| Description |
xvi, 341 pages ; 24 cm |
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A Brief Guide to Booktalking -- 1. Teenage Life and Concerns -- Anderson, Laurie, Speak -- Block, Francesca Lia, Baby Be-Bop -- Brooks, Bruce, All That Remains -- Cabot, Meg, The Princess Diaries -- Cormier, Robert, Tenderness -- Dessen, Sarah, Dreamland -- Flinn, Alex, Breathing Underwater -- Kerr, M.E., What Became of Her -- Koertge, Ron, The Brimstone Journals -- Lynch, Chris, Freewill -- Naylor, Phyllis, The Grooming of Alice -- Randle, Kristen D., Breaking Rank -- Rennison, Louise, Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging -- Wittlinger, Ellen, Hard Love -- 2. Social and Family Problems -- Bauer, Joan, Hope Was Here -- Cole, Brock, The Facts Speak for Themselves -- Coleman, Evelyn, Born in Sin -- Cooney, Caroline B., Driver's Ed -- Koss, Amy Goldman, The Girls -- Mazer, Norma Fox, When She Was Good -- Myers, Walter Dean, Monster -- Na, An, A Step from Heaven -- Paulsen, Gary, The Beet Fields: Memories of a Sixteenth Summer -- Peck, Richard, A Year Down Yonder -- Strasser, Todd, Give a Boy a Gun -- Tan, Amy, The Joy Luck Club -- Trueman, Terry, Stuck in Neutral -- Wolff, Virginia Euwer, Make Lemonade -- 3. Mystery and Adventure -- Clancy, Tom, The Hunt for Red October -- Clark, Mary Higgins, Before I Say Goodbye -- Creech, Sharon, The Wanderer -- Cross, Gillian, Tightrope -- Dahl, Michael, The Horizontal Man -- Fleischman, Paul, A Fate Totally Worse Than Death -- Grisham, John, The Summons -- Hobbs, Will, Far North -- Konigsburg, E.L., Silent to the Bone -- Mikaelsen, Ben, Touching Spirit Bear -- Qualey, Marsha, Close to a Killer -- Zindel, Paul, Rats -- 4. Science Fiction and Fantasy -- Almond, David, Kit's Wilderness -- Barron, T.A., The Lost Years of Merlin -- Card, Orson Scott, Ender's Shadow -- Colfer, Eoin, Artemis Fowl -- Cooper, Susan, King of Shadows -- Crichton, Michael, Timeline -- Dickinson, Peter, The Ropemaker -- Jacques, Brian, Redwall -- Jones, Diane Wynne, Dark Lord of Derkholm -- King, Stephen, Carrie -- Lowry, Lois, Gathering Blue -- Marsden, John, Tomorrow, When the War Began -- McKinley, Robin, Rose Daughter -- Nix, Garth, Sabriel -- Pierce, Tamora, Daja's Book -- Pullman, Philip, The Golden Compass -- Voigt, Cynthia, Elske -- 5. Historical Fiction and Other Lands -- Avi, Beyond the Western Sea, Book One: Escape from Home -- Bagdasarian, Adam, Forgotten Fire -- Frazier, Charles, Cold Mountain -- Hesse, Karen, Stowaway -- Karr, Kathleen, The Boxer -- Lawrence, Iain, The Smugglers -- Levitin, Sonia, Escape from Egypt -- Mazer, Harry, A Boy at War: A Novel of Pearl Harbor -- Park, Linda Sue, A Single Shard -- Rinaldi, Ann, Hang a Thousand Trees with Ribbons: The Story of Phyllis Wheatley -- Staples, Suzanne Fisher, Shiva's Fire -- Taylor, Mildred D., The Land -- Temple, Frances, The Ramsay Scallop -- 6. Sports in Fact and Fiction -- Bachrach, Susan D., The Nazi Olympics -- Colton, Larry, Counting Coup: A True Story of Basketball and Honor on the Little Big Horn -- Crutcher, Chris, Whale Talk -- Deuker, Carl, On the Devil's Court -- Jenkins, A.M., Damage -- Remnick, David, King of the World -- Sweeney, Joyce, Players -- Wallace, Rich, Playing Without the Ball -- Weaver, Will, Farm Team -- 7. Biography and General Nonfiction -- Alexander, Caroline, The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition -- Aronson, Marc, Sir Walter Ralegh and the Quest for El Dorado -- Bober, Natalie, Abigail Adams: Witness to a Revolution -- Fradin, Dennis Brindell, and Judith Bloom Fradin, Ida B. Wells: Mother of the Civil Rights Movement -- Freedman, Russell, Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery -- Krakauer, Jon, Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster -- Lobel, Anita, No Pretty Pictures -- Marrin, Albert, Sitting Bull and His World -- Murphy, Jim, Blizzard! The Storm That Changed America -- 8. Guidance and Health -- Abner, Allison, and Linda Villarosa, Finding Our Way: The Teen Girls' Survival Guide -- Canfield, Jack, Mark Victor Hansen, and Kimberly Kirberger, Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul: 101 Stories of Life, Love, and Learning -- Packer, Alex, Bringing Up Parents: The Teenager's Handbook -- Pollack, William S., with Todd Shuster, Real Boys' Voices: Rescuing Our Sons from the Myths of Boyhood -- 9. Challenging Adult Novels -- Buck, Pearl S., The Good Earth -- Chevalier, Tracy, Girl with a Pearl Earring -- Dickens, Charles, Oliver Twist -- Haruf, Kent, Plainsong -- Hurston, Zora Neale, Their Eyes Were Watching God -- Lamb, Wally, She's Come Undone -- Updike, John, Gertrude and Claudius -- Wright, Bill, Sunday You Learn to Box. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Subject |
Young adult literature -- Stories, plots, etc.
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Book talks.
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Teenagers -- United States -- Books and reading.
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| Added Author |
Naden, Corinne J.
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| ISBN |
1563089211 alkaline paper |
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