Today is National Librarian Day! To celebrate this important day, five of our reviewers share their favorite librarian and library memories, below. Look out for a follow-up post from our Teen Board!

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Some friends and I were just talking the other day about the upcoming movie adaptation of THE HUNGER GAMES.  They had all read the books and like me, were eagerly looking forward to the movie.  These were adult women reading what has been categorized as a “young adult” book.  Obviously, it’s not always easy to know how to determine an age range for a book—though it might  originally be written for teens or for adults, if something “catches” as they say—it’s popularity spreads across the age span.  This is definitely what has happened with Suzanne Collins’s trilogy.  Everyone seems to be reading it or wanting to read it.

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