MORE POSTS FROM JANUARY 2015
Bearing Witness to Violence, a guest post by author Eric Devine
#SVYALit, #SVYALit Project, Eric Devine, Hazing, Teen Issues
|Recently I was at a school in Harlem, giving my standard presentation of how I became an author and what my work is about, and I found myself at the section on Press Play, which many of the kids had read, and I was nervous to speak about the story’s roots. There, before me, sat […]
As I pulled into the Target parking lot we saw him, a man old enough to be my grandfather holding a sign saying he had been laid off and was hungry. The girls and I exited our vehicle and made our way towards the entrance when I noticed The Tween was crying. “It’s so sad,” […]
This Week at TLT Sunday Reflections: You can’t go home again? Breaking Tradition: BRUTAL YOUTH author Anthony Breznican on the fight against hazing Middle Grade Monday – On the Radar Amanda’s review roundup Take 5: 5 Thoughts I Had While Reading BRUTAL YOUTH by Anthony Breznican, reflections of a teen librarian In the most recent […]
In Norah Olson’s Twisted Fate, sisters Sydney and Ally couldn’t be more different. Ally is naïve, picks blueberries, bakes muffins, and doesn’t mind dressing like her mother to go sailing. Syd skateboards, like punk music, and is on track to be class valedictorian, despite her main interests in life including skipping class and getting high. When […]
The amazing folks at Ferguson Library (I’m a big fan!) recently started the hashtag #becauseofapubliclibrary. It turned out I had a lot of thoughts about what happens because of a public library. Please do hop on Twitter and look at lots of the great responses about what has happened because of a public library. Below […]
Serving Full T.I.L.T. (Teens in Libraries Today): By the numbers, making the case for teen services with demographics
Professional Development, Serving Full TILT, Statistics, Teen Issues
|The idea for Serving Full T.I.L.T. began with a seemingly simple question: How do you convince library administrators, staff and your local community that we need to be serving teens? One of the answers seems obvious to me and amounts to basically why would you want to invest in children and then start ignoring them […]
When I’m reviewing books for professional publications, I stay quiet about them on social media. I’m always really excited once a review comes out to be able to talk about the book, finally! Here’s one of my most recent reviews, which originally appeared in the December 2014 issue of School Library Journal. (So technically this isn’t in […]
When author Eric Devine recommended Brutal Youth to me for our #SVYALit Project chat on the topic of hazing (which will happen on January 28th at Noon Eastern), I hadn’t heard of it before. In large part probably because it’s not published as YA. Brutal Youth is published as adult, though it features as many […]
For a year or so before starting to write for TLT, I was blogging over at Cite Something, my own blog. I’ve recently abandoned that to do all of my writing here at TLT. In the past I’ve been sharing a snippet of some of my reviews that originally appeared on Cite Something. From now on I’ll […]
Here are some of the new titles coming out this spring that I am eagerly anticipating: Inherit Midnight by Kate Kaye Myers Billed as twisty, turny, non-stop action fun by reviewers, this looks to be right in my patrons’ sweet spot. Here is the publisher’s summary: Avery is the black sheep of the wealthy VanDemere […]
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