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Friday Finds – December 9, 2014
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 [...]
Middle Grade Monday – The Fight for Diversity
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 [...]
Friday Finds – December 12, 2014
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: [...]
12 Blogs of TLT: Terrible Trivium
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 [...]
12 Blogs (or not) of 2014: Two Bossy Dames
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 [...]
12 Blogs of 2014: Whatever
Most of the blog posts I read are linked to from Twitter. In fact, most of what I read from the Internet is linked to from one of the Twitter accounts I follow. I started following John Scalzi’s Twitter feed a few years ago when I noticed how often he was interacting with…say it with [...]
Middle Grade Monday: Cruelty and Community, J.A. White’s Thickety: A Path Begins
Over the Thanksgiving weekend I made it almost to the exact middle point of The Thickety: a Path Begins, by J.A. White (I stopped at chapter 14, for those of you who have read it.) This book showed up a while ago as part of our subscription from Junior Library Guild. I put it out [...]
Friday Finds – December 5, 2014
Subtitle: The Sprained Ankle Edition. I twisted my ankle helping with Winter Arts Night at school yesterday. Now, here I sit, swollen and purple foot propped up. Yay. Thankfully, it’s been a good week here at TLT. This Week at TLT YA A to Z: An Alphabet Soup of YA Authors – the list Sunday [...]
Middle Grade Monday – Road trips and audio books and lexile levels: reflections on The Screaming Staircase by Jonathan Stroud
I usually download multiple audio titles from my public library before I take a road trip, because I am an effective public library user. And also I find they keep me from getting sleepy and make the trip seem about half as long. For this trip (to my Mom’s house, for Thanksgiving) I ended up [...]
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