Offers a focus on contemporary multicultural fiction, history, and memoirs. Highlights award winning, well-written fiction.

Presents a resource containing 101 booktalks on multicultural fiction and history meant to help young readers achieve the goals of No Child Left Behind, improve progress, and become better citizens.

Collection of stories, poems, essays, and speeches from a wide range of writers reflecting the diversity of American culture.

By drawing on a broad range of contemporary American literature, the book's one hundred stories, poems, plays, and essays portray American life in all its variety and complication. -Pref.

Booktalking Nonfiction: 200 Sure-Fire Winners for Middle and High School Readers will provide an introduction to selecting and writing booktalks for nonfiction books with a focus on unique informational texts and biographies and autobiographies. A booktalk is a summary of a book presented in a way that would interest someone in reading the book described. Why non-fiction? Because the Common Core Standards Initiative, which most states have adopted, requires that 70% of the materials students read be from the category of informational texts it is especially important to focus on nonfiction when sharing books with students. Here’s everything you need to do just that. Chapters cover selecting, writing, preparing, and presenting booktalks, special tips for high-interest, low-level books, and using non-fiction in the library and the classroom. Two hundred ready-to-present booktalks arranged by genre are also included. Genres include animals, famous people, sports, crime and serial killers, movies and television, religion, war, history, and the supernatural.