Edgy YA Fiction
The bibliography from a presentation done at the Wisconsin Library Association’s Annual Meeting last month in Milwaukee. The presenters are from the revered CCBC in Madison.

The art of darkness is an article in the English Telegraph that is all about Phillip Pullman and his writing. Librarians and teachers will be interested in the following part of his work history:
“After 18 months he moved to a more sedate posting as a librarian at Charing Cross library. Then he trained as a teacher. For the next 12 years he worked in two middle schools in Oxford, teaching English to children between nine and 13. Pullman describes his teaching as ‘variable’ but, according to former pupils, he was exceptional and exciting. Greta Stoddart, the poet, was taught by him at Bishop Kirk Middle School: ‘He had an extraordinary energy. And he didn’t need books. He would come in and just launch into some story. He had this great mane of long, wavy hair that he would scrape back with his long fingernails – he kept them long to play the guitar. And he had that very direct stare that stays just a little longer than you’d expect. All of us girls were a bit in love with him.’ “