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Book Review: Holy Spokes: a biking bible for everyone by Rob Coppolillo (with a TPiB)
Bikes, Book Reviews, Cycling, Health and Fitness, Holy Spokes, Nonfiction, Teen Issues, Teen Nonfiction
|It’s January, which means your TV is being flooded with weight loss ads and 1 out of every 1 person it seems is making a resolution to lose weight and get in shape. Cycling is a great way to do that. When The Mr. and I were dating, we spent a lot of time – […]
Dear Teens, I promise to add books to the library collection that make me uncomfortable, if I think you might like them. I promise to add books to the library collection that I love, if I think you might like them. I promise to add books to the library collection that I know you want […]
Because Love is a Deadly Disease: The REQUIEM ARC giveaway
ARCs, Contests, Delirium, Dystopian, Lauren Oliver, Love Stories, Requiem
|So, here’s the situation. If you followed TLT last year, you know that I LOVE LOVE LOVE the Delirium series by Lauren Oliver. I woke up in the middle of the night and wrote here a love letter. I dragged my family across the city to meet author Lauren Oliver. Christie went to ALA Annual […]
For the next few weeks at TLT, if it’s Friday, that means it is time for Teens Talk. We will be interviewing teens about what they like about their library, what they want from their library, and more to help us all learn more about our target audience. Today we talk with Lucy, a teenager […]
Legend by Marie Lu was a pretty unconventional choice of reads for me in the sense that it has some pretty strong romantic undertones (you know… actual human feelings.) But I needed to pull the car out of the ditch and read something with some emotional depth rather than just for a good story. Fortunately […]
Salon and the Shushing Librarian
Librarian Stereotypes, Library Behavior, PEW Report, Quiet Spaces, Salon, Shushing, Teen Spaces
|Things I Never Learned in Library School: To Shush or Not To Shush? Just the other day I mentioned that I thought, perhaps, maybe, there should be a little more shushing in the library. I know – it seems such a treasonous thought and sets back the fight against stereotypes 100s of years. See: […]
TPiB: The Fairy Garden (inspired by Return to Me by Justina Chen)
Book Reviews, Fairies, Justina Chen, Programming, Return to Me, TPIB
|If you have visited a nursery lately, you have probably seen container gardens put together in whimsical ways and called “fairy gardens”. There are tons of places in stores and online that sell items to make your own, but they are not cheap. I have been wanting to make one for a while now and […]
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tUYlrjgZLY] You can use iMovie to create fun movie trailers that will work as commercials for your library, an individual program or your SRP. Here’s a tutorial on how to use it. http://www.wondershare.com/imovie/create-movie-trailer-in-imovie.html [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIumHiKZoDA]
Graphic Novel Review: Once Upon a Time Machine, reviewed by Karen D
Book Reviews, Fairy Tales, Graphic Novels, Once Upon a Time Machine
|Once Upon a Time Machine edited by Andrew Carl, Chris Stevens, and Jason Rodriguez NetGalley Graphic Novel Anthology Oct. 2012 Book Jacket Summary Fairy tales have fueled our dreams and fired our imaginations for centuries. Step inside a time machine built by a collection of today’s finest storytellers, and enter a range of futures where […]
Cover Reveal: Stained by Cheryl Rainfield
Cheryl Rainfield, Contemporary Fiction, Stained, Teen Issues
|In this heart-wrenching and suspenseful teen thriller, sixteen-year-old Sarah Meadows longs for “normal.” Born with a port-wine stain covering half her face, all her life she’s been plagued by stares, giggles, bullying, and disgust. But when she’s abducted on the way home from school, Sarah is forced to uncover the courage she never knew she had, […]
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