Teen Lib.

I have stumbled upon a few more websites that are worth knowing about if you are involved with Young Adult library services.

The first is a Wiki called Library Success: A Best Practices Wiki. This is a Wiki site (which means that any viewer can edit it, like Wikipedia) which is dedicated toward successful library practices. [...]

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Adolf by Osamu Tezuka is one of the most intriguing graphic novel series I have read in a long time.  It is a five volume series which begins with Adolf, Vol 1” a tale of the twentieth century.  These books take place during the years leading up too and during WW2.  The setting switches between [...]

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I have recently stumbled upon three different sites/groups which deal with video games and are well worth looking at. The first is a Google group called LibGaming and it is a group forum to discuss video gaming in libraries. There are all sorts of worthwhile threads that discuss everything from how to justify using Dance [...]

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In one of my young adult lit classes we will be helping a local rock group kick off the first show of their National Library Tour at the Detroit Public Library. The Band is called “The High Strung” and they are a rock band who sounds somewhat like a British Invasion band, the Ramones, and [...]

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If you’re at all involved with young adult literature you have probably already read Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson.  For those of you who haven’t, you need to.  It is one of the more important books in the genre and it deals with some very big teen issues.  You will get a brief idea of [...]

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Stotan is a very fun and important book, by Chris Crutcher, one of the premier young adult authors out their.  It is about four boys on a high school swim team together and how their adventures during one hellish week of swimming during Christmas break will help them weather some very hard times together.  If [...]

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Runaways Vol. 4: True Believers was I must say my favorite of the runaway series yet, which is saying a lot as anything Brian K. Vaughan does is A ok in my book. Any way, for those of you who might be unfamiliar with the Runaways story, it is about a bunch of kids who [...]

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