Booktalks and More

by Schall, Lucy

• ISBN13: 9781563089824
• ISBN10: 1563089823
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-06-30
• Publisher: Libraries Unltd Inc

Summary

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. 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 facing.

Author Biography

LUCY SCHALL, a retired English teacher with more than 30 years of experience, is a book reviewer for VOYA and lives in Meadville, Pennsylvania.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	xiii
Introduction	xv
Challenge: We Meet a Powerful World	1	(72)
Strangers Judge	1	(16)
Boys Lie	1	(2)
John Neufeld
Crooked	3	(2)
Laura McNeal
Tom McNeal
Hope in a Jar: The Making of America's Beauty Culture	5	(3)
Kathy Peiss
Stargirl	8	(2)
Jerry Spinelli
Color Me Dark: The Diary of Nellie Lee Love, The Great Migration North	10	(3)
Patricia McKissack
Monster	13	(2)
Walter Dean Myers
The Raging Quiet	15	(2)
Sherryl Jordan
Families Plan	17	(18)
A Face in Every Window	17	(2)
Han Nolan
Clem's Chances	19	(3)
Sonia Levitin
Ties That Bind, Ties That Break	22	(2)
Lensey Namioka
Run If You Dare	24	(2)
Randy Powell
Dancing on the Edge	26	(2)
Han Nolan
Joy School	28	(3)
Elizabeth Berg
You Don't Know Me	31	(2)
David Klass
A Step from Heaven	33	(2)
An Na
Nature Prevails	35	(12)
Titanic	35	(2)
Simon Adams
The Perilous Journey of the Donner Party	37	(3)
Marian Calabro
Brian's Return	40	(2)
Gary Paulsen
Esperanza Rising	42	(2)
Pam Munoz Ryan
In a Sacred Manner I Live: Native American Wisdom	44	(3)
Neil Philip
Nations Conflict	47	(14)
Amelia's War	47	(2)
Ann Rinaldi
Forgotten Fire	49	(2)
Adam Bagdasarian
Soldier Boys	51	(3)
Dean Hughes
First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers	54	(2)
Loung Ung
Born to Fly: The Heroic Story of Downed U.S. Navy Pilot Lt. Shane Osborn	56	(2)
Shane Osborn
Malcolm McConnell
Michael French
Out of War: True Stories from the Front Lines of the Children's Movement for Peace in Colombia	58	(3)
Sara Cameron
Supernatural Forces Intrude	61	(12)
Tamsin	61	(2)
Peter S. Beagle
Hidden Talents	63	(2)
David Lubar
The Grave	65	(2)
James Heneghan
The Other Shepards	67	(3)
Adele Griffin
Bone Dance	70	(3)
Martha Brooks
Achievement: We Test Coping Skills	73	(80)
Trying to Meet Expectations	73	(22)
Dreamland	73	(2)
Sarah Dessen
Speak	75	(2)
Laurie Halse Anderson
The Great Turkey Walk	77	(3)
Kathleen Karr
Touching Spirit Bear	80	(2)
Ben Mikaelsen
Keeping the Moon	82	(2)
Sarah Dessen
Life Is Funny	84	(2)
E. R. Frank
When Zachary Beaver Came to Town	86	(2)
Kimberly Willis Holt
Battle Dress	88	(3)
Amy Efaw
145th Street: Short Stories	91	(2)
Walter Dean Myers
How Rude! The Teenagers' Guide to Good Manners, Proper Behavior, and Not Grossing People Out	93	(2)
Alex J. Packer
Pamela Espeland
Jeff Tolbert
Seeking Our Spirit	95	(18)
Snake Dreamer	95	(2)
Priscilla Galloway
Swallowing Stones	97	(2)
Joyce McDonald
Skellig	99	(2)
David Almond
half-human	101	(2)
Bruce Coville
Marc Tauss
The Great Mystery: Myths of Native America	103	(2)
Neil Philip
Second Sight: Stories for a New Millennium	105	(2)
Crazy Jack	107	(2)
Donna Jo Napoli
A Dance for Emilia	109	(2)
Peter S. Beagle
Elske	111	(2)
Cynthia Voigt
Testing Our Physical Limits	113	(21)
The Nazi Olympics: Berlin 1936	113	(3)
Susan D. Bachrach
Give a Boy a Gun	116	(2)
Todd Strasser
Heroes	118	(3)
Robert Cormier
Painting the Black	121	(2)
Carl Deuker
Jackie's Nine: Jackie Robinson's Values to Live By	123	(2)
Sharon Robinson
The Greatest: Muhammad Ali	125	(3)
Walter Dean Myers
The Boxer	128	(2)
Kathleen Karr
Tightrope	130	(2)
Gillian Cross
Go for the Goal: A Champion's Guide to Winning in Soccer and Life	132	(2)
Mia Hamm
Aaron Heifetz
Developing Our Minds	134	(19)
The Popsicle Journal	134	(3)
Don Trembath
Bad	137	(2)
Jean Ferris
Crusader	139	(2)
Edward Bloor
Matilda Bone	141	(3)
Karen Cushman
Midnight Magic	144	(2)
Avi
The Last Book in the Universe	146	(2)
Rodman Philbrick
Hank's Story	148	(3)
Jane Buchanan
Silent to the Bone	151	(2)
E. L. Konigsburg
Dedication: We Battle the Forces Against Us	153	(56)
The Forces of Good and Evil Complicating Our Lives	153	(13)
Clockwork: Or All Wound Up	153	(2)
Philip Pullman
Leonid Gore
The Other Ones	155	(2)
Jean Thesman
Spellfall	157	(2)
Katherine Roberts
The Taker's Stone	159	(2)
Barbara Timberlake Russell
His Dark Materials Trilogy
Philip Pullman
The Golden Compass	161	(1)
The Subtle Knife	162	(1)
The Amber Spyglass	163	(3)
Disease and Injury Threatening to Limit Our Abilities	166	(14)
Plague and Pestilence: A History of Infectious Disease	166	(3)
Linda Jacobs Altman
Cut	169	(2)
Patricia McCormick
Ups & Downs: How to Beat the Blues and Teen Depression	171	(2)
Susan Klebanoff
Ellen Luborsky
Andy Cooke
Mind's Eye	173	(2)
Paul Fleischman
Needles	175	(3)
Andie Dominick
Fever, 1793	178	(2)
Laurie Halse Anderson
Hate and Prejudice Trying to Shut Us Out	180	(16)
Witness	180	(3)
Karen Hesse
Sarny: A Life Remembered	183	(2)
Gary Paulsen
Secrets in the House of Delgado	185	(2)
Gloria D. Miklowitz
Witches and Witch-hunts: A History of Persecution	187	(2)
Milton Meltzer
Stones in Water	189	(3)
Donna Jo Napoli
Anne Frank and Me	192	(2)
Cherie Bennett
Jeff Gottesfeld
The Turtle Clan Journey	194	(2)
Lynda Durrant
Family Conflicts Forcing Us to Define Ourselves	196	(13)
Anna of Byzantium	196	(3)
Tracy Barrett
Both Sides Now	199	(2)
Ruth Pennebaker
Alone at Ninety Foot	201	(2)
Katherine Holubitsky
Tribute to Another Dead Rock Star	203	(2)
Randy Powell
The Coffin Quilt: The Feud Between the Hatfields and the McCoys	205	(4)
Ann Rinaldi
Legacy: We Are Remembered	209	(62)
Entertaining and Creating	209	(10)
Kit's Wilderness	209	(2)
David Almond
Spiders in the Hairdo: Modern Urban Legends	211	(2)
David Holt
Bill Mooney
The Rumpelstiltskin Problem	213	(2)
Vivian Vande Velde
Homeless Bird	215	(2)
Gloria Whelan
Poetry After Lunch: Poems to Read Aloud	217	(2)
Joyce Armstrong Carroll
Edward E. Wilson
Trusting	219	(13)
Someone Like You	219	(2)
Sarah Dessen
Eight Seconds	221	(3)
Jean Ferris
The Transformation	224	(2)
Mette Newth
Trino's Choice and Trino's Time	226	(3)
Diane Gonzales Bertrand
The Second Bend in the River	229	(3)
Ann Rinaldi
Teaching and Leading	232	(23)
Sir Walter Ralegh and the Quest for El Dorado	232	(3)
Marc Aronson
The Saga of Lewis and Clark: Into the Uncharted West	235	(2)
Thomas Schmidt
Jeremy Schmidt
The Planet Hunters: The Search for Other Worlds	237	(3)
Dennis Brindell Fradin
Life Without Light: A Journey to Earth's Dark Ecosystems	240	(1)
Melissa Stewart
Heroine of the Titanic: The Real Unsinkable Molly Brown	241	(3)
Elaine Landau
William Bradford: Plymouth's Faithful Pilgrim	244	(3)
Gary D. Schmidt
Behind the Mask: The Life of Queen Elizabeth I	247	(2)
Jane Resh Thomas
Ida B. Wells: Mother of the Civil Rights Movement	249	(3)
Dennis Brindell Fradin
Judith Bloom Fradin
Lincoln and Slavery	252	(3)
Peter Burchard
Looking Toward the Future	255	(16)
In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer	255	(3)
Irene Gut Opdyke
Jennifer Armstrong
Hope Was Here	258	(2)
Joan Bauer
Seedfolks	260	(2)
Paul Fleischman
Judy Pedersen
Yell-Oh Girls!	262	(2)
Vickie Nam
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens: The Ultimate Teenage Success Guide	264	(2)
Sean Covey
Street Wise: A Guide for Teen Investors	266	(3)
Janet Bamford
Tomorrowland: 10 Stories About the Future	269	(2)
Michael Cart
Index	271