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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 adult...

A rich brew of more than 40 traditional Brazilian tales-from creation stories and stories of enchantment to animal and trickster tales-draws on the varied cultural traditions of indigenous peoples, people of African descent, those of European (and particularly Portuguese) descent, and mixtures of these groups. The stories are retold by today's accomplished Brazilian storytellers. Also includes background information on the country and the tale...

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This new edition of Strauss's classic handbook will retain its place as an essential text for library students, an indispensable guide for practitioners in public, academic, and special libraries who deal with business inquiries, and a resource for entrepreneurs and business professionals.

Based on the highly acclaimed reviews of "American Reference Books Annual", "ARRB" features only those resources that have been recommended for purchase by small and medium-sized academic, public, or school libraries. Written by over 200 subject specialists, the reviews will help librarians quickly identify the best, most affordable, and most appropriate new reference materials in any given field. All reviewer comments - both positive and nega...

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This four-book series provides a complete program for those starting a read-aloud program in their classroom, in a school or public library, or at home.

Presents a selection of traditional Armenian tales gathered by the author on her travels, ranging from "The Invincible Rooster" and "The Donkey Who Swallowed the Moon" to "Seven Stars" and tales about Silly Pugi, the Armenian trickster. Stories are supplemented by background information on the Armenian people and their culture.

After Harry Potter, then what? Understanding and keeping current with speculative fiction is key to helping teens find books they will enjoy, and to keeping them reading. This guide organizes by genre, subgenre, and theme some 1, 400 titles of fantasy, science fiction and paranormal titles, most published within the last decade. Chapters cover such subgenres as epic fantasy, wizardry, romance, and mystery, which are further broken down by subg...

The Charleston Conference Proceedings 2005, documents what is arguably the most influential and highly thought of conferences in the U.S. library world. Always well attended and managed, the Conference attracts the leading figures of both the library world and the businesses that service libraries, including publishers--both paper and electronic--jobbers and aggregators. Its focus is collection management, but the topic is misleading now that ...

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Children need public library services. Even in small rural libraries, children's services are critical. This handbook gives practical advice on performing essential duties in the Children's Room of the public library. It includes chapters on how to help children find recreational reading, how to market the library, and useful websites.

The Curious Kids Digging for Answers: A Storybook Approach to Introducing Research Skills and its accompanying Educators' Guide, is the second in a set of three dealing with teaching the inquiry process to young learners (K-3). Mac, Information Detective, introduces the "during" stage of the research process in which students locate, collect, organize, and interpret their information in order to answer their questions. In this Case, students h...