BooktalkThree

I read a lot of children's/teen literature for my job as a reference librarian on the youth services team. A booktalk is an effort to get a young reader to pick up the book and read it. It's not a book review - it's more like a brief sales pitch. My goal is to write the booktalks (as soon as I've read the books) and to make them accessible to my colleagues, parents, and other readers.

Wednesday, March 1, 2017

Lily and Dunkin by Donna Gephart (Booktalk)

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Have you ever met someone who hated his or her name? You have to meet Lily and Dunkin. Lily's real name is Tim, which she hates. She...
Tuesday, December 20, 2016

Every Hidden Thing by Kenneth Oppel (Booktalk)

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Paleontologists love their fossils, and most of them are not thought of as people who get into fistfights with each other in public. Rachel...
Thursday, December 15, 2016

The Night Gardener by the Fan Brothers (Booktalk)

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[ Begin by showing page 2 in which William is drawing an owl on the ground .] William is lonely. He lives in an orphanage. Notice the drab...
Wednesday, December 14, 2016

Juana and Lucas by Juana Medina (Booktalk)

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Juana wants you to get her name right. That's her dog, Lucas. This is Juana. At first I pronounced her name wrong, but she taught me...
Saturday, November 12, 2016

The Graces by Laure Eve Booktalk

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River is a lonely 15-year-old who has just moved to a small, old coastal town with her mother. She's not popular and she's picked on...
Thursday, November 3, 2016

Raymie Nightingale by Kate DiCamillo Booktalk

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I want you to imagine three girls breaking into their teacher's house. One of the girls, Beverly, has taught herself lock-picking from a...
Wednesday, October 19, 2016

Full of Beans by Jennifer L. Holm Booktalk

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Beans is tired of how his town stinks. There's garbage everywhere, because the town is broke and can't pay garbage men to come colle...
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Carey Hagan
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Reference librarian in a public library
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