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Award-winning young adult author and screenwriter Ned Vizzini died Thursday, December 19, in New York City. He was 32. According to the LA Times, the NYC medical examiner reports the cause as suicide. He will be remembered as a passionate and talented storyteller, his colleagues and fans say.
Since 2006, School Library Journal has solicited holiday memories from authors and illustrators. In this edition, our eighth, we feature contributions from Jenni and Matt Holm, Steven Kellogg, and A.S. King.
Remember the myth of King Midas, whose touch turned everything to gold? The Midas Flesh takes that story and runs with it: Midas never had a chance to have second thoughts, because everything that touched anything he touched turned to gold as well, until the entire earth was just one lump of gold. Thousands of [...]
The Carnegie Corporation of New York, The New York Times, and the American Library Association honored the 10 recipients of this year’s I Love My Librarian Award at a reception December 17 in New York City.
What roars in like a lion every spring? Teen Tech Week (TTW), of course! There's no time like the present to start your preparations. TTW, which is sponsored and supported by the Young Adult Library Service Association (YALSA), is March 9-14. This year's theme is DIY@yourlibrary.
In her final Fresh Paint column, teen services librarian April Layne Shroeder reflects on the accomplishments of Loudoun County’s Gum Spring Library branch's inaugural teen-only space.
The deadline has been extended to Feb. 3, 2014, for a number of American Library Association (ALA) awards and grants, including the Scholastic Library Publishing Award, and the Sullivan Award for Public Library Administrators Supporting Services to Children.
Celebrated author Neil Gaiman, complete in Victorian garb, gave a special reading of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol on December 15 at New York Public Library's Stephen A. Schwarzman Building. Following edits and prompts Dickens himself used for readings of the classic tale, Gaiman entertained a packed crowd just in time for the holiday season.
At-risk youth have a new champion in e. E. Charlton-Trujillo—author, filmmaker, and, since the launch of her nonprofit Never Counted Out, a pioneer in empowering kids through the arts. What began as a DIY road trip to talk to kids unexpectedly inspired so much more, she says.
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