Fallon Farokhi

What are high schoolers reading these days? I snapped my school library’s holds shelf and books returned just yesterday ready to be shelved⤵️
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What does author Derrick Barnes Hope children get from his books?

“They have the power to change things where they are. You don’t have to wait until you’re an adult.” ⤵️

#SLJDOD #schoollibraries

My high school students love E.L. Lockhart’s books so I had to tune into her speaking about her new book coming out in November⤵️
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My high school students love E.L. Lockhart’s books so I had to tune into her speaking about her new book coming out in November⤵️
#SLJDOD #schoollibraries

“All of our families are complicated.” -Laura Taylor Namey and other YA authors, Mariama J. Lockington and Ryan Estrada discuss emotionally satisfying stories this morning at SLJ’s Day of Dialog ⤵️
#SLJDOD #schoollibraries

Banned Books Week at my high school library includes a display, book cart full of titles that have been challenged or banned in other places and lessons with classes. The one below is a social justice and ethnic studies class⤵️
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My students have asked for books in Jenny Han’s The Summer I Turned Pretty series which led to a request for a display of summer love stories⤵️
#schoollibraries #schoollibrarian #yalit

I don’t usually read spooky books, but I couldn’t pass up the chance to read the latest from these stellar storytellers⤵️
💙The Last Resort by Erin Entrada Kelly for middle grade readers

❤️‍🔥The Corruption of Hollis Brown by K. Ancrum for young adult & adult readers
#libraries #schoollibrarians #books

Creating Enthusiastic Young Readers - Menderist A librarian shares her successful tips for setting up the library so it encourages children to become enthusiastic readers.

What does an inspiring school library look like? Educator Fallon Farokhi of @thestoryspectator.bsky.social shares favorite memories of children's responses to the fun environment she and other librarians created. See below: menderist.com/creating-ent...

Our Hispanic + Latinx Heritage Month book display is up in our high school library. The books in both fiction and nonfiction genres offer our students a window, mirror or sliding door from authentic writers.

A big thanks to Melissa Corey for the Canva template! #schoollibraries #schoollibrary

What a batch of ready-to-use resources here for TeenTober in libraries next month! Actually, next WEEK! #schoollibraries #schoollibrarians

So glad I added Star Wars figures & stuffies to the school library this year⤵️
They went perfectly with our HOCO theme! #schoollibraries

Agatha Christie was born 135 years ago this week so it was fitting to feature her books in our school library collection⤵️
A lot of my students hadn’t heard of her at all & were impressed by her body of work.
Thanks to BookRiot for the 2 Truths + 1 Lie, so fun!
#schoollibraries #books

Up in Smoke 💨 by Nick Brooks is perfect for fans of The Hate You Give and I’m Not Dying With You Tonight.
Mo, a teen sister, tries to clear the name of her big brother accused of murder. Her crush,Cooper, helps her but he’s keeping a big secret about where he was that night…⤵️ #SchoolLibraries

Did you know the Sunday after Labor Day in the U.S. is Grandparents’ Day? I had lots of conversations with my students about their memories of their grandparents and got to share some of mine as well. It was fun to feature books with grandparents in them. Do you have any favorites? #SchoolLibraries

The locks are about all content areas and for age ranges. You don’t have to use the physical kits, the digital option is great!

The Daily Lock of the Day is on the Breakout EDU website so when you log in, you can share it since it’s a digital lock & clue.

That’ll work! I’ve definitely had to go the DIY route in one of my schools where there was no funding for the ones from the Breakout EDU company. Hope it does well!

Let’s do it! 💯

The digital locks are such a great alternative for many reasons. I like to use them of if I don’t have time to set up the physical locks on the kits. The daily lock of the day is also fun to talk through with students. I have a touchscreen board in my library and I want to try to leave it up there.

Exactly! Plus you can adjust your titles before they arrive if you want to swap any titles for others!

📚 Book subscriptions 📦 ready to be added to our high school library collection⤵️ from Junior Library Guild #schoollibraries

Do 🔐 BreakoutEDU (escape room games) work with high school students? YES! 🏆

This past week I set up a game about 🌪️ The Dust Bowl for ELA classes reading 📕 Of Mice and Men. It was a huge hit!

Next week, government classes and a SPED class have their own. Have you tried them? #SchoolLibraries

Congratulations! I am also a high school librarian and am living the dream!

My students gave a 👍🏽 to our school library’s new LCD message board⤵️
A fun find at Homegoods! #schoollibraries

A Tale: Dark + Gritty 🕷️ See one my high school library’s book displays for readers who like the show 🖤💜Wednesday🖤💜
The font generator helped set the tone for the display⤵️

Starting my 💫 20th year as a teacher + school librarian but only my 2nd in a high school. Our freshmen enjoyed their library orientation & exploring the 📕 book collection.

Thanks to Canva for the template⤵️

Looks so good! Congrats on your new school library! 📚

We were gifted this book in our high school library & it’s on my list to read this year. Glad that you found good librarian connections to it!

I added some of my extra stickers too!