Murder, Thievery and Other Dastardly Deeds

Every day when I open the newspaper (or the newspaper’s website, as the case may be) I’m assaulted by stories of crime — abuse, murder, burglary.  After my car was broken into a couple of months ago, those stories really began to hit home, and I now read the newspaper more often and with greater [...]

Corsets and Crowns

That might sound saucy and a tad inappropriate, but that is what I think of when I think ‘historical fiction.’ My introduction to historical fiction was through adult books by Margaret George or Phillipa Gregory, but there is a plethora of awesome young adult historical fiction.
Anderson, Laurie Halse
Fever 1793
There is a yellow fever epidemic [...]

My first video

Last year, CLP Teen Services ran our first ever video contest, and it was great. This year we’re doing it again — only now we have our own video cameras that you can borrow!
I figured that it would probably be a good idea to learn how to use the videos so I can help [...]

Book Meme!!

I love meme’s! What’s a meme, you might ask? Well, according to dictionary.com, it’s “a cultural item that is transmitted by repetition in a manner analogous to the biological transmission of genes.”  In blogland, it’s often used to refer to surveys and things that make their way across the internet, being filled out by people [...]