Booktalks, Bookwalks, and Read-Alouds Promoting the Best New Children's Literature Across the Elementary Curriculum

Encourge and middle school readers to read quality titles pertaining to subjects from across the curriculum. Featuring recently published (1998-2001) fiction and nonfiction titles, these books are either award winners, written by award-winning authors, positively reviewed in national reading advocacy journals, or representative of an emerging trend in children's literature. Each booktalk entry consists of bibliographic data, a plot summary, a short booktalk, curriculum connections, and identification of related books. TOPICS INSIDE: Relationships, coming of age, sports, art, music, dance, holidays, adventure, science, math, social studies, and others.Blass, Rosanne J. is the author of 'Booktalks, Bookwalks, and Read-Alouds Promoting the Best New Children's Literature Across the Elementary Curriculum' with ISBN 9781563088100 and ISBN 156308810X.