MORE POSTS FROM MARCH 2018
Vague spoilers for A Wrinkle in Time appear in this post. If you are totally unfamiliar with the story, read at your own risk of being spoiled. At the beginning of A Wrinkle in Time, Meg Murray’s father has been missing for 4 years. It’s the 4 year anniversary in fact as she sits in […]
This Week at TLT Book Review: After the Shot Drops by Randy Ribay Book Review: The Night Diary by Veera Hiranandani YA A to Z: “Fake News” and Disinformation, a guest post by Diana Rodriguez Wallach Book Review: P.S. I Miss You by Jen Petro-Roy Book Review: Blood Water Paint by Joy McCullough YA A […]
Publisher’s description A powerful novel about friendship, basketball, and one teen’s mission to create a better life for his family in the tradition of Jason Reynolds, Matt de la Pena, and Walter Dean Myers. Bunny and Nasir have been best friends forever, but when Bunny accepts an athletic scholarship across town, Nasir feels betrayed. While Bunny […]
Publisher’s description In the vein of Inside Out and Back Again and The War That Saved My Life comes a poignant, personal, and hopeful tale of India’s partition, and of one girl’s journey to find a new home in a divided country It’s 1947, and India, newly independent of British rule, has been separated into two countries: Pakistan and […]
Today for YA A to Z author Diana Rodriguez Wallach is talking with us about disinformation and “fake news”. I’m often asked, “What sort of research did you do for your novel?” For me, that’s a loaded question. The Anastasia Phoenix series is set around the world, so I traveled overseas to Italy, England, and […]
Publisher’s description A heartbreaking—yet ultimately uplifting—epistolary novel about family, religion, and having the courage to be yourself. Evie is heartbroken when her strict Catholic parents send her pregnant sister, Cilla, away to stay with a distant great-aunt. All Evie wants is for her older sister to come back. Forbidden from speaking to Cilla, Evie […]
Publisher’s description Her mother died when she was twelve, and suddenly Artemisia Gentileschi had a stark choice: a life as a nun in a convent or a life grinding pigment for her father’s paint. She chose paint. By the time she was seventeen, Artemisia did more than grind pigment. She was one of Rome’s most […]
Today for YA A to Z we’re discussing Designer Drugs with author Anna Hecker If you frequent raves or EDM festivals, you might sometimes see a neon-yellow table covered in candy, condoms, earplugs, and bright postcards. Get closer, and you’ll notice the postcards each name a drug, from alcohol and nicotine to MDMA and LSD. […]
Trigger Warning: Sexual Violence, Rape Some weeks (months?) ago, the news broke out that a high school near me was embroiled in a horrific sexual violence case. At first, the media kept referring to it as “hazing”. After a lot of push back, the media and community have started to use the terms sexual assault. […]
This Week at TLT NCTE’s African-American Read-In by Michelle Biwer A Recap of the HOPE NATION Launch Event at Irving Public Library – and a GIVEAWAY Book Review: The Serpent’s Secret (Kiranmala and the Kingdom Beyond #1) by Sayantani DasGupta Book Review: One True Way by Shannon Hitchcock Living on the Brink of Homelessness by […]
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