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Neal-Schuman
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Part I-Tips That
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Foreword to Part I By Gail Giles |
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1. Who are Reluctant Readers? |
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1.1 Who are Reluctant Teen Readers? |
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1.2 What are the Characteristics of Dependent Readers? |
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1.3 Some people equate reluctant readers with male readers. Why is that and is it true? |
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1.4 Are there specific reasons that girls in particular don’t choose to read? |
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1.5 Can an Honor student be a reluctant reader? |
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2. Why are They Reluctant to Read? |
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2.1 Why Should Teens Read for Pleasure? |
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2.2 Why Don’t Teens Like to Read? |
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2.2a Survey |
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2.2b Teens Speak Out |
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2.2c Interview |
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2.2d Findings |
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2.2e Research Reports |
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2.3 What are the Other Factors that
Explain why |
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2.4 What are the Four Levels of Reading? |
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3. How Can We Help? |
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3.1 What’s the Single Reluctant Teen Readers? |
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3.2 What are the ten top techniques for teachers—which librarians can support—that work with reluctant readers? |
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3.3 How do We Guide Reluctant Teen Readers Through Required |
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3.4 What are Top Techniques for Librarians that Work with Reluctant Teen Readers? |
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3.5 Is the Accelerated Reader a Good or Bad Thing in Promoting Reluctant Readers? |
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3.6 Should libraries plan programs such as summer reading clubs, which offer incentives for reading? |
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3.7 What role can/should parents play in moving reluctant readers? |
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3.8 Are there any counter productive strategies that librarians or teachers engage in when trying to reach reluctant readers? In other words, what doesn’t work? |
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3.9 How do we engage reluctant readers to talk with teachers/librarians about their reading? |
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3.10 How can teachers/librarians use tools like Novelist to encourage reluctant readers? |
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4. What Kinds of Books Work? |
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4.1 What Will Reluctant Readers Read? |
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4.2 Ten Reasons that Young Adults Like NonFiction |
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4.3 Ten Reasons that Young Adults Like Fiction |
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4.4 What are Qualities in a Book that will Hook
Readers? |
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4.5 What’s the role of intellectual freedom? |
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4.6 Does a Thin One Always Readers? |
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4.7 Why Don’t any Teens-Not Just Reluctant Readers—Read the Classics? |
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4.8 What Classic Titles are Accessible to Even
the Readers? |
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4.9 What’s the pull of Harry Potter? Did Rowling really hook non- readers and, if so, how? |
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4.10 How do we motivate reluctant readers up the ladder from easy reading to the more challenging material? |
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Voices from the field |
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Part II-Titles That
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Foreword to Part III by |
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Turnaround Titles—57
Varieties of Great |
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Fiction |
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Science Fiction and Fantasy |
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Supernatural |
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Humor |
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Sports |
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Journals and Letters |
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Realistic Problems |
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Short Stories |
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Relationships |
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Fiction Series |
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Non-Fiction |
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Books that Read Like |
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Celebrities and Famous Folk |
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Sports |
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Poetry |
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Their Own Voices—Poetry and Writing by Teenagers |
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Changing Bodies |
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True Stories |
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Art and Drawing |
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Astrology |
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Crafts and DIY Projects |
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Beauty |
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Selected Nonfiction Series |
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Graphic Novels and Comics |
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Superheroes |
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History |
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Humor |
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Science Fiction and Fantasy |
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Science |
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Sports |
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Romance |
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Teen Social Issues |
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Other Lists |
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Best Books and Best Quick Picks from YALSA |
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The Perfect Tens List |
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Book/ |
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Best New Adult Fiction Books for Reluctant Teen Readers |
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Best Literature Books for Reluctant Readers |
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Best Young Adult Literature for Reluctant Readers |
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Best Forty |
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Best Twenty-Five Comic Books for Reluctant Readers |
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Best Twenty-Five Books for
Struggling Readers |
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Best 100 Books for Boys of All Ages |
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Twenty Children’s Books for Reluctant Readers |
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Readalikes |
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Part III-Tools That
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Booktalking 101 |
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Four Basic Booktalk Styles |
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Sample Booktalks-50 Greatest Hits |
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Reading Survey |
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Bibliography |
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Afterword by Alex Flinn |
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About the Authors |
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