MORE POSTS FROM APRIL 2014
This Week at TLT Sunday Reflection: Shelfie With Cardboard Boxes – In which Heather is an amazingly organized packer. Happy new house! Politics and Sexual Violence in PLUS ONE, a guest post by author Elizabeth Fama (and a GIVEAWAY) Middle Grade Monday – Upcoming Excitement! In which I get excited about 3 upcoming titles from […]
Why I Teach Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward in My High School, a guest post by author Brendan Kiely
Brendan Kiely, Jesmyn Ward, Salvage the Bones, Teen Issues, Teen Pregnancy, The Gospel of Winter
|During our recent #SVYALit Project Hangout, author Brendan Kiely (The Gospel of Winter) mentioned that he taught the book Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward in his classroom. Today he is talking with us about teaching this book in his classroom, sharing the who, what, why and how his teens respond. Jesmyn Ward’s Salvage the […]
April is epically awesome for many things, but one of my favorites is the fact that it is National Poetry Month. I have journals full of my probably horrific and definitely embarrassing poems that I began writing in the early teen years but continue to write today. But there is a quick, easy and – […]
Top 5 Take-aways from ILEAD-USA
Community, Librarianship, STEAM education, STEM Education, Technology, Things I Never Learned in Library School
|This year I’m jumping out of my comfort zone of YA fiction and crafty programs and have joined a team that was accepted to the ILEAD USA program in Illinois. Over the course of the year, our team will design and implement a program using technology to improve service to our patrons and more deeply […]
I have introduced my tweens and teens to a monster. No, not Bigfoot or The Blob, it is the card game called Star Fluxx. They are addicted in every sense of the word. Any time there is a break and there are two or more of them together, they can be seen shadowing the doorway […]
Evil governmental oppressors, secrets, spies and deception, a roiling underclass yearning to break out of bondage and one true hero who finds the way to do it – this is the stuff we love in our dystopian novels. But these are not only features in dystopia. We can look to history for plenty of examples […]
Tagline: An Empty Mind is a Safe Mind Publisher’s Description: Yulia’s father always taught her to hide her thoughts and control her emotions to survive the harsh realities of Soviet Russia. But when she’s captured by the KGB and forced to work as a psychic spy with a mission to undermine the U.S. space program, she’s thrust […]
Earlier today author Mindy McGinnis (Not a Drop to Drink, In a Handful of Dust) and I presented at TLA on the ways that you can use social media to get teens connected with authors and invested in a rich, rewarding, and affirming reading community. You can read the initial post here. And here is […]
Take 5: Entries into Poetry
After The Kiss, National Poetry Month, Poetry, Take 5, Terra Elan McVoy
|Poetry is weird and hard. It’s confusing and vague and boring. Unless it’s not. Here are five easy entries to poetry for teens, in honor of National Poetry Month. 1. After The Kiss by Terra Elan McVoy It looks like realistic romantic teen fiction, it moves like realistic romantic teen fiction, it IS realistic romantic teen […]
Middle Grade Monday – Upcoming Excitement!
Jacqueline Woodson, Jasper Fforde, Joan Bauer, Middle Grade Monday
|I had the opportunity to do a little hunting on Netgalley and Edelweiss this weekend, and found a few items I’m super exited to see. Let’s dive in! The first is a new middle grade by one of my favorite authors, Jacqueline Woodson. I got to meet her at one of my first North Carolina […]
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