Booktalking Authentic Multicultural Literature: Fiction and History for Young Readers

By Sherry York

At last A resource for booktalking contemporary multicultural fiction and history for young readers.

- Highlights authentic, award-winning, well-written fiction
- Offers a focus on contemporary multicultural fiction and history
- Helps the library and school serve, reach out to, and include underserved populations
- Provides Indexes for subject, title and author/illustrator/translator

Reach all students, not just some, using booktalks from this well-researched, easy-to-use elementary resource. This collection of one hundred booktalks for young readers by authors of contemporary fiction and history can help schools achieve the goals of No Child Left Behind. Authors are African-, Cambodian-, Chinese-, Cuban-, East Indian-, Filipino-, Italian-, Japanese-, Jewish-, and Korean- American, Puerto Rican, American Indian, and mixed heritage. Encourage students to read often and to read well with these inclusive, ready-made booktalks.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1586833006
• ISBN13: 9781586833008
• Release Date: April 2009
• Publisher: Linworth Publishing
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.9" x 8.8"