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Sunday Reflections: Tween Conversations
holidays, love your library, Sunday Reflections, tween conversations
|Fade In: Me, at reference desk on Valentines Day, working. Tween Boy, 12 years old, sitting next to me.Tween: Miss, so you and Mr. That Guy don’t celebrate Valentine’s Day?Me: Yep.Tween: Why not?Me: Just cause.Tween: But you like each other, right? Cuz he brings you dinner, and you hold hands and stuff.Me: Yep.Tween: So you […]
TPiB: Zombie Prom (by Stephanie W)
Teen Program in a Box, Teen Programming, TPIB, Zombie Prom, Zombies
|In 2010, I decided that I wanted to start having a program that was 1) after-hours, 2) for teens ONLY, and 3) in the Fall. And so…Zombie Prom was born. Zombie Prom is our annual (we’re heading into year #4) Teen Read Week celebration and our annual Teens ONLY party event of the year. So, […]
As part of our Harlequin Teen week, we are re-running this book review for Alice in Zombieland which originally appeared on October 16, 2012. Also today, Stephanie will be outlining her Zombie Prom activity for you. Book 2 in the series, Through the Zombieglass, will be released in October of 2013. This is a great […]
As you can see by their 2013 catalog list, Harlequin Teen has a lot of great titles coming out this year. And though we tried to cover them all, we simply couldn’t. So here is a look at 5 Harlequin Teen titles that you don’t want to let fly under your radar. Indigo Awakening (The […]
My Original Mobile MakerSpace for the Betty Warmack Branch Library in Grand Prairie, Texas After researching MakerSpaces to write some blog posts here, Christie Gibrich and I recently put together proposals (which were approved) for Pop-Up Mobile MakerSpaces at our libraries. We went with small, mobile and easy to take down and put away because […]
Do Kick Butt Heroines Really Need to Kick Butt? A guest post by author Dawn Metcalf
Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Dawn Metcalf, Harlequin Teen, Indelible, Katniss, Strong Heroines
|Strong female protagonists: we love them, we admire them, and we want more of them! Give us more Buffys and Xenas, more Katsas and Katnisses, more Trises and Tallys, and more like our beloved Keladrys of Mindelan. We want our girls to be active, fighting for their lives and the lives of their friends, to […]
Book Review: The Goddess Inheritance by Aimee Carter
Aimee Carter, Book Reviews, Goddess Test series, Harlequin Teen, Romance, The Goddess Inheritance
|I struggled to take a breath. She wasn’t listening. She didn’t understand- or maybe she did, and she just didn’t care. “What about my son? He’s Henry’s too, you know. And he’s your grandson. His name’s Milo, and he’s not even a week old. Why does he deserve to be raised by Cronus?” Rhea said […]
Yesterday, Maria Selke tweeted me a link to an article in which the Horrible Histories author Terry Deary proclaims that “libraries have had their day.” His belief seems to be this: people should not get to check out books for free and deprive authors of royalties and profits. As the wife of an artist, I […]
Book Review: The Girl in the Steel Corset by Kady Cross
Girl in the Steel Corset, Harlequin Teen, Kady Cross, Steampunk, steampunk chronicles
|“What have I done? she whispered. What you had to do. She felt his neck for a pulse, relief engulfing her as she found it. She hadn’t killed him. At least she wouldn’t hang. But she had still attacked the son of a peer of the realm and there would be consequences. Three jobs in three months and they’d all ended with […]
Listen to Your Hearts
Booklists, Harlequin Teen, Love Stories, Reader's Advisory, Romance, Valentine's Day
|Conversation hearts: that chalky sweet reminder of Valentine’s Day that lingers (in your molars) long after the chocolate has melted away. Their phrases are by turns charming and mystifying, but we love them just the same. So much so, that it’s time we do a little Reader’s Advisory love match for these desperately seeking sweets. […]
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