{"id":119,"date":"2011-08-09T11:51:34","date_gmt":"2011-08-09T16:51:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.frowl.org\/whyablog\/?p=119"},"modified":"2011-08-09T11:51:34","modified_gmt":"2011-08-09T16:51:34","slug":"emerging-from-the-book-fort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/whyablog\/?p=119","title":{"rendered":"Emerging from the Book Fort"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Or something?<\/p>\n<p>Whew! I have fallen behind on blogging. My summer web design class just wrapped up and my final project for that took up a lot of time. Also, I&#8217;ve been preparing booklists for the public library TeenSpace as part of my library internship. That has been a really fun project, but also weird! I did research (including asking all my Twitter friends for recommendations) to pick books for different categories, and then the teen librarian wanted me to at least skim every book I recommended. I had already read some of the books I was recommending, but I had at least fifty books stacked up in my living room to skim. It looked like I was building a book fort. (I should have taken a picture&#8211;I already returned a lot of the books.)<\/p>\n<p>It was an interesting experience. I almost never quit reading books after I&#8217;ve started them, no matter how bad they are. But obviously there was no way I could read every book I wanted to list within the time I had available. And, honestly, there were books that I cast aside after a few pages, having immediately realized that they were not books I wanted to recommend. It was frustrating, though, since most of the books seemed pretty good and I wanted to keep reading!<\/p>\n<p>Here are the lists I made:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/library.booksite.com\/6691\/nl\/?list=CNL1&amp;group=EB98\">LGBTQ Reads for Teens<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/library.booksite.com\/6691\/nl\/?list=CNL1&amp;group=EB100\">Fairy Tales with a Twist<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/library.booksite.com\/6691\/nl\/?list=CNL6&amp;group=EB97\">Characters Along the Color Spectrum<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/library.booksite.com\/6691\/nl\/?list=CNL1&amp;group=EB99\">Spandex-Free Graphic Novels<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>(Readers with long memories may have noticed that I am recycling themes I used for projects from YA Lit last semester. I did have to heavily expand on these themes to make the lists long enough, however.)<\/p>\n<p>A few quick picks from all these books I&#8217;ve been poring through. (Books that I have set aside to make sure I actually finish reading them.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.frowl.org\/whyablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/My-most-excellent-year.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-120\" title=\"My-most-excellent-year\" src=\"http:\/\/www.frowl.org\/whyablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/My-most-excellent-year-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/whyablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/My-most-excellent-year-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/whyablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/My-most-excellent-year.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/My-Most-Excellent-Year-Poppins\/dp\/B001M4JKH2\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1312908048&amp;sr=1-1\">My Most Excellent Year by Steve Krug<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A super cute, funny book with a diverse cast of characters. My favorite is Augie, a twee little gay boy who loves musical theatre and campy old movies and yet is actually a fully-developed character.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.frowl.org\/whyablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/mercury_larson.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-121\" title=\"mercury_larson\" src=\"http:\/\/www.frowl.org\/whyablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/mercury_larson-222x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"222\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/whyablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/mercury_larson-222x300.jpg 222w, https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/whyablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/mercury_larson.jpg 371w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 222px) 100vw, 222px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Mercury-Hope-Larson\/dp\/1416935886\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1312907855&amp;sr=8-1\">Mercury by Hope Larson<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A graphic novel with two coming-of-age stories, one set in the present day and the other in 1859. Funny and poignant, and I learned a few things about Canadian history.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.frowl.org\/whyablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/mare.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-122\" title=\"mare\" src=\"http:\/\/www.frowl.org\/whyablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/mare-211x300.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"211\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/whyablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/mare-211x300.gif 211w, https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/whyablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/mare.gif 342w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 211px) 100vw, 211px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/s\/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&amp;field-keywords=mare%27s+war&amp;x=0&amp;y=0\">Mare&#8217;s War by Tanita Davis<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Two black teenage girls reluctantly take a roadtrip with their eccentric grandmother, who tells them stories about her childhood, including how she lied about her age to join the WAC during WWII.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.frowl.org\/whyablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/parrotfish.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-123\" title=\"parrotfish\" src=\"http:\/\/www.frowl.org\/whyablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/parrotfish-195x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"195\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/whyablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/parrotfish-195x300.jpg 195w, https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/whyablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/parrotfish.jpg 316w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 195px) 100vw, 195px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Parrotfish-Ellen-Wittlinger\/dp\/1442406216\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1312908431&amp;sr=1-1\">Parrotfish by Ellen Wittlinger<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The story of a trans boy who decides to transition from Angela to Grady, causing quite a stir at his high school and among his family. It manages to pull of the trick of being informative about gender dysphoria without coming across as too &#8220;after school special-ish.&#8221; I actually finished reading this one because I got so into it. It&#8217;s full of relatable, believable characters.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Anything that made it onto one of my booklists came recommended from somewhere, usually multiple sources, and passed at least a skim from me. Check them out!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Or something? Whew! I have fallen behind on blogging. My summer web design class just wrapped up and my final project for that took up a lot of time. Also, I&#8217;ve been preparing booklists for the public library TeenSpace as part of my library internship. That has been a really fun project, but also weird!&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/whyablog\/?p=119\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Emerging from the Book Fort<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[25,114,24,115,117,116,7,8],"class_list":["post-119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-book-reviews","tag-booklists","tag-graphic-novels","tag-hope-larson","tag-steve-krug","tag-tanita-davis","tag-ya-lit","tag-young-adult-lit","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/whyablog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/whyablog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/whyablog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/whyablog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/whyablog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/whyablog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/whyablog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/whyablog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/whyablog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}