Catherine Barr

John Thomas Gillespie

Evaluate your young teen literature collection, select new titles, and create thematic and genre-oriented reading lists with this highly affordable and authoritative guide.

Grades 6-9

Best Books for Middle School and Junior High Readers

Offers thematically arranged reviews and recommendations for children's books up to the sixth grade, each of which includes an annotation, review citations, and bibliographic data.

Preschool Through Grade 6

Best Books for Children

Contains plots and related material on 72 books generally suitable for children between the ages of 11 and 16.

A Guide for Teachers and Librarians

More Juniorplots

The Junior High School Paperback Collection

An indispensable selection guide for developing the children's literature collection, this 7th edition provides expert annotations on nearly 9,000 new titles published through early 2001.

Diana L. Spirt

Diana Lembo

Designed to serve as an aid to teachers and librarians this volume presents a developmental reading program that includes plot summaries and thematic material for all recommended books

A Guide for the Middle Grades

Introducing Books

This supplement to the 8th edition of the classic guide to children's books includes more than 5,000 in-print titles recommended for children aged 5 to 12. The thematic organisation, concise annotations, and complete bibliographic data and review citations make this volume equally useful for reader's advisory, research, and collection development.

Preschool Through Grade 6. Supplement to the seventh edition

Corinne J. Naden

Provides an annotated list of over eleven thousand of the best children's books published

Ralph J. Folcarelli

Guides to Collection Development for Children and Young Adults

Provides an annotated list of useful fiction and nonfiction, published in paperback, for students in grades one through six.

The Elementary School Paperback Collection

Provides an annotated list of more than four thousand paperbacks, including fiction, poetry, and books on religion, art, crafts, sports, science, music, history, and education.

The Senior High School Paperback Collection

Everything you need to create compelling booktalks for teens in junior and senior high.

A Booktalk Guide to Use with Readers Ages 12-18

Teenplots

A guide to preparing book talks for young people, ages twelve to sixteen. Presents plot analysis, thematic material, book talk material, and additional suggestions on a variety of titles for each of eight themes of goals of adolescent reading.

A Book Talk Guide for Use with Readers, Ages 12-16

Juniorplots 4

Briefly annotated citations of some 10,000 books, arranged by subject and indexed by author, title, and subject/grade level. The books, all in print as of 1990, received favorable notices in more than one review journal appearing between January 1985 and September 1990. Aimed at students in grades 10-12, this bibliography is the third in the Bowker trilogy, which includes Best books for children and ... for junior high readers.

Best Books for Senior High Readers

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

Preschool Through Grade 6. Supplement to the eighth edition

Presents an introduction to historical fiction for readers in grades four through eight, listing eighty titles of works for this age group and providing plot summaries, characters, historical background, and selected passages for discussion.

An Introduction

Historical Fiction for Young Readers (grades 4-8)

Christine Bell Gilbert

An annotated listing of about 11,000 titles for children through the sixth grade.

Best Books for Children, Preschool Through the Middle Grades

Put a wealth of information about Newbery award winners and honor books (1922-2001) at your fingertips. You'll find detailed plot summaries, booktalks, updated information about the winning titles and authors, suggestions for read-alikes, and ideas for introducing the books to young readers.

John Thomas Gillespie

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