Books by John T. Gillespie

Provides information needed to create booktalks featuring young adult novels. The authors have chosen 100 young adult titles and have categorised them into genres - Teen Life, Adventure, Sports and more. For each title, they provide an introduction, which gives background information on the book and the author.

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).

Offers annotated selections of over 10,000 recommended books. Arranged by subject with a subject / grade level index, it's aim is to assist collection evaluation, development and reader guidance for the 15-18 age group. In most cases two or three favourable reviews were needed to warrant inclusion.

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Librarians and teachers will find this guide invaluable for introducing young readers to various typical family situations through contemporary and classic literature.

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.

John Gillespie, a respected authority on children's literature, has compiled this invaluable work to serve as a selection guide and collection development aid for librarians, as well as a navigation tool for researchers.

Combining literary criticism with a best books listing, Seniorplots groups 1,050 titles under a dozen themes and genres popular with this age group. It then highlights 80 of the very best contemporary fiction and nonfiction works, including classics, plays, and biographies.

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.

Provides detailed entries for 80 contemporary fiction and nonfiction books. Each entry provides a plot summary, thematic material of primary and secondary themes, suggested passage to begin discussion, related books, and listings of bibliographic sources.