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Welcome to March! We’re delighted to partner once again with our friends at The Library as Incubator Project for National Craft Month. Throughout March, we will be test-driving craft projects that riff on this year’s Teen Summer Reading Program, “Beneath the Surface.” Tune into the Library as Incubator Project and Teen Librarian Toolbox every Friday […]
TPiB: Leaving Kansas for OZ- Oz the Great and Powerful
Collages, Costumes, Crafts, Jewelry, Oz the Great and Powerful, Shrink Charms, TPIB, Uncategorized
|So, my teens and I are so over anxiously awaiting the release of Oz The Great and Powerful so badly you cannot believe it. In fact, one of them has his birthday that day, and my teens start their spring break on the 7th, and they are begging me to go to the midnight showing. […]
Breaking Down the Walls: Getting the Reader (Completely) Involved (a guest post by author Kimberly Pauley)
Choose Your Own Adventure, Crowd Sourcing, Internet, Kimberly Pauley, Sucks to Be Me
|I have decided to do something crazy and it’s all because of the dedicated fans who have emailed and facebooked and twittered at me for the last two years asking when the next Sucks to Be Me book will be available (some on a weekly basis!). I’m finally continuing the award-winning series with the direct […]
You or your alt, only 1 will survive. In Chapman’s vision of the future, families give birth to a child who has an “alt” in the world; another child that is a combination of the two families DNA. At some point, you are activated and then you have 30 days to kill your alt or […]
Two sisters, bound by impossible choices, are determined to protect each other—no matter the cost. James’s frozen face melts into a smile. “Do you want to know the trick to getting in trouble under the watchful eye of a psychic?” I think of the nailed-shut windows. I think of Clarice. I think of the two, […]
National Eating Disorders Awareness Week: True confessions of a recovering anorexic, body image and YAlit
Body Image, National Eating Disorders Awareness, Teen Issues
|I am anorexic. You wouldn’t know that to look at me, but they say it is something you never fully recover from – so I guess I am not recovered, but am recovering. I eat now. Sometimes too much and sometimes for the wrong reasons. I am definitely in no way slim any more. But […]
TPiB: TTW13- Check In at the Library
gaming in libraries, Movies, Programming, Teen Tech Week, TPIB
|I don’t know why Teen Tech Week always sneaks up on me. Maybe because March is always when summer reading planning seems to be at it’s fullest. Or maybe because it always seems to fall during my school systems’ spring breaks. Or it’s because I’m waiting for spring. Who knows. All I know is I’m […]
“Marcus,” he said. “Have you noticed how messed up everything is today? How we put a ‘good’ president in the White House and he kept right on torturing and bombing and running secret prisons? How every time we turn around someone’s trying to take away the Internet from us, make it into someone kind of giant stupid shopping mall […]
TPiB: Steampunk in the Library
cassandra clare, cherie priest, hg wells, Kady Cross, Kenneth Oppel, Scott Westerfeld, Steampunk, TPIB
|“I cannot imagine how the clockwork of the universe can exist without a clockmaker.” – Voltaire Steampunk: Steampunk is a subgenre of speculative fiction, usually set in an anachronistic Victorian or quasi-Victorian alternate history setting. It could be described by the slogan “What the past would look like if the future had happened sooner.” It […]
Steampunk 101 with author Suzanne Lazear
Charmed Vengeance, Innocent Darkness, Steampunk, Suzanne Lazear, The Aether Chronicles
|Steampunk has been around for decades, but has really gained popularity in the past few years. But what exactly is that Steampunk stuff anyway? Imagine a world where steam and natural gas, not coal and electricity, are the primary power sources. Steampunk transports us to a place abounding with airships, gas lamps, gears, cogs, and […]
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