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Talking with M. T. Anderson

Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Talking-with-MT-Anderson.mp3 Author Susan Raab Air Date 10/19/2006 M. T. Anderson Transcript It’s Teen Read Week, and Recess correspondent Susan Raab spoke with M. T. Anderson, the author of one of the most thought-provoking young adult novels to come out in recent years — Feed — which was a finalist for the National […]

Teen Read Week

Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Teen-Read-Week-2.mp3 Author Ramona Caponegro Air Date 10/16/2006 Teen Read Week Transcript The American Library Association is “acting up” these days in celebration of Teen Read Week. This year’s theme, “Get Active @ Your Library,” is meant to encourage teens not only to become more frequent library visitors but also to […]

Teen Read Week – Real Time

Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Teen-Read-Week-Real-Time.mp3 Author Ramona Caponegro Air Date 10/20/2005 Real Time Transcript How important is it that children learn to “read the world”1 along with the words on a page? More than 35 years ago, Paulo Freire, a Brazilian educator, introduced the teaching of critical literacy, a reading strategy that “promotes reflection, transformation, […]

Teen Read Week – Rush Hour

Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Teen-Read-Week-Rush-Hour.mp3 Author Ramona Caponegro Air Date 10/18/2005 Teen Read Week Transcript “Get real.” How many times have you heard a sullen or sarcastic teenager utter these words? Well, the Young Adult Library Services Association is currently giving this popular teen phrase a more enthusiastic interpretation, making “Get REAL @ your […]

Whale Talk

Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Teen-Read-Week-Chris-Crutchers-Whale-Talk.mp3 Author Julie Sinn Air Date 10/19/2004 Whale Talk Transcript When Chris Crutcher writes a young adult novel, he draws on his personal experience as a family therapist and a child protection specialist working in Spokane, Washington. In his novel Whale Talk, we watch a group of misfits and outsiders join […]

Graphic Novels

Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Teen-Read-Week-Graphic-Novels.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 10/18/2004 Graphic Novels Transcript It’s the beginning of Teen Read Week, which isn’t such a contradiction in terms as it may seem. Teens actually do a lot of reading outside of school, but it’s usually not what we adults would recognize as being especially […]

Teen Read Week

Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Teen-Read-Week-1-2.mp3 Author Lauren Brosnihan Air Date 10/22/2003 Teen Read Week Transcript This is Teen Read Week and many groups are celebrating with this year’s theme, “Slammin’@ your Library.” In its sixth year, this program is sponsored by the Young Adult Library Services Association of the American Library Association, and it’s […]

Teen Read Week

Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Teen-Read-Week-2-1.mp3 Author Shelley Fraser Mickle Air Date 10/15/2002 Teen Read Week Transcript My cousin Nettie said she knew her son George might get through school okay, but the way he was doing it was enough to give her sinking spells and liver chills. You see, George would never crack a […]

Teen INK

Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Teen-Read-Week-TeenInk.mp3 Author Rosie Russo Air Date 10/18/2001 Teen INK Transcript Whether it’s Teen Read Week or a week during summer vacation when it’s rained every day and there is nothing – absolutely nothing – (well except maybe washing dishes, vacuuming, laundry and changing the kitty litter boxes – you know, […]

Teen Read Week: Girls Talking

Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Teen-Read-Week-Girls-Talking.mp3 Author John Cech (read by Fiona Barnes) Air Date 10/17/2001 Teen Read Week: Girls Talking Transcript Some “girls” may “just want to have fun,” but a lot of teenage girls are more contemplative and articulate and poetic than the Go-Go’s pop anthem might make them out to be. In […]