Help Your Teen Catch the Lifelong Reading Bug.Honey for a Teen's Heart spells out how good books can help you and your teenager communicate heart-to-heart about ideas, values, and the various issues of a Christian worldview. Sharing the adventure of a book lets both of you know the same people, see the same sights, face the same choices, and feel the same emotions. Life spills out of books—giving you plenty to talk about! But Honey for a Teen's...

Presents lists of recommended book titles for children and teenagers divided into three age groups and then further subdivided into more than 118 categories, including animals, folktales, girl power, autobiographies, comic books, and many others.

Provides information meant to be a practical manual for developing collections that appeal to teens. Includes a guide to more than 100 "Best" lists, tips for maintaining a core collection, and selection tips for major YA genres.

Carstensen combines an introduction to readers' advisory language, vocabulary and techniques with information about what teens like to read and why. She follows this with an examination of the appeal lurking within each genre. Her goal is to help librarians learn to use readers' advisory to help teens find the right books at the right time.

In the first Radical Reads, Joni Richards Bodart identified young adult books featuring gritty, complex plots, focused on multidimensional characters, and tackled such difficult and provocative issues as teenage pregnancy, dysfunctional families, gangs, prejudice, violence, and drugs. Here, she continues where the first book left off, examining more than a hundred titles published since the previous edition. The books featured here are engaging and...