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TRW: Romancing the Paranormal
Booklists, Paranormal Romance, Reader's Advisory, Teen Read Week, Top 10s
|As a teen librarian who knows their trends, you know that books like Twilight and The House of Night series are as popular with teens as chocolate and pizza. What you may not realize is that they have a long and distinguished history within literature dating back to 1764. Paranormal romance, a subset of romance that has […]
Book Review: Dear Teen Me edited by E. Kristin Anderson and Miranda Kenneally
Adolescent Development, Dear Teen Me, Teen Issues, Zest Books
|Every once in a while you come across an idea so genius you wish you had thought of it. One of those ideas is Dear Teen Me. Dear Teen Me began as a website and is now a book published by Zest Books. In Dear Teen Me, an eclectic variety of teen authors have written […]
Today as part of the Dear Teen Me blog tour, Christie G writes a letter to her teenage self. Dear Teen Me: author write letters to their teen sevles edited by E. Kristin Anderson and Miranda Kenneally. Dear Teen Me is published by Zest Books (ISBN: 978-1-9369762-1-8). Read my review here. Dear Teen Me, Reading, […]
Dear Teen Me, The phone is ringing and you know that Curtis is calling to tell you that she died. It is never good news when someone calls this early in the morning. There are rules about that it seems. For some reason, the two worst events in your life appear to have happened in […]
For months now we have been collecting artwork inspired by Books and created by Teens. Now – it’s time to vote!! One lucky winner will receive an awesome prize package as we celebrate teens, reading, and art. The artwork is so amazing!! To vote, stop by The Library as Incubator Project and see the amazing […]
This short story is a part of my ongoing efforts to raise awareness of the life threatening pregnancy illness that I suffered in three pregnancies, Hyperemesis Gravidarum. You can read more about my HG experiences in the HG Awareness portion of TLT. For more information and support please visit the Hyperemesis and Education Research Foundation […]
Buffy, off the screen and on to the page: seasons 8 and 9 (guest post by Maria Selke)
Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Comic Books, Graphic Novels, The Sunnydale Project
|Buffy the Vampire Slayer appeared on TV for 7 seasons, but that is not the end of the story. In a unique twist, Joss Whedon continued the story of the Buffy verse in comic book seasons. So far there has been a season 8 and 9. They are released as serial comics and then compiled […]
Remember how a while ago there were those books “everything I needed to know about life I learned in Kindergarten” or from Stark Trek? Well, you may be surprised to discover that the Animaniacs are the perfect framework for discussing young adult librarianship. For those of you who are young pups, the Animaniacs was an […]
Gratituous Duran Druan PicSAT Question: Duran Duran is to Teenage Karen as what author is to Librarian Karen? When I was in High School, I went with my two best friends to see the love of our lives in concert: Duran Duran. I remember when the show was over we sat there and all of […]
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