MORE POSTS FROM AUGUST 2013
People love to hate what they don’t understand. In the years that it has been a vibrant social media platform, I’ve heard a lot of criticism of Twitter. Who can say anything of import in 140 characters? It dumbs down media to the soundbite. It’s just people posting what they had for lunch. And yes, […]
This Week at TLT: Learn how teens are surprisingly like cats! Follow Ms. Christie’s adventures with her Zombie Lock-In Teen Program in a Box (with a Doctor Who twist.) Read some of Heather’s opinions about the 2017 Mindset List from Beloit College. This week’s Things I didn’t learn in Library School is a special guest post […]
STEM Girls: Books with girls rocking science and math
Collection Development, Math, Reader's Advisory, Science, STEM Education, Strong Heroines
|Earlier this week I reviewed 3:59 by Gretchen McNeil, a book that has a main character, a girl, that is basically a physics wiz. A lot of times, female main characters are into fashion or music and even sometimes sports. But a lot of times, if our main characters are into academics they are also […]
Little Fish: A different kind of memoir for a different kind of teen (and a different kind of TPiB)
|I don’t know about you, but graphic novels and graphic novelish type books are hot at my library. Heck, they are hot at my house. And with the school year just starting, it’s great for Juniors and Seniors to start thinking about WHAT COMES NEXT. So, tada: Little Fish, a memoir from a different kind […]
Book Review: The Coldest Girl in Coldtown by Holly Black
Book Reviews, Holly Black, Horror, The Coldest Girl in Coldtown, Vampires
|Tana wakes in a bathtub after a night of partying only to realize that everyone else in the house has been slaughtered by vampires. Well, everyone except her former boyfriend, Aidan*, who has been bitten and saved for a snack. In the process of saving him (oh, and the ancient vampire, Gavriel, chained up with […]
Josie Byrne’s life is falling apart: her parents are getting a divorce, she has just found her boyfriend sleeping with her best friend, the whole school is laughing at her epic unspiraling. And then something strange starts to happen, twice a day, at exactly 3:59, she looks into the mirror and sees a parallel world. […]
v:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} o:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} w:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} .shape {behavior:url(#default#VML);} Twice every year, right around Martin Luther King Jr. weekend and the beginning of school, I hold a lock-in for teens who have reached a particular reading goal. For the Summer Reading Lock-In, they must read 65 hours or more in order to stay 13 hours in […]
The 2017 Beloit College Mindset List was released today, and it is worth a read, as always. Go ahead and take a look now if you haven’t already. I was already in college when the first Mindset List was released for the class of 2002, but I recall my friends and I poring over it (found […]
Book Review: Song of the Quarkbeast by Jasper Fforde
Chronicles of Kazam, Jasper Fforde, The Last Dragonslayer, The Song of the Quarkbeast
|I’d like to begin by freely acknowledging (again) that Jasper Fforde is my favorite living author. He will be visiting my local book store in about a month and I am gleefully preparing for his visit. That said, I would also like to freely acknowledge that his books are not for everyone. But, oh, the […]
Things I Didn’t Learn in Library School: Thoughts from a second year school librarian (guest post by Rachel Kammerer)
New Librarians, Professional Development, Things I Never Learned in Library School
|I sent an email to Karen Jensen thanking her for this site. I get so many great ideas and book reviews that I just wanted to let her know that I was reading (and thankful). She responded to me and asked if I’d write a post explaining what I didn’t learn in library school or […]
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