Tantalizing Tidbits for Middle Schoolers: Quick Booktalks for the Busy Middle School And Jr. High Library Media Specialist

This professional booktalking tool for the busy middle and junior high school library media specialist includes booktalks that can be used to support the curriculum, encourage student leisure reading, and provide ideas for educator-media specialist collaboration. Each entry includes an annotation, a booktalk, and a curriculum connection activity as well as a list of five similar titles. Types of books included in this volume are fiction, short story collections, poetry collections, informational books, and biographies.

Ruth E. Cox Clark is associate professor in the Department of Library Science & Instructional Technology, College of Education at East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina. Her publications include the Tantalizing Tidbits books.