Site Updates and News…including Twilight and yes, even Zombies

Hi everyone and sorry for my lack of postings the past month. A blog is only as good as its updates, and in this regard I have been sorely lacking. But I am back from vacation and starting my third (and final!) semester at library school and I am back at blogging. A few site [...]

New on my Bookshelf…..

The Year We Disappeared: non-fiction father-daughter memoir from Cylin and John Busby that describes the year their family spent in hiding after a vicious attempted assassination on John, a police officer, by a suspect he was investigating. Filled with page-turning passages (“I could tell I was going to bleed to death before the EMTs arrived…”) [...]

Beyond Twilight: Resources for Non-Fiction and Historical Fiction

This past summer one of my favorite librarian blogs posted a “non-fiction rant” bemoaning the lack of YA non-fiction resources. As I went to find YA resources on non-fiction, this post was foremost in my mind because…well, I couldn’t find very many.* I did find several resources that included non-fiction within an analysis of general [...]