MORE POSTS FROM OCTOBER 2014
It’s Teen Read Week! And one of the ways we’re celebrating at my library – The Betty Warmack Branch Library in Grand Prairie, Texas – is by having a “Photo Booth” where teens can make their own ALA READ posters. See . . . A colleague used the READ software we purchased from ALA […]
Karen was gracious enough to pick up a copy of this ARC for me at ALA this summer. She knows how interested I am in the justice system, most especially in the juvenile justice system, and I imagine she hoped this would be right up my alley. It is, but not for the obvious reasons. […]
Take 5: YA Horror 2014
Afterworlds, Amity, Collection Development, Daniel Kraus, Edgar Allan Poe, Horror, Poe, Reader's Advisory, Scott Westerfeld, Take 5
|It’s October, which means everything is pumpkin flavored or scented and you can’t change the channel without running across a horror movie. While I’m not big on horror movies – I haven’t been able to watch them ever since I saw The Ring because if the scary isn’t going to stay inside the TV box […]
Image Source: Amnesty International It was kind of an interesting week to be a woman. This week, Malala Yousafzai earned the Noble Peace Prize for her efforts to fight for female and youth education in Pakistan and around the world. It’s an amazing thing. I saw this wondrous feat championed on Twitter and I celebrated. […]
This Week at TLT Sunday Reflections: How I Came to Love School Uniforms, a discussion of girls, boys, and the dangerous message of dress codes Middle Grade Monday – “I thought of you when I read this” GLBTQ YA resources for building a collection and supporting teens App Review & Lego MakerSpace Fun: Giffer – […]
What are you willing to do to belong to a group? That’s what hazing is, being asked to do certain things in order to be admitted into a special group of people like a team, a club, or a sorority or fraternity. Often the things people are asked to do to prove they are worthy […]
Skin and Bones: talking about teens and eating disorders, a guest post by author Sherry Shahan
Eating Disorders, Sherry Shahan, Skin and Bones, Teen Issues
|Years ago I wrote a quirky short story about teens in an Eating Disorders Unit of a metropolitan hospital. Sort of “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” meets “Love Story.” Fast Facts: 2 out of every 100 students struggles with an eating disorder My then agent encouraged me to expand the short story (now Skin […]
Today author R. C. Lewis has written a guest post for us about her upcoming novel, Stitching Snow. Stitching Snow is a science fiction retelling of Snow White and it contains an element of #SVYALit, which she discusses with us today. In order to discuss this element, this guest post is SLIGHTLY SPOILERY. Please be […]
Because of time, space and money, my library MakerSpace is primarily Lego based. But that’s okay, there is a lot you can do with Legos. Last night I met with a group of Tweens and we used our Legos and an App to create Gifs. Most of the Tweens there didn’t know what a Gif […]
by Amanda MacGregor Check out these articles and websites for great suggestions on books to add to your collections and how to support GLBTQ youth. “LGTBQ and You: How to Support Your Students” by Lauren Barack at School Library Journal. From the article: “With 82 percent of LGBTQ students reporting verbal harassment, among other forms […]
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