MORE POSTS FROM NOVEMBER 2016
This Week at TLT Sunday Reflections: My Teens Will be Voting in the Next Presidential Election, What are We Teaching Them? #MHYALit: How to Help, by Ally Watkins Middle School Monday: Let Students Do It #MHYALit: For Whom The Book Is Written: Addressing Intended Audience in YA Novels about Mental Illness, a guest post by […]
Today we are honored to host another #MHYALit Discussion post, this one about addiction. Author Heather Smith Meloche writes about addiction in her new Putnam release, RIPPLE. You can read all the #MHYALit posts here or click on the #MHYALit tag. When I finished writing my novel, Ripple – a contemporary YA about two teens […]
Trigger warning: details of suicide “Hey…I’ve got some bad news,” my brother said. His voice sounded stiff and hesitant over the phone. “It’s about Lee.* She’s dead…She killed herself.” My mind reeled. Wait. What? She was only thirty something. My cousin’s wife had been through some tough times but this? Suicide? “What happened?” I […]
Last week, I reviewed Paper Mario: Color Splash, which had some turn-based elements. This week, XCOM 2 is a full turn-based strategy game, and is probably one of the few remaining widely anticipated video games of 2016. YouTube Trailer: Platform: PC, Xbox One, PS4 Rated: T for blood, use of tobacco, and violence. Honestly, […]
We have spent the last year at The Public Library of Mount Vernon and Knox County (OH) turning our Teen Space into a Teen MakerSpace. Today on School Library Journal I’m sharing with you 11 things we have learned 1 year later. The Beginning of Our Journey Here is the original article in School Library […]
When we write, we write for an audience. That audience may be ourselves, our friends, people whom we want to understand us, a broader audience, or ourselves when we were younger. But whenever we sit down to write, especially for publication, there’s an intended audience. The way I see it, there are generally two […]
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