The Yarn
August 31, 2014 by Karen Jensen, MLS
When I was in high school, the movie Platoon came out. I had the soundtrack and on one of the tracks there was a bit of spoken dialogue in it. It went like this: I think now, looking back We did not fight the enemy But we fought ourselves And the enemy, was in us […]
August 29, 2014 by Karen Jensen, MLS
The ‘OMG, is it Friday?’ EditionThis Week at TLT Sunday Reflections: Endings and Beginnings Take 5: YouTube 24/7 Middle Grade Monday – There aren’t any Wimpy Kid books in?!! Book Review: Some Girls Are by Courtney Summers The 3rd Annual It Came From a Book Teen Art Contest (#ICFAB) The #SVYALit Project: First Responders, part […]
August 29, 2014 by Karen Jensen, MLS
Tagline: The Bourne Identity meets Divergent in this heart-pounding debut.Back Cover Copy: 16-year-old Sarah has a rare chance at a new life. Or so the doctors tell her. She’s been undergoing a cutting-edge procedure that will render her a tabula rasa – a blank slate. Memory by memory her troubled past is being taken away.But […]
August 28, 2014 by Karen Jensen, MLS
A lot of people ask me about the specter of rape in NOT A DROP TO DRINK. While you’ll never find the actual word anywhere in the text, it hangs over the whole like a storm about to break. Lynn, Mother and Neva all express their fears in different ways, but each one of them […]
August 27, 2014 by Karen Jensen, MLS
When I was in the 8th grade, there was someone in my family who had regular access to me who was sexually molesting me. It was a progressive thing, grooming they call it. It began very subtly and slowly built in a way that made me question if what I thought was happening was in […]
August 27, 2014 by Karen Jensen, MLS
When I was six years old, I got lost in a mall. I went out to the parking lot to look for my car and got in a stranger’s car instead, someone who told me he could help me. The half hour that followed changed my life, though I said nothing about it at the […]
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August 26, 2014 by Karen Jensen, MLS
The Library as Incubator Project and Teen Librarian Toolbox is proud to announce the 3rd Annual “It Came From a Book” Teen Art Contest!!! This awesome art contest for teens is in its 3rd year, and we are so excited! Our amazing partners this year are: The Library as Incubator Project, EgmontUSA, and Zest Books – this project […]
August 26, 2014 by Karen Jensen, MLS
I have been wanting to read Some Girls Are for some time now because it has been recommended to me for The #SVYALit Project. And to be honest, This Is Not a Test is one of my favorite zombie books ever. So yesterday I was driving with the fam for one last summer fling and […]
August 25, 2014 by Karen Jensen, MLS
I was recently asked by a staff member to come up with a list of suggestions for her 3rd grader who has read the Diary of a Wimpy Kid books ‘a million times.’ I run into this problem quite often. Students get fixated on a particular author, series, or format of books and are reluctant […]
August 25, 2014 by Karen Jensen, MLS
If you spend any time with Tweens, you know that they are obsessed – OBSESSED – with YouTube. And Vine and Instagram. But seriously, YouTube. When The Tween’s friends come over their favorite thing to do is sit around and watch YouTube videos. YouTube – and social media in general – is so popular that […]
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