Genre Talks for Teens : Booktalks and More for Every Teen Reading Interest

by Schall, Lucy

• ISBN13: 9781591587439
• ISBN10: 1591587433
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-04-30
• Publisher: Libraries Unltd Inc

Summary

Get teens excited about reading by making connections with their reading interests and the genres they love.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Introduction	p. xv
Issues	p. 1
Coping with Others' Choices	p. 1
Twisted	p. 1
Mistik Lake	p. 4
A Friend at Midnight	p. 6
Not Like You	p. 9
Bang!	p. 11
Lush	p. 14
Bullyville	p. 16
Facing Our Own Choices	p. 19
Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You	p. 19
The Loud Silence of Francine Green	p. 21
Just Listen	p. 24
Godless	p. 27
Invisible	p. 29
Becoming Chloe	p. 32
Repossessed	p. 35
Freak	p. 37
Contemporary	p. 41
Learning about Love	p. 41
One Whole and Perfect Day	p. 41
An Abundance of Katherines	p. 44
Kissing the Bee	p. 46
Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie	p. 49
What They Found: Love on 145th Street	p. 51
Small Steps	p. 53
The Wednesday Wars	p. 56
Going Going	p. 59
Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac	p. 61
Playing the Game	p. 64
Love, Football, and Other Contact Sports	p. 64
Beanball	p. 67
Slam	p. 69
Game	p. 71
Rebound	p. 74
Big Slick	p. 77
Heat	p. 79
Notes from the Midnight Driver	p. 82
Adventure/Survival	p. 85
Flight	p. 85
Being	p. 85
Copper Sun	p. 87
Chase	p. 90
Safe House	p. 93
Runaway	p. 95
Fight	p. 98
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier	p. 98
The Braid	p. 100
Pigboy	p. 103
The White Darkness	p. 105
Sold	p. 108
Captives	p. 111
Quest	p. 113
The Last Knight: A Knight and Rogue Novel	p. 113
Airman	p. 116
The Caretaker Trilogy	p. 119
The Golden Dream of Carlo Chuchio	p. 123
Mystery/Suspense	p. 127
Contemporary	p. 127
Candy	p. 127
Something Rotten	p. 130
Surrender	p. 133
The Unmaking of Duncan Veerick	p. 135
First Boy	p. 138
Historical	p. 141
The Traitors' Gate	p. 141
Feathered	p. 144
The Mysterious Edge of the Heroic World	p. 146
Black Duck	p. 149
The Invention of Hugo Cabret	p. 152
Paranormal	p. 154
Darkside	p. 154
The Road of the Dead	p. 157
Dreamhunter Duet	p. 160
Hell Phone	p. 164
Fantasy/Science Fiction/Paranormal	p. 167
Discovering Our Place	p. 167
The Beast of Noor	p. 167
Rash	p. 169
Freaks: Alive, on the Inside!	p. 172
Shapeshifter's Quest	p. 175
Keturah and Lord Death	p. 178
The Navigator: Chosen to Save the World	p. 180
The Inheritance Cycle	p. 183
Retelling an Old Story	p. 189
Wabi: A Hero's Tale	p. 189
Enter Three Witches: A Story of Macbeth	p. 191
Book of a Thousand Days	p. 194
Song of the Sparrow	p. 197
The Book of Mordred	p. 199
Choosing and Achieving	p. 202
The Land of the Silver Apples	p. 202
Mouse Guard: Fall 1152	p. 205
The Will of the Empress	p. 207
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows	p. 210
Storm Thief	p. 213
History	p. 217
Struggling	p. 217
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing: Traitor of the Nation; Volume I: The Pox Party	p. 217
The Book of Lost Things	p. 220
Underground	p. 222
Blue	p. 225
Mendel's Daughter: A Memoir	p. 227
Growing	p. 230
Runner	p. 230
Let Sleeping Dogs Lie	p. 233
A True and Faithful Narrative	p. 235
Summer of the War	p. 238
The Book Thief	p. 241
Shaping	p. 243
Geronimo	p. 243
Jane Addams: Champion of Democracy	p. 246
The Real Benedict Arnold	p. 249
We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball	p. 252
The Wall: Growing up behind the Iron Curtain	p. 255
Multiple Cultures	p. 259
Identity	p. 259
Does My Head Look Big in This?	p. 259
On Thin Ice	p. 262
Kampung Boy	p. 264
Harlem Summer	p. 267
Integration	p. 269
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian	p. 269
Diamonds in the Shadow	p. 272
Healing Water: A Hawaiian Story	p. 275
Off-Color	p. 278
American Born Chinese	p. 280
Conflict	p. 283
Tasting the Sky: A Palestinian Childhood	p. 283
I Am a Taxi	p. 285
Sacred Leaf	p. 287
Child of Dandelions	p. 289
Trouble	p. 292
Index	p. 297
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