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On Wednesday, January 25th, author Paul Griffin visited Boys Town for the first time. Paul met with both the boys and girls classes whom had...

Some of the most popular requests from students are for books about “real life.” Sometimes they’re looking for realistic fiction, but of...

Paul Griffin, author of Ten Mile River , The Orange Houses , and Stay With Me , spent yesterday morning deep in conversation with students a...

Click here to see Michael Rachap's short short clip of MLK's famous "I Have a Dream" speech from 1968 with synchronized t...

Like vampires but tired of Twilight ?  Darren Shan has the remedy: his Cirque du Freak series. The main character- a fictionalized D...

Butterball, a sometime-bully, sometime-victim of bullying, offers a protagonist some readers will be able to readily identify with-- he’s yo...

Shavonne is living out a life that seems to have gotten away from her. First incarcerated in the eighth grade, and filled with shame and an...

Dear Readers, We love Amy Cheney's list of her Top Picks for Youth in Detention published yesterday by School Library Journal. The boo...

Today Passages Academy Libraries' iPad pilot launched! Students at secure sites accessed iPads for the first time. One incredulous use...

Welcome back and Happy 2012! We were already excited about today (stay tuned!) but now we're doubly excited to find out that this year ...

Thanks for keeping up with us in 2011! We'll be back with what's good in 2012 on Jan. 3.

from left to right: Lauren Adelman, MoMA Educator; P. showing off her sculpture; Ben Petty, Passages Academy Art Teacher; Alan Calpe, Mo...

Nic Sheff and his father, David Sheff, appeared on the addiction/recovery literary scene in January 2009, when they published Tweak and Beau...

What does a typical day look like for the hundreds of teens awaiting sentencing on Rikers Island? What happens behind all that barbed wire a...

Can you imagine being dragged out of your bed in the middle of the night, getting handcuffed and driven to a teenage boot camp, completely...

This book is the perfect antidote to every boring, poorly contextualized, and heavily sanitized textbook telling of our nation’s birth force...

One of our graphic novel readers has been asking for the next book to this series for some time now, so I decided to see what the buzz was a...

Dear Readers, We would like to invite you to join us at the best party in NYC tomorrow night, the Desk Set's Biblioball . Who: Librari...

Welcome back to library team member and blog writer Claudio Leon! He flew home from Mexico yesterday after attending the FIL conference tha...

Yesterday, two extremely talented teaching artists from The New Victory Theate r visited two groups of students at our Boys Town site. Stud...