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Booktalking to Teens
By Jennifer Bromann-Bender
Why Booktalk?
• Increase reading/enjoyment
• Familiarity
• Increased library usage
• Sustained Silent Reading
Crazy Ideas
•Lie•Don’t read•You don’t have to like it
Gr 5-7-Charlie's father has banished him to a dark cellar as punishment for some small transgression, and the boy sneaks upstairs at night while his parents sleep, desperately searching the kitchen for food and going outdoors to relieve himself. After he accidentally locks himself out, he wanders until he collapses, then awakens in a hospital. There, the extent of his deprivation and the resulting damage become clear. He doesn't know his last name or age, he has never heard of Thanksgiving or soccer, he has hallucinations about a menacing spider, and he cannot imagine going into the frightening world of the outdoors. Focusing on Charlie's internal thought processes, the action is primarily psychological. As the boy works with a psychiatrist and begins to trust his foster family, he grows to the point of being able to disagree with his controlling and warped father. However, as the book progresses, it loses tension and becomes repetitive. If he hasn't heard of Halloween or Thanksgiving, can it be much of a surprise that he hasn't seen a Christmas tree either? The intriguing premise can't quite compensate for the average writing and plotting. Elaine Marie Alphin's Counterfeit Son (Harcourt, 2000) and Malachy Doyle's Georgie (Bloomsbury, 2002) provide far more intense pictures of surviving psychological trauma.-Faith Brautigam, Gail Borden Public Library, Elgin, IL School Library Journal (Barnesandnoble.com)
Types of Booktalks
• Mood• Character• Plot• Scene• Question• Connections• Reading Aloud
FAQ• Handouts?
• Getting in?
• How long/how fast?
• Remember names?
• Prewritten talks?
• Multiple books?
• Genres/themes?
How to Write a Booktalk
• Choose books teens relate to
• Write notes/page numbers
• What do you remember?
• What does this book make you think about?
• Book jacket/summary
• Write the first sentence.
• Continuation of opening thought.
• Plot summary?
• How will it end?
• Wait
Lincoln-Way West LibraryTop 10 Books
September 29, 2009
1. Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher
2. Velocity by Dean Koontz
3. Son of the Mob by Gordon Korman
4. 90 Minutes in Heaven by Don Piper
5. Crank by Ellen Hopkins
6. Acceleration by Graham McNamee
7. After the Death of Anna Gonzalez byFields
8. Lucky by Alice Sebold
• 9. Wake by Lisa McMann
• 10. Living Dead Girl
• by Elizabeth Scott
Top 10 January 2010
• 1. A Child Called It
• 2. Crank by Hopkins
• 3. Farewell to Manzanar
• 4. The Hunger Games by Collins
• 5. Thirteen Reasons Why by Asher
• 6. Tricks by Hopkins
• 7. Burned by Hopkins
• 8. Called by Jeffers
• 9. Flags of Our Fathers
• 10. Identical by Hopkins
Starting a Booktalk Session
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Group 1perfectionist confidentorganizedself-centerednot afraid to make decisionsbusybelieve you are always right voracious readergood problem solversambitious energeticunder control
Group 2socialrebelliouscynicalmake friends easilystubbornhide opinions don’t admit when you need help trustworthysecretive peacemakergets along with otherstakes risks
Group 3charmingpeople oriented affectionate attention seekingrelaxedfunnylikableeasy to talk todon’t take no for an answer manipulativetalk a lotgullibleairheadbig egospoiled impatient
Would you?
• Ever want to date yourself as a member of the opposite sex?
• Accept a Christmas bonus knowing the money was “dirty”.
• Search your child’s room without their knowledge?
Dead or Alive?
• Marilyn Monroe?
• Michael Jackson?
• Liberace?
• Lindsay Lohan?
• Jimmy Carter?
• Will Rogers?
• Elvis?
“In the woods. Alive”
She gives the exact location.“Thank you!” The parents, in awe, rush from the
room. The father pauses.“I’ll leave your check on the table.”The psychic nods.“That’s fine. Now go to your child.”He leaves. Another door opens.“What now?” a voice asks.“Snatch another kid,” the psychic instructs.
Velocity
• If you don’t take this note to the police and get them involved, I will kill a lovely blond schoolteachers somewhere in Napa County
• If you do take this note to the police, I will instead kill an elderly woman active in charity work.
• You have six hours to decide. The choice is yours.
Who can…
• Hit the telephone with a stone?
• Eat the most cupcakes?
• Go to bed the latest?
• Weigh the most?
• Burp the loudest?
• Grow the tallest?
• Jack Grammar would never try to touch your butt during a slow dance. Jack Grammar is a gentleman, owns his own tux, and has superb taste in corsages. Jack Grammar is looking for a prom date. Could it be you?
Biographies/Nonfiction
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