Books by John T. Gillespie

Find the right books to prepare persuasive, inspiring book talks with this successor to Introducing Books, Introducing More Books and Introducing Bookplots 3. Middleplots 4 details 80 books grouped under 8 subject areas such as Adventure and Mystery Stories and contains special cumulative indexes to the titles profiled in earlier editions.

Designed to assist librarians with collection development, this work identifies, describes, and evaluates more than 800 significant bibliographies of children's and young adult materials. This work updates Guides to Library Collection Development by the same authors (Libraries Unlimited, 1994).

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A source for background and booktalk material on award-winning and honorable mention children's and young adult literature. This work contains detailed plot summaries, lists of characters and themes, background information on the authors, incidents for booktalking, related reads, and fresh ideas for how to introduce these books to young readers.

Books are organized by genre and theme into 9 sections: teenage life and concerns, social and family problems, mystery and adventure, science fiction and fantasy, historical fiction and other lands, sports in fact and fiction, biography and general nonfiction, guidance and health, and challenging adult titles.