Booktalks and More: Motivating Teens to Read

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Inspire teenagers to read quality literature and help them explore issues relevant to their lives. This outstanding book offers motivational, ready-to-use booktalks for more than 100 of the best new reads for teenagers, guaranteed to pique teen interest. Each booktalk comes with complete bibliographic information, a detailed plot summary, helpful presentation tips, curriculum connections, and suggestions for related books and media. Grades 7-12. To help you keep the booktalk momentum going, Lucy Schall provides engaging follow-up discussion questions and activity ideas that will enhance every teen's reading, writing, and speaking skills. With a focus on recently published fiction and nonfiction titles in a wide variety of genres and themes, these dynamic booktalks center around issues, problems, and challenges that young adults are facingfrom family concerns, expectations, and leadership to prejudice, good and evil, and the future. These lively booktalks and activities will motivate your teens to explore the complex world around them through unforgettable literary journeys.

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An excellent resource for reader's advisory as well as for further booktalking ideas....School librarians will find this volume particularly relevant, especially if they are working with teachers to integrate more YA literature into the curriculum, but public librarians will benefit almost as much from the wealth of suggestions.-School Library Journal
Librarians looking for ready-to-use book talks for more than 100 of the best new books for teens need look no further than Lucy Schall's Booktalks and More: Motivating Teens to Read.-American Libraries
The titles chosen are excellent ones, and the brief booktalks are engaging. This is a valuable resoruce for any YA librarian.-Kliatt
This wonderful tool could also be subtitled "motivating teens who read." Its content is rich for leading reluctant as well as avid readers to the next good book....Librarians, teachers, media specialists--anyone working with teens and books--will applaud the focus that connects today's best books for teens with curricula, similar titles and authors to look for, as well as with older worlds and classroom reading list staples....Even if the professional shelf is full of other booktalk tools, this one is a must.-VOYA
"An excellent resource for reader's advisory as well as for further booktalking ideas....School librarians will find this volume particularly relevant, especially if they are working with teachers to integrate more YA literature into the curriculum, but public librarians will benefit almost as much from the wealth of suggestions."-School Library Journal
"Librarians looking for ready-to-use book talks for more than 100 of the best new books for teens need look no further than Lucy Schall's Booktalks and More: Motivating Teens to Read."-American Libraries
"The titles chosen are excellent ones, and the brief booktalks are engaging. This is a valuable resoruce for any YA librarian."-Kliatt
"This wonderful tool could also be subtitled "motivating teens who read." Its content is rich for leading reluctant as well as avid readers to the next good book....Librarians, teachers, media specialists--anyone working with teens and books--will applaud the focus that connects today's best books for teens with curricula, similar titles and authors to look for, as well as with older worlds and classroom reading list staples....Even if the professional shelf is full of other booktalk tools, this one is a must."-VOYA

Author Bio

Lucy Schall is a retired high school and middle school teacher, a book reviewer for VOYA, and author of numerous Libraries Unlimited booktalking guides.