Awards

• Winner of The Five-Foot Bookshelf of Essential Professional Books VOYA 0 (United States)
• Winner of The Five-Foot Bookshelf of Essential Professional Books VOYA 2005
• Winner of The Five-Foot Bookshelf of Essential Professional Books VOYA 2005 (United States)

Overview

Adventure, fantasy, mystery/suspense—teens love genre fiction—and genre nonfiction! By focusing on the genres teens love, you'll find a great way to connect them with books, and an effective means by through which to promote some of today's best and most popular YA books. Whether you are a public or school librarian, teacher, or teen group leader, you'll love this book. It offers background information, ready-to-use booktalks, and related activities for more than 100 young adult titles, focusing on those published in the past 3 years. Grades6-12 Adventure, fantasy, mystery/suspense—teens love genre fiction—and genre nonfiction! By focusing on the genres teens love, you'll find a great way to connect them with books and an effective means through which to promote some of today's best and most popular YA books. Whether you are a public or school librarian, teacher, or teen group leader, you'll love this book. It offers background information, ready-to-use booktalks, and related activities for more than 100 young adult titles, focusing on those published in the past 3 years. For each book, the author notes the reading level and alternative formats, such as nonfiction, graphic novels, and journal/diary. The book summary lists name and age of the main character, setting, any special features of the book, and gives a brief plot line. This is followed by a booktalk to use or adapt, approximately five extension activities (at least one of which requires research), and an annotated list of read-alikes and related works. Grades 6-12.

Full Product Details

9781591582298

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Reviews

This volume will help librarians develop collections in specific areas of teen interest such as personal challenges, survival, paranormal suspense, and fantasy. A well-rounded effort. - School Library Journal This guide presents brief booktalks on current works in fiction and nonfiction, as well as those on fun and interesting titles. It serves as a booktalk resource, a list of suggested reading, and a selection tool. Recommended. - Teacher Librarian Help is here for harried young adult librarians, media specialists, teachers, and teen group leaders. Schall provides a useful and well-organized compendium of background information, booktalks, and activities for more than one hundred YA titles....Schall's booktalks are models of their kind--brief, tantalizing, and right on target for young adult listeners. Her Learning Opportunities (follow-up activities) are generally excellent, ranging from simple to challenging, and include writing and viewing projects, group activities, and class discussions. Practical, clearly written, and admirably planned, this title should be a required purchase for the professional collections of all those serving young adults. - VOYA

?Help is here for harried young adult librarians, media specialists, teachers, and teen group leaders. Schall provides a useful and well-organized compendium of background information, booktalks, and activities for more than one hundred YA titles....Schall's booktalks are models of their kind--brief, tantalizing, and right on target for young adult listeners. Her Learning Opportunities (follow-up activities) are generally excellent, ranging from simple to challenging, and include writing and viewing projects, group activities, and class discussions. Practical, clearly written, and admirably planned, this title should be a required purchase for the professional collections of all those serving young adults.?-VOYA

This guide presents brief booktalks on current works in fiction and nonfiction, as well as those on fun and interesting titles. It serves as a booktalk resource, a list of suggested reading, and a selection tool. Recommended. - Teacher Librarian This volume will help librarians develop collections in specific areas of teen interest such as personal challenges, survival, paranormal suspense, and fantasy. A well-rounded effort. - School Library Journal Help is here for harried young adult librarians, media specialists, teachers, and teen group leaders. Schall provides a useful and well-organized compendium of background information, booktalks, and activities for more than one hundred YA titles...Schall's booktalks are models of their kind--brief, tantalizing, and right on target for young adult listeners. Her Learning Opportunities (follow-up activities) are generally excellent, ranging from simple to challenging, and include writing and viewing projects, group activities, and class discussions. Practical, clearly written, and admirably planned, this title should be a required purchase for the professional collections of all those serving young adults. - VOYA

Author Information

Lucy Schall is a retired high school and middle school teacher, a book reviewer for VOYA, and author of numerous Libraries Unlimited booktalking guides.

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