Picking up where the best-selling Bare Bones Young Adult Services left off, this exciting new book has an ambitious intent - to help libraries, with their communities, develop their teens into healthy, competent, and caring adults. Applying the tools in New Planning for Results to the goals outlined in Information Power, YALSA has teamed up with writer Patrick Jones to provide direction on how to deliver YA service that is proactive and holistic. Approaching the service mission holistically means linking the developmental needs and assets of these young adults with the overarching goals of...

The advice you need to transform reluctant readers It may sometimes seem impossible to get some kids to read, but YA experts Patrick Jones, Maureen Hartman, and Patricia Taylor believe in some proven tips, titles, and tools to make the impossible happen. They show you how to entice reluctant readers, what types of books are most likely to grab and keep their interest, and how to connect different kinds of readers with different genres (graphic novels, realistic fiction, mystery, fantasy, magazines, nonfiction, short stories, and more). The featured lists include over 600 sure-fire books,...

Young adults are a growing population in libraries, yet few librarians know how to provide the unique kinds of services teenagers need. Here, the authors apply customer service theory and technique to serving this population.

Extinct beast comes to life, stalks Ozarks town in new novel In "The Wolf's Moon," Patrick Jones writes a suspense thriller where one man must hunt down a mysterious wolf that preys upon the people of a small town In "The Wolf's Moon" (ISBN 146636016X), author Patrick Jones creates a spellbinding tale of an ancient animal that haunts the foothill towns of Missouri's Ozark Mountains. An unknown group of scientists has genetically engineered a Dire Wolf into the present day. Allegedly extinct, the ferocious beast preys upon the innocent people of Maple Hills. To hunt and kill the beast, the...

"World Cup Louie" takes us on a Dreamtime Adventure, in the World Cup final Louie and his brother, Ethan, play in the most famous sports event in the world - the World Cup

The stories circled within his head, always pounding at his subconscious... They pushed on his mind, wanting to be released from their holding area. His only rest came as he wrote them down. He had lived with them for so long that it seemed natural for fantasy and reality to mix together. The characters of his stories took on lives of their own. They began to write themselves. He only recorded their adventures on paper. He had no control over what the characters did. He told people the characters were more real than he was. Then one day, they were...

In rural Missouri, Crawford County has had more than its share of wildlife problems. Not even a year earlier the woods were home to a vicious killer brought back from extinction. In "The Wolf's Moon," Mark Lansdowne and his pal, Warren Skruggs, sent them back...but at a cost. Now something is haunting the rivers in Crawford County. The Missouri State Water Patrol must solve the deaths of several residents who died in "The River" but can they stop this menace before more people are killed?

Patrick, Meg and their family had built a happy, sustainable life in regional Victoria. But in late 2013 they found themselves craving an adventure: a road trip. But theirs was a road trip with a difference. With Zephyr (11), Woody (1) and Zero their Jack Russell, they set off on an epic 6,000km year-long cycling journey along Australia s east coast, from Daylesford to Cape York and back. Their aim was to live as cheaply as possible guerrilla camping, hunting, foraging and bartering their permaculture skills, and living on a diet of free food, bush tucker, and the occasional fresh roadkill....