Booktalks Plus: Motivating Teens to Read Book

	Introduction
1	The World Reacts	1
	Life in the Fat Lane	1
	The Starplace	4
	Petey	6
	I Rode a Horse of Milk White Jade	8
	The Dangers of Tattooing and Body Piercing	10
	The Journal of William Thomas Emerson: A Revolutionary War Patriot	12
	Cowboy Ghost	15
	Tangerine	16
	The Spirit Window	19
	Saratoga Secret	21
	The Tuesday Cafe	23
	White Wolf	26
	Backwater	28
	Out of the Dust	30
	Over the Top of the World: Explorer Will Steger's Trek Across the Arctic	32
	Holes	35
	No Man's Land: A Young Soldier's Story	37
	No Pretty Pictures: A Child of War	39
	The Journal of James Edmond Peace	42
	War and the Pity of War	44
	Cast Two Shadows	46
	The Fated Sky	48
	Armageddon Summer	50
	The Heavenly Village	52
	A Door Near Here	54
	Stephen Fair	56
2	We Act	61
	Go and Come Back	61
	Tenderness	64
	Stone Cold	66
	Fire Bed and Bone	68
	Love Among the Walnuts	70
	The Music of Dolphins	72
	The Pirate's Son	74
	No More Strangers Now: Young Voices from a New South Africa	77
	Victor	79
	Making Up Megaboy	82
	C. S. Lewis: Christian and Storyteller	84
	The Singing Mountain	86
	The Sacrifice	89
	Sirena	91
	A Hope in the Unseen	94
	Bull Catcher	96
	Venus to the Hoop	99
	Safe at Second	101
	Black Hands, White Sails: The Story of African-American Whalers	103
	Black Hoops: The History of African Americans in Basketball	106
	Gone A-Whaling: The Lure of the Sea and the Hunt for the Great Whale	108
	Slam	110
	Parrot in the Oven	112
	Rules of the Road	114
	Wanted!	117
	The King's Swift Rider	119
	My Life As a Girl	121
	Buried Onions	124
	Ophelia Speaks	126
	A Fly Named Alfred	128
3	Forces Try to Confound Us	131
	King Arthur	131
	Sensational Trials of the 20th Century	133
	The Terrorist	135
	Star Wars: Episode I, Incredible Cross-Sections, The Definitive Guide to the Craft of Star Wars: Episode 1	138
	Star Wars: Incredible Cross-Sections, The Ultimate Guide to Star Wars Vehicles and Spacecraft	138
	Star Wars: The Visual Dictionary, the Ultimate Guide to Star Wars Characters and Creatures	140
	Sexually Transmitted Diseases	142
	The Science, Spread, and Therapy of HIV Disease	144
	Invisible Enemies	146
	Kissing Doorknobs	148
	Depression	150
	Walk the Dark Streets	153
	Come All You Brave Soldiers	155
	The Hidden Children of the Holocaust: Teens Who Hid from the Nazis	158
	Summer Soldiers	160
	Masada: The Last Fortress	162
	Tomi: A Childhood Under the Nazis	164
	A Beautiful Place on Yonge Street	166
	Hush Little Baby	168
	Coping in a Blended Family	170
	P. S. Longer Letter Later	172
	Snail Mail No More	173
	When She Was Good	176
	A Hive for the Honeybee	179
	Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone	181
	Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets	182
	Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban	183
	Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire	184
	Sang Spell	187
	The Boxes	189
	The Transall Saga	192
4	We Struggle and Give	195
	Just People & Paper/Pen/Poem: A Young Writer's Way to Begin	195
	Boss of the Plains: The Hat That Won the West	197
	Jack London: A Biography	199
	Blues: Its Birth and Growth	201
	Martha Graham: A Dancer's Life	203
	Circus: An Album	206
	Chuck Close Up Close	208
	Special Effects in Film and Television	210
	Michelle Kwan, My Story: Heart of a Champion	212
	How to Write Poetry	215
	Where I'm From: Where Poems Come From	217
	I, Too, Sing America: Three Centuries of African American Poetry	219
	Ethan Between Us	221
	Hero	223
	Liberation: Teens in the Concentration Camps and the Teen Soldiers Who Liberated Them	225
	A Traitor Among Us	228
	Forgive the River, Forgive the Sky	230
	The Joy of Pi	232
	Samuel Adams: The Father of American Independence	234
	Shimmy Shimmy Shimmy Like My Sister Kate: Looking at the Harlem Renaissance Through Poems	236
	Princess Ka 'iulani: Hope of a Nation, Heart of a People	238
	Harlem	241
	Mine Eyes Have Seen	243
	Thomas Jefferson: Architect of Democracy	245
	The Quakers	248
	Author/Title Index	251
	Subject Index	263