The Center for Children’s Books has announced the 2006 winner of the Gryphon Award. This year’s winner is Stinky Stern Forever by Michelle Edwards. The Gryphon Award is given to “an English language work of fiction or non-fiction for which the primary audience is children in Kindergarten through Grade 4. The title chosen best exemplifies those qualities that successfully bridge the gap in difficulty between books for reading aloud to children and books for practiced readers.”
School Library Journal has a great article: Stir It Up that has a list of things you should NEVER do with teenagers at your library.
Because it is written so bluntly, you can immediately see why you shouldn’t do something. But check yourself, are you doing some of these things? When I worked in a larger library with other staff who had issues with teens and their behavior, this would have been a very handy way to start a conversation about why they were having problems with the teen patrons we had.
Waking Brain Cells 