This is my fifth year as the school librarian at my high school, and I have somehow been pretty much spot on on my first five-year-plan for revamping and reinvigorating and modernizing our school library program. One thing I'm very excited about is that I have FINALLY completed my 5-year-long major weeding project!! Over these…
YA romance display at Parr Library
A while back, I posted in the forums asking for people to help me find a YA book for every...
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“I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.” This quote is attributed to Vincent Van Gogh, but writers have found as much inspiration in the stars as …
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Elizabeth Rowe and Kelly Gallucci have created for Bookish, the website where you can find hand-picked book recommendations, two charts YA readers will find extremely attractive: Sci-fi & fantasy young adult flowchart - if you love The Hunger Games or Harry Potter series, Contemporary young adult flowchart - if you love books by John Green,…
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A Walk to Remember by Nicholas Sparks on BookBub. There was a time when the world was sweeter....when the women in Beaufort, North Carolina, wore dresses, and the men donned hats.... Every April, when the wind smells of both the sea and lilacs, Landon Carter remembers 1958, his last year at...
The Australian Children’s Book Week theme for 2017 is ‘Escape to Everywhere’. It sparks lots of ideas for me. It invites wonder about the world and the wide variety of humans who live here. The theme also captures why I read – to escape – to live inside someone else’s mind for a while and to see and feel what they do. That’s why they say reading makes you more compassionate and empathetic (see articles in Time, The Guardian and Better Reading on this). And we need that now more than ever. Children’s Book Week runs from 18-25 August and here are…
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In this week’s Like, Try, Why, we’re bringing you reading recommendations for fans of Code Name Verity, The 5th Wave...
The book trailer for The Selection By The Sea (aka The Siren by Keira Cass) has arrived on dry land! Check...
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Houston, we had a problem. We wanted to read some epic YA books set in the final frontier, but we...
Here is an interactive Banned Books Week display in which patrons place a tally mark with a dry erase marker to indicate what banned books they have read. Under each book cover, there's a flip card that shows why each book was challenged or banned. The QR code led to the American Library Association's website that explains what "Banned Books Week" is.
