Amanda Landry, Youth Services Supervisor, is the newest member of the HPL team. She’s been working professionally in libraries for nine years, though her real passion for libraries started when she was a 5th grade library aid at her elementary school library. Amanda received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Literature with a concentration in Children’s and Young Adult Literature from Framingham State University. She has since graduated from Simmons University with a Master of Science in Library Science, and a Master of Arts in Children’s and Young Adult Literature. She loves combining the practicality and community-centered approach of library science with the heart and soul of youth literature.
When Amanda’s not convincing people to get a library card or come to storytime, you can find her tap dancing, coloring or dot painting, walking bike or disc golf trails, catching up on the latest Twenty One Pilots lore, and hanging out with her two cats. Her favorite shows are Avatar: the Last Airbender, and Kotaro Lives Alone. She’s currently reading Bury Our Bones in Midnight Soil by V.E. Schwab and watching Hunter x Hunter.
Amanda Recommends:
- Case, Kiera. The Selection (series)
- Grehan, Meg. The Lonely Book
- Jin-Ho, Jung. Look Up!
- Khorram, Adib. Darius the Great is Not Okay
- LaRocca, Rajani. Midsummer’s Mayhem
- Lo, Malinda. Ash
- Lucianovic, V.W. Touch the Sky
- Muir, Tamsyn. Gideon the Ninth
- Sanchez, Erika. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter
- Sharp, Sid. Bog Myrtle
- Siegel, Mark. 5 Words (series)
- Smith, Zadie. Swing Time
- Thomas, Angie. Concrete Rose
- Underwood, Deborah. The Man Who Didn’t Like Animals
- Stewart, Trenton Lee. The Mysterious Benedict Society