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Accelerated Reader is a program based on the fact that students become more motivated to read if they are tested on the content of the books they have read and are rewarded for correct answers. Students read each book, individually take the test on the computer, and receive gratification when they score well. Schools using the Accelerated Reader program have seen a significant increase in reading among their students.

Globally and locally, teens are confronted with a wide variety of social issues and difficult political realities. These titles are excellent for community service learning and tolerance building.

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Gr 6-9-- An eclectic anthology of essays, interviews, and stories about this international phenomenon. At best, the entries serve as an introduction to a subject that requires further analysis. The essays on Asian youth gangs in the U. S. and the Protestant ones in Scotland, for example, successfully mix social history, personal experience, and rudimentary analysis. More often, though, the contents portray slices of life without a proper context; the articles on Soviet gangs and the interviews with American gang members lack adequate setting and examination. The introduction states the book's intent ``to convey the universality of the condition of the outsider trying to get in.'' However, this describes a variety of social behaviors, not just that of this subculture. Also, it doesn't consider dissimilarities throughout the world--and even within the U. S. Individual selections might motivate readers to pursue further research, but the book falls short of being an analytical and cross-cultural survey of the subject. --Jack Forman, Mesa College Library, San Diego (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.