Booktalks and Beyond

by Schall, Lucy

• ISBN13: 9781591584667
• ISBN10: 1591584663
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-05-30
• Publisher: Libraries Unltd Inc

Summary

Promote today's best and most popular YA books with help from this practical guide. Focusing on titles published after 2000, Schall provides you with background information, ready-to-use (or adapt) booktalks, read-aloud selections, learning activities, and related reads for approximately 100 fiction and nonfiction books with broad teen appeal. Organized by genres and themes, it has something for every teen reader. Whether you are a public or school librarian, teacher, or teen group leader, you'll find this collection helpful in motivating teens to read, building their appreciation of books, and in extending learning opportunities beyond the reading experience. Grades 6-12.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Introduction	p. xv
Issues	p. 1
Confronting the Bully	p. 1
Firmament	p. 1
Lucas: A Story of Love and Hate	p. 4
What Erica Wants	p. 6
Bucking the Sarge	p. 9
Breaking Point	p. 12
Defining Love	p. 14
Dear Zoe	p. 14
Naughts & Crosses	p. 16
Who Am I without Him?: Short Stories about Girls and the Boys in Their Lives	p. 19
Keesha's House	p. 21
The First Part Last	p. 24
Living on the Edge	p. 26
Nothing to Lose	p. 26
Heck Superhero	p. 28
33 Snowfish	p. 30
Learning the Game	p. 33
Finding Inner Peace or Spiritual Clarification	p. 35
The Five People You Meet in Heaven	p. 35
Looking for Alaska	p. 37
Buddha Boy	p. 40
Behind You	p. 43
Contemporary	p. 47
Finding Our Talents and Friends	p. 47
True Confessions of a Heartless Girl	p. 47
Letting Go of Bobby James, or How I Found My Self of Steam	p. 50
Saving Francesca	p. 52
Pool Boy	p. 54
Laughing	p. 56
Prom	p. 56
Boy2Girl	p. 58
Teen Idol	p. 61
Storky: How I Lost My Nickname and Won the Girl	p. 63
Competing	p. 65
The Rhyming Season	p. 65
Ball Don't Lie	p. 68
Runner	p. 70
Shakespeare Bats Cleanup	p. 73
Keeper	p. 75
Adventure/Survival	p. 79
Land	p. 79
Sleep Rough Tonight	p. 79
A Dog's Life: The Autobiography of a Stray	p. 81
My Travels with Capts. Lewis and Clark by George Shannon	p. 83
How Angel Peterson Got His Name: And Other Outrageous Tales About Extreme Sports	p. 86
Sea	p. 88
Shipwrecked!: The True Adventures of a Japanese Boy	p. 88
Life of Pi	p. 91
The Young Man and the Sea	p. 93
Pirates!	p. 95
The Ring of the Slave Prince	p. 97
Air	p. 100
The Race to Save the Lord God Bird	p. 100
B for Buster	p. 102
The Kite Rider	p. 105
Airborn	p. 107
Mystery/Suspense	p. 111
Contemporary	p. 111
Down the Rabbit Hole: An Echo Falls Mystery	p. 111
Martyn Pig	p. 114
Code Orange	p. 116
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time	p. 119
Flush	p. 121
Historical	p. 123
For Freedom: The Story of a French Spy	p. 123
Much Ado about Grubstake	p. 126
The Convicts	p. 128
Montmorency: Thief, Liar, Gentleman?	p. 131
Paranormal	p. 133
The Love Curse of the Rumbaughs	p. 133
The Minister's Daughter	p. 136
Raven's Gate	p. 138
The Haunting of Alaizabel Cray	p. 141
I Am the Messenger	p. 143
Fantasy/Science Fiction/Paranormal	p. 147
Discovering Our Roots	p. 147
Sign of the Qin: Book One	p. 147
The Goblin Wood	p. 150
Sign of the Raven	p. 152
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince	p. 155
Discovering Different Worlds	p. 157
A Great and Terrible Beauty	p. 157
The Sea of Trolls	p. 160
Inkheart	p. 162
Inkspell	p. 164
Revisiting the World of Fairy Tale, Myth, and Legend	p. 166
The Arthur Trilogy	p. 166
Marvel 1602: # 1-8	p. 171
Once Upon a Marigold	p. 173
Poison	p. 176
Meeting the Challenges of the Future	p. 178
The Diary of Pelly D	p. 178
Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment	p. 181
How I Live Now	p. 184
The Last Universe	p. 186
Elsewhere	p. 188
History	p. 191
Choosing in Peace	p. 191
Daniel Half Human	p. 191
The Forbidden Schoolhouse: The True and Dramatic Story of Prudence Crandall and Her Students	p. 194
The Secret Life of Bees	p. 196
The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place	p. 199
The Teacher's Funeral: A Comedy in Three Parts	p. 202
Choosing in War	p. 205
Amaryllis	p. 205
An Innocent Soldier	p. 207
How I Found the Strong: A Novel of the Civil War	p. 210
Kipling's Choice	p. 213
Defining Leaders and Events	p. 215
George Washington, Spymaster: How the Americans Outspied the British and Won the Revolutionary War	p. 215
The Real Revolution: The Global Story of American Independence	p. 218
Children of the Great Depression	p. 221
Something Out of Nothing: Marie Curie and Radium	p. 223
John Lennon: All I Want Is the Truth	p. 225
Multiple Cultures	p. 229
Learning from Other Countries	p. 229
The Heaven Shop	p. 229
The Kite Runner	p. 231
Facing the Lion: Growing Up Maasai on the African Savanna	p. 234
Under the Persimmon Tree	p. 236
Chu Ju's House	p. 239
When I Was a Soldier: A Memoir	p. 241
Learning from the Cultures within Our Country	p. 244
Sweetgrass Basket	p. 244
Fortune's Bones: The Manumission Requiem	p. 247
Becoming Naomi Leon	p. 249
Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy	p. 251
Finding My Hat	p. 254
Full Service	p. 257
Index	p. 261
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