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Friday Finds: September 9, 2016
This Week at TLT Sunday Reflections: A Day in the Life Serving Teens – This is what I wish you knew about teenagers A Kirstin Cronn-Mills Book Giveaway for Teachers, Librarians, and Students What’s New in LGBTQIA+ YA September and October 2016 Middle School Monday: DIY Book Posters by Julie Stivers Book Review – Pasadena […]
#MHYALit Guest Post – Survivor’s Guilt: The Aftermath of Grief by Sherri L. Smith
When he killed himself, we didn’t know what to do. It was the first suicide to touch my life. I didn’t know him very well. He was tall and lanky and reminded me of that actor, Vince Spano. He had warm brown eyes, brown hair, and an easy smile. I’d liked him instantly. He’d seemed […]
Book Review – Pasadena by Sherri L. Smith
I said yes to an ARC of Sherri L. Smith’s new novel Pasadena solely on the basis of my deep enjoyment of her last one, The Toymaker’s Apprentice. She is a marvelously gifted author, but I had no idea what I was getting into. What Smith has produced this time, in Pasadena, is a devastatingly honest exploration of […]
Middle School Monday: DIY Book Posters by Julie Stivers
DIY Book Posters for the Win. I’m almost embarrassed to post this because it is so easy! So simple. But, then again, who doesn’t love hearing about something EASY we can do with disproportionately huge benefits? When I started at a new school last year, substantial updates were necessary to the space. I needed COLOR […]
Friday Finds: September 2, 2016
This Week at TLT Sunday Reflections: Wrestling with Nate Parker and the Narrative of Forgiveness Middle School Monday: Full of Beans by Jennifer Holm (plus bonus interview!) Book Review: Georgia Peaches and Other Forbidden Fruit by Jaye Robin Brown Video Games Weekly: Ori and the Blind Forest TPIB: Photo Word Bookmarks (Or Instagram Photo Booth […]
Middle School Monday: Full of Beans by Jennifer Holm (plus bonus interview!)
Jennifer L. Holm has written a superb follow up to the Newbery Honor winning Turtle in Paradise. While the earlier novel focuses on Turtle as she travels to Key West to live with her cousins in 1935, this novel focuses on the daily life and adventures of her cousin Beans in 1934. Beans is a […]
Friday Finds: August 26, 2016
This Week at TLT Sunday Reflections: Five Words We Should All Stop Using Middle School Monday: Reading in Class. Minus the Worksheet or Report. Just, you know, READING. By Julie Stivers #MHYALit: Who Cares for the Caregivers? #MHYALit Book Review: Girl in Pieces by Kathleen Glasgow #MHYALit: Seven Myths About Mental Illness, a guest post […]
Middle School Monday: Reading in Class. Minus the Worksheet or Report. Just, you know, READING. By Julie Stivers
Disclosure: I love writing. I love when students write. One of the goals for my library this year is helping to integrate more creative writing opportunities into multiple classrooms. Not for a grade or to tick off a curriculum line, but for the incredible social and emotional benefits of encouraging student expression. But, here’s the […]
Things Kate Milford Remembers from Middle School: The Left Handed Fate Blog Tour
Today, in honor of her August 23 release of The Left Handed Fate, Kate Milford joins us to share some of her own remembrances from Middle School: Things that I remember from middle school, in no particular order: I always seemed to wear the wrong clothes; I discovered Susan Cooper’s Dark is Rising series; I […]
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