MORE POSTS FROM AUGUST 2012
Recently, I had one of those moments where I am talking about a book that I really loved and the person I am talking to, in this case fellow blogger Christie Gibrich, says “yes, but . . .” So I asked her to write about her “Yes, But” because it is an issue that I […]
Earlier this month, I wrote about Terry Trueman’s Printz Honor Award winning title, Stuck in Neutral. Tomorrow, Trueman releases a sequel entitled Life Happens Next. Today, he writes about his sequel and is offering YOU a chance to win a signed copy. We are giving away 5 signed copies, find out how to enter at […]
Setting Up the Case: Are book reviews overly positive and is that a problem? As a librarian, collection development is one of the hardest, most time consuming parts of my job. My goal is to build a collection that will circulate. To meet this goal I have to understand my patrons – in this case […]
I hope you were with us yesterday when we made our big announcement regarding Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Today I am happy to announce that the incredibly awesome author of many buffy the Vampire Slayer novels, Nancy Holder, will be joining us at some point in the next two months with a guest blog post. […]
I’ve got an exciting announcement to make today. TLT will be co-hosting, along with Patricia from Patricia’s Particularity and Rachelia from Bookish Comforts, a two month long Buffy the Vampire Slayer appreciation event this fall called The Sunnydale Project! The event will be taking place on all three blogs from September 1 to October 31st, 2012 and each […]
Book Review: Butter by Erin Jade Lange
Book Reviews, Bullying, Butter, Erin Jade Lange, Obesity, Self Image
|Now over 400 pounds, Butter is a teenage boy who knows all to well the loneliness that comes from being an outcast. But when he announces that he is going to eat himself to death online, he finds that popularity is both toxic and fleeting -and often quite dishonest. Butter by Erin Jade Lange is […]
I had completely gotten over my issues with the NPR 100 Best Young Adult Novels list and was ready to come blog about something else when I spotted this article on Salon: A Prestige Free Zone. So take a moment to read it and then come back and we’ll discuss. The reason why this article […]
Yesterday we talked about the 100 Best Young Adult Books list put together by NPR. Today, I am going to share with you 10 books that I would have liked to have seen on the list and why. Click here to see the Top 100 Young Adult Books on the NPR list Monster by Walter […]
Best or Favorite? A look at the NPR “Best” Young Adult Novels list
Booklists, Contemporary Fiction, Fiction, GLBTQ Fiction, NPR, Racial Stereotypes, Racism, Teen Fiction, YA Lit
|I watch So You Think You Can Dance every week without fail. Here is a show where you can call in and vote for your “favorite” dancer. This favorite part is important, every year they make a point of making this distinction: it is not the best dancer, but your favorite. Because that’s how voting […]
Yesterday, we talked about the Printz Honor Award Winner Stuck in Neutral by Terry Trueman. It won this honor in 2001, more than 10 years ago. And in my post I mentioned that this is one of the “classic” teen titles that we need to be re-introducing to our new teen patrons. So here’s your […]
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