Readergirlz has cool stuff for Teen Read Week

Readergirlz.com has some great plans for Teen Read week. Their poster is awesome!
So is this video. Check it out:

A Quote for Sarah Palin:

“[W]hat people read is deeply important. … [I]deas can be dangerous; but … the suppression of ideas is fatal to a democratic society. Freedom itself is a dangerous way of life, but it is ours.”
From the Freedom to Read Statement, American Library Association and the Association of American Publishers, adopted June 25, 1953, by the [...]

Banned Books Display? What About Sarah Palin’s List

eptember 27 through October 4 is Banned Books Week, when libraries celebrate the public’s first amendment right to access and read books, regardless if some in the community find the content offensive. As part of the celebration, libraries often feature books that have come under attack (including deviant titles, like Harry Potter and the [...]

Drop everything. Go to whichbook.net

Library friends, check out whichbook.net. Oh my, this is fun. We’re playing with it at South Branch RIGHT NOW. Use 12 sliding scales to identify books based on the mood you’re seeking (happy to sad, safe to disturbing, no sex to lots of sex, short to long, etc. etc.) Or, you [...]

LibraryThing is MY Thing

My Experience
When our library embarked on its Web 2.0 learning project six weeks ago, the first thing I did was check out LibraryThing. (My library is behind that LibraryThing link, if you want to check it out.) I was immediately hooked.
I like the:
- easy access to book descriptions, reader reviews and [...]

Twilight Trailer Spoof

Hee hee. A good laugh for my Twilight fans:

From Oops … Wrong Cookie, on my RSS feed.

My Trading Card

I can’t imagine anyone would trade their card for this, but here you go! I made it on BigHugeLabs.com. Check it out!

Diary of a Wimpy Kid, by Jeff Kinney & Middle School Is Worse Than Meatloaf, by Jennifer Holm

Fiction offerings for middle-schoolers and almost-middle-schoolers improved exponentially in the last 18 months with the addition of Diary of a Wimpy Kid, by Jeff Kinney and Middle School is Worse than Meatloaf, by Jennifer Holm.
Diary of a Wimpy Kid is about a sixth grade boy; Middle School is Worse than Meatloaf [...]

“Breaking Dawn” sucks

I’m always “tsk, tsking” my teenagers for using “sucks” slang. But, try Googling “Breaking Dawn sucks.” On Yahoo, Fanfiction, Blogher, Facebook, YouTube … EVERYWHERE … people are saying just that about Breaking Dawn, the final book in Stephenie Meyer’s vampire/werewolf series. I suppose, given the vampire theme (and the quality of the book), [...]

“Twilight” Trailer

As all the talk today undoubtedly will be about Breaking Dawn and Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight series, I thought I’d post the official trailer for the film, to be released in December 2008. Enjoy!