Allie Stevens

2 months ago | slj.com | Elle Gonzalez Rose |Allie Stevens

Gr 9 Up–Now that her twin sister Solina has been murdered, Luna feels completely alone. Their mother died years ago after which their father succumbed to alcoholism, and Luna has been working 80-hour weeks to afford Solina’s private boarding school, Kingswood Academy.

Oct 17, 2024 | thehoya.com | Allie Stevens

Georgetown University students recently had the rare opportunity to witness the northern lights, an astronomical phenomenon occurring when solar particles collide with Earth’s atmosphere to create vibrant displays of light. While typically visible at higher latitudes, the northern lights were briefly observed from Washington, D.C., sparking excitement among the campus community on the evening of Oct. 10.

Oct 4, 2024 | thehoya.com | Allie Stevens

Maria Renske “Marietje” Schaake, international director of policy at Stanford University’s Cyber Policy Center, international fellow at the University’s Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence and member of the European Parliament from 2009 to 2019, warned about the political threat Big Tech poses in a discussion of her recently released book, “The Tech Coup: How to Save Democracy from Silicon Valley” at Georgetown University’s Capitol Campus on Sept. 27.

Sep 30, 2024 | slj.com | Allie Stevens

Gr 8 Up–Three hundred years ago, Babylou Mac and her siblings escaped into North Carolina’s Great Dismal Swamp after Babylou killed their mother’s murderer. There, they lived on the Isle of Floriate, an enchanted place where the natural world protects those whom she deems worthy, but not without a price. In the present day, Atlas and her three cousins Mika, Jacob, and Pansy prepare to celebrate Bornday—the combined birthday tradition for the cousins and their beloved family matriarch, Grannylou.

Sep 27, 2024 | slj.com | Marlaina Cockcroft |Allie Stevens

Transitional books are in transition. To bolster these books’ appeal for emerging and newly independent readers, librarians are changing what they call them and how they shelve them, according to respondents to SLJ ’s 2024 Transitional Books Survey. And since an increasing number of transitional books are graphic novels, librarians are figuring out where to shelve those titles. With prose books? Other graphic novels? There are various solutions. What makes a good transitional title?