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 [...]
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A life list is also known as a bucket list. It is a list of things that you want to do, see or experience during your life.
It is not about getting straight A’s. It is not about getting a good job when you graduate from high school or college.
It is about the fun, [...]
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If you read this blog regularly, you might have noticed that there was a period of a couple months without many updates. That was because we were figuring out how to make this blog the best it could be — and we think we have it. We now have a group of eight teen librarians [...]
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Have you read The City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau? Have you seen the trailer for the movie? It looks awesome.
Arielle, CLP-Brookline
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Pop Princess
By: Rachel Cohn
Pop Princess is a great book about a 15 year old teenager named Wonder. She had a sister that was on her way to being a pop-star, but while she was on the way of making that dream complete she died. Then Wonder ended up getting a record contract. When she took [...]
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I’m not ashamed to admit that I’m hooked on a bunch of reality TV shows. My top choices are the design shows — Project Runway and Design Star are both very special — and cooking shows like Hell’s Kitchen and Top Chef aren’t far behind. Between the designing and the cooking, though, is [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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