Dear Santa, I know that I’m likely a bit older than the people you usually get letters like this from. However, if my middle school students are any indication, there have been a lot of naughty kids this year. I thought that there might be some extra room in your sleigh for gifts. If you… Read more »
I intended to blog more while I was here at the ALAN (The Assembly on Literature for Adolescents) workshop. Really, I did. But honestly? I can’t remember ever being this tired. The workshop was amazing. So many fabulous authors. I shipped more than one box of books home! This means that I’ll be holding multiple… Read more »
Simone Elkeles I stumbled upon Simone Elkeles’ books shortly after Perfect Chemistry was released. I was browsing the book store and the cover appealed to me. It was on sale so I decided to check it out. I’m very glad that I did! I really enjoyed the story. It takes place in the Chicago area,… Read more »
Illegally downloading books. Not something I ever thought I’d write a blog post about. I mean, I never really thought about it, didn’t realize there was “debate” about it. It’s wrong. Don’t do it. End of story… right? Apparently not. I really started thinking about this topic recently when Claudia Gray tweeted that people were… Read more »
I’m at work but I felt the need to share yet another reason I love banned books. I intentionally didn’t mention book titles because it could have been anything. I am a library media specialist in a middle school. We have about 500 seventh and eighth grade students. I love my job. It’s perfect for… Read more »
Book banning kind of makes me ill. Seriously. It reminds me of that saying, “Your right to swing your fist ends when your fist meets my face.” You have a right to dislike a book or feel it’s inappropriate… just keep it to yourself. It sounds kind of harsh but I really don’t want to… Read more »
Maggie Stiefvater just revealed the cover of the third and final books in the Shiver series!!! Isn’t it BEAUTIFUL!!! You can preorder a signed copy here: http://www.fountainbookstore.com/autograph-maggie. It’s coming out in July 2011. I CANNOT wait! If you haven’t read the first two I highly recommend it. The audiobook of Linger is amazing too! Pre-order… Read more »
I first came across Sherwood Smith when Crown Duet was recommended to me by YA author Anne Osterlund (you HAVE to read her books Aurelia and Academy 7!!!) I went to the book store and bought Court Duet expecting to pick it up now and again when I had some time. However, once I picked… Read more »
So, when I went to leave the house yesterday I nearly stepped on a large brown box outside my door. I assumed it was the incredibly cool Hunger Games stuff I ordered (board game, journal, keychain. shirt, etc…) but it wasn’t. It was something completely unexpected… a box of ARCs form Scholastic. How exciting is… Read more »
How did I miss this?!?! Home Girl’s Book Blog is doing a YA reading challenge (check it out here) It is so my kind of thing!! I’ve signed up to read 75 YA books this year. Since the year is more than half over I went through my goodreads profile and copied over the YA… Read more »
