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I love a good, on-the-spot booktalk while wandering the stacks with a teen, but when asked for formal booktalks, I always worry about keeping the attention of teens sitting for 30 minutes or more. My new favorite way to keep those teens involved while introducing them to awesome teen fiction? A booktalk version […]
Booktalk This: Teary Reads
Booktalks, Jodi Picoult, John Green, Lurlene McDaniel, My Sister's Keeper, Patrick Ness, Teary Reads, The Fault in Our Stars, The Knife of Never Letting Go, Where the Red Fern Grows
|As a teen (way back in the early 1990s), my friends and I sighed over a story about one our crushes when he was in 4th grade: that was the year his teacher read Where the Red Fern Grows to him and his classmates (including our storyteller). The whole class was overwhelmed by that books’ […]
5 Minute Booktalks: NaNoWriMo Edition by Kearsten
Alex Flinn, Booktalks, Breathing Underwater, Chris Baty, Fiction written by Teens, NaNoWriMo, Pembas Song, Tamora Pierce, Terrier, Writing
|Did you, like me, start November with a bright and shiny resolution to write 50,000 words of a novel in thirty days for National Novel Writing Month? If so, I certainly hope you were more successful than my almost 7,000 words. November got too crazy a month for me, and I ended up abandoning my […]
Booktalks are a great way to get teens reading. Here is an overview of booktalking for you – you’ll want to check out several of the links provided there, including those to Nancy Keane and Joni Richards Bodart, masters of the fine art. As part of a new regular feature, tween/teen librarian from Arizona Kearsten […]
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