As a future Young Adult Librarian, I must put greater focus on the people who matter the most, teenagers. This is highlighted in Agosto’s chapter in Transforming Young Adult Services, where she encourages future library research and services to incorporate a teen-centered perspective (2013, pg. 33). However, I understand that my idealistic vision of creating…… Continue reading Collection Development: A Future YA Librarian’s Perspective (REVISED)

First Test First Test By Tamora Pierce Pierce, T. (1999). First test: #1. New York: Random House. V’s Rating:  10-year old Keladry, or Kel for short, is the first girl to be accepted for a page’s training in Tortall, a realm of magic and knighthood. However she must receive a year of probation, a condition…… Continue reading Book Reviews Part 2: First Test and Tomboy

Merchants of Cool is a PBS documentary released in 2001 that showed how companies send marketers, “merchants of cool,” to gather research data on what appeals to the “average” teen or create and sell an item could be the next big trend. Thirteen years later, the network released Generation Like, which provided an insight on…… Continue reading Documentary Comparison: Merchant of Cool and Generation Like

Schatz, K., & Klein, S. M. (2015). Rad American women A-Z. San Francisco: City Lights Books. Rad American Women A – Z is the first book I have read this week because of convenience and subject. Compared to the other two primary materials I have selected, my library had a copy of this book readily…… Continue reading Weekly Post: Rad American women A-Z

Fagan, K. (2017). What made Maddy run: The secret struggles and tragic death of an all-American teen. New York: Little, Brown and Co. In this weekly post, I decided to do something I never thought of doing, reading each summary of primary materials. This is because I generally avoid reading any type of nonfiction. That…… Continue reading Weekly Post: What Made Maddy Run by Kate Fagan

BOOM! Box BOOM! Box is an imprint from BOOM! Studios, a publishing company that centralizes in comics, graphic novels, art books, etc. Created in late November 2013, Editor-in-Chief Matt Gagnon announces that the trade name is about innovation and creativity. Not only are the titles published in BOOM! Box appropriate for teenagers and older readers,…… Continue reading BOOM! Box

First Test: #1 Pierce, T. (1999). First test: #1. New York: Random House. I am very selective when it comes to reading materials, even more so with fantasy novels. That said, I have chosen Tamora Pierce’s book because of the publishing date and accessibility. For a novel that was created back in 1999 to be…… Continue reading Weekly Post: First Test

5Q, 3P, NA / G Vaughan, Brian Keller. Saga. Image Comics, 2012. 160 pages. Tr. $9.99. ISBN 978-1-60706-601-9. Eisner award winner, Brian K. Vaughan partners up with critically acclaimed artist Fiona Staples to create an epic story which follows a young family as they strive to live a peaceful life in an endless galactic war. When Wreath,…… Continue reading Book Reviews: Saga and The Diabolic

I Am Not a Number Dupuis, J.K., Kacer, K., & Newland G. (2016). I am not a number. Toronto: Second Story Press. The reason why I have chosen this book is due to measly assumption based on the title. From my perspective, I Am Not a Number is a title that portrays a tone of…… Continue reading Weekly Post: I Am Not A Number

In the short report that Yeseina and I have written, a featured 2017 trend we discovered is the iPhone by Apple. According to Lulu Chang’s article, the iPhone is the most preferred to American teens over any other smartphone, with 76% of those who own one. Not to mention, this is a notable increase from…… Continue reading Trend Highlight for Teens: iPhones