Booktalks Plus

by Schall, Lucy

• ISBN13: 9781563088179
• ISBN10: 1563088177
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-04-15
• Publisher: Libraries Unltd Inc

Summary

Obesity in a world where thin is endlessly in vogue, pros and cons of tattoos and body piercing, and family blending. This guide leads you to quality literature that inspires students to read and discover more about these and many other issues they find relevant. Booktalks for more than 100 titles are accompanied by motivational activities and lists of related works. In addition, pithy book summaries and bibliographic information are given. Fiction and nonfiction titles, most published since 1995, were selected with curriculum connections in mind and are arranged topically.

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

Introduction	xi
The World Reacts	1	(60)
First Impressions	1	(11)
Life in the Fat Lane	1	(3)
Cherie Bennett
The Starplace	4	(2)
Vicki Grove
Petey	6	(2)
Ben Mikaelsen
I Rode a Horse of Milk White Jade	8	(2)
Diane Lee Wilson
The Dangers of Tattooing and Body Piercing	10	(2)
Laura Reybold
Family Decisions	12	(14)
The Journal of William Thomas Emerson: A Revolutionary War Patriot	12	(3)
Barry Denenberg
Cowboy Ghost	15	(1)
Robert Newton Peck
Tangerine	16	(3)
Edward Bloor
The Spirit Window	19	(2)
Joyce Sweeney
Saratoga Secret	21	(2)
Betsy Sterman
The Tuesday Cafe	23	(3)
Don Trembath
Nature's Pattern	26	(11)
White Wolf	26	(2)
Henrietta Branford
Backwater	28	(2)
Joan Bauer
Out of the Dust	30	(2)
Karen Hesse
Over the Top of the World: Explorer Will Steger's Trek Across the Arctic	32	(3)
Will Steger
Jon Bowermaster
Holes	35	(2)
Louis Sachar
National Conflicts	37	(11)
No Man's Land: A Young Soldier's Story	37	(2)
Susan Bartoletti
No Pretty Pictures: A Child of War	39	(3)
Anita Lobel
The Journal of James Edmond Pease	42	(2)
Jim Murphy
War and the Pity of War	44	(2)
Neil Philip
Cast Two Shadows	46	(2)
Ann Rinaldi
Supernatural Forces	48	(13)
The Fated Sky	48	(2)
Henrietta Branford
Armageddon Summer	50	(2)
Jane Yolen
Bruce Coville
The Heavenly Village	52	(2)
Cynthia Rylant
A Door Near Here	54	(2)
Heather Quarles
Stephen Fair	56	(5)
Tim Wynne-Jones
We Act	61	(70)
Socially	61	(23)
Go and Come Back	61	(3)
Joan Abelove
Tenderness	64	(2)
Robert Cormier
Stone Cold	66	(2)
Pete Hautman
Fire Bed and Bone	68	(2)
Henrietta Branford
Love Among the Walnuts	70	(2)
Jean Ferris
The Music of Dolphins	72	(2)
Karen Hesse
The Pirate's Son	74	(3)
Geraldine McCaughrean
No More Strangers Now: Young Voices from a New South Africa	77	(2)
Tim McKee
Victor	79	(3)
Mordicai Gerstein
Making Up Megaboy	82	(2)
Virginia Walker
Spiritually	84	(12)
C.S. Lewis: Christian and Storyteller	84	(2)
Beatrice Gormley
The Singing Mountain	86	(3)
Sonia Levitin
The Sacrifice	89	(2)
Diane Matcheck
Sirena	91	(3)
Donna Jo Napoli
A Hope in the Unseen	94	(2)
Ron Suskind
Physically	96	(16)
Bull Catcher	96	(3)
Alden R. Carter
Venus to the Hoop	99	(2)
Sara Corbett
Safe at Second	101	(2)
Scott Johnson
Black Hands, White Sails: The Story of African-American Whalers	103	(3)
Patricia C. McKissack
Fredrick L. McKissack
Black Hoops: The History of African Americans in Basketball	106	(2)
Fredrick McKissack
Gone A-Whaling: The Lure of the Sea and the Hunt for the Great Whale	108	(2)
Jim Murphy
Slam	110	(2)
Walter Dean Myers
Mentally	112	(19)
Parrot in the Oven	112	(2)
Victor Martinez
Rules of the Road	114	(3)
Joan Bauer
Wanted!	117	(2)
Caroline B. Cooney
The King's Swift Rider	119	(2)
Mollie Hunter
My Life As a Girl	121	(3)
Elizabeth Mosier
Buried Onions	124	(2)
Gary Soto
Ophelia Speaks	126	(2)
Sara Shandler
A Fly Named Alfred	128	(3)
Don Trembath
Forces Try to Confound Us	131	(64)
Good Versus Evil	131	(11)
King Arthur	131	(2)
Rosalind Kerven
Sensational Trials of the 20th Century	133	(2)
Betsy Harvey Kraft
The Terrorist	135	(3)
Caroline B. Cooney
Star Wars: Episode I, Incredible Cross-Sections, The Definitive Guide to the Craft of Star Wars: Episode 1	138	(1)
David West Reynolds
Star Wars: Incredible Cross-Sections, The Ultimate Guide to Star Wars Vehicles and Spacecraft	138	(2)
David West Reynolds
Star Wars: The Visual Dictionary, the Ultimate Guide to Star Wars Characters and Creatures	140	(2)
David West Reynolds
Disease	142	(11)
Sexually Transmitted Diseases	142	(2)
Christian Perdan Curran
The Science, Spread, and Therapy of HIV Disease	144	(2)
Michael A. DiSpezio
Invisible Enemies	146	(2)
Jeanette Farrell
Kissing Doorknobs	148	(2)
Terry Spencer Hesser
Depression	150	(3)
Alvin Silverstein
Virginia Silverstein
Laura Silverstein Nunn
Hate and Prejudice	153	(13)
Walk the Dark Streets	153	(2)
Edith Baer
Come All You Brave Soldirs	155	(3)
Clinton Cox
The Hidden Children of the Holocaust: Teens Who Hid from the Nazis	158	(2)
Esther Kustanowitz
Summer Soldiers	160	(2)
Susan Hart Lindquist
Masada: The Last Fortress	162	(2)
Gloria D. Miklowitz
Tomi: A Childhood Under the Nazis	164	(2)
Tomi Ungerer
Family Conflicts	166	(13)
A Beautiful Place on Yonge Street	166	(2)
Don Trembath
Hush Little Baby	168	(2)
Caroline B. Cooney
Coping in a Blended Family	170	(2)
Jane Hurwitz
P.S. Longer Letter Later	172	(1)
Paula Danziger
Ann M. Martin
Snail Mail No More	173	(3)
Paula Danziger
Ann M. Martin
When She Was Good	176	(3)
Norma Fox Mazer
The Supernatural	179	(16)
A Hive for the Honeybee	179	(2)
Soinbhe Lally
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone	181	(1)
J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets	182	(1)
J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban	183	(1)
J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire	184	(3)
J. K. Rowling
Sang Spell	187	(2)
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
The Boxes	189	(3)
William Sleator
The Transall Saga	192	(3)
Gary Paulsen
We Struggle and Give	195	(56)
Entertain and Create	195	(24)
Just People & Paper/Pen/Poem: A Young Writer's Way to Begin	195	(2)
Kathi Appelt
Boss of the Plains: The Hat That Won the West	197	(2)
Laurie Carlson
Jack London: A Biography	199	(2)
Daniel Dyer
Blues: Its Birth and Growth	201	(2)
Howard Elmer
Martha Graham: A Dancer's Life	203	(3)
Russell Freedman
Circus: An Album	206	(2)
Linda Granfield
Chuck Close Up Close	208	(2)
Jan Greenburg
Sandra Jordon
Special Effects in Film and Television	210	(2)
Jake Hamilton
Michelle Kwan, My Story: Heart of a Champion	212	(3)
Laura James
How to Write Poetry	215	(2)
Paul B. Janeczko
Where I'm From: Where Poems Come From	217	(2)
George Ella Lyon
Trust	219	(13)
I, Too, Sing America: Three Centuries of African American Poetry	219	(2)
Catherine Clinton
Ethan Between Us	221	(2)
Anna Mysers
Hero	223	(2)
S. L. Rottman
Liberation: Teens in the Concentration Camps and the Teen Soldiers Who Liberated Them	225	(3)
Tina E. Tito
A Traitor Among Us	228	(2)
Elizabeth Van Steenwyk
Forgive the River, Forgive the Sky	230	(2)
Gloria Whelan
Teach and Lead	232	(19)
The Joy of Pi	232	(2)
David Blatner
Samuel Adams: The Father of American Independence	234	(2)
Dennis Fradin
Shimmy Shimmy Shimmy Like My Sister Kate: Looking at the Harlem Renaissance Through Poems	236	(2)
Nikki Giovanni
Princess Ka `iulani: Hope of a Nation, Heart of a People	238	(3)
Sharon Linnea
Harlem	241	(2)
Walter Dean Myers
Mine Eyes Have Seen	243	(2)
Ann Rinaldi
Thomas Jefferson: Architect of Democracy	245	(3)
John B. Severance
The Quakers	248	(3)
Jean Kinney Williams
Author/Title Index	251	(12)
Subject Index	263