Urban Teens in the Library: Research and Practice by Denise E. Agosto and Sandra Hughes-Hassell
Posted by Daniel on February 1, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Urban Teens in the Library is the perfect solution for the concerns and uncertainty many librarians face when supporting this group of patrons and students. From a team of experts who have researched the information habits and preferences of urban teens to build better and more effective school and public library programs, this book will [...]
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INDIGO SUMMER by Monica McKayhan
Fifteen-year-old Indigo Summer’s world finally seems to be going in the right direction: She hooks up with the star linebacker on the high-school football team, gets a date for homecoming and makes the high-school dance squad all in the same week. But sometimes things are just too good to be true. After football star Quincy [...]
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SUMMER OF SECRETS by Paul Langan
Posted by Daniel on October 26, 2009 · Leave a Comment
A frightening ordeal at the end of the school year has turned Darcy Wills’s world upside down. With her ex-boyfriend miles away in Detroit and her beloved grandmother gone, Darcy is more alone than ever. Darcy turns to her remaining friends to discover one of them has an even bigger secret. Now, forced into a [...]
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JOSEPH by Shelia P. Moses
Posted by Daniel on September 28, 2009 · Leave a Comment
For Joseph Flood, life is tough. Tough because of Mama’s addiction to drugs and alcohol. Tough because daddy is away with the army fighting in Iraq. Tough because it looks like there’s no way out once you’re living in a homeless shelter in a North Carolina ghetto neighborhood. And tough because Joseph in enrolled in [...]
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BANG by Norah McClintock
Posted by Daniel on September 7, 2009 · Leave a Comment
I stare at him. He stares right back at me. Then he turns away. What a jerk, I think. He doesn’t even know me and he’s coming on all heavy with me. I raise my hand and point at him. I make like I’m pulling the trigger of a gun. Bang, mister, I say to [...]
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Q&A: Teri Woods (Library Journal)
Posted by Daniel on August 3, 2009 · Leave a Comment
By Vanessa Morris — Library Journal, 7/15/2009 (posted with permission from LJ)
In 1992 Teri Woods, then a Philadelphia legal secretary and mother, finished her first novel and spent the next six years submitting True to the Game to more than 20 publishers. Undeterred by their rejections, she self-published the novel in 1998 and sold thousands [...]
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