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Karen Jensen, MLS, August 28, 2012 | Mental Health, Top 10s
My early years growing up in Sacramento were filled with lots of confusion and fear. At the time, I knew something wasn’t quite right with my father but the one time I did confine in a friend? I was labeled ‘bad’ and a bad example. Only later did I found out that most of the […]
Karen Jensen, MLS, August 10, 2012 | Friday Fill-Ins
Yesterday, we talked about the Printz Honor Award Winner Stuck in Neutral by Terry Trueman. It won this honor in 2001, more than 10 years ago. And in my post I mentioned that this is one of the “classic” teen titles that we need to be re-introducing to our new teen patrons. So here’s your […]
Karen Jensen, MLS, January 29, 2012 | Contests, Teen Fiction
I am very excited to introduce you to this creative and interesting work of short stories edited by Kelly Milner Halls. Every story has two sides, right? So what happened when Kelly Milner Halls asked 12 authors to write short stories that each told one side of parallel stories? You get Girl Meets Boy. Learn […]
Amanda MacGregor, February 7, 2017 | Reader's Advisory
As part of our 2017 Social Justice in Young Adult Literature project, we will be posting reading lists on various social justice-related subjects. Guest blogger Natalie Korsavidis pulled together this one on disabilities. We will mainly be focusing on books published after 2000. We encourage you to add any other titles you can think of in […]
Amanda MacGregor, January 13, 2016 | #MHYALit
As part of our 2016 Mental Health in Young Adult Literature project, we will be posting reading lists on various mental health-related subjects. Guest blogger Natalie Korsavidis pulled together this one on schizophrenia. We will mainly be focusing on books published after 2000. We encourage you to add any other titles you can think of […]
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