Heavy Medal
August 31, 2018 by Robin Willis
This Week at TLT What’s New in LGBTQIA+ YA September 2018 MakerSpace: DIY Games Book Review: Darius the Great Is Not Okay by Adib Khorram #ReadForChange: Back to School with Brendan Kiely’s TRADITION Recently in Book Mail 2018 Diversity Audit Resources – The Quest to Create an Own Voices Master List as an Audit Tool […]
August 30, 2018 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’m including here 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 of a […]
August 29, 2018 by Karen Jensen, MLS
We host a monthly teen videogaming program at The Public Library of Mount Vernon and Knox County and we recently bought a Nintendo Switch to add to our array of video gaming equipment. I’ll talk more about the Switch soon, but as a new system it isn’t cheap and the games that you can buy […]
August 28, 2018 by Amanda MacGregor
Publisher’s description Darius doesn’t think he’ll ever be enough, in America or in Iran. Hilarious and heartbreaking, this unforgettable debut introduces a brilliant new voice in contemporary YA.Darius Kellner speaks better Klingon than Farsi, and he knows more about Hobbit social cues than Persian ones. He’s a Fractional Persian—half, his mom’s side—and his first-ever trip […]
August 28, 2018 by Amanda MacGregor
Teen Librarian Toolbox is excited to be partnering with Marie Marquardt for her #ReadForChange project. Hop on over to this post to learn more about the initiative. Today, she and Brendan Kiely join us for a conversation about power, feminism, toxic masculinity, taking action, and Brendan’s powerful 2018 book, Tradition. Please see the end of this post to enter to […]
August 27, 2018 by Robin Willis
Here to Stay by Sara Farizan Bijan Majidi is: Shy around girls Really into comics Decent at basketball Bijan Majidi is not: A terrorist What happens when a kid who’s flown under the radar for most of high school gets pulled off the bench to make the winning basket in a varsity playoff game? If […]
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August 27, 2018 by Karen Jensen, MLS
Whenever I talk about doing a YA collection diversity audit (links at the end of this post), the #1 question I get asked, after how in general, is how do you know if an author is own voices or not. It’s a good question that typically takes a lot of research, even for me. I […]
August 26, 2018 by Karen Jensen, MLS
TRIGGER WARNING: This post discusses depression, anxiety, mental illness and suicide Recently, Time magazine reported that less 1/3 of teens don’t read for pleasure. At the same time, a lot of YA/Teen librarians are looking at their circulation statistics and wondering why they’re going down. I did a completely informal and unscientific Twitter poll, and […]
August 24, 2018 by Robin Willis
This Week at TLT Post-it Note Reviews of Elementary and Middle Grade Books How Much YA Gets Published Each Year? Discussing YA Collection Development Challenges Post-it Note Reviews of Recent YA Releases Book Review: Sadie by Courtney Summers We Need to Talk About LGBTQ Book Displays Sunday Reflections: Classroom Libraries are a Stark Reminder that […]
August 23, 2018 by Amanda MacGregor
Three months off for summer vacation meant I got a lot of reading done. Here are some quick looks at books I read for younger readers. I’m excited to head back to the elementary school library in a few days and share many of these titles with the students and see what everyone read and […]
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