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Middle Grade Monday – YouTube for the Tween Crowd
Several years ago, the school district where I work finally unblocked YouTube, and a whole world of opportunity was opened. There is so much educational content available on YouTube, and much of it is useful to the tween crowd. I’d like to start by highlighting several channels that have incredibly useful educational content (with the [...]
Miss Mayhem by Rachel Hawkins with bonus guest post!
Harper Price is back, and just as fun as the first time! This week the sequel to Rachel Hawkins fabulous Rebel Belle hit the shelves, continuing the story of Harper Price, high school queen bee turned magical Paladin. Harper’s boyfriend David (former nemesis turned supernatural powerhouse that she is compelled to protect) is “fine?” Everything [...]
Friday Finds – April 10, 2015
This Week at TLT Sunday Reflections: The Songs that Saved TLT #FSYALit: Author Tessa Gratton Explores Faith in YA Fantasy Middle Grade Monday – Secure Your Own Oxygen Mask First This Song Will Save Your Life: Push by Matchbox Twenty, a guest post by author Leila Sales (Blog Tour) Book Review: None of the Above [...]
Middle Grade Monday – Secure Your Own Oxygen Mask First
“Secure your own oxygen mask first before helping others secure their oxygen masks.” If you’ve never flown, it’s part of the instructions given in the pre-flight safety review on commercial airlines. It does make sense, since you aren’t going to be much help to anyone else if you pass out from lack of oxygen. And [...]
Friday Finds – April 3, 2015
This Week at TLT Sunday Reflections: What I Learned While Trying to Put Together a Women’s History Display Take 5: Comic Book/Strip Creation Tools Middle Grade Monday – Reader’s Advisory and Reference Interviews with Tweens Book Review: Rad American Women A-Z by Kate Schatz and Miriam Klein Stahl Book Review: Beast in the Mirror by [...]
Middle Grade Monday – Reader’s Advisory and Reference Interviews with Tweens
I’ve had a couple of conversations in the library Twittersphere about Reader’s Advisory, and the lack of training we had in our Library School programs. I do remember having some brief training on doing reference interviews during my basic reference class. The thing I remember most from it was that it’s important to ask a [...]
Friday Finds – March 27, 2015
This Week at TLT Sunday Reflections: On Trying to Be Better Zombie Love: Why Are Zombie Things So Popular? (A guest post by Geri Diorio) Middle Grade Monday – Women in Fiction Book Review: We All Looked Up by Tommy Wallach #FSYALIT Girls Like Me Don’t: Thoughts on Things I Can’t Forget by Miranda Kenneally, [...]
Middle Grade Monday – Women in Fiction
Those of you hanging around the Internet this weekend, especially on Twitter, were probably inundated with the hashtag #womeninfiction. It seemed that all of the librarians, authors, and publishing people I follow came out of the woodwork to tweet and retweet about their favorite female fictional characters. Many of those were characters remembered with strong [...]
Friday Finds – March 20, 2015
This Week at TLT Sunday Reflections: Growing Children as Readers #FSYALit Discussion: Vivian Apple at the End of the World by Katie Coyle Middle Grade Monday – Mixing things up in the Middle School Library Book Review: Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli In the Most Recent Issue of SLJ Serving Full [...]
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