Robin Willis
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Friday Finds: November 16, 2018
This Week at TLT What’s New in LGBTQIA+ YA November and December 2018 MakerSpace: Taking Bristlebots on the Road or, How I keep re-defining and re-purposing a simple Bristlebot activity to get teens making Book Review: The Resolutions by Mia Garcia Cultural Humility in Librarianship: What is it? (a guest post by Adilene Rogers) Sunday […]
Friday Finds: November 9, 2018
This Week at TLT New and forthcoming YA and MG to know about, including a middle grade debut, a dead female DJ and an epic fantasy Cindy Crushes Programming: Hosting a Stranger Things themed Escape Room Book Review: This Is What It Feels Like by Rebecca Barrow Supporting our Latinx Readers An Open Letter to […]
Friday Finds: November 2, 2018
This Week at TLT Book Review: Pulp by Robin Talley Things I Never Learned in Library School: Decolonizing Our Public Libraries Blog Roll Call: Diversity in YA Literature, a list of resources to help librarians diversify their shelves Guest Post: Author Karen Rivers on Writing a Love Story Book Review: This Is Kind of an […]
Guest Post: Author Karen Rivers on Writing a Love Story
Here is one thing that I know: It is easier to imagine a perfect love story than to live one, and goodness knows that I’ve tried. Some days I think I’ve been lucky, to have had so many opportunities to not just fall in love, but to stay there. Or to walk away. […]
Friday Finds: October 26, 2018
This Week at TLT #ReadForChange: Women Conquer and Dragons Slay in Elana K. Arnold’s Damsel Literacy: Privilege or Right? Highlights from the 2018 Virginia Hamilton Multicultural Literature Conference , a guest post by Lisa Krok What’s New in LGBTQIA+ YA October 2018 Penguin Random House 2019 Showcase Library Journal’s Equity in Action: Doing a Diversity […]
Friday Finds: October 19, 2018
This Week at TLT New and forthcoming YA and MG to know about Collecting Comics: Comics take on addiction, STEM, space and more in October, by Ally Watkins Book Review: Home and Away by Candice Montgomery Circulation Statistics are an Imperfect Measure of Who We are and What Libraries Do Sunday Reflections: It’s So Hard […]
Friday Finds: October 12, 2018
This Week at TLT Wrestling with some truths in the movie “The Hate U Give” Writing Outside Your Own Life (and Not Chickening Out), a guest post by Jacqueline West Book Review: The Collectors by Jacqueline West “All American Boys” Authors Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely Discuss Racism, White Privilege, and Censorship in Today’s Civic […]
Inspiration from the Unwanted Attention to a Double Life
Writing about being twins was life changing for Ashley and Leslie Saunders.