Blogging Librarian

The following “Wall Street Journal Article”:http://online.wsj.com/public/article/0,,SB111956889635168198-kx6S_u1RWUXCcoHgupKf9N2gYz8_20060623,00.html?mod=public_home_us talks about the books that publishers are pushing out for the teens market that has relatively heavy themes such as binge drinking and incest.

We have some of the titles that are mentioned in the article such as “Gossip Girl” and “How I Live Now”. The latter title won the 2005 “Michael L Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature”:http://www.ala.org/ala/yalsa/booklistsawards/printzaward/Printz,Michael_L_Award.htm. This award is given out by the “American Library Association”:http://www.ala.org.

Though the library have such titles in our library, I always believe that the onus is on the parents to educate their children on the materials that they pick up to read and also educate them on the correct morals.