book talks

Offers teachers, librarians, and teen group leaders useful tips and strategies designed to help teen readers connect with books from different genres.

Contains a collection of booktalks arranged by age level. Includes a bibliography by age level, theme and genre, and an index.

Summaries of eighty books in the area of fiction, plays, biographies, nonfiction, and several old favorites.

Illustrates several easy-to-make puppets and puppet theaters, and gives examples of how the puppets may be used to promote children's literature.

Contains descriptions of more than three hundred books for people of all ages, with information on each book's author, publisher, plot, and reading level.

A source book for teachers that profiles one hundred fiction and nonfiction books for teens, providing summaries, "booktalk" paragraphs designed to motivate kids to read the books, related activities, and annotated lists of related works.

A practical, easy-to-use guide of recommended titles and booktalks aimed at young readers, with a focus on contemporary multicultural fiction and history.

Provides bibliographic information, synopses, and activities correlated to books that appeal to the interests of children, address a variety of issues, and enhance their self-esteem; and includes support materials and suggestions for increasing motivation.

Presents more than 350 thematically arranged booktalks designed to help teachers increase their students' interest in reading nonfiction books.

Presents an annotated listing of fiction and nonfiction titles published from 1998 through 2001 that are appropriate for use in kindergarten through sixth-grade classrooms, each with bibliographic information, age level, a summary, a booktalk, curriculum connections, and list of related books, grouped in the categories of language arts and literature, mathematics and science, social studies, and arts and recreation.