MORE POSTS FROM OCTOBER 2013
Feeling guilty for a death that she herself has caused, Zoe writes letters to a man on death row for murdering his wife to talk about what happened. Why it works: From the moment Zoe begins writing, it is clear that she is plagued by a horrible guilt and readers will keep reading to figure […]
You can download this poster at https://app.box.com/s/fll27kx8vfqhncw2dvu8 Each year I put together a poster outlining the Top 10 Trends in YA/Teen Lit for the year to help get teens reading. This year, I tried to design my poster as the cover of a magazine, which proved to be a ton of work. I like […]
New technology allows us to invent new words. Here are some of mine for Twitter. Twitterhunt: verb and noun; when you find yourself at the end of a rant and you have to hunt through someone’s timeline to find the beginning so you understand just what they are ranting about. Example: When I stumble upon […]
I was so excited to find this available as a eARC, and so far ahead of the publication date! Rachel Hawkins is one of my favorite YA authors, and not just because she’s hysterically funny both in person and on Twitter. If you ever have the opportunity to see her in person, though, I highly […]
A Gaggle of Squealing Girls Can’t Love Science?
Gender issues, Gender Roles, Girls, Maureen Johnson, Science, Sexism, Technology
|Some of you may recall the great gender based assignment rage of 2013. If not, start here. So, here’s an update. This year, the Tween gets to research a scientist. She adores science. So I asked her the other day, have you picked your scientist yet? Apparently, she is waiting to be assigned her scientist. […]
Lex Bartleby would be the first to admit that she has some ‘behavioral issues.’ When her violent tendencies and lack of impulse control finally push her parents over the edge, they ship this 16 year old miscreant off to spend the summer in the tiny town of Croak with her Uncle Mort. Despite the abundance […]
Horrifying Reads for October – recommended by teens! (Kearsten’s Booktalk This!)
Agatha Christie, Booktalk This, Booktalks, Caroline B. Cooney, H. P. Lovecraft, Horror, Kendara Blake, October, Outbreaks
|This September marked my third year doing a themed book club for 7th & 8th graders at a local K-8. We meet in their school library during their lunch period, and share the books we’ve read recently. This year, as we only have about 25 minutes together, we’ve adjusted our sharing style to title, author […]
NOTE : THERE WILL BE SPOILERS FOR LAST NIGHT’S SEASON PREMIERE OF THE WALKING DEAD. READ AT YOUR OWN RISK. Before there were books and their were libraries, there have always been stories. The ancients sat around a fire and told the stories of the past to help people remember who they were, where they […]
Talking Teen Fiction with Victoria Scott
Teen Fiction, Teen Read Week, The Collector, Victoria Scott, YA Literature
|This week many libraries across the nation will be celebrating Teen Read Week, a YALSA initiative designed to remind teens to read for the fun of it – even in the middle of the school year. Yesterday we announced that this week we were doing a fun contest sponsored by YA author Victoria Scott. Don’t […]
Reader’s Advisory is an awesome concept in theory, but it assumes that the people sitting behind the Reference desk at a library have a ton of time to chat with patrons about the books they read and why they like them. The reality is, sometimes we are so busy we can be lucky if we […]
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