Good Comics for Kids
Karen Jensen, MLS, July 14, 2014 | Bad Magic, Pseudonymous Bosch
Clay is a go along to get along kind of guy. Almost thirteen, he is a fairly typical adolescent; he likes to skateboard, wears hoodies, and has a sustained interest in graffiti style art. Not that he would ever do something illegal, like tag a building, but he does like to practice and the walls […]
Karen Jensen, MLS, January 6, 2014 | Fanfiction, Frankie Brown, Sherlock
Image Source: I Want to be a Pin Up w/Sherlock Fanfic Recs People like to call fiction — especially fanfiction — escapism, as if that’s a bad thing. Fiction does let you escape yourself, but that’s wonderful if inside yourself is sometimes a scary place to be. Fiction has always been my therapy. Nothing is […]
Karen Jensen, MLS, October 24, 2013 | American Horror Story, Boys, Coven, Incest, Sexual Abuse, Violence
Please note: The following conversation will contain spoilers for American Horror Story. Consider yourself warned. Also, this is a very sensitive discussion so there may be trigger warnings. Click to continue. I broke up with American Horror Story in the first season. It is, in fact, too much for me. But I find the main […]
Karen Jensen, MLS, March 14, 2013 | Book Clubs, Born of Illusion, Teen Programming, Teri Brown, Uncategorized
When I set out to run a book club for teens at a community center in a low income apartment complex, I thought it would be a piece of cake. I know, I know. Naïve much? At the time, I was working fifteen hours a week for the children’s program at Community Partners of […]
Karen Jensen, MLS, July 18, 2012 | Uncategorized
At ALA, I happened to pick up a ton of middle grade reads. Generally, this is not an area which I consider myself very well read but I was thrilled to get my hands on these ARCs and even more excited that I actually really liked them! Since some of them don’t come out for […]
Karen Jensen, MLS, June 22, 2012 | Book Reviews, Jennifer Brown, Perfect Escape
I am a reader and a librarian, but I am also an aunt. My sister-in-law has 4 boys, 3 of whom are autistic. I remember once taking the “typical” sibling to a pizza place for dinner and he looked around in awe and wonder; it was almost like he had just entered Disneyland for the […]
Karen Jensen, MLS, June 7, 2012 | Anne Greenwood Brown, Lies Beneath, Writing, YA Lit
The birth of a guest blog post: The other day author Anne Greenwood Brown tweeted that she had nothing to write that day and I, seeing an open door, tweeted back: “Why don’t you write a guest blog post ::cough:: Wait, did I say that out loud?” And she said, “What about?” To which I […]
Amanda MacGregor, June 11, 2019 | new books
Lots to love in this rundown of forthcoming books from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. I can't wait to read the new books by Don Brown and Tamara Moss. How about you?
Amanda MacGregor, September 29, 2022 | Book Reviews
Quick reviews of 7 graphic novels and 4 novels.
Amanda MacGregor, September 21, 2022 | new books
With 35 new and forthcoming books here, you'll definitely find something you need to read!
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