MORE POSTS FROM AUGUST 2016
Kelly Barnhill has written a lyrically beautiful novel in The Girl Who Drank the Moon. From the publisher: An epic fantasy about a young girl raised by a witch, a swamp monster, and a Perfectly Tiny Dragon who must unlock the powerful magic buried deep inside her. Every year, the people of the Protectorate leave a […]
“Mom, why do you wear makeup every day?” Both girls asked me this same questions just weeks apart. And every answer that I started to say had nothing to do with me. I got up every morning, even the mornings on the days where I never left my house, and put on makeup. Foundation to […]
This Week at TLT Sunday Reflections: Let’s Talk About How We Talk About Mental Health App Review: Prisma Middle School Monday: Not Really Book Reviews by Julie Stivers Book Review: LGBTQ+ Athletes Claim the Field: Striving for Equality by Kirstin Cronn-Mills and Alex Jackson Nelson Things I Never Learned in Library School: Wrestling with Pronouns […]
As part of the SLJ Teen Live event, authors Nyrae Dawn, Stephanie Kuehn, Jennifer Niven, Teresa Toten and Susan Vaught participated in a panel in which they discussed mental health in #yalit. This is a topic that is near and dear to my heart, so I live tweeted the panel. I Storify it here in […]
Today I want to talk with you about IRREVERSIBLE by Chris Lynch. I am currently 50% done reading this book and I am going to do something that I have seldom done before and not only DNF this book but discuss with you why I am choosing to do so. As a librarian and a […]
One of the main advantages we have found in creating our Teen MakerSpace is that we actively interact with teens more. In the past, I had a teen area and would often work the Reference Desk, which was quite a distance from my teen area. Even when I would get up and wander around the […]
Publisher’s description In 2015, the world watched as soccer star Abby Wambach kissed her wife after the US women’s World Cup victory. Milwaukee Brewers’ minor league first baseman David Denson came out as gay. And Caitlyn (born Bruce) Jenner, an Olympic decathlete, came out as transgender. It hasn’t always been this way. Many great athletes […]
Ironically, as a school librarian, there is one element I always seem to be BEHIND on. It’s reading. READING. I can never catch up. No matter how fast I read, there are always new releases, important books on education and youth, and possible class texts to review/pick. This summer, my goal was a book a […]
Knowing my love of photo apps, several people have wanted to make sure I know about the new Prisma app. Prisma allows you to transform your picture into a work of art based on the styles of many famous artists. It’s actually a fairly easy app to you, in part because it is limited in […]
Let’s talk about Trump. Don’t worry, this is not a political post. This is about mental health. More specifically, it’s about the way people are talking about Trump is causing further harm to those who struggle with mental health issues. I struggle on and off with depression and anxiety issues. There, I said it out […]
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