MORE POSTS FROM NOVEMBER 2014
The #SVYALit Project Google Hangout with A. S. King, Christa Desir and Carrie Mesrobian is happening TODAY live at 12 Noon Eastern. You can join us by clicking on the Google event page link below. Or come back here and watch the recording. The Google Event Page: https://plus.google.com/events/ctg17t7qcvjed6j4c615qod39co The YouTube Page: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1DkT_MWcDE
If you are new to TLT, you may not know that I am a huge Lauren Oliver fan. The first Oliver title I read was Delirium, which The Tween and I listened to as an audio book. This was The Tween’s first YA book experience. Lauren Oliver was the first author I took The Tween […]
Today is brought to you by the letter N and the number 2. Actually, I just made that number part up. I’m having Sesame Street flashbacks. I discovered Patric Ness last year as a judge for the Cybils. Wait, let me back up. I was of course aware of the author Patrick Ness before last […]
GLSEN, the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network, released its biennial National School Climate Survey, which documents the experiences of LGBTQ students from across the country, in late October. If these statistics shock you, you clearly haven’t spent much time talking to gay students or hanging out in a high school or a middle school. The […]
This year, my library is promoting the North Carolina Young Adult Book Award competition. You can find out more about it here, but it is essentially a list of ten student nominated titles. Students who want to participate in the voting process in the spring need to have read at least four of the ten […]
We are now half way through the YA A to A alphabet and at the letter M. Like many of the letters before it, this was a hard one to pick. So I opted to highlight an author that I haven’t talked a lot about, although I am a fan of her work. Who is […]
Friday night, The Tween had friends spend the night. Like her, these are all girls on the verge of 13. Between the 3 of them they consumed 2 pizzas, 24 chocolate chip cookies (or the equivalent in cookie dough), 12 sodas, ice cream floats, cheese sticks, and in the morning, 9 donuts. They did crafts, […]
This Week at TLT Sunday Reflections: How Libraries Can Help Communities Write a CAN DO NARRATIVE, reflections from the Wisconsin Library Association annual conference Middle Grade Monday – Booooooolean Searching Book review: Gracefully Grayson by Ami Polonsky The Beauty and the Beast Effect in YA Literature TPiB: Touch Screen Gloves from the Robot Test Kitchen […]
On Tuesday, Karen at Teen Library Toolbox discussed the Beauty and the Beast effect in YA literature. Bottom line: these are stories in which the female lead is in some way held hostage or kidnapped by a guy she ultimately falls in love with. In the stories referenced, each of the guys are doing this […]
Why I chose David Levithan: In fall of 2003, I had just finished graduate school and was working at The Children’s Book Shop in Brookline, Massachusetts (far and away my favorite job ever). I was a big fan of LGBTQ YA books, just as I am now, so whenever a new title would come in, […]
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