Within the next couple of days I’ll be posting the Crazy Colored Summer list. I thought it would be good to mention the list’s back story: why I’m doing it, who it’s for and how books are selected. Why? To color up summer reading! There are many, many fantastic books about teens of color that… Read More Thinking about that Summer List

It’s pretty safe to say that I don’t read Sports Illustrated.  Today, probably for the first time ever I happened to glance at the cover and read “Audacity of Hoops“.  I looked inside to find a wonderful article that can’t help but excite boys about reading, get them hooked on politics through basketball and motivate… Read More Such Audacity

Getting boys to read has been an issue on my mind since I became a librarian.  The same wonderful instructors who increase our awareness to issues we faced also required that we understand how things work.  Boys don’t necessarily read what girls read. They’re more likely to read magazines, newspapers and non-fiction.  I like how… Read More Reading Guys