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A guide to help readers' advisors serve teens. Offers techniques to connect with teens on their own terms, provides tips on creating a positive advisory experience, and includes "sure bets" lists, thematic reading lists, and sources of reviews.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Booth, Heather, 1978-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chicago : American Library Association, 2007.
Series:ALA readers' advisory series.
Subjects:
Readers' advisory services > United States.
Libraries and teenagers > United States.
Teenagers > Books and reading > United States.
Young adult literature > Bibliography.
Bibliothèques > Services de référence > États-Unis.
Bibliothèques et adolescents > États-Unis.
Adolescents > Livres et lecture > États-Unis.
Littérature pour jeunes adultes > Bibliographie.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Books & Reading.
Libraries and teenagers.
Readers' advisory services.
Teenagers > Books and reading.
Young adult literature.
United States.
Bibliographies.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • A brief history of teens and reading in libraries
  • Why teens need to read, why they want to read
  • What is readers' advisory, and why is readers' advisory for teens different?
  • Tips for the generalist : what to do if you have not read teen fiction since you were a teen
  • Opening the readers' advisory interview
  • Detecting interest
  • Articulating appeal
  • Readers' advisory for homework assignments
  • Readers' advisory by proxy
  • Beyond lists : using resources to move past award winners
  • Creating resource lists for staff
  • Indirect readers' advisory and marketing.

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