Preliminary plans for a new junior high school were presented to the
City Board of Education; the school was to be built on 32nd Avenue
near Druid High school.
The week of Ja...
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I worked at a Los Angeles publishing house back in the '90...
I was perusing my posts from the last year, trying to decide if I
really feel like making a "best of" list this year and being hard on
myself for all the books I didn't read a...
DEBBIE ALVAREZ SHARED HER LOVE OF READING IN schoolS, ONLINE AND WITH
BATTLE OF THE BOOKS.
A community of librarians and book lovers from Beaverton and beyond is
mourning th...
CHICAGO — The Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA), a
division of the American Library Association (ALA), awarded Lisa
Brennan, middle schoollibrarian at St. Ch...
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> In Brief: Over the past year, the Editorial Board has experienced
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Looking back at 2015, there were so many memorable moments that
reminded us of the resilience, creativity and passion that fuel
libraries across the country. From James Patter...
I hope everyone had an enjoyable day off celebrating with family or
drinking and watching Netflix all day, or maybe both. One of the small
holiday stories was the reinstatemen...
How a Virginia high schoollibrarian researched, budgeted, got
community buy-in and read-in, and otherwise prepared for a visit to
her high school by "A Monster Calls" author ...
Well, ready or not, Christmas is here!! The most exciting time of
the year!! And the most hectic. This week, a few of us Blended
Bloggers are sharing favorite Christmas Me...
Our featured blog review of the day looks at YA Fiction nominee
Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon. Earlier in the year, Round 1 YA
Fiction judge Karen Jensen reviewed this...
This is the fifteenth in Critical Mass's new Second Thoughts series
[http://bookcritics.org/blog/category/second-thoughts], curated by
Daniel Akst. More about this series, an...