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Pearl, Nancy
Adult Nonfiction 028.55 P
Pearl, Nancy
Adult Nonfiction 028.55 P
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| Contents | Page |
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| Introduction | p. v |
| Acknowledgments | p. xiii |
| Part I - Youngest Readers | p. 1 |
| Ahh, Those Adorable Anthropomorphic Animals | p. 3 |
| B Is for Babies | p. 7 |
| Bedtime Stories | p. 9 |
| Boo! Halloween Books to Treasure | p. 11 |
| Books, Books, Books | p. 12 |
| The Cats Meow | p. 14 |
| Chapter 1 - Good Books for the Youngest Readers | p. 18 |
| Christmas Is Coming | p. 20 |
| D Is for Dinosaurs | p. 22 |
| Death and Dying | p. 23 |
| A Dog's Life | p. 25 |
| Easy as 1,2,3: Counting Books | p. 27 |
| Fairy Tales (Fractured or Not) | p. 28 |
| Folk Tales | p. 33 |
| Girls Rule | p. 36 |
| Grandmas and Grandpas | p. 38 |
| Grin and Bear It! | p. 40 |
| Just for Fun | p. 42 |
| Latkes, Dreidels, and Lights | p. 46 |
| Let Me Introduce You To... | p. 47 |
| Many Cultures, Many Voices | p. 49 |
| Meet Mother Goose | p. 51 |
| Mind Your P's & Q's | p. 53 |
| Music to My Ears | p. 54 |
| Noodlehead Stories | p. 55 |
| One Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words | p. 57 |
| Picture Perfect | p. 58 |
| Quack Away | p. 60 |
| Reality Check | p. 62 |
| Rebels with a Cause | p. 64 |
| Rhyming Read-Alouds for the Very Young | p. 67 |
| School Daze | p. 68 |
| Simple as ABC | p. 71 |
| Stop Bugging Me: Insects Galore | p. 73 |
| Tall Tales | p. 75 |
| Thanks for Thanksgiving | p. 77 |
| Trickster Tales | p. 78 |
| Weather or Not | p. 80 |
| You've Got a Friend | p. 82 |
| Part II - Middle-Grade Readers, Ages 8-12 | p. 85 |
| Adventure Ahoy! | p. 87 |
| All in the Family | p. 89 |
| Animal Tales | p. 92 |
| Author! Author! | p. 94 |
| Autobiographies | p. 95 |
| Before and After Harry (Potter, of Course) | p. 97 |
| Biographical Fiction | p. 99 |
| Boys Will Be Boys | p. 102 |
| Coming of Age | p. 105 |
| D@%! the Torpedoes, Full Steam Ahead | p. 107 |
| Dragon Tales | p. 110 |
| Dewey Love Nonfiction? Dewey Ever! | p. 111 |
| Doggone It, She Said Ho(a)rsely | p. 128 |
| Dolls and Dollhouses | p. 130 |
| Double Trouble | p. 134 |
| Friends Make the World Go Round | p. 135 |
| G and T's: Gifted and Talented | p. 137 |
| Girl Power! | p. 137 |
| Gone But Not Forgotten | p. 140 |
| Good Sports | p. 141 |
| Goosebumps | p. 145 |
| Greek Myths | p. 147 |
| Guaranteed to Grab You | p. 148 |
| Hickory, Dickory, Dock | p. 150 |
| "I" Books | p. 152 |
| In the Footsteps of Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys | p. 154 |
| The Kids Next Door | p. 157 |
| Kids to the Rescue | p. 158 |
| King Arthur | p. 160 |
| Let's Talk About It | p. 163 |
| LOL: Laugh Out Loud | p. 164 |
| Melting Pots and Salad Bowls | p. 167 |
| Myths, Legends, Folk and Fairy Tales | p. 168 |
| Not a Dry Eye in the House | p. 171 |
| O Pioneers! | p. 173 |
| One Word Is Worth a Thousand Pictures (Or Something Like That) | p. 175 |
| Orphans Abounding | p. 176 |
| Other Times, Other Places | p. 178 |
| The Pleasures of Poetry | p. 180 |
| Real People You Ought to Know | p. 183 |
| Relativity | p. 185 |
| Science Fiction: Future Possibilities | p. 188 |
| Slavery and the Civil War | p. 189 |
| The Witch Trials-Salem and Beyond | p. 191 |
| Part III - Teen Readers, Ages 13-18 | p. 193 |
| After Sam Spade and Kinsey Millhone | p. 195 |
| Always Short and Sometimes (But Usually Not) Sweet | p. 196 |
| Chicklet Lit: For Girls Only | p. 198 |
| Cry Me a River | p. 201 |
| Dragooned by Dragons | p. 202 |
| Fantastic Fantasies | p. 204 |
| Getting to Know Me: Memoirs | p. 205 |
| Ghosts I Have Loved | p. 208 |
| Girls Kick Butt | p. 209 |
| GLBTQ | p. 211 |
| Growing Up Is (Sometimes) Hard to Do | p. 213 |
| Heartbreak Hotel | p. 215 |
| Historical Fiction | p. 216 |
| Immigrants and Refugees | p. 220 |
| It Might as Well Be Greek | p. 221 |
| It's a Guy Thing | p. 223 |
| Kung Fu, the Samurai Code, and Ninja Stealth | p. 225 |
| May I Have This Dance? | p. 227 |
| Moving Up | p. 229 |
| Not Your Parents' Comic Books | p. 230 |
| One-Word Wonders | p. 233 |
| Our Love Is Here to Stay-Or Not | p. 236 |
| Page-Turning Pleasures | p. 237 |
| Play the Game | p. 239 |
| Poems as Novels and Novels as Poems | p. 240 |
| Queens of Fantasy | p. 242 |
| Shape Shifters | p. 244 |
| Sink Your Teeth into These | p. 245 |
| Slowly Unraveling | p. 247 |
| Smells Like Teen Nostalgia | p. 248 |
| Tam Lin | p. 251 |
| This Is My Life | p. 253 |
| Up All Night | p. 256 |
| Utopia-Not! | p. 258 |
| What'd I Do to Deserve This Biography? | p. 260 |
| Index | p. 263 |
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