Susan Disanto (skdisanto)'s Public Profile in the Diigo Community

Member since Jul 14, 2009, follows 1 people, 2 public groups, 5 public bookmarks (5 total).

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Shop and stop - The Boston Globe on 2009-07-15
Grown Up Girls Come Out of the YA Book Closet « Woman Around Town on 2009-07-15
- There’s so much to love about modern young adult (YA) fiction. It’s deep and
  sophisticated. It’s edgy, exciting, and heartbreaking. It’s well written
- complex teen characters and real-life struggles that our hearts, minds, and
  bodies can relate to.
- 4 more annotations...
- - it just packs more punch into fewer pages.
  - The current crop of young adult literature tackles tough topics head on. Whether
    the story is fantasy or contemporary, romance or mystery, YA characters deal
    with rape, drug abuse, death and grieving, love, suicide, genocide, street
    crime, racism, classism, politics, sex and sexuality, parental struggles, body
    image, and even the occasional vampire-human-werewolf love triangle.
  - Goodreads - a book-focused social network site where members rate and review
    books, make recommendations, start discussions, and “shelve” books by genre and
    keywords. The Goodreads YA shelf is a great place to find recent reviews and
    comparable titles. http://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/young-adult
  - My Favorite Author - a YA book blog by three adult women who love to read young
    adult fiction. Features book reviews, author interviews, contests and giveaways,
    and relevant commentary about current YA book trends and topics.
    http://myfavoriteauthor.blogspot.com
projecthelp - Citing Sources on 2009-07-15
- We use MLA Citations for Wikis. This is the instruction for how to paste
  references into our wiki projects. Wikispaces also has a reference
  guide on the ref tag. It is important to cite your sources when you quote or
  paraphrase. If it is an online source, you MUST include a hyperl
- A new reference must only be listed in full length THE FIRST time it is
  used. From then on use the author's last name and the page number, or in the
  case of an online article, the Article Name (which MUST be hyperlinked.)
How to Use Diigo on 2009-07-14
- With Diigo’s “transparent” web-annotation platform, your readers can click
  and view your annotated webpages with your public highlights/sticky notes even
  without any Diigo toolbar installed!
Boston.com on 2009-07-14
- Before experiencing the new movie "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood
  Prince," out tomorrow, brush up on the plot summaries of these seven
  spellbinding books.

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