MORE POSTS FROM AUGUST 2012
“Always Play With Their Minds”- Lucas, Empire Records (1995) TPIB: We have 31 teen programs for you to pick and choose elements from! I am in an extremely unique situation. At my library, I am *the* librarian. All programs, whether they be for babies or adults, fall on my shoulders…as well as materials ordering, and […]
Sometimes life has a moment of kismet. Just yesterday one of those moments happened. As I sat at the Reference Desk a mom walked up and asked me where “the classics” were. She wanted her child, a daughter, to only read the classics so that she would increase her vocabulary. So we talked. I told this […]
So, I read this book on Mother’s Day and had a moment. Maybe you read about it. If not, read about it here: A LETTER TO A. S. KING. Anyhow, I LOVE this book. Stephanie Wilkes loves this book. Christie Gibrich loves this book. We were all amazed by the writing and the message. So […]
If you are a teen services librarian, part of your job is marketing and merchandising your collection. I used to spend a lot of time putting together booklists and had a huge RA booklist center, but then I stopped. The reason why? It occurred to me that there were too many steps for teens to take […]
“The act of dying is one of the acts of life.” –Marcus Aurelius Releases September 12, 2012 from Simon & SchusterISBN 9781442439894 Flesh and Bone is the third book in the Rot & Ruin series by Jonathan Maberry Rot & Ruin imagines a post apocalyptic world in which a virus turns everyone who dies into […]
We all waited breathlessly for Timepiece by Myra McEntire and other big titles like Insurgent, but sometimes a title comes quietly sneaking up and just blows you away. Today I share with you one of my unexpected gems, Guitar Notes by Mary Amato. And the unexpected gem is also the subject of this week’s Friday […]
Teen librarian true confession: I have been in a reading funk for the past 2 weeks. Seriously, I couldn’t find anything I wanted to start and started and stopped a lot of books. I was worried. But in doing my check out the pub catalog rounds I stumbled across a little book called Guitar Notes […]
Cadence, JD, and Orlando couldn’t be more different from one another. Under normal circumstances, the three wouldn’t so much as say hi to each other if they could get away with it. Then an alien crashes through the roof of their local mall, and everything changes. Not only do the three teens gain new abilities, […]
If Not You, Then Whom? Taking a Stand For What You Believe In
Advocacy, Bullying, Diversity, GLBTQ, Teen Empowerment, Teen Issues
|By now you might have heard of the debate going on about Chick-Fil-A, Chick-Fil-A’s President’s Dan Cathy’s statement about the company’s statement that they support the “biblical definition of the family unit” which does not include same-sex couples. The company actively gives money to anti-gay organizations. YA author Jackson A. Pearce has a couple of […]
Teens often get a bad rap. Especially in libraries. Especially with non-teen services staff. Right now in your head you are thinking of the one or two members on your staff who hate when the clock strikes 3:30 and the teens comes bustling in through the front doors. Some of them carry skateboards. Some of […]
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