Group items tagged

Some really good tips and suggestions for weeding 

a great article about YA literature and why we should be reading it.

http://www.2busybrunettes.com/2012/03/23/25-series-to-read-if-you-love-the-hunger-games/ pinned on my library board (not the school one, my personal one--lots for the pre-teen crowd (gr 5-6)

Why read book blogs...."Book blogs have created community-a place where we adults who take children's literature seriously can discuss it seriously and at length, in a forum open to the whole Internet."

a conservative organization dedicated to upholding and reaffirming marriage and family life, has called for a boycott of Scholastic following the company's decision to include Lauren Myracle's controversial Luv Ya Bunches (Abrams/Amulet, 2009) in its spring 2010 middle school book fairs.

An interesting take on weeding.... I've discovered that, whether our expertise is paleontology or board books, most of what holds us back from weeding is psychological. I'm reminded of that first step in most recovery programs: "We admitted we were powerless over [blank]-that our lives had become unmanageable." So, here's a program for people whose collections have become unmanageable-and it's only eight steps.

an amazing collection of resources about graphic novels - wow!