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College Daze: YA Novels that Tackle the Undergraduate Years | SLJ Spotlight
Three YA novels explore the limbo between high school and college.
This Week’s Comics: Winter Horse
It’s a TV Nation on the list this week: No less than eight titles are extensions of TV shows that are or were on TV. For the kids, BOOM! Studios has a new issue of Regular Show, while IDW has new My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. For the family, pick up Jim Henson’s The [...]
A Volcano Beneath the Snow
A Volcano Beneath the Snow: John Brown’s War Against Slavery by Albert Marrin Knopf, April 2014 Reviewed from final copy JOHN BROWN TAKE THE WHEEL is probably not how you expected this review to start, but let’s embrace the unexpected and just go with it. With four stars and some rave reviews happening, Albert Marrin’s [...]
Review of the Day: Neighborhood Sharks by Katherine Roy
Neighborhood Sharks: Hunting with the Great Whites of California’s Farallon Islands By Katherine Roy David Macaulay Studio – Roaring Brook (Macmillan) $17.99 ISBN: 9781596438743 Ages 7-12 On shelves now. When you’re a librarian buying for your system, you come to understand that certain nonfiction topics are perennial favorites. You accept that no matter how many [...]
SLJ Best Books Cover | December 2014
The cover of School Library Journal's December 2014 issue, featuring the Best Books of the year, as selected by SLJ editors. Art by Yuyi Morales.
YA A to Z: Jenny Torres Sanchez
Here’s a fun fact for you: The first author to ever work with me for anything here at Teen Librarian Toolbox, when it was just me and I had zero to no idea what I was doing, was then debut author Jenny Torres Sanchez. I met her at ALA as she was promoting her debut [...]
Pictures of the Week: The 2014 National Book Awards Ceremony
Ursula Le Guin is honored at the National Books Awards ceremony on November 19 and steals the show with her speech.
A Surprise Fiction Win and a Dazzling Le Guin at the National Book Awards 2014
On Wednesday, November 19, the National Book Foundation hosted the 2014 National Book Awards—the 65th annual awards—at the cavernous Capriani’s Wall Street in lower Manhattan. The evening featured a surprise win in fiction for Phil Klay’s Redeployment (Penguin Pr.), a first book of stories by a former U.S. Marine who was stationed in Iraq for […]
'Katniss and Mouse' Game in 'The Hunger Games: Mockingjay—Part 1'| Film Review
The hit “Hunger Games” film series has become more assured in its latest installment, with Katniss Everdeen returning as a teen embracing the role of rebel leader and engaging in a lethal game of "Katniss and Mouse" with President Rose.
YA A to Z: Sarah Rees Brennan
Why I chose Sarah Rees Brennan: So, I’m not sure if choosing Sarah Rees Brennan for ‘R’ is cheating or not. I know in my collection, she’s filed under ‘B’, and I certainly wouldn’t want to move her, since that puts her right next to Libba Bray. On the other hand, moving her to the [...]
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