MORE POSTS FROM JUNE 2014
This weekend I am busy doing laundry and packing. I will work today – I’m pretty much always #SundayLibrarian – and then again on Monday and Tuesday. Then Wednesday morning the whole family and I are jumping into the car and driving the basically 24 hours it will take to get to Las Vegas – […]
This Week at TLT Sunday Reflections: Thinking About Dads, in life and in YA lit Middle Grade Monday – Frame of Reference Take 5: MG Lit Titles from Scholastic Reviewed by My Tween Playlist: Science Rocks My World Autism and Libraries: The Dangers of Wandering/Bolting, just one of the many issues we need to understand […]
Kearsten LaBrozzi, from the Glendale Public Library, occasionally puts together Booktalks for us here at TLT. I’ve collected all the posts on Booktalking in one place for you. The 411 On BooktalksBooktalk It! Developing a Booktalk Program to Network with SchoolsBooktrailers#3WordBooktalksMore on #3WordBooktalks at Teens Know Best The Booktalks:It’s the End of the World as […]
Teens and Poverty: PBS Newshour Discusses Being Homeless and Trying to Graduate High School
Coe Booth, Do Something, Education, Ellen Hopkins, High School, Poverty, Smoke, Teen Issues, Teens, Todd Strasser, Tyrell
|As I thought about writing my post earlier today about teachers, I couldn’t help but think of my 4th grade teacher. I remember her name, I remember what she looked like, and I remember the intense hatred I had for her. You see, in the 4th grade my parents separated and divorced. We went from […]
Summer Reflections: Thinking about teachers as a public librarian
Booktalking, Education, Public Education, Teachers, Teaching, Teends
|Karen as a Freshman Before I can tell you about the best teacher I ever had, I have to tell you about the worst. I started a new school in a new state in the 9th grade, my first year of high school. My English teacher that year had just returned from teaching English in […]
Every summer I run at least one T shirt decorating program because they are surefire hits for my group. Tie dying is the classic, but truth be told, it really pushes the limits of my willingness to tolerate mess and spend gobs of setup and cleanup time. This year we’re trying a different spin on […]
Someone had called the police. It’s not surprising really, here she was chasing a fleeing kid – looking much older than his actual age – running down the street in his underwear. He had gotten out. Again. At the time he was maybe 8, but for reasons not quite understood many kids on the Autism […]
I am a firm believer that music makes everything better… whether it’s driving through massive traffic, cleaning house, or summer reading programs. Since my system has gone with the Collaborative Summer Reading Program theme this year (SCIENCE for ALL) I have come up with the ULTIMATE playlist to get myself into the zone for any […]
The other day I got a box of books in the mail from Scholastic (Thanks Scholastic!) and I had set them on the table which has become my office. Later that evening, I heard a shriek of delight from the Tween: “You didn’t tell me you got the new Jedi Academy” she screamed with joy. […]
It’s finally summer break, and I’ve started to move books from my To Be Read pile to my Read this Summer pile (so I can take a picture and do a display for the students in July.) I decided to begin this summer with one of the Hatchette titles I bought in a show of […]
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