By offering over 300 successful booktalks for librarians, teachers, and parents, Littlejohn shows how to effectively "hook" reluctant readers onto books. The booktalks are divided into three reading levels: elementary, middle school, and high school/adult, and range from recently published books to Newbery award winners to books that have endured the test of time. Helpful hints abound, from adding spice to your booktalks to ways of measuring a booktalk's success through library circulation and student surveys. The title, author, subject, and genre indexes will be most helpful for planning...

Get 263 new booktalks to introduce good books to ages 8 to 88 - 70 elementary level, 190 middle school, 181 high school and up (several overlap levels). Serve a wide range of interests with fiction, non-fiction, poetry, best-sellers, award-winners, and classics that don't date. Discover gems that answer "What can I read that's good?" and "What else is like what I just read?" A booktalk is a written recommendation of a book, a quick photo flash of a book's appeal--a way of "hooking" a student into developing a reading habit. Written at the reading level of the book's audience, booktalks can...

Volume 4 of this much-loved, practical series provides not only a hefty list of tempting titles for students, but selling points to help educators and librarians promote the books about students. The book contains multiple indexes to make it easy to find appropriate titles, suggestions to encourage reluctant readers, information about award-winners, details about authors and related titles, and alerts to controversial materials such as profanity or sexual situations.

The latest in our popular booktalking series helps engage even the most reluctant readers

136 new booktalks offer an...