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According to award-winning librarian-educator and author Sharon Grimes, to help students love books and reading, their skills must go beyond merely recognizing words and turning pages without comprehension. She frames the situation with an insightful overview of current research on reading and how children learn.

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School Library Journal Review

Designed for use by facilitators of teen groups (grades 6-12) in community or school programs, this guide presents a variety of activities in three categories: "Personal and Environmental Awareness," "Skill Building," and "Practice Activities." Providing creative ideas to stimulate discussion and cooperation, the book is an excellent resource for community- or faith-based programs, classrooms, after-school programs, leadership courses, juvenile-detention centers, and weekend retreats. Sample scripts, 20 reproducible handouts, and more than 50 activities introduce such topics as "Cultural Ethnocentrism," "Untapped Potential," and "Challenging My Stereotypes." Each activity touches on 3 of the 40 assets emphasized, such as support (family, neighborhood, school), boundaries and expectations (rules, consequences, responsible behavior), and positive values (equality, integrity, restraint). This book offers constructive action for those who ask, "How do I go about raising diversity awareness and acceptance among youth?"-Kathy Lehman, Thomas Dale High School Library, Chester, VA (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

Booklist Review

Grimes claims that it is not enough for librarians to introduce kids to and provide access to wonderful literature. Librarians need to do more by providing reading--comprehension instruction. Using research-based techniques, she emphasizes modeling for all of the strategies she describes, even modeling her library lessons for readers. In addition to the chapters on the eight strategies that she teaches her elementary students, she gives readers a blueprint for creating a library media center and program that is conducive to developing good readers. There are forms, student activity sheets, and a rubric for student achievement. Lists of suggested titles to use with dependent, emergent, and independent readers for each strategy are included. Informative for all librarians but especially school librarians this book should be read straight through first to get an overview and then used as a step-by-step guide to develop the program. --Rochelle Glantz Copyright 2006 Booklist