Tag: ALA

Blog Tour Review with Giveaway: When Elephants Fly by Nancy Richardson Fischer

Book info: Title: When Elephants Fly Author: Nancy Richardson Fischer Publisher:  Harlequin Teen Release date: September 4th, 2018 Genre: YA Contemporary Source:  ARC received from publisher at ALA which did not influence my opinion My rating:  5 stars Synopsis: There are some battles worth fighting even if it means losing yourself. T. Lily Decker is […]

Posted September 26, 2018 by Lisa Mandina in giveaway / 12 Comments

Banned Books Week Giveaway Hop 2015

Thanks to Mary at Bookhounds and Kathy at I Am a Reader for hosting this blog hop.  So as a librarian, my job isn’t to censor what my students read.  Yes I purchase things that I think are appropriate for my students, but other than that, they are allowed to check out anything that we […]

Posted September 26, 2015 by Lisa Mandina in giveaway / 58 Comments

Banned Book Weeks Hop 2014

  Thanks to Kathy at I Am a Reader, and Mary at Bookhounds for hosting this blog hop.  This  year I don’t know that I’m going to get a display up in my library.  You see I had ordered the stuff from ALA for the week, but because of all the red tape and how […]

Posted September 20, 2014 by Lisa Mandina in / 116 Comments

BEA 2014 Day 3 Recap (and Book Con)

The last day of BEA is usually much more relaxed.  Not this year however.  Book Con majorly changed that, with anywhere from 6,000-8,000 more people in the Javits Center that day.  Sure, they were kept in only one part of the convention center.  The only problem with that?  It was the section where almost all […]

Posted June 7, 2014 by Lisa Mandina in / 6 Comments

Banned Book Weeks Hop 2013

Thanks to Kathy at I Am a Reader, and Mary at Bookhounds for hosting this blog hop.  Since I have a display up for Banned Book Weeks in my library, I felt it would be good to participate in this as well.  Banned Books Week is something the American Library Association (ALA) began to raise […]

Posted September 21, 2013 by Lisa Mandina in / 86 Comments