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Historical Fiction for Young Readers (Grades 4-8): An Introduction by John T. Gillespie 9781591586210
Booksplease Price: £71.85Enhance your historical fiction collection - and its popularity with readers and value in the classroom - with this wide-ranging guide. After discussion of various aspects of the genre (its... -
100 Most Popular Genre Fiction Authors: Biographical Sketches and Bibliographies by Bernard A. Drew 9781591581260
Booksplease Price: £66.77Genre authors, like genre fiction, often get no respect. Traditional biographical dictionaries tend to focus on established authors with literary credentials, and if genre writers are included, they... -
Igniting the Spark: Library Programs That Inspire High School Patrons by Roger Leslie 9781563087974
Booksplease Price: £37.81This latest collaboration in the Library Programs that Inspire series explores library media center events that target the high school age audience. Detailing particular methods to inspire high... -
On Location: Settings from Famous Children's Books by Jo'Anne Kelly 9781563080234
Booksplease Price: £19.96Introduce students to the settings of well-loved children's books with engaging selections and a variety of geography and extension activities from Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House in the Big... -
Creating Online Courses and Orientations: A Survival Guide by Pamela S. Bacon 9781591582892
Booksplease Price: £39.39Media specialists, particularly in large urban high schools, often cannot meet the individual instructional needs of every student. This book outlines an online unit that helps media specialists... -
Managing the Small College Library by Rachel Applegate 9781591589174
Booksplease Price: £61.04This book helps directors of small college libraries to plan, staff, and organize their facilities and make the right decisions to effectively contribute to their college's mission. The purpose of... -
Recommended Reference Books for Small and Medium-sized Libraries and Media Centers: 2009 Edition, Volume 29, 29th Edition by Shannon Graff Hysell 9781591588412
Booksplease Price: £76.81Based on the highly acclaimed reviews of American Reference Books Annual, RRB features only those resources that have been recommended for purchase by small and medium-sized academic, public, or... -
Boys and Literacy: Practical Strategies for Librarians, Teachers, and Parents by Elizabeth Knowles 9781591582120
Booksplease Price: £37.42Literacy and boys is currently a hot issue in education and the media. This new book by award winning authors Knowles and Smith explores the facts and research on the topic and furnishes annotations... -
Fifty Fabulous Fables: Beginning Readers Theatre by Suzanne I. Barchers 9781563085536
Booksplease Price: £26.90Mesmerize young children with these scripts based on well-loved fables from around the world. Tips for presentation, props, and delivery are included. Involve young children in reading and learning... -
Practical Steps to the Research Process for Middle School by Deborah B. Stanley 9781563087639
Booksplease Price: £36.13Stanley applies the same user-friendly format that made her popular guide to teaching the six steps of the research process to high school students such a success. In this new volume geared toward... -
Drawing Stories from around the World and a Sampling of European Handkerchief Stories by Anne Pellowski 9781591582229
Booksplease Price: £33.84Drawing a picture while telling a story is a tradition that can be found in cultures around the world-perhaps dating back to early cave paintings. No one knows when or where this unique form of... -
Teaming with Opportunity: Media Programs, Community Constituencies, and Technology by Lesley S. J. Farmer 9781563088780
Booksplease Price: £34.14A myriad of exciting opportunities for collaboration and networking await you! This guide shows you how to identify and optimize partnerships that benefit your library media center and help you build... -
Twice Upon a Time: A Guide to Fractured, Altered, and Retold Folk and Fairy Tales by Catharine R. Bomhold 9781591583905
Booksplease Price: £56.67Create dynamic story or theme units, booktalks, and other activities with this lively, comprehensive guide to more than 300 fractured, altered, and otherwise retold classic folk and fairy tales... -
People Skills for Library Managers: A Common Sense Guide for Beginners by Lucille Wilson 9781563081439
Booksplease Price: £25.91Increase your effectiveness as a manager by developing essential interpersonal skills with the creative approach offered in this practical reference. Designed for library school graduates,... -
Graphic Novels Beyond the Basics: Insights and Issues for Libraries by Martha Cornog 9781591584780
Booksplease Price: £41.36This study of the graphic novel and its growth in the library helps librarians utilize and develop this extraordinarily popular format in their library collections. What does the surge of popularity... -
Read the High Country: A Guide to Western Books and Films by John Mort 9781591581345
Booksplease Price: £67.39Assist readers in their book selections with this guide, which covers titles spanning the entire spectrum of the Western genre-from such classics as those written by Zane Grey, Louis L'Amour, and Max... -
Tales to Tickle Your Funny Bone: Humorous Tales from Around the World by Norma J. Livo 9781591585046
Booksplease Price: £28.88From tall tales, trickster tales, and noodlehead stories to hoaxes, urban legends, riddles and songs-here are more than 70 stories from around the world and across the centuries that you can pull out... -
Readers Theatre for African American History by Jeff Sanders 9781591586937
Booksplease Price: £37.42Readers Theatre for African American History features a collection of twenty scripts covering a comprehensive span of history from Africa before the transatlantic slave trade through current events... -
Abraham Lincoln and His Era: Using the American Memory Project to Teach with Primary Sources by Bobbi Ireland 9781591589020
Booksplease Price: £33.49Utilizing primary sources from the Library of Congress website, this unique classroom resource presents ready-to-use lesson plans, analysis tools, and rubrics based on Abraham Lincoln and his era... -
Beyond the Bean Seed: Gardening Activities for Grades K6 by Nancy Allen Jurenka 9781563083464
Booksplease Price: £30.18Have your students experience the thrill of life and growth through gardening, book-sharing, and other activities. Lessons integrate gardening, children's literature, and language arts through... -
Information Literacy: What Does It Look Like in the School Library Media Center? by Ann Marlow Riedling 9781591582014
Booksplease Price: £35.83This book is designed for courses that prepare college and university students for undergraduate or graduate degrees in school library media. It is also written as a helpful instructional manual or... -
Classic Writings on Instructional Technology: Volume 2 by Donald P. Ely 9781563088544
Booksplease Price: £66.58Extending the purpose of the first volume to writings of the 1970s and 1980s, this new work provides a convenient collection of seminal papers that are considered to be foundations in the field of... -
Treasures from Europe: Stories and Classroom Activities by Flora Joy 9781563089633
Booksplease Price: £26.90This fabulous collection of nine European folktales, presented by well-known storytellers with European roots, makes a perfect teaching tool to help educators, librarians, and storytellers acquaint... -
Voyage to Discovery: An Activity Guide to the Age of Exploration by Diane P. Ramsay 9781563080630
Booksplease Price: £27.20Arranged chronologically, this resource book traces the history of world exploration from the nomads of ancient times to today's exploration of outer space. Games, songs, dramatics, writing projects,... -
Active Reading: Activities for Librarians and Teachers by Beth McGuire 9781591586661
Booksplease Price: £41.78Teacher Librarian Beth McGuire provides librarians and teachers with reproducible activities to encourage students to think about, discuss and provide a purpose for reading current star reviewed and... -
Using the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting by Timothy W. Cole 9781591582809
Booksplease Price: £40.79Online scholarly publishing is revolutionizing scholarly communication, and the Open Archives Initiative (OAI) is among those protocols leading the way in the transformation process. OAI enables... -
The Guy-Friendly YA Library: Serving Male Teens by Rollie James Welch 9781591582700
Booksplease Price: £40.79Re-design and upgrade your collection and services to attract male teens, as well as females, to the library. With this guide, you'll learn about reading habits of young men, male-friendly collection... -
Library Programs Online: Possibilities and Practicalities of Web Conferencing by Thomas A. Peters 9781591583493
Booksplease Price: £40.79Meet your library patrons where they increasingly live and work-online. This guide introduces you to the exciting possibilities online programs offer, and shows you how to set up online programs in... -
Making Flexible Access and Flexible Scheduling Work Today by Karen Browne Ohlrich 9781563088582
Booksplease Price: £36.44Flexible scheduling and flexible access have been around for years, but students in many school systems have yet to reap their benefits. Full of fresh perspectives, this easy-to-follow guide gives... -
Building Blocks: Building a Parent-Child Literacy Program at Your Library by Sharon Snow 9781591584711
Booksplease Price: £33.84Librarians can stay relevant in the twenty-first century when they build on those areas where they have excelled. Service to children is one of those, and a hot topic is emergent literacy, the... -
Make Mine a Mystery II: A Reader's Guide to Mystery and Detective Fiction by Gary Warren Niebuhr 9781598845891
Booksplease Price: £66.27A valuable reference and collection development tool designed to assist readers' advisors in helping readers find modern "detective" mysteries they will enjoy. In this follow-up and companion to the... -
Leadership Issues in the Information Literate School Community by James Henri 9781591581840
Booksplease Price: £43.76Editors James Henri and Marlene Asselin view the Information Literate School Community (ILSC) as being international. This edited volume of essays from teacher librarians and library educators around... -
Graphic Novels for Young Readers: A Genre Guide for Ages 4-14 by Nathan Herald 9781598843958
Booksplease Price: £51.51This genre guide to graphic novel reading interests helps librarians and teachers choose titles appropriate for children and 'tweens. Librarians and teachers know how important graphic novels can be... -
The Children's and Young Adult Literature Handbook: A Research and Reference Guide by John T. Gillespie 9781563089497
Booksplease Price: £61.93John Gillespie, a respected authority on children's literature, has compiled this invaluable work to serve as a selection guide and collection development aid for librarians, as well as a navigation... -
Content Area Reading, Writing, and Storytelling: A Dynamic Tool for Improving Reading and Writing Across the Curriculum through Oral Language Development by Brian "Fox" Ellis 9781591587019
Booksplease Price: £40.68Through a balance of pedagogy and practice, Ellis gives teachers the skills and confidence they need to become better storytellers. The book includes dozens of great stories and classroom-tested... -
Dubester's U.S. Census Bibliography with SuDocs Class Numbers and Indexes by Kevin L. Cook 9781563082955
Booksplease Price: £82.27Gain access to the vast number of historical statistics contained in census publications with this guide. Intended to increase the usefulness of Henry J. Dubester's standard bibliography of... -
The Undergraduate's Companion to Children's Writers and Their Web Sites by Jennifer Stevens 9781591580973
Booksplease Price: £33.84This volume, one in the Undergraduate Companion series, focuses on American and British writers for children and young adults and is addressed to students in both English and Education classes. It... -
At the Crossroads: Librarians on the Information Superhighway by Herbert S. White 9781563081651
Booksplease Price: £76.11White's previously published articles and speeches (most presented after 1989) identify and address critical issues that range from library education, funding, and leadership to technology, ethics,... -
The Maker Cookbook: Recipes for Children's and 'Tween Library Programs by Cindy Wall 9781610696616
Booksplease Price: £40.10The Maker Movement is hot, and librarians are eager to participate. Even if you feel restricted by budget, staff, or space, this step-by-step guide will help you turn your library into a creativity... -
For the Love of Reading: Guide to K-8 Reading Promotions by Nancy L. Baumann 9781610691895
Booksplease Price: £41.36This insightful book reviews the current research on literacy programming, examines the latest standards for strengthening reading skills, and provides educators, families, and caregivers methods for...