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Search Results lgbt There are a lot of great things about working in an elementary library and thus having the summer off, but by far one of my favorite things is being home and able to IMMEDIATELY grab and rip open book mail when it arrives. During the school year, I’ll get alerts on my phone that a package was delivered and desperately want to text my dogs, asking if they could please go carefully open it and report back. All of the books I get end up going back out the door in some fashion—to teen readers I know, to classroom libraries of friends, to my own school, or in giveaways. I can’t read/review every book I get, but it’s fun to be able to sift through boxes and see what grabs my attention, and to see what books will find loving new homes with the right reader. The following are the books that have arrived here in the past few weeks. I will be reviewing many of them in the upcoming months on TLT. All descriptions from the publishers. The Echo Park Castaways by M. Her goal? Who is the Sentry?
Comic Adaptations My appreciation for the graphic novel form has been slowly building since the first one that found its way into my hands. Stuck Rubber Baby was assigned reading for a class in graduate school. I had never really been exposed to comics, so I didn’t know what to expect. What I found was that the graphic novel form is both extremely accessible to a wide variety of readers and incredibly insightful. The artwork helped me to understand the emotional elements of the story that I may have otherwise missed. It was a revelation. Now, as a teacher, I have seen how graphic novels can allow my students to engage with a text in a way that they would not have if I had just handed them pages of text and asked them to read. There are many, many graphic adaptations of the classics, especially Shakespeare and Dickens. Available Now: Kindred by Damian Duffy, John Jennings, and Octavia E. Fahrenheit 451 by Tim Hamilton and Ray Bradbury Shirley Jackson’s The Lottery by Miles Hyman Monster by Guy A. Pre-Order:
Reading LGBTQ-Inclusive Children’s Books in Schools Download PDF Click here for WS Boolists with Great Diverse Books Before Reading A Book to Your Class First, think about whether or not reading an LGBTQ-inclusive book is the place to start in developing a welcoming school or do you need to lay more groundwork in your school community. Consider whether you will have support from your school’s administration if parental concerns arise regarding LGBTQ topics or gender roles. LGBTQ-Inclusive Children’s Books One way to make children feel welcome in your classroom and school is to ensure that all kinds of families are portrayed in the books that are available in the classroom and in the library. It is important for children to see their reality reflected to them through the literature that is available and used in classrooms. It is also important for all students to understand that families are unique while at the same time they share many common values, beliefs and traditions.
Muslim characters By Jessica Martinez 1. No Lying Let’s start out with a little honesty: I’m not diverse. Now as a writer, I have two choices. The Vow has two main characters. But if I want my stories to be any good, honesty is key—both with myself and with my characters. 2. So I just said not to lie, except of course you have to lie. 3. The thing about writing diverse characters when you’re not actually diverse is that you occasionally have to stare at yourself in the mirror and completely freak out. My fear—that everyone was going to think I was full of crap—was legitimate, but even the legitimate fears can kill a book. 4. All that courage notwithstanding, there are healthy things to fear. 5. Somewhere during the writing process, I decided to shove my imposter complex in the closet, and own the research that I’d done. The research also allowed me to be comfortable straying from stereotypes while still staying within what would be normal or expected of a non-devout Muslim immigrant family in America.
Black Lives Matter at School_Resources (Judi Moreillon) I am providing these resources to support #BLMatSchool Week of Action: February 1 - 5, 2021 Resources for Virtual Book Discussions/Programming: Barbershop Books Ethically Sharing Children's and Young Adult Literature Online (School Librarian Leadership) How to Set Up a Virtual Book Club for Students (Edutopia) Online Literature Teaching and Learning (School Librarian Leadership) Social Justice Standards (Teaching Tolerance Anti-bias Framework) Talking about Race (National Museum of African American History and Culture) Teaching for Change: Building Social Justice Starting in the Classroom Teaching Tolerance: Let's Talk about It (Teaching Tolerance) Book Head Heart Literature Circle Discussion Guide Adapted from Beers, Kylene, and Robert E. Beers_Probst_BHH_Lit_Circle_Discussion_Strategy_2020.docx Links to EDI Books and Resources American Library Association
YA Pride — Blog — Malinda Lo There may be few LGBT YA books out there compared to the number of books about straight characters, but there are even fewer books about characters who are both of color and LGBT. This shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone, and yet even I was a little bit taken aback by the sheer paucity of books I could find about queer characters of color — and I am in real life a queer Asian American woman. Since I’ve been keeping track of LGBT YA and YA with characters of color for a few years, here are the books I’ve found that are about queer characters of color. This is a very short list, and I have probably missed some. ((I want to acknowledge my debt to Liz Chapman, who has been researching LGBT fiction and compiling an extensive list of LGBT titles published around the world, and was kind enough to share her list with me.)) (I hope I have!) The descriptions that follow come from WorldCat; the notes are my own. Dramarama by E.
InbeTWEENers For many of us, the pre-teen and early teen years were a particularly awkward phase that we look back on and cringe (I’m thinking of 11 to 13 years old, roughly 5th-8th grade in school). Past the cute stages of early childhood and not quite big enough to be a full fledged teen or young adult, kids in their middle years face a very particular set of challenges and experiences: Friendships change and die, interests and hobbies wax and wane, and bodies, well, bodies start changing. As a youth services librarian, I am constantly talking with parents about the best books for this particular phase of a kid’s life. The child in question often doesn’t want to browse the “kids” section anymore, but the child’s grown up doesn’t want them going (in my library’s case), upstairs to the young adult area, where the sex and the violence are aplenty. Having recently taken over a middle school book club, I have become particularly obsessed with finding great books for middle schoolers. “Ghost.
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