Posted in Uncategorized on July 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Building a better Library for Teens:
Books and resources on Health.
Assignment: Spend $800 on new non fiction Young Adult health resources at the Thomas Crane Public Library in Quincy, Massachusetts.
Provide a list of existing titles, with publication dates and circulation statistics, along with reasons for keeping, replacing, or weeding title
Provide a list of new titles, [...]
Posted in Reviews on July 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I thought Runaways would be my first graphic novel. The pictures are gorgeous; the storyline seemed interesting; it reminded me of a not unpleasant two weeks I spent reading comic books in my sister’s sunny corner bedroom when I was 16 years old and recovering from whooping cough. But every time I opened that hardcover [...]
Posted in Random stuff about teens, books, and technology on July 20, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
WSJ
Discord Over Dewey
A New Library in Arizona Fans a Heated Debate
Over What Some Call the ‘Googlization’ of Libraries
By ANDREW LAVALLEE
July 20, 2007
By all accounts, patrons of the Perry Branch Library in Gilbert, Ariz., are happy with the new digs.
Since the doors opened last month, visitors have checked out about 900 items a day, far more [...]
Posted in Reviews on July 18, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Sometimes, we don’t get the choice.
I don’t want to be crazy is as much a memoir of a disorder as it is a memoir of the person who suffers this disorder. The story is absorbing enough that this distinction is not necessarily one the reader will make on a conscious level, but it is nonetheless [...]
Posted in Random stuff about teens, books, and technology on July 17, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Los Angeles Times
Schools today require students to log countless hours of community service. It’s gotten out of hand.
By Cary Bickley
Los Angeles
Call me old-fashioned, but community service used to mean something. Charitable work, an important tradition in American culture, once grew out of a family’s genuine concern for a cause or from long-standing relationships [...]
Posted in Reviews on July 15, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I thought this book was great. After poring over the pictures of tattoos and the terse stories behind the ink–I left it out on the kitchen table and watched with interest as each of my three children browsed through it over breakfast bowls of Cheerios and Honey Smacks.
My 12 year old daughter took one look [...]
Posted in Why Parka? on July 14, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
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The Story of Evan
After three nights of no sleep–my daughter is radiant. Luminous. Her eyes sparkle. Her glossed lips shine. Her legs–with fresh red cuts on the thighs–go on and on. Her fingers are cold. Her belly is bare. Her arms have stars scraped into the skin–and this exhortation penned in permanent magic marker just above the elbow:
SCAR ME! SCAR ME!
Evan is 16 years old.
Posted in Reviews on July 14, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
It was hard to like What Happened to Cass McBride because it was hard to like any of the characters in the book. On the other hand–because personality takes a back seat to the mechanics of the story–it is easy to rattle off a list of where Cass formed her sense of values and [...]
Posted in Random stuff about teens, books, and technology on July 14, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Use of ‘Chick Lit’ Spurs Debate
Feminist leader Gloria Steinem says the term “chick lit” to describe books written by and about women needlessly marginalizes stories with universal themes. Jenny Colgan, writing on the Web site of the Guardian, says she isn’t overly concerned about the label, since in her view it reveals more about [...]
Posted in Reviews on July 9, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I. LOVED. THIS. BOOK.
I didn’t want it end. And when it did? I went straight to Barnes and Noble and bought Gaiman’s American Gods. I wanted more of the rich world this author conjures–whether it’s the world below London, or an American landscape peopled by old and abandoned gods in almost-human forms.
Neverwhere is more magical [...]
