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This Week at TLT Sunday Reflections: That’s Me in the Corner, Losing My Confidence (as a Reviewer) Middle School (Is a Battlefield) Monday: Guest post by Anna Staniszewski One Book, Two Radically Different Opinions: An experiment in reading Book Review: The Way I Used To Be by Amber Smith Book Review: Sea Change by Frank […]
Middle School is a Battlefield by Anna Staniszewski People often ask me why I write about middle school, and it’s actually fairly simple. For me, middle school was like a battlefield. Every day I had to maneuver around the landmines of saying the wrong thing, doing the wrong thing, and even eating the wrong thing. One little […]
This Week at TLT Sunday Reflections: Making it Unaffordable to Walk in Someone Else’s Shoes, what the death of the mass market paperback means to struggling teens Guidebook to Middle School (Monday): Author Karen Rivers Guest Post Take 5: Maker Dates Book Review: Liars and Losers Like Us by Ami Allen-Vath You Won’t Find Girl […]
Editorial note: A few months ago, I featured Karen’s The Girl in the Well is Me on MSM. It was one of my favorite titles I read last year, and it is finally available for the rest of you to read and enjoy! We invited Karen to guest post today on her own middle school experiences and […]
This Week at TLT Sunday Reflections: Still Life By Teen, Kind of (Inspired by STILL LIFE WITH TORNADO by A. S. King) Middle School Monday – Author Victoria Schwab Accepting Anxiety, a guest post by Jessica Spotswood Book Review: The Serpent King by Jeff Zentner Teen lives in documentaries #MHYALit Reading Lists: Anxiety, a guest […]
Today is release day for Jeff Zentner’s first novel, The Serpent King. In the spirit of full disclosure, I was invited to a lovely dinner hosted by his publisher where I was able to speak with him about his novel and learned some very interesting tidbits. The first of these is that he wrote most of The Serpent […]
After about 4 years of friendship on social media, I finally got to meet Victoria Schwab this weekend. I shouldn’t complain; I have a wonderful local book store which is able to attract some of the biggest and brightest stars of the writing world as well as some of the more obscure. On the other […]
This Week at TLT Sunday Reflections: Rebooting YA Services Middle School Monday – Gruesome Book Talks Book Review: The Girl Who Fell by S.M. Parker Sense Shaming in YA: How Could She Let that Happen? a guest post by and interview with S.M. Parker “Eating Disorder” Books: How They Only Show Half of the Struggle, […]
It’s Friday afternoon – the last hour of the school day – and you’re about to be visited by a group of ‘too cool for school’ 8th graders, what do you do? Pull out the gruesome books; the ones whose stories will really make them squirm. First, it will hold their attention long enough to […]