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10 Titles to Look for in 2014 – Karen’s Most Coveted
Collection Development, Elizabeth Fama, Fire and Flood, Victoria Scott
|Fire and Flood by Victoria Scott Victoria Scott is awesomesauce. The real deal. She totally floored me with her turn around in The Collector, which I thought I was going to hate because at first it seems shallow and superficial and bad female messaging, but then she pulled a 180 with her sexy, snarky demon […]
Here are 10 books I am excited for in 2014 *The Impossible Knife of Memory by Laurie Halse Anderson (January 7, 2014) I was fortunate enough to get and advanced copy of this, and it’s brilliant, and just as important as her other issue novels. This is an eye opening look at post traumatic stress […]
Robin’s Top 10 Books for 2013
Best of, Collection Development, Laurie Halse Anderson, Reader's Advisory, Top 10s, Year End Review
|So yes, to be honest, this is a somewhat odd list. These are the top 10 books I enjoyed in 2013. A couple of them are children’s books, a couple of them were published before 2013, a couple haven’t come out yet (and one I haven’t finished.) What can I say? Being a librarian is […]
Game For Your Life: Gamers in Teen Fiction (Kearsten)
Booktalk This, Collection Development, gaming, Reader's Advisory
|I’ve recently lost myself in playing The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim and it got me thinking about teen books about roleplaying games (video, computer, and tabletop), and the possible dangers/adventures that might come with an excessive amount of gaming. I’m still waiting to be sucked into the world of the Elder Scrolls, but so far, […]
Take 5: YA Lit for Rose Tyler fans (Doctor Who), a guest post by Amy Diegelman
Cinder, Collection Development, Color of Rain, Cori McCarthy, Doctor Who, Grave Mercy, Leigh Bardugo, Leviathan, Marissa Meyer, Reader's Advisory, Robin LaFevers, Rose Tyler, Scott Westerfeld, Shadow and Bone
|“The first nineteen years of my life, nothing happened.Nothing at all.” Image property of Megan Lara at Megan Lara Tumblr Rose Tyler.Companion, friend, comforter, badass. Resourceful, empathetic, brave, determined. I could go on for days and days about all Rose Tyler’s amazing qualities (and trust me, I’ll get back to that in a second) but […]
More YA Lit for Doctor Who Fans
Collection Development, Doctor Who, Reader's Advisory, Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave
|Because I have now spent 20 years of my life doing Reader’s Advisory, when I read a book I have a tendency at the end to then think to myself, “Now who would like this book?” And I have some go to pop culture references in part because they are the things that I love. […]
Take 5: Mind Bending Reads
Clive Barker, Collection Development, Mindbending Reads, Reader's Advisory, Take 5, The Thief of Always
|When Alice went down the rabbit hole, she entered a world full of twists and turns and the things that make you go hmmmmmm. That is also what happens in More Than This by Patrick Ness, which I reviewed earlier today. Here are 5 other awesome tales that keep you guessing as to what, exactly, […]
Take 5: Supernatural & Psychological Creepers
Collection Development, Psychological Thrillers, Reader's Advisory, Supernatural Thrillers
|Truth: after reading as much Lois Duncan as I could find, I spent a good part of my preadolescence convinced that I had a missing twin out there somewhere, and my telepathy was lingering in the back of my psyche, it was just taking its time in revealing itself. I credit those books with my […]
Who are we kidding, we all judge books by their covers. So here’s a cover sneak peek at some of the YA titles coming your way in 2014. More on the TLT Tumblr: December 2013 More Still More Some New (and Final) Books in Series and Trilogies Hey Look, There’s More More and tons from […]
Good Reads List of YA with Witches
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