MORE POSTS FROM FEBRUARY 2012
It has been said that we only use a small portion of our brains. What if eleven minutes could change the way your brain is wired? Is that all it would take: 11 minutes? Back cover blurb: A lot can happen in eleven minutes. Decker can run two miles easily in eleven minutes. I once […]
Katniss Everdeen did not choose to be a hero. No, she was chosen to be a statement and then she chose to rise to the occasion. She didn’t pick up her bow and arrow and say, “hey, let’s overthrow this corrupt government.” In a moment born out of love and selflessness, she chose to volunteer […]
Back cover blurb: Control the Pearls, Control the World First lines: My fingers grip the ledge, searching for cracks. The rest of me dangles into empty sky like some demented human windsock. Small mysterious orbs called “pearls” fall from space; these are a devastated Earth’s only hope. These pearls supply the energy that the world […]
My mentor called me the other day and asked about what I would do in a particular situation that involved teens at a library lock-in, my very glib response was, “I wouldn’t have had the lock in.” Already many of you are seeing flames and thinking about your replies – but wait, let me explain […]
Back cover blurb: “A funny, profane, heartbreaking debut novel” – you, hopefully, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, Jesse Andrews When I picked up this book my first thought, honestly, was – ouch, it must stink to be a guy writing about a girl dying of cancer in the year 2012 if your name […]
Reading the Zombie Apocalypse
Book Reviews, Booklists, Collection Development, Reader's Advisory, Zombies
|Zombies are invading again. They’re everywhere. On the streets. In your house. On the TV…and in your bookshelf. These brain-munchers have made an amazing comeback as they moan and shuffle their way to the top of young adult novel enthusiasts’ lists. Now it seems that you don’t have to be even interested in zombies before […]
So The Mr. picked up BZRK and read it. If you’ve read the Meet TLT bio you would know that is his “thing”. He’s not a librarian or even a reviewer, but he is a reader. Quite a prolific one. I read and reviewed BZRK here. Then he read it and I asked him how […]
At some point in our life most of us have had a parent hold our hand as they helped us learn to use a knife by guiding it through an apple or a freshly baked loaf of bread. That’s not how it happened with Jazz. There was no freshly baked loaf of bread. But there […]
One of the worst parts of having worked at a tuxedo shop is that you suffer from “Prom Brain” every spring. So, if you’re going to be thinking of prom anyway, why not embrace it and help your teens at the same time, right? I can’t take credit for the basic idea of this program. […]
As a reader and a librarian, it’s easy to just stick with what is comfortable; What you know is going to move off of your shelves. I know that my teens are waiting for the sequel to Delirium by Lauren Oliver, as am I. It’s a sure bet. We know that the next John Green or […]
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