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The Distance Between Lost and Found, part 2: Sex, Power, Politics and The Church
It’s interesting how two people can read the same book and have two different experiences with it. When Ally Watkins and I began talking about The Distance Between Lost and Found it became evident that different parts, different themes, stood out to each of us. So whereas Ally talked a lot about the the faith [...]
The Distance Between Lost and Found, part 1: Wilderness Survival and Youth Group Culture (by Ally Watkins)
As part of the Faith and Spirituality in YA Lit: A Discussion project, librarian Ally Watkins and I decided we would read some of the same books and write tandem posts about them. With that goal in mind, we both recently read The Distance Between Lost and Found by Kathryn Holmes. Here are Ally’s thoughts [...]
Book Review: The Bargaining by Carly Anne West
Publisher’s Book Description: The fact that neither of her parents wants to deal with her is nothing new to Penny. She’s used to being discussed like a problem, a problem her mother has finally passed on to her father. What she hasn’t gotten used to is her stepmother…especially when she finds out that she’ll have [...]
TPiB: Programming with Straws
@TLT16 Must. Get. So cool! Will have to repeat our Everything is Strawsome program again and add these to it. — Laura Renshaw (@LauraRenshaw1) January 30, 2015 When I was Tweeting about Strawbees on Twitter, Laura Renshaw sent me the above tweet about her library’s Everything is Strawsome program, an obvious play on the popular [...]
Faith and Sprituality in YA Lit: GLBTQ YA and Issues of Faith, a guest post by Robert Bittner
Writing about spirituality is a really complex thing and includes myriad ways of looking at the world and at institutions that purport to nurture the spiritual lives of youth, since we’re getting specific. My own history within institutionalized Protestant Christianity left me feeling marginalized, especially due to my identity as a young gay man (though [...]
Sunday Reflections: The Weight and Meaning of Words
When my twin nephews were born I was young, around 24. At that time, they were just starting to talk a lot in the news about Autism, it wasn’t as prevalent as it is now. I knew nothing about it, and while I still know next to nothing about it from a medical or scientific [...]
TPiB: Strawbees, a great tool for Makerspaces
My first weeks as the YA Services Coordinator at The Public Library of Mount Vernon and Knox County in Ohio, the children’s librarian came to me with an ad for these things called STRAWBEES and asked what I thought of them. And what I thought of them was that they looked pretty cool. So she [...]
#SVYALit: Author Christa Desir discusses the Voices and Faces Project
Four years ago, I participated in the first Voices and Faces Project survival testimonial writing workshop. Entitled “The Stories We Tell”, this is a two-day writing workshop geared toward survivors of rape, domestic violence, and sexual trafficking. I have long been affiliated with the Voices and Faces Project. I am one of the founding members [...]
Serving Teens Full T.I.L.T. : Diverse Teens, Diverse Needs (Eden Grey)
When talking about serving teens, we can’t neglect the need to talk about diversity because like all people groups, teens are a diverse population. We can talk in general terms about the development of teens, but at the end of the day each teen is a unique person shaped by a unique genetic combination and [...]
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