Why YA? series. I’ve had many memories and great times as an adult, but some of the most defining moments of my life happened during […]
Earlier this year authr Rusty Fischer did an Interview with a Zombie. It was so much fun we thought we would do it again. Today, author J. F. Jenkins, author of several ya series including the Dragon Saga series, does an interview with a dragon. In the hotseat today is Darien Oceina from “Legend of the […]
So it’s June, already. Summer Reading is in full swing for many public libraries and for your lucky, lucky school librarians, you should be headed toward some much needed rest and reading time! But June is also a very important month: LGBTQ Pride Month. I am a huge gay rights advocate and I think to […]
Today as part of the Daemons in the Mist blog tour, author Alicia Kat Dillman discusses the process she goes through to make a book trailer. Hi everyone, today I’m joining you here at the awesome Teen Librarian’s Toolbox to talk about book trailer creation. The first thing I do is select what the trailer […]
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