MORE POSTS FROM DECEMBER 2015
I love a good unreliable narrator, and that’s exactly what Rivers gives us in this unusual and satisfying story. Bruised, bleeding and trapped, we begin Kammie’s story as she is already stuck in the well, a victim of three ‘mean girls’ from her new school. Kammie has recently moved from the northeast to a small […]
The other day I received a text from The Mr.: Don’t ever let it be said that I don’t love you or support Teen Librarian Toolbox, it said, I’m currently driving an hour away to buy you a book cart for your “office”. For the record, my “office” is technically the dining room. We eat […]
This Week at TLT Sunday Reflections: Mapping the Violence in Your Childhood Memories Tech Talk: HUE Animation Studio Review Middle School Monday – What’s Not to Love? Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Spring 2016 Roundup Video Games Weekly: Video Game Awards Saying goodbye to a successful program Around the Web Whenever I hear or read someone denigrating […]
Saying goodbye to a successful program
High School, Program Fails, Programming, Things I Didn't Learn in Library School, Things I Never Learned in Library School
|Last month I hosted another Career Conversation event at my library. I really enjoy these evenings. I’ve learned interesting things at every single one of them, even when the jobs that the panelists hold are nothing like the kind of work that suits me. The same has seemed to be true of the teens who attended. Those who […]
Did you know the gaming community has the equivalent of the Academy Awards for video games? They do, and it’s called The Game Awards! This year is the second annual Game Awards, so the show is very new. This year, the show was free to stream on December 5th on various platforms (it was […]
I’ve been a book reviewer since 2002, when I was finishing up my master’s degree in children’s literature at Simmons College in Boston and started reviewing for The Horn Book Guide and the now-defunct KLIATT. I still review for the Guide, as well as VOYA and SLJ, and, of course, here at TLT. As you […]
I love my job – I mean really love my job. I (to most people’s constant perplexity) find middle school age students delightful. And weird. Delightfully weird. I get to share my love of reading and help both students and staff members find great things to read that speak to them where they are. I […]
Someone from HUE Animation Studio found TLT and reached out to me to ask if I would like a HUE Animation Studio kit to review and since I am actively putting together my library’s MakerSpace, I was excited to have an opportunity to review this product. One of the stations that I am working to […]
Wednesday night I was on the phone with my dad making sure my family was okay and when he asked what I was doing I said I was writing a post. He told me to mention him in my post – so this post is for him. Right before I began the third grade my […]
This Week at TLT Sunday Reflections: My NaNoWriMo Month MakerSpace: Rethinking Food in Programming, Again? Yes, Again. Middle School Monday – Christmas Present Selections Recently in Book Mail Food TPiB: Waffle It Edition Video Games Weekly: Star Wars Battlefront Food TPiB: Mug It Edition 2015 Debut Author Bash: Meet ZEROBOXER Author Fonda Lee (and a […]
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