World's Best Thin Books, Revised: What to Read When Your Book Report Is Due Tomorrow

by Joni Richards Bodart

Students, teachers, and librarians will love this handy little volume that describes 100 titles recommended for middle and high school students. Readable, attention-grabbing - all are less than 200 pages. Each entry lists title and author, provides information on characters, plot, and action, and even suggests topics to cover in a book report. Librarians and teachers will appreciate the inclusion of curricular areas and readability indexes, and students will find the appendix on approaches to writing a book report or booktalk a real gold mine.

Genres: High School

236 pages, ebook

First published January 1, 1993

Reviews

[Dawn · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a good resource especially for librarians and teachers, but it wouldn't hurt parents to have a copy, either. This is an easy and quick way to check on shorter, but quality, books that kids who like to procrastinate can read for school. Bodart is very thorough in including as much information about the book as possible in as brief a way as possible - the only problem I see with that is kids or teens using the information listed in "World's Best Thin Books" as the source for their reports instead of actually reading the book.

[Dracolibris · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is going to be incredibly handy to have nearby at my desk in the library. It has much more than I expected. OK, so I confess- I would have been happy with just a list of really thin books that I could hand to the students who wander in ten minutes until closing with the perennial request "Uh, I need a book for a book report. That's due tomorrow." But instead of just a convenient list, we also get treated to subject areas, characters, booktalks, major ideas and themes and booktalk ideas. I am very pleased that I purchased this for my professional desk reference collection.

[Linda · Rating 3 out of 5]

Was less than impressed with lots of the choices.

[Jim · Rating 4 out of 5]

cliffs notes for teens/yas. interesting read, could give teachers some ideas