I used to make these “like, try, why” reader’s advisory posts regularly for the Teen Zone before I moved to Collection Development (you can find them all indexed here). Then I started helping to coordinate the posts for the library’s blog, and have spent more time making “like, try, why” recommendations that feature adult titles.… Continue reading Like, Try, Why: Contemporary YA
Author: Molly Wetta
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Book Review: Beware the Wild by Natalie C. Parker
I cannot believe how long it has taken me to get this review posted! I read this at the height of last year’s busy summer, and since then I’ve had my jumbled thoughts sitting in a draft. Beware the Wild by Natalie C. Parker Published: October 21st 2014 by HarperTeen Source: ARC from publisher ISBN: 9780062241528 Genre:… Continue reading Book Review: Beware the Wild by Natalie C. Parker
Rewind: February 2015
The most exciting thing about February: we got a new kitten! Meet Marceline. Spike and Angel are totally tolerating him. Yes, all our cats are named after fictional vampires.
Reading Recap: February 2015
This was a short reading month, and a busy time for me, so I didn’t get as much reading done as I would have liked. I read The Girl at Midnight by Melisa Grey and A Court of Throne and Roses, and I’lll have in depth reviews of those next week, but here’s what else… Continue reading Reading Recap: February 2015
Library Program: Where Things Come Back Scavenger Hunt
For Read Across Lawrence, our community-wide reading program, we’re doing a teen book for the first time. We selected one of my favorites, Where Things Come Back by John Corey Whaley. When pitching the books to readers, I’ve been saying “it’s about a small town where a woodpecker thought to be extinct is sighted, and… Continue reading Library Program: Where Things Come Back Scavenger Hunt
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