Good Comics for Kids
September 29, 2017 by Robin Willis
This Week at TLT Blog Tour: Jane, Unlimited by Kristin Cashore Workman and Algonquin Showcase and Giveaway Book Review: Starfish by Akemi Dawn Bowman C2: Collecting Comics for September and October 2017 with Ally Watkins Book Review: There’s Someone Inside Your House by Stephanie Perkins What’s New in LGBTQIA+ YA September 2017 The 2018 TLT […]
September 28, 2017 by Karen Jensen, MLS
Each year in addition to our regular book reviews, professional discussions and makerspace and program recaps, we have a special yearly theme here at TLT that we ask you – our readers – to help us with. It began in 2014 with the Sexual Violence in Young Adult Literature Project. We have since then covered […]
September 28, 2017 by Amanda MacGregor
It’s time for another roundup for new and forthcoming YA (and sometimes not YA) books featuring LGBTQIA+ characters. The titles I include in these roundups have LGBTQIA+ main characters as well as secondary characters (in some cases parents), as well as anthologies that include LGBTQIA+ stories. Know of a title I missed in this list? Or know […]
September 28, 2017 by Amanda MacGregor
Publisher’s description Scream meets YA in this hotly-anticipated new novel from the bestselling author of Anna and the French Kiss. “There’s Someone Inside Your House is a heart-pounding page-turner with an outstanding cast of characters, a deliciously creepy setting, and an absolutely merciless body count. Best read at night with big bowl of popcorn, this is a killer addition […]
September 27, 2017 by Karen Jensen, MLS
Today, librarian extraordinaire Ally Watkins begins her new monthly feature where she talks to us about comics and graphic novels to help us all with our collection development. Thanks Ally! Do your young students and patrons love comics? Are you constantly on the hunt for more? Here are some suggestions for comics and graphic novels […]
September 26, 2017 by Amanda MacGregor
Publisher’s description A gorgeous and emotionally resonant debut novel about a half-Japanese teen who grapples with social anxiety and her narcissist mother in the wake of a crushing rejection from art school. Kiko Himura has always had a hard time saying exactly what she’s thinking. With a mother who makes her feel unremarkable and a […]
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September 26, 2017 by Amanda MacGregor
Beyond the people I work with and the people this blog has led me to get to know, by far the best aspect of blogging for TLT is the constant influx of books. All of the books I get end up going back out the door in some fashion—to teen readers I know, to classroom […]
September 25, 2017 by Robin Willis
Special prize raffle at the end! From the publisher: BOOK DESCRIPTION The highly anticipated standalone from the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of the Graceling Realm series—a kaleidoscopic novel about grief, adventure, storytelling, and finding yourself in a world of seemingly infinite choices. Jane has lived an ordinary life, raised by her aunt Magnolia—an adjunct […]
September 22, 2017 by Robin Willis
This Week at TLT Book Review: The Nowhere Girls by Amy Reed and What You Need to Know About MRAs Take 5: Some of the Best Feminist YA on Rape Culture in Quotes Book Review: Kaleidoscope Song by Fox Benwell Post-it Note Reviews of Elementary and Middle Grade Books Things I Never Learned in Library […]
September 21, 2017 by Amanda MacGregor
Publisher’s description Inspired by Judy Blume’s Forever and Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway, this novel that Andrew Smith calls “beautiful, enchanting, [and] exquisitely written” is a new classic about teenage relationships, self-acceptance—and what happens when the walls we build start coming down. Adam Thorn doesn’t know it yet, but today will change his life. Between his religious family, a deeply unpleasant […]
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