MORE POSTS FROM FEBRUARY 2014
One of my favorite middle grade authors, Lemony Snicket (sometimes referred to by his real world pseudonym, Daniel Handler) is as genius as he is prolific. I was a huge fan of The Series of Unfortunate Events books (except for The End.) I even hosted an after school event based on the series where one […]
“Cia. Enzo. Will. Damone,” Ian calls, and the voices around us go quiet. The four of us walk to where Ian stands next to Professor Holt. “Congratulations on returning with your entire team intact. Do you have the markers?” I dig into the green bag and hand the markers from the first three challenges to […]
I have never really reviewed S&V, in part because by the time I read it it was already receiving tons of awards and accolades so, you know, the word was out that this was a good book. So I’m not going to really review it, but I am going to talk to you about my […]
This Week at TLTOur Sunday Reflection – Stop being nice!TPiB – Retro Valentines Tweens and Teens Making a Difference Middle Grade Monday – Stop, Collaborate and ListenTween Book Review – Ally Carter Historical Hearthrobs Book Review A Little Bit of Romance, a guest post by Jennifer RummelSex and Teens and Books Carrie Mesrobian talks Separating Fiction from the Author […]
What do Anne from Anne of Green Gables and George Michael Bluth from Arrested Development have in common? Both characters knew the great significance of a Valentine’s Day candy heart. For the second year in a row, we’re celebrating the significance of this staple candy of Valentine’s Day by pairing the sayings with appropriate books. Don’t know […]
You know a party isn’t a party with disco, right? If the 50s and 60s didn’t hit your teens, have them go all out and rock the bell bottoms and go go boots of the 70’s for a wild time. Full on hippie styles they’ll know from the musical Hair, bell bottom and disco styles […]
It’s too late for you. You’re dead. Those words float through Claire Cain’s head as she lies broken and barely alive after a brutal beating. And the words continue to haunt her months later, in the relentless, terrifying nightmares that plague her sleep. So when her father is offered a teaching sabbatical in another state, […]
This book. Oh my goodness, people – this book! Here’s the basic premise: During the flu epidemic of 1918 the government decided that some people would get to be awake and operate during the day (Rays) and others during the night (Smudges). This decreased the amount of contact people had with one another and helped […]
Yesterday on Twitter, I kind of lost my mind. I do that on Twitter frequently. Sometimes it’s about the problems of women’s fashion. Sometimes it’s about television shows. Sometimes it’s about sex and our cultural insanity surrounding it. Yesterday it was about reader reactions to fiction and how some readers assume that any sort of […]
Yesterday, someone expressed hesitation in recommending books that they perceive as “highly sexualized” to teens and quite the storm erupted surrounding the conversation. The truth is, I can understand where everyone at some point takes a moment to ask these questions. When I first became a librarian I was working on a Youth Ministry degree […]
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