I'm a high school librarian. And I like to read teen lit. Ok, I will say there are some popular vampire series books that make me wonder...where are the parents of these characters? They have no siblings, cousins, aunts, uncles, grandparents? They can come and go any old time they want?! And my favorite: someone was killed/disappeared, and no one noticed they were missing? That's just sad.
Anyway, our department assignment was to read this article by Karin Perry Do You Read Books? First thing that comes to mind is: everyone thinks that's all I do all day (well, not really, but it would be dangerous to say otherwise). And I wish I could read books, read reviews, library articles all day long, what a wonderful job!! But so far, I'm troubleshooting computer problems/putting in repair requests, helping students with their MS Office skills, doing inventory, registering parents with online grade access and trying to finish reports (which are overdue, much to the dismay of one).
But I do, have, and always will like YA lit. Without it, there'd be no Hunger Games, Twilight, To Kill a Mockingbird, Outsiders, Delirium, Go Ask Alice, even The Pigman!
So try YA lit some time! And share...
Bell rang, school's out...time to READ some teen lit!! And oops, forgot to get my last two ILLs out to the kids before school was over for the day.
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