Booktalks and more : motivating teens to read /

Schall provides more than 100 booktalks for titles published between 1997 and 2001. The majority are fiction, but there is a good selection of nonfiction as well. The author introduces each one with a clear, concise summary, followed by a short booktalk with just enough information to whet teens' appetites. The "Related Activities" section that follows each one will be most useful to teachers, especially those who teach English or the social sciences. The final section, "Related Works," is an excellent resource for reader's advisory as well as for further booktalking ideas. Following Laurie Halse Anderson's Speak, for instance, Schall refers readers to an interview with the author published in Voya, a nonfiction book about rape, and two fiction titles that deal with sexual assault and abuse. School librarians will find this volume particularly relevant, especially if they are working with teachers to integrate more YA literature into the curriculum, but public librarians will benefit almost as much from the wealth of suggestions.-Miranda Doyle, San Francisco Public Library (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.