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Inspire your middle school readers with these awesome reading motivationprograms and proven book recommendations

Written by a seasoned middle school librarian who knows what kids love to read

Step-by-step directions for battle of the books and other sure-fire reading motivation programs

Chocked full of titles to turn middle-schoolers into avid readers

Includes bonus reproducibles for your very own reading promotion programs

Annotated genre bibliographies to motivate middle school readers

Meet the reading needs of a diverse school population, one in transition between...

Everything the school administrator needs to know to stay legal and in compliance with copyright law

Written by a well-known expert in the field of copyright law and schools

Succinctly organized to allow you to answer all your copyright questions quickly

Current, up-to-date, and clearly written so you don't have to wonder what is legal and what is not

Includes a glossary of terms and an easy-to-use index

This ready-reference guide for school administrators is short, to-the-point, and factual.It includes a glossary to define terms like Public Performance and an index to...

In Animals in Young Adult Fiction, Walter Hogan examines several hundred novels and stories to explore the ways in which animals are represented in these works. In additional to providing an historical survey, Hogan looks at both realistic fiction and speculative works, including fantasy, supernatural, horror, and science fiction. Hogan reviews stories that feature wild animal encounters, stories centered on...

Got 60 minutes or less? Here's a treasure trove of hands-on technology based projects you can pick up and use immediately. Projects in this book are ideally suited for use by library media specialists and classroom teachers in grades K-8, and can also be adapted for use with high school students. The projects can be used to show learning outcomes for almost any subject, while totally engaging students in fun, academically beneficial, and standards-based projects.

The author of the bestselling Boys and Literacy offers an overview of current thought on the teaching of reading. Differentiating Reading Instruction through Children's Literature includes data on the current status of reading instruction, models and methods, best practices, and brain research.

The focus here on differentiation of instruction (what it is general and what is specific to reading) will be valuable to school librarians in their effort to understand and support reading instruction in their schools. The book includes lesson ideas, annotations, kids'...

Welcome to the dark side of the crime genre, where creeps and psychopaths dominate and the good guys don't always win. Award winning librarian Gary Warren Niebuhr organizes and describes more than 600 crime titles according to popular reading tastes. He adopts the premise that, as in mystery, character is the defining appeal characteristic of these books, but the characters are of a different sort.

Books are arranged in three broad categories--"professional criminals," "caught up in crime," and "criminal detectives." Within these chapters, titles are organized in sections on the mob,...

Make connections to Gregor Mendel's work with genetics, the journey of 100 orphans from the Normandy battlefields, diverse cultures, and much more. This book, by celebrated author and teacher Sharron L. McElmeel, offers practical resources for promoting curiosity and involving learners of all ages in critical thinking.

Picture books can provide a short and focused stimulant to promote discussion and further investigation into topics as diverse as mathematical concepts, science topics, geography (landform and locations for example), and language arts skills. At the same time, personal...

Created to offer a different perspective on women's fiction and to reach a broad reading audience (including fans), "Read On Women's Fiction: Reading Lists for Every Taste" offers new reading paths for women's fiction lovers. Rebecca Vnuk categorizes and lists hundreds of popular women's fiction titles, but her scope is more current and more selective than that found other guides, the tone is lighter and more informal, annotations are shorter and livelier. Most important, the organization and approach are based on various appeal factors of the genre, rather than on the formal genres and...

Biographies span the extremes, ranging from meaty and meticulous renderings to flamboyant sketches; from fast-paced adventure and mind-bending reassessments to gentle, nostalgic reflections. For the lover of biography, the quest is not always just for a book about a specific person, but often for a character-driven story with particular genre elements, appeals, and themes.

This guide for those who work with readers not only maps the genre, but describes and organizes some 600 biographies into such categories as Adventurous Lives, Lives of Crime, Sporting Lives, and Group Biographies....

Museum Informatics explores the sociotechnical issues that arise when people, information, and technology interact in museums. It is designed specifically to address the many challenges faced by museums, museum professionals, and museum visitors in the information society. It examines not only applications of new technologies in museums, but how advances in information science and technology have changed the very nature of museums, both what it is to work in one, and what it is to visit one.

To explore these issues, Museum Informatics offers a selection of...

With the genre of memoirs filled with so many titles and from such a variety of authors, it is hard to grasp what's available and what's worth reading. For all those who love delving into the lives of others, this Read On... volume offers help.

Read On...Life Stories: Reading Lists for Every Taste offers brief descriptions of nearly 450 published memoirs, from classics like The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, to recent bestsellers like John Grogan's Marley and Me and Julie Andrews' Home. Titles are grouped together by their appeal to...