Serving Teens through Readers' Advisory (ALA Readers' Advisory Series)

Getting teens to read for fun is the ultimate challenge, yet research shows that it improves skills in grammar and spelling while expanding vocabularies. Readers' Advisors who serve teens (or want to) now have an ready-to-use resource from an expert in teen Readers' Advisory. Accessible and encouraging for beginners and an informative refresher for those more experienced, this hands-on guide addresses teens' unique needs with practical tools that help Readers' Advisors:

• Build winning relationships with teens and connect on their terms
• Communicate with this hard-to-reach audience
• Create a positive readers' advisory experience
• Use proven questions and techniques to uncover teens' worldview
• Get up to speed fast using "sure bets" lists, expanding thematic reading lists and sources of reviews
• Deal with challenges of controversial topics, homework reading, and recommending "by proxy"

Teen Readers' Advisors need to access the many possible reading choices, understand teens' pleasure reading, and find ways to draw out their interests. Filled with concrete advice, Serving Teens through Readers' Advisory will support public librarians as well as middle and high school library media specialists and library support staff who want to make an impact with teens at a critical time in their lives.