MORE POSTS FROM JULY 2018
TRIGGER WARNING: THIS POST TALKS ABOUT SEXUAL VIOLENCE AND EATING DISORDERS I am a 45 year-old anorexic inhabiting a fat body. Even though I am fat and I eat daily, I must admit that I am still an anorexic because I suffer from body image issues, disordered eating and the anorexic mindset. My therapist once […]
This Week at TLT #ReadForChange: Reading into Hurricane Season with Joanne O’Sullivan’s Between Two Skies Summer Reading Programs: The importance of staff training and the summer reading pep rally Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Showcase and Giveaway Book Review: The Pride Guide: A Guide to Sexual and Social Health for LGBTQ Youth by Jo Langford Sunday Reflections: […]
Teen Librarian Toolbox is excited to be partnering with Marie Marquardt for her #ReadForChange project. Hop on over to this post to learn more about the initiative. Today, she and Joanne O’Sullivan join us for a conversation about Hurricane Katrina, climate change, taking action, and O’Sullivan’s 2017 book Between Two Skies. Before Hurricane Katrina, I always felt […]
Summer reading programs are one of the biggest parts of most, if not all, youth services departments. In this, my 25th year as a YA Librarian, I have put together 25 SRPs and executed 24. I have only had one summer, when we were moving between states, where I did not spend my summer hosting […]
Beyond the people I work with and the people this blog has led me to get to know, by far the best aspect of blogging for TLT is the constant influx of books. All of the books I get end up going back out the door in some fashion—to teen readers I know, to classroom […]
When I’m reviewing books for professional publications, I stay quiet about them on social media. I’m always really excited once a review comes out to be able to talk about the book, finally! Here’s one of my most recent reviews, a starred review, which originally appeared in the July 2018 School Library Journal. The Pride Guide: […]
Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer, nor do I play one on TV. Trigger Warning: This post discusses hate crimes and genocide. The day after the 2016 election, I walked into my Teen MakerSpace not sure what to expect. I personally had spent the entire night crying because as a woman who advocates regularly against […]
This Week at TLT For your summer 2018 TBR: Backlist YA you don’t want to miss Things I Never Learned in Library School: Waiting for Reimbursement, aka Libraries Must Fund Their Programming Collecting Comics: July 2018 edition by Ally Watkins Book Review: The Cardboard Kingdom by Chad Sell and friends YA A to Z: O […]
The amount of books that appear here cause me a fair amount of anxiety. And that’s not me whining about getting so many great books sent to me to consider reviewing for TLT; that’s me saying that my anxiety disorder can turn anything into something to worry about, even something seemingly good like towering stacks […]
Earlier this week, a post about reimbursement came across my Twitter timeline proclaiming that reimbursement is not an equitable system (https://twitter.com/readitrealgood/status/1015776354074288128). Like many things that come up in my timeline, I hadn’t really thought about the inherent classism involved in reimbursement, even though I had lived with it myself in my professional career. The truth […]
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