MORE POSTS FROM JULY 2014
This Week at TLT Sunday Reflections: If Ranganathan wrote a list about the SRP Celebrating 3 Years of TLT, with a Giveaway Book Reviews: Bad Magic by Pseudonymous Bosch Breathe, Annie, Breathe by Miranda Kenneally Revenge of the Flower Girls by Jennifer Ziegler Love is the Drug by Alaya Dawn Johnson In Our Mailbox: How […]
Earlier today, Heather Booth answered a question that came in our mailbox from a librarian wanting to breathe some new life into a TAG (Teen Advisory Group). Heather is wise in the way of TAGs and offers a lot of great advice, but I am going to offer another approach. TAG as Content Creators In […]
Many of us have had this problem at one point or another. Having a TAG (or TAB, or YAAC, or Teen Council – whatever you want to call it) is drummed into our heads as The Thing to do in order to get teen input on library services. But sometimes they fizzle, sometimes you burn […]
Book Review: Love is the Drug by Alaya Dawn Johnson
Alaya Dawn Johnson, Book Reviews, Epidemics, Love is the Drug
|When I was a Junior in high school, I had a history teacher who wanted to make sure that we understood current events and the world that we lived in. So every Friday, we had a current events type quiz bowl. There was a boy in my class named Luke and him and I were […]
Book Review: Revenge of the Flower Girls by Jennifer Ziegler
Book Reviews, Jennifer Ziegler, MG Lit, Revenge of the Flower Girls, Scholastic
|As many of you know, I took The Tween to ALA Annual recently and we had an amazing experience, in large part thanks to Scholastic. While there, she became passionate about wanting to read a book called REVENGE OF THE FLOWER GIRLS by Jennifer Ziegler. This past week, Jennifer Ziegler contacted me and she sent […]
Annie hates running. No matter how far she jogs, she can’t escape the guilt that if she hadn’t broken up with Kyle, he might still be alive. So to honor his memory, she starts preparing for the marathon he intended to race. But the training is even more grueling than Annie could have imagined. Despite […]
Three years ago today, I wrote my first Teen Librarian Toolbox post. Today, in celebration, I thought I would share with you what TLT means to me – and give stuff away. We’re giving away 1 box of books to 5 people. And some other fun giveaways.1. Turning Loss into Something Positive TLT was born […]
Clay is a go along to get along kind of guy. Almost thirteen, he is a fairly typical adolescent; he likes to skateboard, wears hoodies, and has a sustained interest in graffiti style art. Not that he would ever do something illegal, like tag a building, but he does like to practice and the walls […]
I dislike participating in the SRP program with my own kids. I know, it sounds horrible. I cajole and prod during the school year and do my best to keep up with the paperwork, and by summer, my energy for the tedious tracking is gone. And my daughter’s energy for sustained, monitored engagement is as well. […]
This Week at TLT Sunday Reflections: Do we still need Reference? Do we still need Librarians? (aka Why Turning Libraries into Wal-Mart is a Bad Idea) Book Review: Like No Other by Una LaMarche Middle Grade Monday – My Mailbox TPiB: Bookish Nails Take 5: 5 ARCs I Picked Up at ALA That I Can’t […]
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