MORE POSTS FROM MARCH 2016
Today we are honored to host author Yvonne Prinz as part of the #MHYALit Discussion In 1990 I moved to San Francisco from Canada, met my husband, and opened a record store in Berkeley, just over the Bay Bridge. Berkeley, for a variety of reasons, has a large homeless population, something I wasn’t familiar with, […]
This week, I am reviewing Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth. The game has 40+ hours of gameplay, which is why it took me a little over two weeks to play through it! I’ve been a longtime Digimon fan, so of course I didn’t mind dedicating all of that time to the game 🙂 Background: Digimon (short […]
Today author Ami Allen-Vath shares her experiences with suicidal ideation, depression, hospitalization, and more. We continue to be so honored and proud to share these honest, vulnerable posts. Visit the #MHYALit hub to see all of the posts in this series. When I was in eleventh grade, I wrote a letter to my family and […]
Publisher’s description Keep calm and make it to prom night—without a legit panic attack. For seventeen-year-old Bree Hughes, it’s easier said than done when gossip, grief, and the opportunity to fail at love are practically high-fiving her in the hallways of Belmont High. When Bree’s crush, Sean Mills, gives her his phone number, she can’t […]
I’m always looking for fun program tie-in ideas – or dates. And this year, my programming is focused on Maker types of programs because of our new Teen MakerSpace. So here are a few fun dates I have found. 1. Pi Day 3.14 I am posting this on Pi Day, so it’s obviously too late […]
Editorial note: A few months ago, I featured Karen’s The Girl in the Well is Me on MSM. It was one of my favorite titles I read last year, and it is finally available for the rest of you to read and enjoy! We invited Karen to guest post today on her own middle school experiences and […]
Last summer, before The Teen could enter into the middle school AP reading class, she had to read and annotate the book Wonder by R. J. Palacio. If she didn’t show up on day one of the school year with the project in her hand she was automatically kicked out of class. There were no […]
This Week at TLT Sunday Reflections: Still Life By Teen, Kind of (Inspired by STILL LIFE WITH TORNADO by A. S. King) Middle School Monday – Author Victoria Schwab Accepting Anxiety, a guest post by Jessica Spotswood Book Review: The Serpent King by Jeff Zentner Teen lives in documentaries #MHYALit Reading Lists: Anxiety, a guest […]
Publisher’s description Franny is close to her parents, adores her horse and is head over heels in love with her girlfriend, Leah. But Franny’s parents are abortion providers at the local hospital, and an anonymous stranger is prepared to do whatever it takes to stop them. A stranger who phones at all hours. Who knows […]
This is the tale of a clever teen, a librarian, and the great iPad lock out of 2016. You see, I went to check on the status of our new iPads in the Teen MakerSpace when I realized that one of my teens had been more clever than I could have imagined. I couldn’t even […]
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