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Littlejohn, Carol – 2001
Offering over 200 ready-to-use, successful "booktalks" for librarians, teachers, and parents, this book shows how to "hook" reluctant readers onto books. The field-tested booktalks are brief "commercials" for books that give just enough information to promote reading the book, and that help match the right reader with…
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Books, Childrens Literature, Elementary Secondary Education
Download full textStover, Lois T., Ed.; Zenker, Stephanie F., Ed. – 1997
Designed to help teachers, students, and parents identify engaging and insightful books for young adults, this book presents annotations of over 1,400 books published between 1994 and 1996. The book begins with a foreword by young adult author, Chris Crutcher, a former reluctant high school reader, that discusses what books have meant to him.…
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Adolescents, Annotated Bibliographies, Fiction
