The Yarn
December 31, 2014 by Heather Booth
If it hasn’t happened to you yet, it will. I promise. One day, you’ll pick up that next book on your TBR pile, have no idea why it’s there, and 50 pages in realize that you don’t remember the main character’s name and don’t care to figure it out. Then you’ll realize that you can’t […]
December 31, 2014 by Karen Jensen, MLS
For 7 or 8 years, I got to be on the local radio station every Friday morning. It was a glorious thing for me. So today I’m going to share with you how that relationship came to be and some of my tips for working with your local radio station. I highly recommend that if […]
December 30, 2014 by Karen Jensen, MLS
As part of my Cybils reading, I came across a book called Pandemic. I’m a huge fan of pandemics (in theory only of course). In fact, I have the movie Contagion on my DVR and watch it quite often, much to The Mr.’s dismay. So I was immediately intrigued by this title and looking forward […]
December 29, 2014 by Robin Willis
I am honestly delighted with this second entry in the distinctly well written Lockwood & Co. series by Stroud. It has so many elements to recommend it to my middle school readers! In case you missed it, I recently reviewed the first book in the series, The Screaming Staircase. When I opened the library’s latest book shipment, […]
December 29, 2014 by Karen Jensen, MLS
Some time recently Eden Grey, Rebecca Denham, Heather Booth and I got into a conversation on Twitter, as one does. How, we began discussing, do you convince your library administrators that you need to do teen services – and do them well? That online conversation soon became an epic planning session as we decided that […]
December 28, 2014 by Karen Jensen, MLS
There was no Christmas tree this year. At this point, we’re not even sure where home is going to be in 2015. But there was still a bag of books waiting for The Tween when she woke up on Christmas morning. The number one item on her Christmas list was book 3 in The Land […]
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December 26, 2014 by Robin Willis
This Week at TLT Sunday Reflections: Why I Learned to Stop Thinking of My Patrons as “Stupid” Middle Grade Monday – 5 Christmas Movies to Share with your Tween The Tween and Friends Top 14 Reads in 2014 The Tween ARC Party: The Tween an friends look at some upcoming 2015 book releases Around the […]
December 24, 2014 by Karen Jensen, MLS
The other day I was getting ARCs organized for 2015 when The Tween and her Bestie were over. We had an impromptu ARC party where the tweens went through each physical arc I had on the premises and sorted them into Oh My Goodness I Want to Read piles and the Meh ones. They’re looking […]
December 23, 2014 by Karen Jensen, MLS
Many Friday nights I have anywhere from 2 to 5 preteen girls hanging out at my house. Not all of them are readers, but two of them are very fervent readers. In fact, I was surprised recently to learn that The Tween’s BF had almost 5 times the AR points as her, which is astounding […]
December 22, 2014 by Robin Willis
For personal reasons, I don’t support telling children that Santa (or the Tooth Fairy or Easter Bunny) is real.* On the other hand, a good story, whether based on historical narrative or cultural mythology, is a good story. By the time kids are in the ‘middle grades’ years they are generally aware that Santa is […]
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