"AI Chatbots Recommend Calorie-Starved Diets for Teens, Study Warns"
"Five of the major AI chatbots were tested. All of them regularly proposed dietary plans akin to skipping an entire meal each day."
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#AIIsTheProblem #TLSky #EduSky #SchoolLibrarians #TechLit
A Place to Be Planted: Giving Teens Hope Through Realistic Fiction, a guest post by Delali Adjoa
I truly believe that an empathic voice can mean the difference between a triumph and a tragedy for a teen life.
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It’s Okay to Be Messy: Why I Write Flawed Heroes for Middle Grade Readers, a guest post by Scott Kurtz
I want kids to know it is okay to be messy while you are learning.
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Unpacking BAD KID: My Life as a “Troubled Teen,” a guest post by Sofia Szamosi
There are no “bad kids,” only hard situations and struggling relationships. And relationships can always be healed.
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Fast Five Interview: Nadine Takvorian
Author Nadine Takvorian joins us to talk about her new graphic novel, ARMAVENI.
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Well, gas is expensive, and food is expensive, and we’re doing a war nobody wants, but at least there are no jobs
Not Just Greta: True stories of youth acting to fight the climate crisis, a guest post by Meera Subramanian
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The federal government should not decide what your kids are allowed to read.
Oppose the Federal Book Ban bill!
Sign the petition and defend the freedom to read.
action.everylibrary.org/hr_7661 via @everylibrary.bsky.social
Can I Do a Good Job at This Today? A guest post by Christina Uss
May all libraries everywhere provide a haven to those who worry whether they’re good enough just as they are.
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The Impossible Love Triangle, a guest post by Ahmad Saber
It brings me great pride to finally share Ramin’s story, not only for the target audience (queer teen readers), but readers at large who’d like to explore the human condition.
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How Our Stories Haunt Us, a guest post by Shakirah Bourne
When I was a kid growing up in Barbados, I used to play in a graveyard. I was fascinated by the story of the Chase Vault—one of the strangest unsolved mysteries in the world.
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I guess we’re going to destroy our country and others to protect the 3 Rs: racists, rapists and rich people
Penguin Young Readers Showcase: February 2026 Books
Explore 20 new books for all ages!
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I would like to recommend that you not get Flu B
The over-romancification of the YA category is an atrocity that needs to be remedied. I want to pick up a recent YA contemporary or fantasy novel where the focus isn't almost exclusively on romance and it's been harder and harder lately.
Is there any apparel out there that a person can buy to specifically support the USA Women’s Hockey Team and the women’s team only? Asking for friend
Yay!!!
Fast Five Interview: Michael P. Spradlin
Author Michael P. Spradlin joins us to talk about his new book, The Spider Strikes.
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Book Mail: 20 New and Forthcoming Books
Monsters, pet rocks, an environmental club, a lost dog, a forest-dwelling boy, an Ojibwe skater, and more!
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Hey, everyone. North Minneapolis schools need your help. They've each raised tens of thousands for their families in January, and have to do it all over again now. This one school still needs thirty thousand dollars to keep families housed and fed. Can you help?
My Life with Sylvia Plath: A Reader’s Reflection, a guest post by R.L. Toalson
Sometimes it seemed like she had climbed into my head, plucked out the words, and recorded them in her journal, fifty years before I’d thought them.
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Gonna need people to support middle grade and YA titles bc where do we think adult readers come from!! If kids don’t have good books to read from like 8 - 12 they are going to stop reading 😭😭😭😭
Genius
Call your Senators friends. I know I will be.
MINNESOTA IS NOT OK. EVERYONE NEEDS TO BE TALKING ABOUT MINNESOTA… THEY ARE LITERALLY FEEDING FAMILIES THROUGH UNDERGROUND RAILROAD STYLE ROUTES THROUGHOUT THE CITY AND APPARENTLY HELICOPTERS AND DRONES FLY OVERHEAD CONSTANTLY EVEN THROUGHOUT THE NIGHT.
PENGUIN TBR February 2026: THE MOON WITHOUT STARS, SUNDOWN GIRLS, THE CELESTIAL SEAS, and THE ESCAPE GAME
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Muslims Are Not a Monolith — Our Stories Shouldn’t Be Monolithic Either, a guest post by Seema Yasmin
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We loved it!!
That boxer came on my tv and I said to my daughter, “that man is a rapist.”
Then I see who he is making a commercial for. Because of course he is.
I also couldn’t tell and want to know
