Good Comics for Kids
June 30, 2014 by Karen Jensen, MLS
I’m on my way up north to spend my annual week hanging out with this guy: Yes, he’s enormous, but technically still a middle grader. He’s just on the cusp, though, as he will be entering 7th grade this August. I’m excited to see what he’s into this year. For a look at what […]
June 29, 2014 by Karen Jensen, MLS
As a child, I studied Suzuki method classical piano. I was technically proficient and was able to feel what the seemingly ancient pieces needed, pulling my own emotions out into my fingers and onto the keys. I was pretty good. But I disliked practicing, and once I progressed enough that it stopped being easy, my […]
June 27, 2014 by Karen Jensen, MLS
What if the worst thing you ever did was unforgivable? Davy’s world fell apart after she tested positive for Homicidal Tendency Syndrome. She was expelled from her school, dumped by her boyfriend, abandoned by friends, and shipped off to a camp that turns HTS carriers into soldiers. Davy may have escaped, but the damage has […]
June 27, 2014 by Karen Jensen, MLS
This Week at TLT Sunday Reflections: I’m on my way, I’m on my way . . . to ALA Find out what’s on Karen’s agenda for this year’s ALA Annual Conference in Las Vegas – only friendly stalkers, please. Luck be a Lady Tonight: Christie’s ALA 14 Highlights You can also stalk Mz. Christie! (same […]
June 26, 2014 by Karen Jensen, MLS
Maybe it was because it was on Friday the 13th.Maybe it was the heat, or all of the 5th grade classes I talked it up to.Maybe it was those 4th graders who snuck in under the age limit.Whatever it was, the Minecraft hangout and building contest that I hosted was both one of the biggest […]
June 25, 2014 by Karen Jensen, MLS
We live in a fortunate time. Once upon a time, homosexuality was viewed as either a disease or else an abnormality; things have certainly been changing as hatred toward homosexuality, AKA anti-gay discrimination, may not be viewed as abnormal but certainly as backward or retrogressive. This is a good thing. As a young gay man […]
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June 24, 2014 by Karen Jensen, MLS
Publisher’s Description: A deadly pandemic, a budding romance, and the heartache of loss make for a stunning coming-of-age teen debut about the struggle to survive during the 1918 flu. For Cleo Berry, the people dying of the Spanish Influenza in cities like New York and Philadelphia may as well be in another country–that’s how far […]
June 24, 2014 by Karen Jensen, MLS
Now, while I do go to conferences for sessions and learning, and comradere and advanced reading copies, I also go to further my collection habit. Not funko pop figures (although that’s getting pretty bad) but signed books. And conferences are one of the best places as librarians understand my addiction! While I think that the […]
June 23, 2014 by Karen Jensen, MLS
Are you a Middle Grade fan going to ALA Annual in Las Vegas this year? Here are the list of middle grade authors I’d want to queue up for if I had the opportunity: Jon Scieszka – He’ll be there promoting his new Frank Einstein book, the beginning of a middle grade science series about […]
June 23, 2014 by Karen Jensen, MLS
Everyone has their own reasons for attending conferences- I love to go to different places, and take in all the librarianship-ness, and I get to meet up with my library family; those people whom I’ve connected with through committees along the way that have become part of my heart family that I don’t see save […]
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