Professional Reading
A selection of recently published titles consider race and the imagination, girl-positive libraries, career programming, and other topics.
Essential reading for librarians seeking to develop YA collections with care and purpose in order to promote social awareness and change
Not recommended for general professional development collections, but potentially useful for research-heavy collections
A solid, evidence-based look at why reading engagement is crucial and how teens and tweens can become lifelong readers
While this title will be nostalgia inducing for some, its unwillingness to grapple with racial inequities makes the overall effect saccharine and lessens its authenticity
An outstanding resource for librarians and teachers intending to teach media literacy
Valuable for introducing readers to a range of concepts (critical race, reader response, postcolonial, and monster theory), this is an important work of criticism on an underexamined topic.
PREMIUM
Serving LGBTQ Teens
School and public libraries are often a safe space for LGBTQ youth, making this an excellent guide for librarians who work with young adults, regardless of their level of practice.
School librarians will be inspired to try new techniques in their pursuit of developing lifelong readers.–Jackie Gropman, formerly at Chantilly Regional Library, VA
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