{"id":811,"date":"2011-10-18T12:02:46","date_gmt":"2011-10-18T16:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/?p=811"},"modified":"2011-10-18T12:02:46","modified_gmt":"2011-10-18T16:02:46","slug":"teen-read-week-is-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/teen-read-week-is-here\/","title":{"rendered":"Teen Read Week is here!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It kinda sneaked up on me, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ala.org\/ala\/mgrps\/divs\/yalsa\/teenreading\/trw\/trw2011\/home.cfm\">Teen Read Week<\/a> is here! I love that there&#8217;s a time of year to celebrate teens reading and get them involved with books and materials of all kinds in brand new ways.<\/p>\n<p>This year&#8217;s theme is Picture It. That can be interpreted in so many ways! The obvious connection is to point teens to great <a href=\"http:\/\/monsterlibrarian.com\/graphicnovelya.htm\">graphic novels<\/a>, or to media tie-ins to favorite television shows, movies, and video games. Although we haven&#8217;t gone in that direction for teen tie-ins here yet, there are many of these specifically aimed at teens that might lead them to related books, with you as a guide. <\/p>\n<p>There are a lot of oldies out there that you can give some new life to, as well. <em>Dracula, Frankenstein<\/em>, Edgar Allan Poe- there are so many connections there I can&#8217;t even list them. From <em>Abbott and Costello meet Frankenstein<\/em> to <a href=\"http:\/\/monsterlibrarian.com\/buffy.htm\"><em>Buffy the Vampire Slayer<\/em><\/a> (sorry, this list hasn&#8217;t been updated in awhile); from Jessica Abel&#8217;s fantastic graphic novel <a href=\"http:\/\/monsterlibrarian.com\/vampiresya.htm#Life_Sucks_by_Jessica_Abel,_Gabe_Soria,_and_Warren_Pleece\"><em>Life Sucks <\/em><\/a>to the awesome iPad app <a href=\"http:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/iPad.htm\"><em>Dracula: The Official Stoker Family Edition<\/em><\/a>; from storyteller Syd Lieberman&#8217;s audio recording of The &#8220;Tell-Tale Heart&#8221; to Ray Bradbury&#8217;s &#8220;Usher II&#8221;&#8230; these are the things that (to paraphrase Dave Etter) create the pictures that storm inside our heads.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever you decide to do or promote, have a great Teen Read Week!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It kinda sneaked up on me, but Teen Read Week is here! I love that there&#8217;s a time of year to celebrate teens reading and get them involved with books and materials of all kinds in brand new ways. This year&#8217;s theme is Picture It. That can be interpreted in so many ways! The obvious<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/teen-read-week-is-here\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[602,601,105,599,605,600,188,603,604,13,606,598,37,41],"class_list":["post-811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-abbott-and-costello-meet-frankenstein","tag-bram-stoker","tag-buffy-the-vampire-slayer","tag-dracula","tag-dracula-the-official-stoker-family-edition","tag-frankenstein","tag-graphic-novels","tag-jessica-abel","tag-life-sucks","tag-media-tie-ins","tag-syd-lieberman","tag-teen-read-week","tag-teens","tag-ya-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=811"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":814,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811\/revisions\/814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}