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      Best Books for Junior High Readers

      John T. Gillespie

      This guide aids the educationalist or teacher in making informed selections of recreational and curriculum-based texts for 12- to 15-year-old students. It provides a comprehensive bibliography of over 5600 recommended…

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      Best Books for Senior Readers

      John T. Gillespie

      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…

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      Teenplots: A Booktalk Guide to Use with Readers Ages 12-18

      John T. Gillespie

      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…

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      Historical Fiction for Young Readers (Grades 4-8): An Introduction

      John T. Gillespie

      Enhance your historical fiction collection - and its popularity with readers and value in the classroom - with this wide-ranging guide.

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      The Family in Literature for Young Readers: A Resource Guide for Use with Grades 4 to 9

      John T. Gillespie

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

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      The Children’s and Young Adult Literature Handbook: A Research and Reference Guide

      John T. Gillespie,Judy Gail

      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…

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      Juniorplots: Volume 3. A Book Talk Guide for Use With Readers Ages 12-16

      John T. Gillespie,Corinne J. Naden

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      Seniorplots: A Book Talk Guide for Use with Readers Ages 15-18

      John T. Gillespie,Corinne J. Naden

      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…

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      Juniorplots: Volume 4. A Book Talk Guide for Use With Readers Ages 12-16

      John T. Gillespie,Corinne J. Naden

      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…

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      Middleplots: Vol. 4 A Book Talk Guide for Use with Readers Ages 8-12

      John T. Gillespie,Corinne J. Naden

      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…

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      Classic Teenplots: A Booktalk Guide to Use with Readers Ages 12-18

      John T. Gillespie,Corinne J. Naden

      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…

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      The Newbery/Printz Companion: Booktalk and Related Materials for Award Winners and Honor Books, 3rd Edition

      John T. Gillespie,Corinne J. Naden

      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…

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      Guides to Library Collection Development

      Intended to enhance collection development in school, public, and college libraries, this volume lists and annotates approximately 1,500 significant bibliographies published from 1985 through 1993, with some earlier but still…

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      Guides to Collection Development for Children and Young Adults

      John T. Gillespie,Ralph J. Folcarelli

      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. Emphasis is on print and nonprint…

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      Creating the John Brown Legend: Emerson, Thoreau, Douglass, Child and Higginson in Defense of the Raid on Harpers Ferry

      Janet Kemper Beck

      Early press reaction to John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry ranged from indignant horror in the South to stunned disbelief in the North. This book explores the moment when literature…

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      Critical Incident Management: A Complete Response Guide, Second Edition

      Vincent Faggiano,John McNall,Thomas T. Gillespie

      Filled with tactical direction designed to prevent, contain, manage, and resolve emergencies efficiently and effectively, this volume provides proven methodologies applicable to a host of public and private sector scenarios…

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      Flame In The Wilderness: Life And Letters Of Mother Angela Gillespie, 1824-1887, American Foundress Of The Sisters Of The Holy Cross

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      Centenary Chronicles Of The Sisters Of The Holy Cross, V6.

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      Alternative Japanese Drama: Ten Plays

      A major renaissance in Japanese theater occurred in the 1960s. During this period, the implications of Japan’s prewar actions as well as its postwar materialistic course were interrogated with fierce…

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      Paternalism in a Southern City: Race, Religion, and Gender in Augusta, Georgia

      These essays focus on paternalism between masters and slaves, husbands and wives, elites and the masses, and industrialists and workers. The varied and creative responses to paternalism discussed here open…

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