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Karen Jensen, MLS, August 20, 2012 | Life Happens Next, Stuck in Neutral, Terry Trueman
Earlier this month, I wrote about Terry Trueman’s Printz Honor Award winning title, Stuck in Neutral. Tomorrow, Trueman releases a sequel entitled Life Happens Next. Today, he writes about his sequel and is offering YOU a chance to win a signed copy. We are giving away 5 signed copies, find out how to enter at […]
Karen Jensen, MLS, August 17, 2012 | Uncategorized
I hope you were with us yesterday when we made our big announcement regarding Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Today I am happy to announce that the incredibly awesome author of many buffy the Vampire Slayer novels, Nancy Holder, will be joining us at some point in the next two months with a guest blog post. […]
Karen Jensen, MLS, August 16, 2012 | Buffy the Vampire Slayer
I’ve got an exciting announcement to make today. TLT will be co-hosting, along with Patricia from Patricia’s Particularity and Rachelia from Bookish Comforts, a two month long Buffy the Vampire Slayer appreciation event this fall called The Sunnydale Project! The event will be taking place on all three blogs from September 1 to October 31st, 2012 and each […]
Karen Jensen, MLS, August 14, 2012 | Booklists, NPR, Top 10s, YA Lit
Yesterday we talked about the 100 Best Young Adult Books list put together by NPR. Today, I am going to share with you 10 books that I would have liked to have seen on the list and why. Click here to see the Top 100 Young Adult Books on the NPR list Monster by Walter […]
Karen Jensen, MLS, August 9, 2012 | Autism, Stuck in Neutral, Terry Trueman
Sometimes life has a moment of kismet. Just yesterday one of those moments happened. As I sat at the Reference Desk a mom walked up and asked me where “the classics” were. She wanted her child, a daughter, to only read the classics so that she would increase her vocabulary. So we talked. I told this […]
Karen Jensen, MLS, August 8, 2012 | A. S. King, ARCs, Ask the Passengers, Contests
So, I read this book on Mother’s Day and had a moment. Maybe you read about it. If not, read about it here: A LETTER TO A. S. KING. Anyhow, I LOVE this book. Stephanie Wilkes loves this book. Christie Gibrich loves this book. We were all amazed by the writing and the message. So […]
Karen Jensen, MLS, July 13, 2012 | Friday Fill-Ins
Since today we are talking with author Kimberly Purcell about her book on human trafficking, Trafficked, our Friday Fill-Ins is all about the issues. Teen fiction dealing with issues is a tried and true tradition. So tell us, what is your favorite issues book? My favorite book dealing with a teen issue is _______________________ by […]
Karen Jensen, MLS, July 2, 2012 | Resources for Teens, Teen Volunteers
Today we have a guest post from Simone, a founding member of Volunteen Nation. Volunteen Nation is was created by teens, for teens to encourage volunteering and help teens find places to volunteer. Then, stop over and read about my library teen volunteer program here. If every library had a young adult librarian like Betsy […]
Karen Jensen, MLS, July 2, 2012 | 40 Developmental Assets, Teen Volunteers
Since today we have a guest post from the VolunTEEN Nation, I thought I would take a moment to tell you about my teen volunteer program and why I think every library should have one. Hooray for teen volunteers! I did not create my teen volunteer program, I inherited it – but I love it. […]
Karen Jensen, MLS, June 22, 2012 | Uncategorized
So, for those of you just tuning in, this is final post concerning the Building Bridges to Literacy for African-American Male Youth which I attended and presented at earlier this month. If you haven’t read the previous posts, you may feel a little confused, so I entourage to start here, go here, and then come […]
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