MORE POSTS FROM SEPTEMBER 2014
The #SVYALit Project: When Yes is Not Really Yes, Coercion is Not Consent (part 2)
#SVYALit, Bleed Like Me, Christa Desir, Coercion, Consent, Erica Lorraine Scheidt, John Green, Sexual Coercion, The #SVYALit Project, The Fault in Our Stars, Uses for Boys
|The #SVYALit Project Index The other night at karate, the sensei was passing out lanyards and the 5-year-old wanted one even though she wasn’t a student there. So she went and asked if she could please have one. His reply was this, “if you give me a hug, I will give you one.” I suddenly […]
The #SVYALit Project: Bleed Like Me and Emotional Coercion, a guest post by Christa Desir (part 1)
|The other day a blogger asked me what I wanted people to walk away from BLEED LIKE ME thinking about. This is always a tricky question because it implies that authors have this big agenda when it comes to their fictional stories. We do not. We’re telling stories. And yet, at the same time, it […]
Middle grade students are a special breed. The people I know who work with them are a dedicated bunch, full of a deep affection for this age and all of it’s attendant terrors and triumphs. Students need to see this affection in the books they read and in the teachers they know. I do sometimes […]
If you were to visit the Public Library of Mount Vernon and Knox County (in Ohio) and ask to read their board minutes, you would find my name in there twice. The second time is when I left for a new job and they passed a proclamation in my honor regarding how I had helped […]
I tried to hide from the news that Kate Middleton was pregnant. I tried to hide from all of the press. Sometimes I want to put my head in the sand and pretend that Hypermesis Gravidarum, a severe pregnancy illness, does not exist, or that I am somehow so far removed from it now that it […]
This Week at TLT Sunday Reflections: That time I had to explain to The Tween why a kid at her school was beaten to death by a parent, reflections on violence Book Review: Black Ice by Becca Fitzpatrick Middle Grade Monday: Let’s Talk About Sex Book Reviews: Rethinking Normal: A Memoir in Transition by Katie […]
Not all teen programming has to be a come to the library at this time and place and do this activity type of an event. Sometimes, we can put together programming where teens participate in their own time. Many libraries call this “passive programming”, but thanks to the brilliance of someone at a webinar I […]
We are so pleased to be a stop on Lish McBride’s Blog Tour for her upcoming novel Firebug! In case you missed it, you can read my review of it here. (OMG, you guys, dream. come. true.) Firebug will be available next Tuesday, September 23! Lish joins us today to answer some very silly and […]
You probably heard the news: Hello Kitty is not, in fact, a cat. My middle school heart is broken, my childhood now dramatically altered. I spent most of my middle school allowance on all those cute Hello Kitty thing-a-ma-jigs (technical term). It was an obsession. So I was super excited when I received two fun […]
by Amanda MacGregor (NOTE: I’m going to use the pronoun “she” when referring to Katie even pre-transition and “he” for Arin pre-transition as well.) When Arin and Katie met, they felt an immediate connection. It wasn’t just that they each thought the other was cute (though they did), but it was more that they understood […]
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