Category Archives: Television

The Night Circus

The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern Roll call: What reading habit do you have that is a pet peeve for somebody else? Topic: Fall 2011-2012 TV Upcoming: Short stories Welcome to Bordertown edited by Holly Black and Ellen Kushner Shannon’s Law A Tangle of Green Men Life on Mars edited by Jonathan Strahan Goodnight moons [...]

Six Picture Books

If Rocks Could Sing by Leslie McGuirk Press Here by Herve Tullet Perfect Square by Michael Hall A Suitcase Surprise for Mommy by Cat Cora This Plus That : Life’s Little Equations by Amy Krouse Rosenthal Shout! Shout It Out! by Denise Fleming Recommendations Emily Game of Thrones obssession – HBO tv show Cathie Sue [...]

Flesh & Blood So Cheap: The Triangle Fire & Its Legacy

Flesh & Blood So Cheap: The Triangle Fire and Its Legacy by Albert Marrin (Random House website) Roll call question from Rummanah Aasi: What are your reading pet peeves? Topic: “Non-white heroes the kiss of death in the marketplace,” by Gerritson, Tess. Murderati. 2011, May, 17. Recommendations Cathie Sue To Twinkle: Lola & the Boy [...]

Delirium or, We Used To Be Friends

Delirium by Lauren Oliver Delirium movie deal by Deadline New York Topic “Are All Lists Created Equal? Diversity in Award-Winning and Bestselling Young Adult Fiction” by Casey H. Rawson. The Journal of Research on Libraries and Young Adult. YALSA. Spring, 2011. Rawson’s Masters papers full version (PDF) Recommendations Jenny Talk of the Nation, July 6, [...]

Red Glove or, The Devil Inside

Red Glove by Holly Black (author’s website) Roll Call Question: What children/young adult blogs do you read? American Indian’s in Children’s Literature Bookshelves of Doom MotherReader Topic: Oklahoma 2011 Sequoyah Winners and 2012 Masterlists Recommendations: Cathie Sue Girl in the Steel Corset by Kady Cross Ruby Red by Kerstin Gier Mermaids are the new trend, [...]