Welcome! This site is meant to help teens build their own pile of materials “to be…” read, watched, played, or heard. It is a project for Lisa Houde’s INFO 265 graduate course on Young Adult Materials in the MLIS program at San Jose State University.
You can find materials by browsing posts from the home page, using the search box, or by viewing posts organized by author, title, format, or genre.
Stacey Nerdin, MLIS graduate student and public library Programs Associate, is the author of this site. For more information, please visit the About page.
The following diverse identities, places, themes, or topics are represented in this collection (click to see materials in related tag):
Activism Addiction Anxiety Asian Black Blind Bullying Catholic Censorship Deaf Disability Disease Divorce Domestic Abuse Dominican East Indian Family Dysfunction Financial Hardships Genocide Grief Gun Violence Harlem Immigrant Iranian Latinx LGBTQ+ Mental Health Challenges Mexican Middle Eastern Multiracial Muslim Native Neurodivergent New England Ojibwe Pandemic Poverty Refugee Revolution Romania Southeast Asian Step-family Transgender Trauma War
To be...read/watched/played/heard 