A Fuse #8 Production
March 31, 2014 by Karen Jensen, MLS
Each year, my trusty library club participants and I travel to one of our district’s elementary schools to participate in Read Across America by reading Dr. Seuss books in classrooms. This year’s trip had to be rescheduled due to an early closing for snow, but we finally went last Thursday. It’s a fun but exhausting […]
March 31, 2014 by Karen Jensen, MLS
One of the book-based movies that I’ve been looking forward to this year, That Guy and I met up with some of my former workers and a bunch of my teen volunteers to see Divergent opening weekend. Our group was a very mixed bunch- some of us (myself included) had read the entire trilogy, while […]
March 30, 2014 by Karen Jensen, MLS
Everything you hear about seems to be able planning ahead. Focus on the future. In work: plan ahead for the next summer reading after the current one just finished. Plan the next three months of programs as you just finished the current ones. Plan ahead for the next big program, the next big thing. In […]
March 28, 2014 by Karen Jensen, MLS
This Week at TLT Heather explores The Myth of Not Enough Book Reviews Under the Egg by Laura Marx Fitzgerald Killer Instinct by S. E. Green Middle Grade Monday – Ninja Librarian! ARCS to Movie DOUBLE GIVEAWAY!!! – Enter to win ARCs of Noggin and Grasshopper Jungle Canary, Sexual Violence and a Culture of Athlete […]
March 28, 2014 by Karen Jensen, MLS
Check out the Oct 2011 edition for more Occasionally I will read a review of a book and they will say things like they hated the book because the main character, a teenager, “made stupid decisions”, was “stupid”, was “whiny”, was “selfish”, or was “impulsive”. When I read these reviews I can’t help but think, […]
March 27, 2014 by Karen Jensen, MLS
As you may recall, our Tween reviewer Ceci LOVED The School for Good and Evil by Soman Chainani. When I got a copy of the next book, which comes out in April of 2014, I knew I had to get her to read it for us. There was squealing. She is reading it now and […]
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March 27, 2014 by Karen Jensen, MLS
Yesterday we had our second Google Hangout on Air as part of the #SVYALit Project. Author Carrie Mesrobian (Sex and Violence) moderated our virtual panel which included authors Stephanie Kuehn (Charm & Strange), Rachele Alpine (Canary) and Brendan Kiely (The Gospel of Winter). Below the video is a recap of the conversation with minute indicators […]
March 26, 2014 by Karen Jensen, MLS
I want to thank author Carrie Mesrobian for doing a great job of moderating this panel! And I want to thank authors Brendan Kiely, Rachele Alpine and Stephanie Kuehn for the great dialogue and their time. I will work on recapping it, but I do recommend viewing this discussion because a lot of great things […]
March 26, 2014 by Karen Jensen, MLS
Killer Instinct is described as Dexter for teens, and yet somehow it fails to draw you in the same way that the Dexter stories do. I will say that Dexter is very popular with several of my teens and I can see them clamoring for this book based on the subject matter alone. Read on […]
March 25, 2014 by Karen Jensen, MLS
This is not a movie review, but I am going to discuss one particular scene in the movie. So, if you haven’t seen the movie, be forewarned. In the book Divergent, Tris joins a faction that valued bravery and fearlessness – Dauntless. As part of the second stage of her training she is forced to […]
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