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#MHYALit: How My Debut Year Got Me to Therapy and Why That’s a Good Thing by Annie Cardi
Today as part of our #MHYALit Discussion we are honored to host author Annie Cardi. This is her first of three posts that will appear here throughout the year as part of our discussion. We will have a new post every week day in January on the topic of Mental Health in YA Literature and […]
Sunday Reflections: Kicking of the Year of #MHYALit
***Trigger Warning: Suicide*** There was another post here. But today, I found out that one of my best friends from high school took his own life yesterday and I am raw and angry and sad and what I wrote seems so inconsequential. Every September 24th the texts would come without fail. You see, Curtis, Teri […]
Shelter from the Storms: How You Can Help Recovery Efforts
On Saturday, December 26th, the day after Christmas, I sat in my bathtub with my two crying girls and a dog as tornado sirens blared all around us. I would learn later that night that towns all around us were devastated by this storm, though this time we were spared. We were not so lucky […]
Book Review: Firsts by Laurie Elizabeth Flynn
Publisher’s Book Description: Seventeen-year-old Mercedes Ayres has an open-door policy when it comes to her bedroom, but only if the guy fulfills a specific criteria: he has to be a virgin. Mercedes lets the boys get their awkward, fumbling first times over with, and all she asks in return is that they give their girlfriends […]
Take 5: YA Lit with Great Female Friendships
Yesterday I shared with you a little bit about my feelings about people telling The Teen that she is “too sensitive”. It’s something that we obviously talk about a lot because I want to remind her that she can and should be able to express her feelings and stand up for herself. The other part […]
Sunday Reflections: Dear world, stop telling my teenage daughter she is too sensitive
We were driving to a friend’s house when we came to the Intersection of Doom; traffic almost always comes to a stop here as 3 billion cars try to navigate an interchange designed to meet the freeway needs of only about 1 billion cars. At the time, I’m sure it made sense in some civic […]
How Did You Do That? Photo Apps Version
I get a lot of email where people ask how I created such and such of a graphic. Today, I thought I would share some of my favorite tips, tricks, and filters. A decent portion of my current teen programming involves teaching teens how to do fun photo tricks and then to translate that into […]
Karen’s Top 15 Reads of 2015
Earlier this month Amanda shared her Favorite 15 reads of 2015. Today it is my turn. Since we try to cover as many books as possible here, we often don’t read the same books, though that is not a hard and fast rule. Sometimes I will read a book and want to talk to Amanda […]
App Review: FotoRus
It’s been a couple of weeks since I talked about a photo app, so you probably thought that my obsession with photos and photo apps was dying down – but no! It is alive and well, I have just been waiting for the right moment. Like now, now feels like the right moment to discuss […]
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