MORE POSTS FROM MAY 2014
Take 5: Science and Lit resources for the Collaborative Summer Library Program
Collaborative Summer Reading Program, Collection Development, Science, Summer Reading
|This year’s collaborative summer reading theme, Fizz Book Read or Spark A Reaction, has a science theme to it. Today, I’m sharing a couple of fun resources that you may want to use in your programming or share with your tweens and teens. Actually, in this case these resources are mostly Tween friendly except for […]
We all have our own particular burden to bear, regardless of the age of patron with whom we normally work. And you can very much trust when I say that I am extremely grateful I didn’t end up in a position where I spend the majority of my time with adults. I’m just not cut […]
Tagline: In the future, food is gone.Publisher’s Description: In the future, food is no longer necessary—until Thalia begins to feel something unfamiliar and uncomfortable. She’s hungry. In Thalia’s world, there is no need for food—everyone takes medication (or “inocs”) to ward off hunger. It should mean there is no more famine, no more obesity, no […]
On my desk there sits a notebook which I developed over time. It is the core off all I have believe, all I have done. Booklists. Marketing plans. A full teen services plan or two. Program outlines. I have been a YA librarian for 20 years. I have worked at 4 libraries. And I have […]
This Week at TLT Sunday Reflections: I’m Holding Out for a (Female) Superhero! Spotlight on Tuan Nguyen and the Maverick Graphic Novel Committee Take 5: 5 Marathon-able Comic Movies and Some I’m Drooling For TPiB: Fizz Boom Read Movies for the Family – a science based Collaborative Summer Reading Program Book Reviews Expiration Day by […]
2 New GNs Coming Your Way, and a look at Scholastic’s GRAPHIX imprint
Cleopatra in Space, Graphix, Middle Grade, Mike Maihack, Raina Telgemeier, Scholastic, Sisters, Smile
|This is how things go at my house . . . Me: Whacha doing?The Tween: ReadingMe: Oh, you’re reading SMILE again.The Tween: Yep So when news came out that there might be ARCs of SISTERS by Raina Telgemeier at TLA, I tweeted Christie: “Our one mission is to get ARCs of SISTERS at TLA and […]
Slut Shaming Hurts Guys, Too – a guest post by author Jennifer Mathieu (A Part of the #SVYALit Project)
#SVYALit, #SVYALit Project, Jennifer Mathieu, Slut Shaming, The Truth About Alice
|As part of the #SVYALit Project we’ve talked a lot about slut-shaming and how it hurts girls. And it does. But the truth is, it hurts boys, too. When I met up recently with the author of THE TRUTH ABOUT ALICE Jennifer Mathieu, she started talking to me about it and what she had to […]
Take 5: Marvelous Manga that Christie’s Tweens and Teens are Reading
Bleach, Dragon Ball, Manga, Naruto, One Piece, Take 5, Yu-Gi-Oh
|Beginning Crowd during our Author Event on FCBD 2014 If you follow me on Twitter or read anything I write regarding teens and tweens, you know that I have a very active community library. Mainly guys, a few girls, but very active tweens and teens. They are addicted to the Makerspaces, including duct tape crafts […]
HI, my name is Christie, I am a total geek, and I love everything comic and sci fi. Hi, Christie. So, the current bonanza of movies is particularly marvelous for me because I get to engage my habit of going to the movies (seriously draining my bank account, by the way, but it’s for the […]
In case you weren’t aware, the Texas Library Association and the Young Adult Round Table support the Texas Maverick List (no, not the basketball team that just embarrassed themselves in front of the Spurs), but a librarian created and recommended list of GRAPHIC NOVELS for youth in grades 6-12. I had the chance to crash […]
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