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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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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So it has been a few days now and I have not had much time to post.  Tonight unfortunately is no exception.  I have however had a lot of time to read, and in some cases listen to, books and graphic novels lately.  So in the next few days you can be expecting me to [...]

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Mark Waid, like many before him, has developed a new vision of the origins and beginning of superman.  In this world, Clark Kent is a young, traveling reporter who has been trying his best to hide his powers from the world.  After some startling events in Africa Clark decides it is time to use his [...]

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Here is another one of my book talks. The book is Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy. It is, in my opinion, one of the best Young Adult Books that came out in 2004. It was both and Newbery and Printz honor book. The story is interesting, funny, and exciting, but it is also based [...]

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Here is one of my favorite book talks on a book I thought was fantastic.  Ill let the book talk speak for itself.
Stuck in Neutral.
By: Terry Trueman
 
Shawn McDaniel is a lot like any other fourteen year old you might know.  He likes music, enjoys eating potato chips, and has discovered a new found appreciation for [...]

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I have just added a book talking category. As I explained in that category description I have written book talks for many of the young adult books that I have read and I hope to continue writing them as I read. I will post them here for any who are curious.  I will aslo try [...]

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