MORE POSTS FROM AUGUST 2014
We’re trying a school wide reading challenge for the first time this year. It’s a 40 book challenge, and I was able to get a page in the student agenda for it (so the students can hopefully keep up with it for the entire year.) I’m both excited and nervous for this. I have no […]
It is, in fact, time for back to school. So here is a round up of links to a variety of back to school crafts and DIY that you may find fun and useful. The Tween and I may or may not be obsessed with making bottle cap/marble magnets. Rock Your Locker Here’s a look […]
Sunday Reflections: Bigger is Not Always Better
Professional Development, Programming, Rainbow Loom, Statistics, Sunday Reflections
|It’s the end of summer reading, and almost the end of our fiscal year, which means that I have been compiling statistics. Administrators, city council, board members, they love to look at numbers on a page to get a sense of what you’re doing, but the truth is numbers don’t tell the whole story. The […]
This Week at TLT Sunday Reflections: Sometimes You are Not the One, and That’s Okay Book Review: The Fourteenth Goldfish by Jennifer L. Holm Middle Grade Monday – Kinda Like Brothers by Coe Booth Trend Watch 2014 Christie’s Take 5 August Books To Look For The #SVYALit Project – What We’ve Learned So Far Breaking […]
Some Boys by Patty Blount is the story of a girl who is raped by a school sports star, Zac, and then is ostracized by everyone around her and branded a slut. It is a familiar story, we hear about it far too often in the press. It’s an important story, reminding us that we […]
Breaking the Gender Molds, a guest post and giveaway by author Eric Devine
Eric Devine, Gender, Gender issues, Gender Roles, Gender stereotypes
|I’m a 36-year-old, cisgendered, heterosexual, white male, who writes Young Adult novels that are boy-centric, and I’m bothered by the slim definition of what it means to be a man. I was raised under very stereotypical precepts about manhood, and I was always bothered by them. Instead of watching sports, I read. Shyness overtook bravery. […]
Christa Desir and I are getting ready today to do a Webinar on the #SVYALit Project for NCompass Live. The session will be recorded and archived. We sat down and organized our thoughts for the Webinar and thought you might like to see what we’ve learned so far in the project, some of the titles […]
August! Such a loaded month…. for public librarians, there is one month left of summer before the range of kids go back to school, while for school librarians, there is days before they return to their libraries and media centers to start the school year…. And yet there are so many good books that […]
It’s time, one again, my friends for another edition of Trend Watch. I like to create a RA poster for my teen area. Don’t worry, I share. But I need your help. What trends have you been noticing this year in YA lit? Share with me your favorite trends and a couple of examples of […]
A large percentage of my student population is either African American or Multiracial with African American family members. Sometimes as many as 70% of my students can claim African American heritage. Finding books that appeal to these students’ sense of self can be difficult. Every year, I purchase more copies of books by Sharon Draper, […]
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