Teen Genreflecting
Price: $45.00
ISBN13: 9781563089961
ISBN10: 1563089963
Book code: LU9963
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Hardcover
| 272 pages
Publication Date: 10/30/2003
Series: Genreflecting Advisory Series
DESCRIPTION
Help teens find the books they enjoy! This highly anticipated second edition of the best-selling Teen Genreflecting covers more than 2,000 popular titles in a wide variety of genres?perfect for selecting and recommending books to your teen audience. Most of the titles are new to this edition and have been published in the last decade. This edition also offers more explanatory text about the genres and includes plot summaries for most titles, reading levels, and awards. As with other titles in the Genreflecting Advisory Series, this guide organizes books by genre, subgenre, and theme, helping you to easily identify read-alikes and pinpoint specific books for each reading taste. Several new chapters reflect current publishing and reading trends. A detailed introduction and section on serving teen readers offer a wealth of information about teen genre fiction, advising teen readers, building your collection, and creating programs for teens.
Chapters include:
· Issues
· Contemporary
· Adventure
· Mystery and Suspense
· Fantasy
· Science Fiction
· Paranorma
· Historical Novels
· Multicultural Fiction
· Alternative Formats
· Christian Fiction
Additional resources about epic fantasy titles, working with teens, and genre fiction for reluctant readers are included in the appendix. Exceptionally well researched and organized, this guide will assist librarians, parents, teachers, and booksellers in suggesting engaging titles to teens. Grades 6-12.
More than 2,000 popular titles, most published in the last decade, are organized by genre, subgenre, and theme, helping to identify read-alikes and pinpoint specific books that appeal to specific readers.
REVIEWS
"[T]here are some fabulous reference books about horror for teens. Among the most indispensable guides. (Reviewed with Genreflecting: A Guide to Popular Reading Interests, Sixth Edition (2005); Hooked on Horror: A Guide to Reading Interests in Horror Fiction)"?
"Written for both expert and amateur young adult librarians, this clearly organized, easy-to-follow guide to literature for both middle and high school students makes it easy to answer the popular "I'm looking for a book on..." question. By using this resource, any readers' advisor can help a teen find an enjoyable and well-written book....In addition to its value as a readers' advisory guide, this book can serve as a key to building a core young adult fiction collection or as a guide to purchasing for a collection that is weak in some genres....Herald's resource is recommended for all libraries, especially those with smaller budgets."?
"Diana Tixier Herald targets the teen reader with various genres making it easier to find a fiction that will be of interest. This book presents a variety of topics that encourage every teen's interests in reading. It has various subjects to explore giving the reader a choice in selecting the perfect book."?
"Recommended as a timely resource for all youth librarians and ministers serving teens. Highly recommended as a resource for parents who want to explore books published for adult readers that are also popular with teens. Also helpful for home schooling parents and Christian school teachers who would like to recommend particular titles on subjects or genre themes."?
CONTENTS
Introduction
Serving Teen Readers
Issues
Contemporary
Adventure
Mystery and Suspense
Fantasy
Science Fiction
Paranormal
Historical Novels
Multicultural Fiction
Alternative Formats
Christian Fiction
Appendix I: Resources
Appendix II: Epic Fantasy
Appendix III: Genre Fiction for Reluctant Readers
Author/Title Index
Subject Index
DIANA TIXIER HERALD, former Popular-Materials Librarian, now writes, consults, and presents at conferences. She runs the non-profit Center for Adolescent Reading and has been a member of YALSA since 1987. She has served on the Fantasy Genre and Best Books for Young Adults committees, and the Quick Picks for Reluctant Readers Committee as both member and Chair. Currently, she is an elected member of the 2005 Printz Award committee, and also a YALSA Serving the Underserved trainer. Diana has spent the last two years camping on the edge of a canyon at 7,000 ft. altitude with her husband while building a house made of tires, bottles, cans, and earth, claiming it was the only way to extricate themselves from foster parenting after a dozen years and 70 or so teenagers. An avid life-long reader, she reads in excess of 400 books a year.