MORE POSTS FROM DECEMBER 2014
12 Blogs of 2014: R. David Lankes
12 Blogs of Christmas, 2014, Blogs, Librarianship, Libraries, Library Advocacy
|Truth be told, I’m not an avid blog reader. Since the demise of Google Reader, I’ve not devoted much time to finding a new tool to help me organize and track my blog reading. The blogs I do read belong to those people who I can count on to get me thinking and give me […]
Over the Thanksgiving weekend I made it almost to the exact middle point of The Thickety: a Path Begins, by J.A. White (I stopped at chapter 14, for those of you who have read it.) This book showed up a while ago as part of our subscription from Junior Library Guild. I put it out […]
Why Norman, OK Matters – a look at what happens when students come forward with rape allegations
#SVYALit, #SVYALit Project, Bullying, First Responder, First Responders
|As protestors gathered on Monday, November 24th waiting to hear the findings of the grand jury in Ferguson, a much smaller but still very important protest was happening around an entirely different matter in the city of Norman, OK. You see, three teenage girls had come forward and accused some of their school mates of […]
“There is no greater power on this earth than story.” ― Libba Bray, The Diviners (Trigger warning: car accidents/parental death) This Wednesday marks the two year anniversary of my dad being killed in a car accident on an icy Minnesota highway. Typing those words, sitting here looking at those words, it still seems surreal. Some days, those […]
Subtitle: The Sprained Ankle Edition. I twisted my ankle helping with Winter Arts Night at school yesterday. Now, here I sit, swollen and purple foot propped up. Yay. Thankfully, it’s been a good week here at TLT. This Week at TLT YA A to Z: An Alphabet Soup of YA Authors – the list Sunday […]
Angie Manfredi, @misskubelik on Twitter, is a very vocal advocate for feminism and diversity. She has a blog called Fat Girl Reading that you should definitely be checking out. In addition, she posts a lot all over the internet including at GuysLitWire and the ALSC blog. She is excellent when it comes to Middle Grade […]
The five of us in the Robot Test Kitchen all came to this project from different comfort levels with technology. Some of us couldn’t get enough of it, some of us were skilled at it, some of us were dragging our heels, and some of us were curious but trepidatious. Some of us were a […]
Two weeks ago, when I was doing my bi-monthly booktalks for a sixth grade class, I was booktalking Because they Marched by Russell Freedman. This book focuses on the fact that it was nearly impossible to register to vote if you were black before the Voters Rights Act. One of the 6th graders asked me, […]
Dear Well Meaning Adult, Maybe you’re a relative, maybe you’re a friend, but no matter what, it is so awesome that you want to buy books for teens this holiday season. If you don’t mind, can I give you a few tips about how to buy books that these teens that you so clearly care […]
We’re hard at work putting together the 2015 schedule for The #SVYALit Project. New information will be added here as we update details, but this is the basic schedule and books we’ll be talking about. You can find the project outline with goals and previous posts here. This year several amazing authors will be joining […]
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