MORE POSTS FROM MARCH 2012
You don’t want to touch Juliette. Her touch is lethal power. As a baby, her touch caused her mother and father intense pain, so they shunned her. Then one day she saw a mother hurting a young boy and she reached out to hurt him help him. He ended up dead. She has spent the […]
The teen girl trudged through the mall like a zombie; obviously pregnant and with a strange backpack on her back with a tube going into her body. She barely walked a few steps before she had to find a bench and sit down, tired and out of breath. Never before must a small mall have […]
Here’s my geek admission of the day: When I graduated from high school I took all that cash I received and promptly went out and bought the complete works of Edgar Allan Poe. Sure, some people do practical things with the money, like pay for college or textbooks. Others take a trip. But for me […]
Teens today won’t remember a time without Facebook, but it did exist (really!). What would happen if the year was 1996 and you got your first computer and logged on only to find yourself reading status updates in the future? That is the premise of Jay Asher and Carolyn Mackler’s The Future of Us. The […]
A couple of weeks ago I was totally excited by a piece of artwork shared as part of The 2012 Project on Twitter: a Post It note cat. It was glorious, and the best part – it was created by teens! Today the teen librarian that coordinated this project shares her thoughts with us as […]
The Rules 1. You must post the rules.2. Answer the questions the tagger set for you in their post and then create eleven new questions to ask the people you’ve tagged.3. Tag eleven people and link to them on your post.4. Let them know you’ve tagged themRead on for my answers and then the fun […]
Today, the TLT Teen Review, Cuyler Creech, tells you his top 10 favorite dystopian series. There are definitely no shortage of them. Did your favorite make the cut? Think your world is unbearable? Unthinkable? Maybe even unlivable? Well I think these heroes and heroines may beg to differ with you on that. Welcome to the […]
Jacob Portman feels that his life has never had much of a meaning to it. His parents–his mother a rich woman who likes to show off her spoils of home décor, and his father an amateur ornithologist and a wannabe nature writer–he’s not real close to. His only friend, a chain-smoking punk-rock dresser, is the […]
“Lives only begin once. Stories are much more complicated.” Portia has always grown up hearing the stories of her family, but when her family disappears there is no one left to care for her except for The Mister. The Mister runs the McGreavey Home for Wayward Girls and it is a place that you would […]
This post originally appeared at Book Brats. I got dressed for church and I walked to the car all without putting the book down. As he drove, I sat in the passenger seat reading. Two little girls sat in the back seat but they were used to this. As we pulled into the parking lot […]
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