Product Description: Learn how to sponsor a successful, student-led book club for grades K through 12 that is fun, easy-to-implement, and encourages reading.• Bibliographic lists of works cited after each chapter• An index of authors, titles, and reading activities by age • Figures are included with selected activities and reading game...read more

Product Description: Volume 4 of this much-loved, practical series provides not only a hefty list of tempting titles for students, but selling points to help educators and librarians promote the books about students. The book contains multiple indexes to make it easy to find appropriate titles, suggestions to encourage reluctant readers, information about award-winners, details about authors and related titles, and alerts to controversial materials such as profanity or sexual situations...read more

Product Description: Now the top 100 books from the booktalking series in one volume! Booktalks are recommendations of books, designed to entice students to read. Award-winning titles from Daphne Du Maurier and Ernest Hemingway to Malcolm X and more. Grades 6-8. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: -- Share your love of reading with your students-- Discover gems that answer "What can I read that's good?" and "What else is like what I just read?"Promote reading to the reluctant and guide reading for the voracious reader with these collections of compelling booktalks!Here, busy librarians and teachers get a brief "commercial" for each book, with a catchy beginning and a cliffhanger ending...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Offers over 300 booktalks geared toward getting reluctant readers 'hooked' on books, arranged by level and indexed by author, title, subject, and genre.