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Take 5: It’s Elementary (YA Fiction for fans of Sherlock)
Collection Development, Mysteries, Reader's Advisory, Sherlock
|While reading The Naturals by Jennifer Lynn Barnes, I couldn’t help but think that fans of the BBC Sherlock (or the CBS show Elementary) would enjoy reading it. Which got me thinking: What other YA books would Sherlock fans enjoy? Below is a list of 10 titles that fit the bill and I recommend. You […]
Take 5: Mouth Watering Reads (Foodie Fiction for Teens)
Bittersweet, Collection Development, Dairy Queen, Foodie Fiction, Hope Was Here, Joan Bauer, Reader's Advisory, She's So Money, Tantalize
|Foodie Fiction are those yummy reads that somehow manage to incorporate food into the story. Your main character can work at a restaurant. They can bake. They can participate in a cookie exchange. (I did that once and I am really sorry to everyone that had to eat my cookies). Or, as in the case […]
Take 5: Important Books on a Difficult Topic – Sexual Violence in the Lives of Teens
Christa Desir, Collection Development, Fault Line, Laurie Halse Anderson, Matthew Quick, Reader's Advisory, Sex and Sexuality, Sexual Violence, Speak, Take 5, Teen Issues, Trish Doller
|When I lost my baby, I went into a deep, dark hole. The only thing that helped me claw my way out of the darkness was to read books about other women having a miscarriage. It helped me know that I wasn’t alone, that what I was feeling was perfectly normal, and that I could […]
STEM Girls: Books with girls rocking science and math
Collection Development, Math, Reader's Advisory, Science, STEM Education, Strong Heroines
|Earlier this week I reviewed 3:59 by Gretchen McNeil, a book that has a main character, a girl, that is basically a physics wiz. A lot of times, female main characters are into fashion or music and even sometimes sports. But a lot of times, if our main characters are into academics they are also […]
Take 5: Fight the (Abuse of) Power – a look at the role of government in YA fiction
Collection Development, Government, Reader's Advisory, Teen Issues
|Earlier today, I talked about Blackout by Robison Wells and how it made me think about discussing the role of the government in our lives with teens. Technically, almost any dystopian will do that by definition. But here are 5 titles that I think will prompt some compelling discussion about the role and limitations (and […]
Booktalk This! Not your mother’s bedtime storytelling (Nontraditional Books and Stories for Teens)
Booklists, Booktalk This, Booktalking, Booktalks, Collection Development, Reader's Advisory, Realistic Fiction
|Though storytelling comes in all forms, I tend to spend the majority of my reading life with fiction told from a 1st or 3rd person point of view, and a “first this happened, and then this, then this…” chronology. Yes, these stories are often wonderful, but I find that sometimes it’s intriguing to mix things […]
Back to School!
Back to School, Collection Development, Freshmen, Reader's Advisory, Seniors, study skills, Teen Programming
|We can’t deny it any more: It is August. It is technically still summer, but many of us are now thinking back to school. In fact, I even went out and bought the Tween a few school supplies. The list is so long and expensive it helps to spread it out over a couple of […]
What are YOU waiting for?
Collection Development, Events, Movies, Popular Culture, Professional Development, Reader's Advisory, YA Lit
|There are a lot of exciting projects – movies, books, video games – as well as conferences and weeks of celebration coming up. We want to know which ones you are most excited about. We also want to know which ones we might be missing – please chime in in the comments section!August Movie: The […]
Take 5: Teenage Assasins in YA Lit
Collection Development, Reader's Advisory, Teenage Assassins, Trends
|One of the big trends in teen lit for 2013 is without a doubt teenage assassins. In addition to Boy Nobody by Allen Zadoff, here is a look at 5 titles that incorporate this trend, presented to you in alphabetical order by author’s last name – because I’m a librarian. Nobody by Jennifer Lynn Barnes […]
As I began my 2013 reading, I kept noticing an interesting trend: really rich kids dominating teen fiction. The reason it stood out to me was because it doesn’t seem to reflect the reality of our current economic situation. The news keeps discussing how more and more people are sliding out of the middle class […]
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