Popular Series Fiction for Middle School and Teen Readers: A Reading and Selection Guide (Children's and Young Adult Literature Reference) - Hardcover

Thomas, Rebecca L.; Barr, Catherine

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1591582024 ISBN 13: 9781591582021

Publisher: Libraries Unlimited, 2005

Synopsis

Young readers enjoy the delightfully consistent cast of characters and reliable story lines of series fiction. Because of their popularity and appeal, books in series are great vehicles for fostering literacy among all types of readers, including ABE and ESL students. In addition, readers of series fiction are almost always adamant about reading every title in the series-in series order. Yet traditional information sources on YA literature include very little about series fiction. It is rarely reviewed or catalogued, so objective information about the titles is hard to come by. And finding out the proper order of titles in series can also be a challenge. So, while series fiction is in high demand with young readers, librarians often have difficulty managing this large and growing body of literature. This guide, geared to readers in middle to high school, will be a rich resource and time-saver for librarians who work with tweens and teens. It introduces users to the best and most popular fiction series of today, covering approximately 800 series appropriate for middle and high school readers. For each series, the authors provide an annotation that describes the series' appeal and lists characters, and location. The original publisher of the series is given, along with the range of dates over which the series was published, a grade level range, and genre. Annotations will also indicate series and titles that are accepted by some of the popular electronic reading programs (e.g., Accelerated Reading, Reading First). A numbered list of titles in the series follows. Grades 6-12.

About this title

Book Description

Want to satisfy young readers' desires to read all the books in a given series and identify similar series they'll love? This guide makes it easy.

About the Author

Rebecca L. Thomas is an elementary school librarian, Shaker Heights City Schools, Shaker Heights, Ohio. She has taught at Kent State, received the distinguished service award from the Shaker Heights Teachers' Association, and serves or has served on several prestigious committees, including ALA's Caldecott Committee and the Penguin Putnam Committee. She is the author of three other books and contributing editor of a fourth title.

Catherine Barr Editor of such best-selling titles as Reading in Series, From Biography to History, and High-Low Handbook, is a freelance writer and publishing consultant based in Milford, New Jersey.

About this edition

• Publisher: Libraries Unlimited
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1591582024
• ISBN 13: 9781591582021
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 528