MORE POSTS FROM OCTOBER 2014
Previously, I shared with you how my Teens and I decided to explore the world of GIFmaking by using the Legos in my library’s MakerSpace. This week, I totally had something totally new and fun prepared for my teens, but a group came in very excited about the prospects of making more “movies”. They had […]
Thinking About Male Sexual Violence and Althea and Oliver by Cristina Moracho (The #SVYALit Project)
#SVYALit, #SVYALit Project, Althea & Oliver, Consent, Cristina Moracho, Male Rape
|Karen’s Short Thoughts: An amazing, complicated and at times flawed look at the relationship between two childhood friends.Publisher’s Description: What if you live for the moment when life goes off the rails—and then one day there’s no one left to help you get it back on track? Althea Carter and Oliver McKinley have been best […]
by Amanda MacGregor Every other month I’ll be doing a roundup of new and forthcoming GLTBQ YA books (and sometimes some non-YA books). I’ll try to include as many titles as possible. Know of a title I missed in this list? Or know of a forthcoming title that should be on my radar for an […]
This weekend my Twitter feed was overflowing with discussion about an article that Kathleen Hale wrote in the Guardian this weekend (Do Not Link provided). And while I won’t talk here about the particulars of the article, because many have already discussed it eloquently and thoroughly, I want to discuss one trend I saw repeated […]
Middle Grade Monday – Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
Brown Girl Dreaming, Jacqueline Woodson, Middle Grade Monday
|I’m finally going to weigh in with my thoughts on the lyrical, breathtaking work of art that is Jacqueline Woodson’s Brown Girl Dreaming. Not that you really need my opinion. It has received, at last count, six starred reviews from major review publications, Kirkus, Publisher’s Weekly, Booklist, Horn Book, School Library Journal, and the Bulletin […]
by Amanda MacGregor In honor of LGBT History Month and on the heels of Ally Week, Karen asked if I would be interested in writing the Sunday Reflection on why I’m a GLBTQ ally, and I said of course. But when I started to think about what I wanted to write, I kept getting stuck […]
This Week at TLT Sunday Reflections: What Malala means to me as a woman and a librarian, a reflection on women’s issues in the news Take 5: YA Horror 2014 Middle Grade Monday – Understanding Justice, a Book Review Amanda’s Review Roundup Teen Read Week 2014 at Betty Warmack Branch Library (TPiB) Cybils Reviews: Belzhar […]
Today, author John Grisham said some pretty distressing things about child pornography: “We have prisons now filled with guys my age. Sixty-year-old white men in prison who’ve never harmed anybody, would never touch a child,” he said in an exclusive interview to promote his latest novel Gray Mountain which is published next week. “But they […]
Earlier this month it was revealed that the football program at Sayreville in New Jersey was suspended due to allegations that the team was engaging in horrific acts of hazing that included sexually abusing their team mates. Hazing asks – forces, requires – people to do embarrassing or dangerous acts in order for them to […]
Cybils Reviews: Belzhar by Meg Wolitzer and Dark Metropolis by Jacyln Dolamore
Belzhar, Book Reviews, Dark Metropolis, Jacyln Dolamore, Meg Wolitzer
|I am knee deep in Cybils reading, and this weekend I read both Belzhar and Dark Metrpolis. Belzar by Meg WolitzerJam Gallahue finds herself at a special school for “emotionally fragile” teens. Last year, her beloved Reeve Maxfield died and she is having a hard time dealing with this loss. Her roommate is a young […]
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