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This Week at TLT Book Review: Where We Go From Here by Lucas Rocha RevolTeens: A Letter of Apology to the Class of 2020, by Christine Lively Tween and Teen Programming Ideas: Online Scattegories is the Word Game You Need Post-It Reviews: Nonfiction about protests, refugees, activism, the water in Flint, and more Join us […]
In this entry, we provide links to the books that we blogged about over the last year that have won recent awards and honors in the field of children’s and young adult literature. We invite you to explore our previously written blog entries for these winners and honor books.
In Keiko Ishihara's new series a village girl must take the place of the dead prince to save her friends and the whole kingdom., But she quickly learns that there's more to playing the role than cutting her hair and changing her clothes, and any mistakes could prove fatal.
This emotional read shows that already complicated relationships can become more complicated when HIV is involved, but that that diagnosis doesn't spell doom and gloom for the characters.
I’m giving away a $50 gift cards to some of my favorite independent bookstores.
They say, write what you know. And if what you know is how to lie on a steel table, your head screwed into place, a laser pointed at your face, that might be a good place to start. We live in dark times. How dark are they? SO dark that a book about a kid with a potentially deadly eye cancer is the bit of lighthearted levity we all need and crave.
A letter of apology to the Class of 2020
Do you want to play a game? The online Scattegories list generator is the tool for you!
Diamond Distributors is shipping again with new titles from DC Comics and Papercutz featured this week.
Author Eoin Colfer was on Good Morning America talking about the upcoming Artemis Fowl film.
As of yesterday, The Eric Carle Museum is presenting its first virtual exhibit. Called ART in PLACE: Social Distancing in the Studio, the show consists of 21 picture-book artists, isolating in their studios, working in the midst of a pandemic. Or, as Executive Director Alexandra Kennedy puts it, "We may all be in isolation—but these artists are helping to make sure we don’t feel isolated."
While I usually keep my Yarn talk for the Yarn site, it seems like a good time to let you know about a few recent episodes you might like. Trying something a bit different here. Normally we talk with authors and illustrators, but in this episode we go behind the scenes of an independent bookstore […]
Quick reviews of recent books. Less book mail and less library access means less reading, but what I have read has been really good.
From an economic standpoint, it would make a lot of sense for publishers to look at the current shift from physical to electronic galleys and say, "Okay. This is how we're doing it from now on." But is that for the best?
Join TLT's Karen Jensen and her teenage daughter as they lead a virtual book discussion of The Burning with author Laura Bates.
I've always been a big fan of this book, but as we have learned time and time again, just because I like something, that is NO indication that Kate will as well.
Colby: I’ve worked with Joanna Parzakonis the last handful of years on Nerd Camp Michigan. Joanna and her husband Derek are the co-owners of the independent bookstore Bookbug in Kalamazoo, Michigan. During the stay at home order in Michigan, I have found myself worried about how this order might be impacting my favorite bookstore. I […]
S.K. Ali and Aisha Saeed talk about the anthology they've edited, Once Upon an Eid.
Can you guess the classic children’s book by its scathing one-star review on Goodreads?
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