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Young Adult Author Wordle and the beautiful purple cart
Nora and I were thinking of a way to highlight young adult authors (and a way to use our beautiful purple book cart). Our student readers kept asking for the same favorite names over and over again...
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Am I the messenger (too)?
Yesterday, at the very end of the day, I was out on the floor helping the usual AP US History bunch dig up the usual primary sources for their usual DBQs, as well as the evidence they need for their...
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Read it 1st! (For Nerdfighters & the world)
Inspired by Nerdfighteria, we decided to bag the traditional book-to-film display in favor of a far more awesome, far less sucky Read-it-first display. Our Springfield Nerdfighters not only approve,...
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Our YA Lit LibGuide (a guest post from Chrissy)
My big goal for the year is to promote reading. So I asked my practicum student, Chrissy Sirianni, to use my BookLeads wiki as an inspiration and add her own special curating touch to create a YA Lit...
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About The Watermelon: Can a YA novel change the world?
My old college buddy (SUNY Binghamton ’75), author Michael Laser recently shared his latest young adult novel with me. We chatted a bit about the world of YA literature and about what inspires him to...
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YALSA’s Teen Book Finder App (love it!)
Quick, before the school year ends, share this app with your teens and maybe their parents. Quick, before the school year ends, download this app yourself. You’re going to want to start using the...
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A great year for #SWVBC (with Libba and Lauren!)
It’s been a great year for our Somewhat Virtual Book Club. Actually, it seems easy to forget that it’s also been the first year for the SomeWhat Virtual Book Club. In the fall I shared that we...
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