MORE POSTS FROM JANUARY 2016
Today as part of our #MHYALit discussion, we are happy to welcome YA author Jackie Lea Sommers, who discusses solipsism syndrome, OCD, and writing the characters she needed to encounter when she was a teen. In high school, my friends’ refrain was “Jackie, you think too much!” It was true. Not only was I a dreamer, a […]
From the publisher: Saki’s boring summer might be her last when a Japanese curse casts her into the Night Parade. Thirteen-year-old Saki Yamamoto wants to spend her summer vacation anywhere but at her grandmother’s old house in the Japanese countryside, where the phone signal is bad and there’s nothing to do all day. In an […]
Today as we continue the #MHYALit discussion, we are honored to welcome YA librarian Danielle Masterson, who discusses anxiety and the book Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell. You can read all the #MHYALit posts here. My mother used to tell this story of how, when I was a toddler, the doorbell rang and I ran behind […]
To be honest, I felt overwhelmed when I tried to figure out what to post about today. This week began with the news that David Bowie had passed away. I found out via text from The Mr. and to be quite honest, I thought he was participating in some cruel, cruel joke. But no, that […]
This Week at TLT Sunday Reflections: If You Build It, Will They Come? The story of a MakerSpace miracle. #MHYALit: Picking at Problems, a look at self harm by author Robison Wells Middle School Monday – American Ace by Marilyn Nelson #MHYALit: Where Are the Books on Addiction for Your Mental Health Book List? by […]
Publisher’s description: From the “author to watch” (Kirkus Reviews) of The Five Stages of Andrew Brawley comes a brand-new novel about a teenage boy who must decide whether or not the world is worth saving. Henry Denton has spent years being periodically abducted by aliens. Then the aliens give him an ultimatum: The world will […]
I love weeding. I love diving into stats sheets, pulling the cruddy books out of circulation, finding those battered favorites that need to be replaced, and winding up with beautifully shiny shelves with plenty of space for displays. But my method is all in disarray now! I used to start by running a report on anything […]
Today as part of the #MHYALit Discussion author Carrie Mesrobian discusses Saving Francesca by Melina Marchetta. SEE ALL OF THE #MHYALIT POSTS HERE It should be stated up front that I’m not rational when it comes to Melina Marchetta. I love her novels so much that I’ve purposefully not read a few of them – […]
Hello everyone! I’m back with Video Game Wednesday after a restful holiday break. I also had the opportunity to play a lot of games without the pressure to finish them before my deadlines, so I have many plans for 2016! My question for you is, would you prefer I do more video game reviews for […]
As part of our 2016 Mental Health in Young Adult Literature project, we will be posting reading lists on various mental health-related subjects. Guest blogger Natalie Korsavidis pulled together this one on schizophrenia. We will mainly be focusing on books published after 2000. We encourage you to add any other titles you can think of […]
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