Quick and Popular Reads for Teens

✍ Scribed by Pam Spencer Holley

• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 241
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

For more than 10 years YALSA has produced two annual lists, "Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults" and "Quick Picks for Reluctant Readers," consisting of recommended reading targeted at young adults who are not avid readers. Quick and Popular Reads for Teens compiles bibliographic information about the books honored by these two selected lists. This one-stop reference source includes: Essays written by young adult experts An introductory chapter for each list explaining the selection criteria Lists of the honored titles including brief annotations, publisher information, and subject/thematic descriptions A chapter on programming and display ideasMake choosing titles for teens fun, quick, and easy with this one-of-a-kind resource!

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
......Page 4
Preface
......Page 6
Acknowledgments
......Page 8
Introduction: YALSA, Teens, and Reading......Page 10
Quick Picks for Reluctant Readers: Origin, History, and Committee Processes......Page 18
Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults: Origin, History, and Committee Processes......Page 32
Programming, Displays, and Readers' Advisory
......Page 48
Nonfiction Annotations: Quick Picks for Reluctant Readers and Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults, 1999–2008......Page 60
Fiction Annotations: Quick Picks for Reluctant Readers and Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults, 1999–2008......Page 110
Theme-Oriented Booklists......Page 198
Index
......Page 216