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This Week at TLT INTERVIEW+GIVEAWAY from YA Author Trisha Leaver (interview by Cuyler Creech) – still open for another few hours! Sunday Reflections: A Road Trip, A Book Festival and a Teachable Moment The #SVYALit Hangout on Hazing: January 28, 2015 Middle Grade Monday – Weeding in the Age of Online Subscriptions Book review: Cut [...]
I’ve been weeding a lot this year. I’m usually a gradual weeder. I take a section of the collection each year and go through it with a fine tooth comb looking for items that are missing pages, moldy, defaced, or severely out of date. How often do I find moldy items? I work in a [...]
This Week at TLT Sunday Reflections: Impoverished Youth: Over half of public school children now live in low income homes Bearing Witness to Violence, a guest post by author Eric Devine Middle Grade Monday – Publishing and Diversity Book review: Alex as Well by Alyssa Brugman In the most recent issue of SLJ Serving Full [...]
Thanks to a tweet from Anne Ursu, I was made aware of this list of all of the middle grade and YA fiction by African American authors published in the US in 2014. It’s a wonderful resource – you should have a look at it. I’ll warn you, though, before you click on it, that [...]
This Week at TLT Sunday Reflections: You can’t go home again? Breaking Tradition: BRUTAL YOUTH author Anthony Breznican on the fight against hazing Middle Grade Monday – On the Radar Amanda’s review roundup Take 5: 5 Thoughts I Had While Reading BRUTAL YOUTH by Anthony Breznican, reflections of a teen librarian In the most recent [...]
Here are some of the new titles coming out this spring that I am eagerly anticipating: Inherit Midnight by Kate Kaye Myers Billed as twisty, turny, non-stop action fun by reviewers, this looks to be right in my patrons’ sweet spot. Here is the publisher’s summary: Avery is the black sheep of the wealthy VanDemere [...]
This Week at TLT Sunday Reflections: Becoming a Statistic Snapshot: Portrait of a Library Today Middle Grade Monday – Targeting Non-Readers The Spiritual Lives of Teens in YA Lit, a discussion Book review: The Five Stages of Andrew Brawley by Shaun David Hutchinson with illustrations by Christine Larsen The Measure of Program Success? Probably not [...]
As a school librarian, I have the somewhat enviable position of having a captive audience. I see language arts classes on a regular basis for circulation as well as classes I work on research projects with, and I can get to know some of the students quite well. At my particular school, there are around [...]
Happy New Year! This Week at TLT Sunday Reflections: A Very Literary Christmas Serving Full T.I.L.T. (Teens in Libraries Today) Middle Grade Monday – The Whispering Skull by Jonathan Stroud Book Review: Pandemic by Yvonne Ventresca (The #SVYALit Project) Karen’s Guide to Working with Your Local Radio Station, adventures in creative marketing We (don’t) want [...]