MORE POSTS FROM OCTOBER 2012
Crewel by Gennifer Albin is a unique look at a world where women should have more power than they do, but men still rule supreme. In this world Adelice has the power to spin the web of life. If you’ve ever read The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood, you’ll recognize the power in reading about […]
Top 10 YA Books that Buffy fans will want to read . . .
Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Daniel Kraus, Full Tilt, Neal Shusterman, Rachel Caine, The Sunnydale Project, Vampires
|As you know, we are in the midst of our Sunnydale Project here at TLT, where we are discussing all things Buffy blah blah blah. Today I share with you some of my favorite must reads that will definitely satisfy Buffy fans.Rotters by Daniel Kraus Buffy has spent her fair share of time hanging out […]
Sometimes, it seems as if we are speaking out of both sides of our mouth: Education is important . . . wait, no it’s not. Children/Teens are important . . . wait, no they’re not. Here’s the deal, we send messages – big, huge, cultural messages – to our children by what we choose […]
First published in 1897, Dracula by Bram Stoker is the godfather of everything vampire in today’s culture. As history tells it, Stoker was a business manager for the Lyceum Theater in London during a time when Sherlock Holmes, The Time Machine, and The Jungle Book were all the rage. Stoker’s Dracula would not gain cult and then critical […]
So, this week on TLT we’re talking about Teen Read Week and different genres… and we want to know WHICH genre is your favorite and why? Is it…. PARANORMAL ROMANCE that gets your heart aflutter? OR VAMPIRES that you can sink your teeth into? OR ALIENS that send you into orbit? OR BIOENGINEERING that tweaks your genes? Share […]
Every year Yalsa (a division of ALA) gives Teens an opportunity to nominate and vote on their Top 10 titles for the year. Here are the 2012 winners, as chosen by teens. Yalsa’s 2012 Teens’ Top 10 I am super excited to see Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs on […]
TRW: It Came From Outer Space
aliens, Booklists, Reader's Advisory, Science Fiction, Teen Read Week
|Ever wonder where all the aliens are? Back in the 1940’s and 50’s, during the Golden Age of science fiction, aliens were everywhere. There were spaceman suits, and alien bazaars, and television shows. People where rushing to see when we would meet our neighbors, and whether they would be peaceful or not. Everyone was claiming […]
A teen’s body is going through so many changes. Some are welcome, some pleasant… and some anything but. It can be hard to love something so unpredictable. And it can be hard to love your body at any age in an image-obsessed culture where no one ever seems to measure up to the “thinspiration” pins […]
How did Frankenstein become the man who created a monster? The Apprenticeship of Victor Frankenstein series by Kenneth Oppel (Reviewed by Susan Little)
Book Reviews, Kenneth Oppel, Such Wicked Intent, This Dark Endeavor, Victor Frankenstein
|Today Christie is talking about Frankenstein re-imagined for the 21st century, but how did Frankenstein become the man who created a monster? Kenneth Oppel has written a prequel that answers that question and high school teacher by day and library aide by night Susan Little reviews it for us today. This Dark Endeavor […]
TRW: Frankenstein in 2012: Bio-Engineering
Bioengineering, Booklists, Reader's Advisory, Teen Read Week, Top 10s
|So, if Mary Shelly were writing Frankenstein today, what path would she wander down? I think that, instead of zombies or vampires, she’s wander down the road of BIOENGINEERING. According to the history, Mary Shelly was having a storytelling contest with her future husband Percy, Lord Byron of She Walks in Beauty fame, and John William Polidori, […]
ADVERTISEMENT
Archives
ADVERTISEMENT