The Reading Connection: Bringing Parents, Teachers, and Librarians Together

Establishing a book club is a great way to involve parents in promoting literacy to young readers. This text shows how to start a book club in the school community, and it provides bibliographies of literature resources. Suggested topics and sample book club sessions are provided to help get a book club started and the extensive bibliography, arranged by genre, can guide parents and students in selecting reading material. Chapters cover: read-alouds; picture books; horror stories; multicultural literature; poetry; science fiction; nonfiction and reference; bibliotherapy and problem novels; award-winning books; biographies; and books in a series. For each genre, the authors offer a general overview, suggest discussion questions, provide a bibliography and suggest resources for further reading. Helpful Internet addreses and additional topics are included in the concluding chapter.