{"id":8313,"date":"2014-03-13T12:58:45","date_gmt":"2014-03-13T16:58:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/?p=8313"},"modified":"2014-03-13T12:59:16","modified_gmt":"2014-03-13T16:59:16","slug":"ya-crossover-panel-at-pla2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/2014\/03\/ya-crossover-panel-at-pla2014\/","title":{"rendered":"YA Crossover Panel at #pla2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps the best event I&#8217;ve stumbled across so far at PLA 2014 has been AAP&#8217;s Young Adult Crossover Panel. Since this event was sponsored by the Association of American Publishers and <em>Booklist<\/em>, as opposed to PLA, I was not aware of it until seeing it mentioned in an email. I&#8217;m so glad I went! Where else could I see Laurie Halse Anderson, Jason Reynolds, Eliot Schrefer, and Gene Luen Yang talk about, literally, anything they wanted?<\/p>\n<p>Although the four are all technically YA writers, much of what they spoke about was highly applicable to children&#8217;s services as well. Mr. Yang gave us a fascinating breakdown of the portrayals of Asians and Asian-Americans in comics and graphic novels throughout history, reminding everyone how important it is to promote inclusion across different cultures. Mr. Reynolds brought up a great point when he stated that he writes to give his readers &#8211; children and teens &#8211; a voice.<\/p>\n<p>This is one of the things I love most about this profession; youth services departments in public libraries provide a forum for children of all cultures and socioeconomic statuses to have their voices heard and learn from our many, many resources. This panel definitely succeeded in reinvigorating my passion for the field!<\/p>\n<p>Gretchen Kaser<br \/>\nYouth Services Librarian<br \/>\nLee Memorial Library<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps the best event I&#8217;ve stumbled across so far at PLA 2014 has been AAP&#8217;s Young Adult Crossover Panel. Since this event was sponsored by the Association of American Publishers and Booklist, as opposed to PLA, I was not aware of it until seeing it mentioned in an email. I&#8217;m so glad I went! Where else could I see Laurie Halse Anderson, Jason Reynolds, Eliot Schrefer, and Gene Luen Yang talk about, literally, anything they wanted? Although the four are all technically YA writers, much of what they spoke about was highly applicable to children&#8217;s services as well. Mr. Yang gave us a fascinating breakdown of the portrayals of Asians and Asian-Americans in comics and graphic novels throughout history, reminding everyone how important it is to promote inclusion across different cultures. Mr. Reynolds brought up a great point when he stated that he writes to give his readers &#8211; children&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":197,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[151,450],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-blogging","category-pla-2014"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/197"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}