Teen Librarian: Robin Brenner
A few facts about me:
Ask me about my reading/viewing/listening!
Hometown: Reading, MAFamily: I grew up the child of two physicists (we had many conversations about cosmology and subatomic particles over dinner) and one older sister, who read piles of books to me and undoubtedly made me the woman I am today
Favorite childhood books: Harold and the Purple Crayon by Crockett Johnson, Jenny and the Cat Club by Esther Averill, James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl, the Song of the Lioness Quartet by Tamora Pierce
Favorite teenhood books: The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury, Tam Lin by Pamela Dean, Memory and Dream by Charles de Lint, Dragonsong by Anne McCaffrey
High School: Cambridge School of Weston
College: Bryn Mawr
Graduate School: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
My website: The graphic novel readers' advisory website, No Flying No Tights
You can contact Robin by calling the Reference Desk at 617-730-2368 or email her at
Robin's Top Titles to Read
Feed by M.T. Anderson
Weetzie Bat by Francesca Lia Block
Finder by Emma Bull
Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card.
The Misfits by James Howe
The Beekeeper’s Apprentice by Laurie King
Son of the Mob by Gordon Korman
Bleach by Tite Kubo
Boy Meets Boy by David Levithan
Beast by Robin McKinley
What Happened to Lani Garver? by Carol Plum-Ucci
The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials trilogy) by Philip Pullman
Runaways series by Brian K. Vaughan
Paradise Kiss by Ai Yazawa
Robin's Top Everything Else
Stick It (film)
Howl's Moving Castle (film)
Romeo + Juliet (film)
House, M. D. (TV series)
Fullmetal Alchemist (TV series)
Veronica Mars (TV series)
Second Life (MMORPG)
The Internet Movie Database (website)
Television Without Pity (website)
Teenreads.com (website)