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| Gay male teen fiction Gay teen fiction is a subgenre that overlaps with LGBT literature and young adult literature. This article covers books about gay and bisexual teenage characters who are male. Gay_male_teen_fiction | |
| Book talk Book_talk | |
| Forever (novel) Forever... is a 1975 novel by Judy Blume dealing with teenage sexuality. Because of the novel's content it has been the frequent target of censors and appears on the American Library Association list of the 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990-2000 at number eight. Forever_(novel) | |
| Viper Comics Viper Comics, founded in December 2001, is an independent publisher of comic books and graphic novel trade paperbacks, based in Dallas, Texas. Viper_Comics | |
| Irvine, California Irvine () is an incorporated city in Orange County, California, United States. It is a planned city, mainly developed by the Irvine Company since the 1960s. Formally incorporated on December 28, 1971, the 69.7 square mile (180.52) city has a population of about 212,793 (as of January 1, 2009). It has annexed in the past an undeveloped area to the north, and has also annexed the former El Toro Marine Corps Air Station, most of which is planned to be converted into the Orange County Great Park. Irvine,_California | |
| Ashanti to Zulu: African Traditions Ashanti to Zulu is a 1976 children's book written by Margaret Musgrove and illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon. It was Musgrove's first book, but the Dillons were experienced artists and this book won them the second of their two consecutive Caldecott Awards. (The first was for Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears:.)The book features twenty-six illustrations of native African peoples, each accompanied by a short vignette describing one of the customs of that particular people. Ashanti_to_Zulu:_African_Traditions | |
| Scalhoun User:Scalhoun | |
| Family Secrets (novel) Family Secrets (1985) is a young adult novel written by Norma Klein. Family_Secrets_(novel) | |
| AlexR/Archive 1 User_talk:AlexR/Archive_1 | |
| AlexR/Archive 05 2006 User_talk:AlexR/Archive_05_2006 | |
| My Brother Sam Is Dead My_Brother_Sam_Is_Dead | |
| Richard Peck Richard Peck (born April 51934) is an American novelist known for his prolific contributions to modern young adult literature. He was awarded the Newbery Medal in 2001 for his novel A Year Down Yonder. Richard_Peck | |
| Martin Luther/archive5 Talk:Martin_Luther/archive5 | |
| Conrad Sulzer Regional Library Conrad Sulzer Regional Library is one of two regional libraries in the Chicago Public Library system in Chicago. It was named for Conrad Sulzer, the first non-native settler in Lakeview. Lakeview is now a neighborhood in Chicago. The library is located in the Lincoln Square neighborhood at 4455 N. Lincoln Ave. It is a full service library and ADA compliant. As with all libraries in the Chicago Public Library system, it has free wi-fi internet service. Conrad_Sulzer_Regional_Library | |
| Reference desk archive/Humanities/June 2006 Wikipedia:Reference_desk_archive/Humanities/June_2006 | |
| Al Seckel Al Seckel (born 1958) is an American authority on visual and other types of sensory illusions, and how they relate to perception. Seckel collects, researches, and experiments with illusions to understand what conditions are necessary for them to work, with particular focus on how they can be explained in terms of the electrophysiology and neuroanatomy of the retinal and cortical networks that mediate visual perception. Al_Seckel | |
| Reference interview reference interview is a structured conversation between a librarian and a library user, usually at a reference desk, in which the librarian responds to the user's initial explanation of his or her information need by first attempting to clarify that need and then by directing the user to appropriate information resources.DefinitionBopp & Smith (1995) defines the reference interview as the "conversation between a member of the library reference staff and a library user for the purpose of clarifying the user’s needs and aiding the user in meeting those needs". Reference_interview | |
| Norma Klein Norma Klein (May 13, 1938-April 25 1989) was an American author. She was born, grew up and lived in New York City for most of her life. She died after a brief illness in New York City.She wrote many popular novels for children and young adults including Family Secrets a novel that is currently number eighty-one on the ALA’s list of most challenged books 1990–2000. Her most popular novel was Mom, the Wolfman, and Me. Norma_Klein | |
| Fuck Fuck is an iconic English word. In its canonical transitive verb form, it simply refers to the act of sexual intercourse. By extension it may be used to profanely or negatively characterize anything that can be dismissed, disdained, defiled, or destroyed, and it is due to the convergence of these two weighty concepts (sex and destruction) that the term can carry such overloaded emphasis, although it is frequently used as a mere intensifier. Fuck | |
| Barbara Brooks Wallace Barbara Brooks Wallace is an award-winning American children's writer, including NLAPW Children's Book Award and International Youth Library "Best of the Best" for Claudia (2001) and William Allen White Children's Book Award for Peppermints in the Parlor (1983).Wallace was born and spent her child hood in China, but came to live in the United States. Barbara_Brooks_Wallace | |
| ErinHowarth/Major rewrite User:ErinHowarth/Major_rewrite | |
| Gil's All Fright Diner Gil's All Fright Diner is an urban fantasy novel by A. Lee Martinez Gil's_All_Fright_Diner | |
| LegitimateAndEvenCompelling User_talk:LegitimateAndEvenCompelling | |
| Cultural references to the novel The Catcher in the Rye The 1951 novel The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger has had a lasting influence as it remains both a bestseller Cultural_references_to_the_novel_The_Catcher_in_the_Rye | |
| Caldecott Honor The Caldecott Honor is a citation given by the Association for Library Service to Children of the American Library Association (ALA). The Caldecott Honor is given to worthy runners-up for the Caldecott Medal, a higher honor. Though the Caldecott Honor was initiated in 1971, specially cited runners-up for the Caldecott Medal from previous years were retroactively named Caldecott Honor books. Caldecott_Honor | |
| In the Night Kitchen In the Night Kitchen is a popular and controversial children's picture book, written and illustrated by Maurice Sendak, and first published in 1970. The book depicts a young boy's dream journey through a surreal baker's kitchen where he assists in the creation of a cake to be ready by the morning. In_the_Night_Kitchen | |
| Jumper (novel) Jumper is a 1992 science fiction novel by Steven Gould. The novel was published in mass market paperback in October 1993 and re-released in February 2008 to coincide with the release of the film adaptation. It tells the story of Davy, a teenager who escapes an abusive household using his ability to teleport. Jumper_(novel) | |
| Charles Hawes Charles Boardman Hawes (January 24, 1889 American author. He was posthumously awarded the 1924 Newbery Medal for The Dark Frigate (1923). Additionally, The Great Quest (1921) was a 1922 Newbery Honor book. Charles_Hawes | |
| Private Parts (book) Private Parts is the first autobiography of American radio presenter and media personality Howard Stern. Released on October 15, 1993 by Simon & Schuster, it is the fastest-selling book in the company's history. It was later adapted into a film in 1997 starring Stern and his radio show staff as themselves. Private_Parts_(book) | |
| Emily Cheney Neville Emily Cheney Neville (December 28, 1919 December 14, 1997) was an American author. She was born in Manchester, Connecticut and graduated from Bryn Mawr College in 1940. After receiving her A.B. from Bryn Mawr, she worked for the New York Daily New and the New York Mirror newspapers. She had five children with her husband, Glenn Neville, a newspaperman, Emily_Cheney_Neville | |
| Maia Wojciechowska Maia Wojciechowska (August 7, 1927 June 13, 2002) was a writer of children's books. She was born in Warsaw, Poland, spent some time in France and England, and later came to the United States with her parents. In 1965, her book Shadow of a Bull (1964) won the Newbery Medal. She died of a stroke in Long Branch, New Jersey at age 74. Maia_Wojciechowska | |
| The CP80 Foundation The CP80 Foundation is a non-profit, 501(c)(4) organization that advocates regulating the Internet to make it easier for users to filter out pornography. The foundation suggests using education, Internet governance, and legislation to achieve its goals.Its legislative efforts include the proposed Internet Community Ports Act (ICPA), which would organize the ports as defined by the TCP/IP protocol suite into "community ports" and "open ports", requiring that obscene material exclusively use the open ports. The_CP80_Foundation | |
| Jean Fritz Jean Guttery Fritz, born November 16, 1915, is an American children's author and biographer. Jean_Fritz | |
| Carolyn Sherwin Bailey Carolyn Sherwin Bailey (October 25, 1875 December 23, 1961) was an American children's author. She was born in Hoosick Falls, New York and attended Teachers College, Columbia University, from which she graduated in 1896. She contributed to the Ladies' Home Journal and other magazines, and published volumes of stories for children, methods of story telling, methods of teaching children, etc., Carolyn_Sherwin_Bailey | |
| James Daugherty James Henry Daugherty (June 1, 1889 February 21, 1974) was an American author and illustrator. Born in Asheville, North Carolina, he subsequently lived in Indiana, Ohio, and at the age of 9 he moved to Washington, D.C., where he studied at the Corcoran School of Art. Later, he went to London and studied under Frank Brangwyn. In 1940, his book Daniel Boone won the Newbery Medal. Walt Whitman's America Selections and Drawings by James Daugherty. James_Daugherty | |
| Coretta Scott King Award The Coretta Scott King Award is an annual award presented by the Ethnic & Multicultural Information Exchange Round Table, part of the American Library Association (ALA). Named for Coretta Scott King, wife of Martin Luther King, Jr., this award recognizes outstanding African American authors and illustrators. The book must be about the African American experience, and be written for a youth audience (high school or below). Coretta_Scott_King_Award | |
| Library Bill of Rights The Library Bill of Rights is the American Library Association's statement expressing the rights of library users to intellectual freedom and the expectations the association places on libraries to support those rights. The Association's Council has adopted a number of interpretations of the document applying it to various library policies. Library_Bill_of_Rights | |
| Intellectual freedom Intellectual freedom is a human right, as defined by Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Article 19 statesEveryone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers. Intellectual_freedom | |
| The Hello, Goodbye Window The Hello, Goodbye Window is the name of the 2005 book and the window in the book. It was written by Norton Juster and illustrated by Chris Raschka and won the 2006 Caldecott Medal. It tells, from a little girl's point of view, how she has so much fun seeing and playing with her grandparents through this specific window. The_Hello,_Goodbye_Window | |
| Kitten's First Full Moon Kitten's First Full Moon is a 2004 book by Kevin Henkes that won the 2005 Caldecott Medal. It talks about a small kitten who has never seen the moon before, and mistakes it for milk, bringing about a number of mishaps for Kitten, including eating a bug and drinking lots of water.The book is in black and white and typeset in sans-serif. The idea came from a quote in another book by Henkes, "The cat thought the moon was a bowl of milk." Henkes gradually expanded on that for Kitten's First Full Moon. Kitten's_First_Full_Moon | |
| Officer Buckle and Gloria Officer Buckle and Gloria is the name of the 1995 story and main characters of the story by Peggy Rathmann that won the 1996 Caldecott Medal. It talks about a police officer (Officer Buckle) getting a dog named Gloria. Until that time, whenever Officer Buckle tried to tell schools about safety everyone fell asleep. Officer_Buckle_and_Gloria | |
| How I Live Now How I Live Now is a young adult novel by Meg Rosoff, first published in 2004. The book won three notable awards including the Michael L. Printz Award and received generally positive reviews. How_I_Live_Now | |
| Art Libraries Society of North America Art Libraries Society of North America (also known as ARLIS/NA) was founded in 1972. It is an organization made up of approximately 1,000 art librarians, library students and visual resource professionals. Art_Libraries_Society_of_North_America | |
| Markus Zusak Markus Zusak (born on June 23, 1975 in Sydney) is an Australian author. He is best known for his novels I Am The Messenger and The Book Thief, which have been very successful internationally. Markus_Zusak | |
| Deleting Online Predators Act of 2006 The Deleting Online Predators Act of 2006 (DOPA) is a bill (H.R. 5319) brought before the United States House of Representatives on May 9, 2006 by Republican Pennsylvania Representative (R-PA) Mike Fitzpatrick. The bill, if enacted, would amend the Communications Act of 1934, requiring schools and libraries that receive E-rate funding to protect minors from online predators in the absence of parental supervision when using "Commercial Social Networking Websites" and "Chat Rooms". Deleting_Online_Predators_Act_of_2006 | |
| Global warming/Archive 14 Talk:Global_warming/Archive_14 | |
| Kenneth Kister Kenneth F. Kister (born November 3, 1935) is an academic, professor of library science and authority in the field of reference and information sources.As an academic he taught in the 1960s on "Intellectual Freedom and Censorship". Kenneth_Kister | |
| Walter Dean Myers Walter Dean Myers (born Walter Milton Myers, on August 12, 1937) is an African American author of young adult literature. Myers has written dozens of books, including novels and nonfiction works. He has won the Coretta Scott King Award for African American authors five times. One of these books, Fallen Angels, has made the American Library Association's list of frequently challenged books, due to rough language and its depiction of the Vietnam War. Walter_Dean_Myers | |
| The Watsons Go to Birmingham: 1963 The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963 is a book by Christopher Paul Curtis, written in 1995, and republished in 1997. It is about an African American family living in the town of Flint, Michigan who go to their grandmother's home in Birmingham, Alabama in the year 1963, hence the title of the book. The book was Curtis' first novel, and received a Newbery Honor and the Coretta Scott King Award. The book is based on the 1963 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham. The_Watsons_Go_to_Birmingham:_1963 | |
| White & Nerdy "White & Nerdy" is the second single from "Weird Al" Yankovic's album Straight Outta Lynwood, which was released on September 26, 2006. It parodies the song "Ridin'" by Chamillionaire and Krayzie Bone. The song both laments and revels in nerdiness, as recited by the subject who cannot "roll with the gangstas" because he is "just too white and nerdy", and includes constant references to stereotypically nerdy things, such as collecting comic books, playing Dungeons & Dragons (D&D), and editing Wikipedia, as well as stereotypically "white" things, like watching Happy Days and playing ping pong. White_&_Nerdy |
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