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Explains the various steps which go into determining a book's reading level and offers librarians advice on how they can use book levels to create age-appropriate programs for their patrons.

Contains classroom activities for thirty-six Newbery Medal and Honor books from 1990 to 1999, each including a plot summary, author profile, a book clip, curriculum connection ideas, bibliographic data, and additional reading suggestions.

An annotated bibliography that profiles more than seven hundred books, instructional materials, videos, DVDs, audio tapes, and online resources that teachers, school librarians, and parents can use to easily identify resources the promote the understanding of Islam.

Reviews alphabet books and includes related activities to be used in the classroom.

Provides lists of titles that may be of interest to teens who read genre fiction, selected from the works of authors who are popular with teenagers in the 1990s or whose books fit into the frequently requested genre types of historical novels, science fiction, fantasy, mystery, adventure, contemporary, and romance.

Presents tips, techniques, and strategies that teach early childhood literacy development, recommends best books, and features rhymes and songs.

A reading guide and selection tool for children's literature appropriate for students in preschool through grade six, providing information on more than six thousand titles published from 2001 to 2003.

Examines the careers of thirty-six significant Broadway composers, divided in three generational groups, including the early years, the 1940s and 1950s, and the 1960s and beyond; looks at notable shows by other composers; and includes a chronological listing of productions, as well as song, show, and people indexes.

A guide to classic literary works that identifies the common themes and characteristics of more than four hundred classic fiction works and offers suggestions on how to improve teen and adult readers' interest in the works.