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With more than 300 original annotations in some 60 thematic lists, this one-of-a kind compilation opens the world of audiobooks to listeners and librarians alike.

The demand for audiobooks is booming, yet materials that help listeners make choices of what to listen to have been in short supply.

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Categorizing hundreds of popular biographies according to their primary appeal-character, story, setting, language, and mood-and organizing them into thematic lists, this guide will help readers' advisors more effectively recommend titles.

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With more than 500 original descriptive annotations in over 70 thematic lists, this unique compilation makes it easy for adult readers and librarians to discover graphic novel reads that satisfy their interests and reading tastes.

Graphic novels are not the junk food of the literature world.

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Hundreds of popular historical fiction titles are described and categorized according to their underlying appeal features, and under topics and themes you'll never find in the library catalogwomen with true grit, greatest war stories, royalty rules, quick reads, humor, and many others.

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Aimed at librarians looking for a different way to find suggestions for readers seeking that great horror read. This work categorises the popular horror fiction titles, according to their underlying appeal features, and under topics and themes. It covers approximately 350 titles of the best horror fiction titles.

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Scores of appeal-based reading lists cover topics you'll never find in the library catalog-from extraordinary women and overcoming adversity to sports talk, spiritual journeys, and luminous prose.

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With over 350 titles organized into their primary appeal characteristics and scores of thematic lists, librarians and educators will benefit from lists of contemporary selections specifically written for teens.

Interest in teen fiction has grown in popularity in the last decade, especially within the fantasy and paranormal genres.

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Organized across appeal features, this comprehensive listing of stories, biographies, and fiction is the first and only guide to sports literature for adult and teen readers.

Sports literature spans multiple genresfrom fast-paced adventures, to biographies of sports heroes, to tales of underdogs overcoming the odds among others.

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An indispensable book for every readers' advisor offers new reading lists of women's fiction for RA, handouts, websites, or for readers to browse for that next great read.

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This book helps educators and librarians prepare students to succeed in University Interscholastic League (UIL) Chess Puzzle.

Chess expert, Alexey Root, describes her project to have kids read and write about chess while learning to play and excel at the game.

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This volume provides insights into the organizational dynamics of libraries. Topics discussed include: decision making in libraries, bureaucratic structure and personality, controlling and reappraising, the handling of staff problems, communication, and the library and politics.

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This book presents background information on the current literary theory known as reader response and examines ways in which response and the teaching of literature has been researched and the findings of that research.

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This book presents background information on the current literary theory known as reader response and examines ways in which response and the teaching of literature has been researched and the findings of that research.

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This exciting compilation of readers theatre scripts for the 4th to 8th grade social studies classroom brings history to life via the adventures of explorers across the globe.

Throughout history, powerful kings and queens have sent their emissaries on quests for land and wealth to expand their empires.

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This complete guide to youth readers' advisory covers genres, reading interests, and issues, as well as provides lists of sample titles and recommended reading.

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The authors assert that the library plays a vital role in the life of a reader from early childhood to adulthood, and provides a cogent case for making reading a priority in the library. It also offers powerful evidence supporting the importance of libraries' fiction and other pleasure-reading collections, and readers' advisory services.

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Book clubs are sprouting up all over, and so are book club guidesbut not all book club guides are equal.

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Drawing on scholarly research findings, this book presents a cogent case that librarians can use to work towards prioritization of reading in libraries and in schools.

Reading is more important than it has ever beenrecent research on reading, such as PEW reports and Scholastic's "Kids and Family Reading Report," proves that fact.

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Helpful tools include 200 booktalks (4 for each state), lists of other recommended titles for each state, a fact sheet, a listing of the national standards covered, and a plethora of reproducible, reader-response activities directly linked to national standards in language arts and social studies.

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Reading the Worlds Stories is an annotated bibliography of high-quality international childrens and adolescent literature. Centered around the theme of the importance of stories, the book is a resource for discovering global books that fit many reading tastes and educational needs.

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Providing more than 50 fiction display descriptions, this book identifies themes for the entire year and includes titles for signage, annotated book lists, prop and material ideas, as well as photographs that show how to pull it all together.

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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.

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From 1940 to 1954, The Bell was notable as an outspoken liberal voice at a time of political and intellectual stagnation. While primarily a literary magazine, it is now mostly discussed in the context of its hard political criticism. Carson has unearthed a wealth of sources to put The Bell in its social as well as literary contexts. -- .