MORE POSTS FROM APRIL 2012
On Tuesday, April 3rd I was at work at my Texas library when tornado sirens started going off. I tend to think about things. Probably to over think them. The next day I posted this message to the yalsa-bk listserv. If you are a teen librarian, I highly recommend you join and actively participate in […]
On Tuesday, April 3rd tornadoes ripped through the Dallas, Texas area. Here, teen book lover and blogger Aneedqah talks about her experience at school on the day that tornadoes hit. So, as many of you know, we had some tornadoes in the DFW area. Before I moved to Texas, I’d been in plenty of tornado […]
I remember when I first saw Hourglass; the cover caught my eye and I thought to myself I need to read that. But like all readers my list of books to read is long and some books fall in the cracks. If I could go back in time, I would read it the moment it […]
I wore a blue Scarlet O’Hara type dress. Hoopskirt and white elbow length gloves. And I drove myself and my date in a tiny little yellow car. I could barely get the door closed thanks to that stupid hoop skirt. Looking back, it was a hideous dress. I shudder at the horror of the memory […]
Today is a guest blog post from the TLT Teen Reviewer Cuyler Creech in honor of Autism Awareness Month. Cuyler is the “typical” older brother to Skeet. Skeet is autistic. He also has Down’s Syndrome. The two brothers are very close and today Cuyler shares their story. Think back to when you were in school. […]
Welcome to the future. A future full of possibilities. Promise. Oh…and you know…blood-thirsty monsters. The human populations has been decimated, nearly to the point of extinction. In our place are beings who look just like us. They work. They go to school. They have families. They are like us in almost every way. Except they […]
Libraries matter. They matter to our communities. They matter in the lives of our teens. In a bold, or perhaps foolish, attempt to show that teens do still read – that they still do need and use and love their libraries – I put forth a challenge to myself and other teen librarians that we […]
I am an adult. Well, I at least play one on tv (or in real life). Mostly. I also read YA fiction. Joel Stein recently said in a New York Times article that I should not. Sure, I could stand at a dinner party after you asked me what I read and make a defense […]
Way to Go, happy book birthday and a contest
Contests, GLBTQ, GLBTQ Fiction, Homosexuality, It Gets Better
|Today I present you with a guest blog post by debut YA author Tom Ryan. His debut novel, Way to Go, comes out today. Read on to hear more about this exciting new addition to the ya field and how it can help teens struggling with their sexual identity find peace in their lives. This […]
“We shall sit here, softlyBeneath two different yearsand the rich earth between usshall drink our tears” – Audre Lorde April is Autism Awareness Month Last week new statistics were released from the CDC that indicates that 1 out of every 88 children are now being diagnosed on the Autism Spectrum (ASD). April is Autism Awareness […]
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