Book Swap Pathfinder
Janet Warden
Claymont High School
Kent Workshop March 8, 2004
A Shared Reading Project: "Book Swap"
Appropriate for grades 9-12
English Language Arts
Peer reading recommendations/YA and Adult books
Collection Development, Book Reviews & Literary Criticism
Professional Books
Herald, Diana Tixier. TEEN GENREFLECTING. Libraries Unlimited, 1997. 134 pp. ISBN: 156308287, $30. Dewey: 016.813.

Jones, Partrick. CONNECTING YOUNG ADULTS AND LIBRARIES: A HOW-TO-DO-IT MANUAL, 2nd Ed. Neal-Schuman, 1998. 461 pp. ISBN:1555703151, $60. Dewey: 025.5.

Jones, Patrick, Patricia Taylor and Kristen Edwards. A CORE COLLECTION FOR YOUNG ADULTS. Neal-Schuman, 2003. 250 pp. ISBN: 1555704581, $60. Dewey 011.62.
Professional Journals
School Library Journal: Published monthly; $125 yr
Voya: Published bi-monthly by Scarcrow Press; $40 yr.
Booklist: Published 22 times a year by the American Library Association; $80 yr.
Web Sites
INFOhio: Oh! Teach/Reading Lists for Young Adults
Internet Public Library: Literary Criticism
Core Collection for Young Adults, from Patrick Jones
Reading Rants! Out of the Ordinary Teen Booklists by Jennifer Hubert
Amazon.com Book Search
Barnes and Noble
Linda's Links to Literature
Additonal Information

Many authors and their publishers have web sites that can be accessed via a search engine.

Library book distributors have on-line catalogs, with reviews. You must register with each site in order to set up an account.
On-line Databases
Novelist: This is available via OPLIN. You will need your public library card number.
EBSCOHost: Some book reviews and author interviews may be found in these databases. You will need a password from your Data Acquistion Site, if you use this at home.
Rubrics for Assessment
Oral Presentation Rubric by Pearson Education, Publishing as Pearson Prentice Hall
Rubric Template
Rubric Generator from Teachnology
David Warlickbs Landmark Project, Rubric Builder
Make a book
Books
Johnson, Paul. MAKING BOOKS. A. & C. Black. 2000, 68 pp.
ISBN: 071365077X. Dewey: 686.3
Web sites
Joan Irvine's pop-up book "how to" page
How to make a "tunnel book"
California Paper Good's simple instructions with diagrams
Lone Prairie Art Work's simple instructions and photos:
Paperbag books, with illustrations and simple instructions
Make Puppets
Rod Puppets
Puppet Resource Center
Paper bag puppets
Conduct an Interview
The University of California, Berkley has Tips for Oral History
Cerritos College, Don Ray's Interview pointers:
Carter McNamara's General Interview Information
Radio Programs
Samples of old radio programs may be found at the Library of Congress, American Memory Project.