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It’s interesting to think how your preferences are shaped by your experiences, the type of media you’ve been exposed to, the mood you’re in, etc. And, unlike a lot of book reviewers, I don’t often read things that don’t somehow match my preferences. That said, these are *my* favorite reads from 2014. Your mileage may [...]
I am honestly delighted with this second entry in the distinctly well written Lockwood & Co. series by Stroud. It has so many elements to recommend it to my middle school readers! In case you missed it, I recently reviewed the first book in the series, The Screaming Staircase. When I opened the library’s latest book shipment, [...]
This Week at TLT Sunday Reflections: Why I Learned to Stop Thinking of My Patrons as “Stupid” Middle Grade Monday – 5 Christmas Movies to Share with your Tween The Tween and Friends Top 14 Reads in 2014 The Tween ARC Party: The Tween an friends look at some upcoming 2015 book releases Around the [...]
For personal reasons, I don’t support telling children that Santa (or the Tooth Fairy or Easter Bunny) is real.* On the other hand, a good story, whether based on historical narrative or cultural mythology, is a good story. By the time kids are in the ‘middle grades’ years they are generally aware that Santa is [...]
This Week at TLT Sunday Reflections: “I Saved Myself” Middle Grade Monday – The Fight for Diversity What’s new in LGBTQIA+ this winter Teens and Poverty, an updated book list It’s So Hard to Say Goodbye, a reflection on library life at a branch library Teen Issues: Teen Homelessness and NO PARKING AT THE END [...]
I struggle with finding books for my little friend Aaron. My good friends qualified as foster parents a few years ago and were given care of one of the sweetest, most delightfully loving babies I have ever had the opportunity to know. As time went on and it became apparent that Aaron’s family was not [...]
This Week at TLT Sunday Reflections: The Sanctuary of Stories Why Norman, OK Matters – a look at what happens when students come forward with rape allegations Middle Grade Monday: Cruelty and Community, J.A. White’s Thickety: A Path Begins 12 Blogs of 2014: R. David Lankes Amanda’s Top 14 of 2014 12 Blogs of 2014: [...]
If you haven’t noticed my intellectual crush on Anne Ursu by now, you haven’t been paying attention. Terrible Trivium is Anne Ursu’s Tumblr account and it is a resource for an amazing amount of thoughtful critique on issues that are close to my heart, including literature for children of all ages, book publishing, and many [...]
Every so often, something so wonderful, so amazing, comes along that we have to include it in a 12 Blogs post, even though it’s not technically a blog. In this case it started on Tumblr (technically a blog platform) and then morphed into a newsletter with an accompanying Twitter account. The brainchild of Margaret Willison [...]