ReadWriteThink - Text Messages: Recommendations for Adolescent Readers!
By RWT-feedback@ncte.org (NCTE)
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Podcast Description
Text Messages is a monthly podcast providing families, educators, out-of-school practitioners, and tutors reading recommendations they can pass along to teen readers. Each episode will feature in-depth recommendations of titles that will engage and excite teen readers.
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A Conversation with Francisco X. Stork | In the world of young adult literature, there are certain authors readers can count on to engage both their minds and their hearts in a good story. Francisco X. Stork is one of those authors. Tune in to hear how Francisco’s novels explore themes of religious faith and ambition, how his own life experiences are reflected in his books, and how he thinks about the diverse Latino characters he has created. | 4/22/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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A Second Look at The Hunger Games | With a new movie version of The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins’ story of a dystopian world where children are forced to fight to the death on live television is set to reach an even broader audience. Tune in to hear about the seeds for The Hunger Games story, themes that distinguish the series as an important work of literature, and what the books have to offer teen readers. | 3/15/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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A Roundup of Teen Book Awards | In the wake of the American Library Association’s annual announcement of Youth Media Awards, tune in for a roundup of top young adult literature award winners from the past year. Jennifer will report on her favorite titles drawn from lists of the year’s most distinguished books for teens | 2/19/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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A Conversation with Coe Booth | Tune in to hear how Coe Booth worked through the challenges of writing Bronxwood, how she makes sense of her characters’ actions, and how her books challenge readers to develop critical social consciousness. | 1/8/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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New Takes on Old Tales | In this episode, you’ll hear about creative retellings in a variety of genres and forms, including biographies, short story anthologies, verse novels, and picture books. | 12/4/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Visual Texts for Teens | Readers of picture books and graphic novels know that visual images sometimes tell a story in a way that words cannot. Tune in to hear about newly-published middle grade and young adult fiction, graphic novels, biographies, travel memoirs, and informational books, all of which use visual material in ways that enrich the text’s meaning. | 11/14/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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A Conversation with A.S. King | Tune in to hear about the seeds behind her newest novel, Everybody Sees the Ants. We’ll discuss how several of the novel’s key elements came about during Amy’s writing process, how The V****a Monologues connects thematically to elements of the text focused on bullying and torture, and how satire helped her to make a key point about Lucky Linderman’s process of coming to terms with the adult world. | 10/4/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Books for Tweens | Tune in this month to hear two avid tween readers talk about what they look for in a good book, some of their favorite titles, and what adults should know about helping tweens find books they’ll want to read. | 9/20/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Stories of Suspense | In this episode, you’ll hear about a range of titles that rely on some form of action, mystery, or suspense to draw teens into a page-turning storyline. | 8/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Feminist Books for Teens | In this episode, you’ll hear about a variety of feminist books for teens—including works of realistic fiction as well as fantasy, biography, historical fiction, and satire. | 6/26/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Books about Bullying | Tune in to hear insights on bullying from bullying expert CJ Bott, author of The Bully in the Book and the Classroom and More Bullies in More Books. You’ll also hear about a variety of fiction and nonfiction books for teens that explore the problem of bullying. | 5/26/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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A Conversation with Matthew Quick | Matthew Quick's debut YA novel, Sorta Like a Rock Star, offers up a story of hope. Tune in to hear Q talk about main character Amber Appleton, the ways she affects people, and the challenges of writing novels that foreground hope. | 4/24/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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New and Noteworthy Nonfiction | Tune in to hear about newly-published biographies, memoirs, and essay collections as well as titles that explore history, science, and social issues. | 4/4/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Musical Books for Teens | In this episode, you'll hear about fiction and nonfiction books that explore the importance of music in the lives of young people. | 2/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Celebrating Teen Book Awards | This year’s American Library Association Youth Media Awards celebrate books in a range of style and subject matter. Tune in to hear a report on the year’s most distinguished titles for teens. | 1/31/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Vampires, Werewolves, Zombies, and More | Vampire books—along with books about werewolves and zombies—are a big business in YA publishing today. Tune in to hear about some of the most popular vampire, werewolf, and zombie titles currently being read and shared by teens, plus titles that offer funny spoofs and satires of the Twilight trend. | 1/10/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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A Conversation with Deborah Wiles | Tune in to hear how Deborah Wiles uses visual artifacts-including news headlines and song lyrics, maps and snapshots, cartoons and excerpts from speeches-to tell a story about the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis through the eyes of an eleven-year-old girl. | 12/19/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Reading Text Sets | Tune in to hear about texts sets organized around themes such as revolution and espionage, relationships with brothers and fathers, and buying and selling in America. | 11/11/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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A Conversation with Nancy Werlin | In the world of YA fiction, there’s no one better than Nancy Werlin at sucking you into a suspenseful tale that will also lead you to reflect deeply on human nature. Tune in to hear Nancy discuss the appeal of dark stories and the inspiration for her newest novel, Extraordinary. | 10/5/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Censorship and Your Freedom to Read | In honor of Banned Books Week, tune in to hear about some of the most frequently challenged books for teens in 2009, along with YA authors’ perspectives on the experience of being censored. | 9/6/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Dystopian Literature | Tune in to hear about books that imagine the future darkly by exploring the consequences of war, environmental disasters, and creepy repressive governments. | 8/8/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sampling Short Stories | In this episode you’ll hear about a great variety of story collections organized around topics ranging from sports to prom, guns to ghosts. | 6/30/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Adults and Teens Reading Together | Tune in to hear about eight new novels that all focus in some way on teens and their complicated relationships with family members, peers, and the larger world. | 5/26/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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New Voices in Young Adult Literature | Tune in to this episode to hear about a range of titles by first-time YA authors, including mysteries, romances, humorous stories, and great contemporary realistic fiction. | 5/16/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Celebrating Poetry for Teens | In honor of National Poetry Month in April, tune in for recommendations of a variety of poetry books for teens. | 3/31/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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A Conversation with Sara Zarr | Tune in to hear Sara Zarr discuss religious faith and some of the thinking behind her newest novel, Once Was Lost. | 2/28/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Teen Book Awards Revisited | Tune in to hear about the latest winners of the Printz Award for excellence in young adult literature as well as select titles that are popping up on multiple award lists. | 2/1/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Exploring History | Hear about an amazing range of books that explore history, including works of fiction as well as non-fiction, biographies, graphic novels, verse novels, and investigative journalism. | 12/31/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Introducing the Amelia Elizabeth Walden Award | Learn more about the five finalists for the first annual Amelia Elizabeth Walden Award. | 11/30/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Connecting with the Classics | Tune in to hear about recent titles that retell or reinvent classic stories, others that reimagine the lives of classic authors, and still others that invoke classic texts in contemporary storylines. | 10/31/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 30 Episodes |
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