MORE POSTS FROM DECEMBER 2015
Publisher’s overview: Can the best thing happen at the worst time? Her dad went crazy. Her mom left town. She has bills to pay and a little sister to look after. Now is not the time for level-headed seventeen-year-old Lucille to fall in love. But love—messy, inconvenient love—is what she’s about to experience when she […]
I was more than pleasantly surprised by this story of new sixth grader, Charlie Burger. What could have been a light and fluffy story of one boy vanquishing the bully at school is actually an engaging, detailed story with many layers. Charlie is doing his best to fly under the radar now that he’s in […]
The girls and I woke up last Christmas in an empty apartment full of nothing but hope. There was no tree. There were no lights. There weren’t even any dishes to eat a take out Christmas dinner on. You see last Christmas, we had hope that our lives were going to change. I had been […]
This Week at TLT Sunday Reflections: Reflections on the perfect gift and what it means to be a man Middle School Monday – The Girl in the Well is Me by Karen Rivers Favorite YA Books of 2015 TPiB: Quick Doctor Who Decorations/Ornaments Book Review: Other Broken Things by Christa Desir, reviewed by teen reviewer […]
It’s almost 2016. Wait – what? IT’S ALMOST 2016! How did that happen? This month we have been busily plugging away at putting together a January launch schedule for the #MHYALit Discussion. So here’s a little look at what we have coming in 2016. So far, we have about 40 authors, librarians, parents of teens, […]
In the fall and winter of 2014, I had an amazing experience coordinating a filmmaking workshop for high school students called View from the Director’s Chair. To highlight a different aspect of our library’s Media Lab this year, our IT Department Manager and I created a similarly-structured workshop called View from Behind the Lens. View […]
When I became a librarian, I never knew that one day I would become the creator of stop motion animation. But lo and behold, here we are and I spend a lot of time with my teens teaching them how to do stop motion animation. I have the basics down, and the rest we figure […]
When I read OTHER BROKEN THINGS by Christa Desir, I thought it was one of the most authentic teen voices I had read in a while. And now that we a TLT Teen Advisory Board, I thought I would ask one of them to read it and tell me what they thought. Lexi’s review follows […]
The other day in the Programming Librarian Interest Group on FB page someone (Melissa Hozik) mentioned that they were having a Doctor Who themed holiday program. And someone (Evan Mather) then mentioned that they should call it a Doctor Wholiday Party. Genius!! As a huge Doctor Who fan I was disappointed in myself for not […]
Yes, it’s list time. What follows are 15 of my favorite 2015 books and excerpts of the reviews. At my current count, I’ve read 156 books this year. There are hundreds more I wish I could have read. I’m sure I missed a lot of great titles, so I’m hoping you will jump in with […]
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