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Mock Printz Roundup 2012 – Youth Services Corner
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Resources for youth services librarians. Mock Printz Roundup 2012. The Youth Media Awards, the collection of awards handed out by the American Library Association, will be presented this Monday, January 23. For young adult literature, the Michael L. Printz award. I’m always curious to see what books look like contenders for the award, so for the last two years ( 2011. I have compiled Mock Printz lists and winners. It’s not the best predictor of the eventual winner, especially since a lot of the...This ye...
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Daniel Phelan: June 2014
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Tuesday, June 24, 2014. The Element Encyclopedia Series: A Shoutout. I enjoy many things of which the average Joe has no knowledge. Music by Medwyn Goodall or by Herb Moore, art by Brian Froud, and much obscure literature from thrift stores or annual library blowout sales. Exotic dishes, studies of foreign martial arts. Pagan religions, both in practice and as an educational or historical discipline. Forgotten sciences. Was among these when I purchased it. For instance, who knows of the jidra? John and C...
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Jen's Pen: Feb 25, 2011
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Friday, February 25, 2011. YA Literature: The Promise of a Poorly Labeled Literary Genre. Defining Young Adult (YA) Literature is difficult. Publishers and book sellers would have us believe this is a genre of literature specifically for 12 to 18-year-olds. But who among us really thinks of a 12-year-old as a young adult? He wrote that " There is no difference. As Marc Aronson points out in his article entitled How Are Our Children Affected by the Books in Their Lives? 2004), books seldom influence child...
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Elf Army Writes: Thoughts on Neil Armstrong
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Writings, ramblings, readings, and reviews. Things You Might Like To Read. Saturday, August 25, 2012. Thoughts on Neil Armstrong. Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance." - Will Durant. Alternate Title: In Which You Realize Just How Massively Nerdy My Childhood Was. Neil Armstrong. The answer in our own personal variation of 20 Questions? Neil Armstrong. Occasionally, even bedtime stories were replaced by Neil Armstrong (instead of the usual fare of Doctor Who/Lord of the Rings/let...
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whitney – Youth Services Corner
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Resources for youth services librarians. Best Fiction for Young Adults by Gender. Over the past year, I have served on YALSA’s Best Fiction for Young Adults. Committee. At the ALA Midwinter Meeting in early January, the 14 other committee members and I deliberated all of the nominated books and selected a final list of 64 exceptional young adult fiction books with teen appeal. We also chose a top 10. From our final list. A spreadsheet with the data is available here. 6 with male main characters (. I woul...
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Elf Army Writes: December 2012
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Writings, ramblings, readings, and reviews. Things You Might Like To Read. Monday, December 31, 2012. Books I Read in 2012. I don't rate books in these posts by quality, really, but just as me recommending things to people, so keep that in mind. GO READ THIS RIGHT NOW. I would hand this book to you. I would not tell you to put this book down. 172 Hours on the Moon. A Long Way Down, by Nick Hornby. A Monster Calls, by Patrick Ness. All The King's Men. All The Right Stuff, by Walter Dean Meyers. Pirate Cin...
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Elf Army Writes: Books I Read in 2013
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Writings, ramblings, readings, and reviews. Things You Might Like To Read. Tuesday, December 31, 2013. Books I Read in 2013. GO READ THIS RIGHT NOW. I would hand this book to you. I would not tell you to put this book down if you picked it up. 1984, by George Orwell. American Gods, by Neil Gaiman. Anatomy of a Boyfriend. Anatomy of a Single Girl, by Daria Snadowsky. Bossypants (Narrative NF), by Tina Fey. Canterbury Tales, The. Clash of Kings, A, by George R. R. Martin. Stephen Karam and PJ Paparelli.
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Elf Army Writes: In Which I Write A Post
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Writings, ramblings, readings, and reviews. Things You Might Like To Read. Saturday, October 27, 2012. In Which I Write A Post. Love is when a girl puts on perfume and a boy puts on shaving cologne and they go out and smell each other." - a five year old named Karl. God, I haven't posted in months. Sorry about that. A combination of school, Tumblr, and life got in the way. Things going on with me:. Full schedule of AP classes. Got accepted/am officially going to UNCG. November 5, 2012 at 7:04 PM. In cont...
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Elf Army Writes: Books I Read in 2012
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Writings, ramblings, readings, and reviews. Things You Might Like To Read. Monday, December 31, 2012. Books I Read in 2012. I don't rate books in these posts by quality, really, but just as me recommending things to people, so keep that in mind. GO READ THIS RIGHT NOW. I would hand this book to you. I would not tell you to put this book down. 172 Hours on the Moon. A Long Way Down, by Nick Hornby. A Monster Calls, by Patrick Ness. All The King's Men. All The Right Stuff, by Walter Dean Meyers. Pirate Cin...