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Dealing with loss as a library community 2008-10-27 11:37:39 Post by Sarah Granville
Two weeks ago, one of the teens that uses my library committed suicide. It wasn’t one of the kids who came to programs regularly; he was one the the teens who would just come to hang out. And while I knew he had some troubles with school, such as showing [...] Read more:community
Alt Teen Dispatch # 4 2008-10-20 10:48:50 Call for teen program idea submissions
Have a great teen programming idea that’s inexpensive? (Like, less than $100.) You could have it published in Cool Teen Programs on a Shoestring, edited by Jenine Lillian and to be published next year by Neal-Schuman. You can find the questionnaire for the form online at www.tinyurl.com/yalsashoestring and send it [...] Read more:Dispatch
Don’t be shy - Get out there! 2008-10-05 23:55:15 Blog posted by Kathy
It’s that time of year again. Your summer programs have passed and your kids are back in school. Are you worried about losing most of your teen audience during the school year? You don’t have to if you offer outreach programs at your area middle and high schools.
There are [...]
Gossip Girls and Ghetto Girls: Why all the fuss about street lit? 2008-09-22 10:18:01 Kati Nofli discusses the fear of streetlit and how absurd it is for classy white people to judge this genre:
Why are so many librarians—advocates of the uncensored right to read anything on all points of view—panic-stricken over teens reading street lit? … As librarians we are never endorsing anything that is on our shelves. [...] Read more:Ghetto
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Amnesia: A Few Teen Books That Aren’t Easily Forgotten 2008-08-27 08:15:50 Contributed By Ellen Anne
Personal identity and developing a sense of self are quintessential aspects of being a teenager. But how do you navigate the complex experiences of adolescence if you can’t even remember the names of the people you love? And is it even possible to cultivate a sense of self and plan [...] Read more:Amnesia
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My So-Called Picture Book 2008-08-06 12:48:23 A middle school teacher wants Leo Lionni books to teach her students how to make inferences. A historical preservationist is reinvigorated by Virginia Lee Burton’s The Little House. Two teenagers flirt and read Wee Little Chick to one another. Picture
books are not just for children anymore.
The graphic novel naissance—comics renaissance—has [...]
If you were president for a day… 2008-07-10 11:46:10 Here’s a contest that you might want to pitch to your 18 and over TAG/teens in your community as a way to encourage discussion about current communication technology issues and their effect on…well..the world and everything therein. Heck, actually it’s a perfect contest for teen librarians to participate in. How does high speed broadband effect [...]
Someday This Pain Will Be Useful To You 2008-06-18 17:11:27 We read to see ourselves reflected. Cameron’s new book has a great title and two lovely and perfect epigrams that I must quote. The first is Ovid: “Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.”
And Denton Welch (journal, 8 May 1944, 11:15 pm): “When you long with all your heart for [...] Read more:Someday
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Big Fat Book Talks 2008-06-08 14:29:34 Now that your summer reading programs are in full swing, we’ve written a few booktalks to assist you in pushing young adult titles during your busy programs.
Big Fat Manifesto by Susan Vaught
book talk written by bloodymandy
”A study found that people would rather give up a year of life than be fat. Half of thousands of people asked in a [...]
YA Free-Verse Novels 2008-06-02 01:06:28 The verse-novel is a modern phenomenon—very modern. Although there are a few earlier examples, this type of literature first reared its genre-blending head in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The vast majority were published after the year 2000, and most are marketed to teenage audiences.
Verse-novels are characterized by the combining of narrative and poetry, [...] Read more:Novels
Alt Teen Update #5 - We are going collective! 2008-11-12 11:25:09 We are going collective!
In December, there will be a virtual meeting for those that want to get involved with shaping the Alternative Teen Services project. We are looking for people that want to be involved with shaping the blog, or want to support it so that this project does not die. All that is needed [...] Read more:Update
Reader’s Advisory for Avid Readers: Short Story Collections 2008-11-26 09:20:24 What do you do when a teen comes into the library and they’ve read all their favorite author’s books and they’re still hungry for more? Of course there’s book-lists, read-alike lists, as well as staff and teen recommendations, but how about offering up a short story collection that includes a story by a teen’s favorite [...] Read more:Advisory
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