October 2011
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Oct 26th
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The Double Eagle Has Landed, by Anthony Horowitz. →
Oct 26th
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“This is a population of young people who don’t remember a time when the country...”
– Rosemary Stimola, on current YA fiction.
Oct 6th
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“I hate them. It’s like making believe there’s another kind of sex....”
– Maurice Sendak on ebooks.
Oct 4th
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September 2011
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“Whenever anyone says teen writing is crap, I tell them to read the first...”
– Maya Escobar
Sep 29th
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The Future Of Books: A Dystopian Timeline. →
Sep 28th
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“I don’t have a problem with her forbidding her daughter to read my book....”
– Sonya Sones, on the many challenges to the ever-fabulous What My Mother Doesn’t Know.
Sep 27th
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INFOGRAPHIC: Top Ten Banned Or Challenged Books Of... →
Sep 27th
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Sep 27th
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Sep 26th
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Edgar Allan Poe's extremely short military career. →
Sep 26th
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“The truth is, that when a Library expels a book of mine and leaves an...”
– Mark Twain
Sep 25th
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“What they’re doing is making books available to students only if parents...”
– Julia Whitehead, executive director of the Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library, on Republic High School’s decision to keep Slaughterhouse Five and Twenty Book Summer in a ‘secure location’ in the library.
Sep 24th
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Edward Gorey’s Never-Before-Seen Letters and... →
Sep 24th
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“I think what the character Omar did for the homophobia in my community was it...”
– Michael Kenneth Williams, on The Wire’s Omar.
Sep 24th
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“Outside Over There” was and is my particular favorite because it had so much to...”
– Maurice Sendak
Sep 23rd
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Sep 23rd
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“It almost seems like revenge, then, doesn’t it, that heirlooms are buried...”
– Rotters, by Daniel Kraus.
Sep 23rd
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Sep 22nd
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“I can’t believe there will ever be a time when the book is truly obsolete. It is...”
– Katherine Paterson
Sep 22nd
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“In their ridiculous notion of a ‘compromise’, a 17 year-old will have to bring...”
– NCAC Executive Director Joan Bertin, on Republic High School’s decision to shelve Twenty Boy Summer and Slaughterhouse-Five in a ”secure section”.
Sep 22nd
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Sep 21st
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Sep 19th
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The 2011 Anthony Awards have been announced. →
Sep 19th
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Pride and Prejudice in one minute
Mr. Darcy: Nothing is good enough for me.
Ms. Elizabeth Bennet: I could never marry that proud man.
(They change their minds.)
Sep 17th
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LGBTQ Young Adult Books, 2009-2011. →
Sep 16th
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Young Adult Fiction With Gay/Lesbian Content,... →
Sep 16th
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Sep 16th
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World War II: Women at War. →
Sep 15th
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More promo footage of the still-looking-for-money... →
Sep 15th
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Sep 15th
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Sep 14th
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Sep 14th
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Science Fiction and Fantasy YA novels with Major... →
Sep 14th
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Girl Power: Female Role Models in Young Adult... →
Sep 13th
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Literary Pets. →
Sep 12th
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“As young adult librarians, we focus so much on teens that I think we may have...”
– Stephanie Wilkes
Sep 11th
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“In fiction, also, we are able to understand characters’ actions from their...”
– Dr. Keith Oatley
Sep 11th
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Sep 11th
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Sep 10th
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Sep 10th
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Sep 10th
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Something to Shout About: New research shows that... →
Sep 9th
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Sep 9th
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Sep 9th
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Sep 8th
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Sep 8th
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The 10 Most Ridiculously Difficult Encyclopedia... →
Sep 8th
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Sep 7th
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Round-up of links about Mr. Ray Bradbury. →
Sep 7th