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- Cfp: Journal Of Research On Libraries And Young Adults
CFP: Journal of Research on Libraries and Young Adults URL: http://www.yalsa.ala.org/jrlya The Journal of Research on Libraries and Young Adults is an online open-access, peer-reviewed journal launching this November. The purpose of Journal of Research...
- Call For Speakers For "going Green @ Your Library 2: Working Green, Teaching Green
Call for Speakers for "Going Green @ Your Library 2: Working Green, Teaching Green" Amigos' second Going Green @ Your Library online conference will be Wednesday, November 3, 2010. We are looking for librarians interested in sharing their ideas, experiences...
- Long Branch, Nottingham Students Chose Mock-caldecott Winners
Here are more results from our "mock" Caldecott committees: Long Branch Elementary School: Caldecott Winner: Grandpa Green by Lane SmithCaldecott honors: Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star, illustrated by Jerry Pinkney; Little White Rabbit by Kevin Henkes;...
- Find The Films Of Paul Newman (1925-2008) At Plaza
The Plaza Branch Library collection includes some of Paul Newman's best films from the 1950s - 70s: In westerns, we have The Left Handed Gun (1958), in which Newman played Billy the Kid, and Hud (1963), the story of "the rebellious son of a...
- 2014 Summer Reading Program Wrap Up
The Ottumwa Public Library has recently wrapped up their 2014 Summer Reading Programs. This year was a wonderful success and the numbers speak for themselves. There were 520 children ages 0-14, 22 teenagers, and 213 adults sign up to participate...
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"But the idea that all YA is bad and doesn't challenge you in any way is ludicrous."
Shannon believes adults should not belittle the genre just because it is populated predominantly with teenage characters: "There's this bizarre idea that adults can't empathise with teenagers - even that there's something embarrassing about reading books about young people.
"That indicates to me that they're saying there's something fundamentally embarrassing about being a teenager." BBC News
Do you agree?
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- The film adaptation of John Green's Fault in Our Stars topped UK and US box office charts
- Katniss Everdeen, played by Jennifer Lawrence, is the face of the rebellion in a dystopian society
- Divergent's protagonist Tris (played by Shailene Woodley) lives in a society divided into five factions based on virtues
- Fault in Our Stars author John Green's status has been compared to that of a rock star, with 3.5 million followers on Twitter - whom he calls his "Nerdfighters"
- Cfp: Journal Of Research On Libraries And Young Adults
CFP: Journal of Research on Libraries and Young Adults URL: http://www.yalsa.ala.org/jrlya The Journal of Research on Libraries and Young Adults is an online open-access, peer-reviewed journal launching this November. The purpose of Journal of Research...
- Call For Speakers For "going Green @ Your Library 2: Working Green, Teaching Green
Call for Speakers for "Going Green @ Your Library 2: Working Green, Teaching Green" Amigos' second Going Green @ Your Library online conference will be Wednesday, November 3, 2010. We are looking for librarians interested in sharing their ideas, experiences...
- Long Branch, Nottingham Students Chose Mock-caldecott Winners
Here are more results from our "mock" Caldecott committees: Long Branch Elementary School: Caldecott Winner: Grandpa Green by Lane SmithCaldecott honors: Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star, illustrated by Jerry Pinkney; Little White Rabbit by Kevin Henkes;...
- Find The Films Of Paul Newman (1925-2008) At Plaza
The Plaza Branch Library collection includes some of Paul Newman's best films from the 1950s - 70s: In westerns, we have The Left Handed Gun (1958), in which Newman played Billy the Kid, and Hud (1963), the story of "the rebellious son of a...
- 2014 Summer Reading Program Wrap Up
The Ottumwa Public Library has recently wrapped up their 2014 Summer Reading Programs. This year was a wonderful success and the numbers speak for themselves. There were 520 children ages 0-14, 22 teenagers, and 213 adults sign up to participate...