Genre Talks for Teens

Promote some of today''s best and most popular YA books-both fiction and nonfiction- with these ready-to-use booktalks and creative learning extension ideas. Whether you are a public or school librarian teacher or teen group leader you''ll find this guide helpful in motivating teens to read and keeping them engaged. It features background information on the books booktalks and related activities for more than 100 titles released between 2003 and 2008 but focusing especially on those published in the past 3 years. New to this volume are indicators for titles with strong appeal to teen boys and teen girls as well as those that cross genders in their appeal. Grades 6-12.