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Carolyn CarpanPublication Details
BookScarecrow Press2009Links
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Sisters, Schoolgirls, And Sleuths : Girls’ Series Books In America
A Narrative Compass : Stories That Guide Women’s Lives
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edited by Betsy Hearne and Roberta Seelinger TritesPublication Details
BookUniversity of Illinois Press2009Links
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Connecting Boys With Books 2 : Closing The Reading Gap
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Michael SullivanPublication Details
BookAmerican Library Association2009Description
In his hugely successful “Connecting Boys with Books” (2003), Sullivan delved into the problem that reading skills of pre-adolescent boys lag behind those of girls in the same age group. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) Z1039.B67 S85 2009 AVAILABLE
Black Authors And Illustrators Of Books For Children And Young Adults
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Barbara Thrash Murphy and Deborah MurphyPublication Details
Book4th edRoutledge2007Description
This biographical dictionary provides a wealth of resources for anyone studying black children?s literature ? (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS REFERENCE (MAIN) PN1009.A1 M876 2007 AVAILABLE
Young Adult Literature In Action : A Librarian’s Guide
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Rosemary ChancePublication Details
BookLibraries Unlimited2008Description
This book is for the LIS instructor who is looking for something that combines the literature with the practical in teaching courses in materials for children and young adults for an audience of school and public children’s librarians. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
Fluent In Fantasy : The Next Generation
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Diana Tixier Herald and Bonnie KunzelPublication Details
BookLibraries Unlimited2008Description
It’s no secret that the fantasy genre has undergone a tremendous renaissance since the publication of the Harry Potter books and the recent successes of the film versions of The Lord of the Rings. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS REFERENCE (MAIN) PN3435.F3 H47 2008 AVAILABLE
Gotcha Good! : Nonfiction Books To Get Kids Excited About Reading
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Kathleen A. Baxter and Marcia Agness KochelPublication Details
BookLibraries Unlimited2008Description
Chapters are built around the high-interest topics kids love as the authors provide irresistible book descriptions to guide librarians and teachers to nonfiction books kids will want to read. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) Z1037 .B39 2008 AVAILABLE
Promised Land : Thirteen Books That Changed America
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Jay PariniPublication Details
Book1st edDoubleday2008Description
In Promised Land, Jay Parini repossesses that vibrant, intellectual heritage by examining the life and times of thirteen “books that changed America.” Their influence remains pervasive, however hidden, and in his essays Jay Parini demonstrates how these books entered American life and altered how we think and act in the world. The thirteen “books that changed America”: Of Plymouth Plantation ? The Promised Land ? The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care ? (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) PS169.N35 P37 2008 AVAILABLE
Books : A Memoir
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Larry McMurtryPublication Details
Book1st Simon & Schuster hardcover edSimon & Schuster2008Links
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In this work of extraordinary charm, grace, and good humor, McMurtry recounts his life as both a reader and a writer, how the countless books he has read worked to form his literary tastes, while giving us a lively look at the eccentrics who collect, sell, or simply lust after rare volumes. Books: A Memoir is like the best kind of diary — full of McMurtry’s wonderful anecdotes, amazing characters, engaging gossip, and shrewd observations about authors, book people, literature, and the author himself. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) PS3563.A319 Z46 2008 AVAILABLE
You Gotta Be The Book : Teaching Engaged And Reflective Reading With Adolescents
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Jeffrey D. Wilhelm ; foreword by Michael W. SmithPublication Details
Book2nd edTeachers College Press2008Description
Over a decade ago, Jeffrey Wilhelm s groundbreaking book showed educators how to think of reading as a personally meaningful, pleasurable, and productive pursuit. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) LB1632 .W54 2008 DUE 12-10-09
Reading Women : Literacy, Authorship, And Culture In The Atlantic World, 1500-1800
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edited by Heidi Brayman Hackel and Catherine E. KellyPublication Details
BookUniversity of Pennsylvania Press2008Description
While scholars have written extensively about women’s reading in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and about women’s writing in the early modern period, they have not attended sufficiently to the critical transformation that took place as female readers and their reading assumed significant cultural and economic power. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) Z1039.W65 R43 2008 AVAILABLE
The Pilgrim And The Bee : Reading Rituals And Book Culture In Early New England
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Matthew P. BrownPublication Details
BookUniversity of Pennsylvania Press2007Description
Understanding Puritanism as a style of piety predicated on access to texts, he describes a canon of texts (devotional “steady sellers”) that, with the Bible, served as conduct literature for pious readers. To Brown, seventeenth-century devotional readers are both pilgrims, treating texts as continuous narratives of redemptive journeying, and bees, treating texts as flowers or hives, as spatial objects where information is extracted and deposited discontinuously. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) Z1003.3.N4 B76 2007 AVAILABLE
Minders Of Make-believe : Idealists, Entrepreneurs, And The Shaping Of American Children’s Literature
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Leonard S. MarcusPublication Details
BookHoughton Mifflin Co2008Description
From The New England Primer to The Cat in the Hat to Cormier’s The Chocolate War, Marcus offers a richly informed, witty appraisal of the pivotal books that transformed children’s book publishing, and brings alive the revealing synergy between books like these and the national mood of their times. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) PN1009.A1 M365 2008 AVAILABLE
Multicultural And Ethnic Children’s Literature In The United States
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Donna L. GiltonPublication Details
BookScarecrow Press2007Links
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Multicultural and Ethnic Children’s Literature in the United States describes the history and characteristics of ethnic and multicultural children’s literature in the U.S., as well as related materials published elsewhere. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) PN1009.A1 G55 2007 AVAILABLE
The Road To Monticello : The Life And Mind Of Thomas Jefferson
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Kevin J. HayesPublication Details
BookOxford University Press2008Links
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Moving chronologically through Jefferson’s life, Hayes reveals the full range and depth of Jefferson’s literary passions, from the popular “small books” sold by traveling chapmen, such as The History of Tom Thumb, which enthralled him as a child; Drawing on Jefferson’s letters, journals, and commonplace books, Hayes offers a wealth of new scholarship on the print culture of colonial America, reveals an intimate portrait of Jefferson’s activities beyond the political chamber, and reconstructs the president’s investigations in such different fields of knowledge as law, history, philosophy and natural science. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) E332.2 .H395 2008 AVAILABLE
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