This list of books for the college bound, put together by the Young Adult Library Services Administration (YASLA), is updated every five years. This volume includes the lists for 1999, 2004, and 2009,
Motivating Teen and Preteen Readers: How Teachers and Parents Can Lead the Way contains over 1,000 diverse, original, fun, creative, absurd, challenging questions on reading that will inspire adolesce
Motivating Teen and Preteen Readers: How Teachers and Parents Can Lead the Way contains over 1,000 diverse, original, fun, creative, absurd, challenging questions on reading that will inspire adolesce
Saccardi, a children's book reviewer and children's literature and early literacy consultant who works with teachers in professional development sessions, identifies children's literature in all genre
Get all boys reading with this extraordinary guide?chock-full of a wide range of must-read titles organized by interest, age, and development. With this resource in hand, you'll never again struggle t
Children's literature, as we know it today, first came into existence in Britain in the eighteenth century. This book is the first major study to consider who the first users of this new product were, which titles they owned, how they acquired and used their books, and what they thought of them. Evidence of these things is scarce. But by drawing on a diverse array of sources, including inscriptions and marginalia, letters and diaries, inventories and parish records, and portraits and pedagogical treatises, and by pioneering exciting methodologies, it has been possible to reconstruct both sociological profiles of consumers and the often touching experiences of individual children. Grenby's discoveries about the owners of children's books, and their use, abuse and perception of this new product, will be key to understanding how children's literature was able to become established as a distinct and flourishing element of print culture.
Acknowledging that boys continue to lag behind girls in becoming lifelong readers, teachers and librarians are constantly looking for books that will interest and engage them. Fortunately, books on b
Bartel, a library director at a high school, and Holley, a youth librarian, cull about 1,100 titles from the Young Adult Library Service Association-BK electronic discussion list from 2005 to 2010 to
Perfect for teens who love to read and those who need a companion for school assignments or summer reading programs, Read, Remember, Recommend for Teens offers more than 2400 award-winning and notabl
Radical Reads 2 picks up where the first volume left off, featuring 101 radical young adult books that have come out since its publication. Author Joni Richards Bodart defends their inclusion in libra
Girl Reading Girl provides the first overview of the cultural significance of girls and reading in modern and contemporary Japan with emphasis on the processes involved when girls read about other gir
Promote some of today's best and most popular YA books-both fiction and nonfiction- with these ready-to-use booktalks and creative learning extension ideas. Whether you are a public or school librari
Holley (retired coordinator of school libraries in Fairfax County, Virginia) compiles a decade's worth of information for titles featured in the Young Adult Library Services Association's two annual l
A long-time children's librarian and library director, Sullivan (library and information science, Simmons College, Boston) follows his 2003 volume with a second on how librarians can counter the cultu
What exactly is a children's book? How is children's literature defined as a genre? A leading scholar presents close readings of six classic stories to answer these questions and offer a clear defini
What exactly is a children's book? How is children's literature defined as a genre? A leading scholar presents close readings of six classic stories to answer these questions and offer a clear defini
This fifth Gotcha! book, aimed at public and school librarians and teachers, discusses well-reviewed and kid-tested nonfiction titles for third through eighth grade readers published in 2005-2007 wit
This volume recommends some 500 positive, heart-warming stories for young readers--stories of the human spirit and what it can accomplish; stories of loving families surviving crises in positive ways;
