Product Description: This invaluable guide enables librarians as well as patrons and teachers to identify the best books for high school readers out of the thousands published each year.• Supplies concise, lively annotations and review citations on everything from literary classics and non-fiction titles to graphic novels• Provides quick access to information for both library staff and patrons with thematic, curriculum-oriented organization and clear subject breakdowns• Indicates which books are also available in audio format and in eBook format―valuable information for collection development and reading specialists• Identifies award-winning and series title...read more

Product Description: Identifying outstanding fiction and nonfiction titles, this practical book allows educators to find engaging books for students in grades six to nine that will help turn them into lifelong readers and learners.• Supplies concise, lively annotations and review citations on everything from literary classics and non-fiction titles to graphic novels• Provides quick access to information for both library staff and patrons with thematic, curriculum-oriented organization and clear subject breakdowns• Indicates which books are also available in audio format and in eBook format―valuable information for collection development and reading specialists• Identifies award-winning and series title...read more

Product Description: Librarians and teachers will find this guide invaluable for introducing young readers to various typical family situations through contemporary and classic literature.• Detailed discussions of 44 representative works• Extensive annotated bibliography of approximately 1500 titles comprising important fiction dealing with the family • Index organized by author, title, and subjec...read more

Product Description: Bring your children's collection up to date with this supplement to the eighth edition of the classic guide that includes nearly 4,500 new titles that helps you to identify the right books for your patrons and to create theme- and genre-based reading lists...read more

Presents a reading guide and selection tool for reading material for grades six to nine, providing annotations, ISBNs, physical descriptions, prices, reading levels, and review citations.

Presents a reading guide and selection tool for high school reading material, providing annotations, ISBNs, physical descriptions, prices, reading levels, and review citations.

Tells how to create book talks featuring young adult novels, and covers one hundred titles, giving background information on each book and author, a list of main characters, a plot summary, critical comments, and key themes.

Discusses the Newbery and Printz awards, and gives information on each year's winners, including a plot summary, a list of characters and themes, background on the author, topics for discussions, and related books.

Product Description: Award-winning author and literature expert John T. Gillespie and author Corrine Naden treat you to lively and detailed commentary on 100 of the most recent, popular, and often-read books for young adults at the junior and senior high school level...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Provides an annotated list of over 6,000 books for children arranged by subject, including literature, biography, the arts, history, geography, government, careers, science, and recreation.

Lists titles from 1922 to 1996 with plot summaries, theme discussion, passages for booktalking, and titles for follow-up reading (view table of contents)

Over 10,000 entries provide information on books suitable for readers in grades seven through ten, covering both fiction and nonfiction and arranged by subject area.

Offers reviews and recommendations of over 25,000 titles for children, and includes brief annotations, bibliographic data, and review citations.

Provides an annotated list of books for children arranged by subject, including literature, biography, the arts, history, geography, business, government, careers, and science. (view table of contents)

Offers 600 entries for bibliographies

Describes over two thousand characters from 232 literary works from authors of primarily English-speaking nations

Product Description: Intended to enhance collection development in school, public, and college libraries, this volume lists and annotates approximately 1,500 significant bibliographies published from 1985 through 1993, with some earlier but still useful publications...read more

Product Description: Find the right books to prepare persuasive, inspiring book talks with this successor to Introducing Books, Introducing More Books and Introducing Bookplots 3. Middleplots 4 details 80 books grouped under 8 subject areas such as Adventure and Mystery Stories and contains special cumulative indexes to the titles profiled in earlier editions...read more

Product Description: Detailed entries for 80 contemporary fiction and nonfiction books are arranged by genre and provide: plot summary with all important incidents and characters thematic material covering primary and secondary themes book talk material: suggested passages to begin discussion additional selections of over 500 related books listings of biographic sources about the author Includes three cumulative indexes to earlier volumes in the series in addition to three indexes for the current contents...read more

Provides an annotated listing of recommended reading material for students in grades ten through twelve

Provides an annotated listing of recommended reading material for students in grades seven through nine

Product Description: Combining literary criticism with a best books listing, Seniorplots groups 1,050 titles under a dozen themes and genres popular with this age group. It then highlights 80 of the very best contemporary fiction and nonfiction works, including classics, plays, and biographies.

Presents summaries of eighty fiction and nonfiction titles for readers, ages twelve to sixteen, with suggestions to use in motivating them to read for pleasure