The Readers' Advisory Guide to Genre Blends for Children and Young Adults by Pau

Description: The Readers' Advisory Guide to Genre Blends for Children and Young Adults by Pauline Dewan, Meagan Lacy Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Paperback Condition Brand New Description A fast-growing area in fiction for the young, genre blends allow for new possibilities and ideas, stimulating childrens imaginations. This helpful guide orients readers advisory staff, educators, and collection development librarians with a hand-picked selection of hybrid genres and novels published since 2000. Publisher Description A fast-growing area in fiction for the young, genre blends allow for new possibilities and ideas, stimulating childrens imaginations. This helpful guide orients readers advisory staff, educators, and collection development librarians with a hand-picked selection of hybrid genres and novels published since 2000. Its no wonder that genre blends are some of most popular books for children and teens. When you mash up two different traditional genres, its like doubling what makes each one pleasurable on its own. This guide, the first of its kind, will help public and school librarians, teachers, and collections staff identify genre blends for readers advisory, curriculum development, or creating core collections. Profiling more than 200 titles, inside its pages youll learn about six of the most in-demand genre blends for young readers, including Fantasy Mysteries, Magical Realism, Steampunk, and Verse Novels;be introduced to each genre blends most compelling novels and contemporary authors;understand both book appeal factors (such as genre and theme) and reader-appeal factors, assisting you in matching readers with the perfect book; receive guidance on finding genre blends for children who are facing difficult circumstances, such as their parents divorce, cliques in school, lack of popularity, poor body image, or self-blame; andfind what youre looking for quickly and efficiently with the help of succinct annotations and a thorough index. Author Biography Pauline Dewan is a liaison librarian at the Brantford, Ontario campus of Wilfrid Laurier University. Co-author of Connecting Children with Classics: A Reader-Centered Approach to Selecting and Promoting Great Literature, she has also written two books about childrens literature and a number of articles about reading for pleasure. Dewan served for five years on the Readers Advisory Committee of the Ontario Library Association. She won the 2015 RUSA Press Award for her article, "Reading Matters in the Academic Library: Taking the Lead from Public Librarians." She received her MLIS from the University of Western Ontario and her doctorate in English from York University (Toronto).Meagan Lacy is chief librarian at Stella & Charles Guttman Community College, CUNY. In addition to coauthoring Connecting Children with Classics (2018) with Pauline Dewan, she received the Emerging Scholar Award for her article "Portraits of Children of Alcoholics: Stories that Hope to Hope," published in Childrens Literature in Education. She received her MLIS at the University of Washington and her MA in English at Indiana University at Indianapolis. She is currently completing her MFA in creative writing at City College, CUNY. Details ISBN 0838949908 ISBN-13 9780838949900 Title The Readers' Advisory Guide to Genre Blends for Children and Young Adults Author Pauline Dewan, Meagan Lacy Format Paperback Year 2022 Pages 224 Publisher American Library Association GE_Item_ID:158518109; About Us Grand Eagle Retail is the ideal place for all your shopping needs! With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and over 1,000,000 in stock items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! Shipping & Delivery Times Shipping is FREE to any address in USA. Please view eBay estimated delivery times at the top of the listing. Deliveries are made by either USPS or Courier. We are unable to deliver faster than stated. International deliveries will take 1-6 weeks. NOTE: We are unable to offer combined shipping for multiple items purchased. This is because our items are shipped from different locations. Returns If you wish to return an item, please consult our Returns Policy as below: Please contact Customer Services and request "Return Authorisation" before you send your item back to us. Unauthorised returns will not be accepted. Returns must be postmarked within 4 business days of authorisation and must be in resellable condition. Returns are shipped at the customer's risk. We cannot take responsibility for items which are lost or damaged in transit. For purchases where a shipping charge was paid, there will be no refund of the original shipping charge. Additional Questions If you have any questions please feel free to Contact Us. Categories Baby Books Electronics Fashion Games Health & Beauty Home, Garden & Pets Movies Music Sports & Outdoors Toys

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