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Mosque
David Macaulay

Mosque

Genre:
Nonfiction
Age Level:
YA

Enter a community Mosque of the sixteenth century, and discover the techniques used to raise towering minarets and a beautiful prayer hall dome. This simplistic book for all ages glorifies these magnificent buildings that served as the center of religion, and also housed travelers, stored food, and provided public baths.

Bodies of three teens holding books, standing against a low, wood wall
Motivation and Engagement

Motivating Adolescent Learners

Reading should not be presented to children as a chore or a duty. It should be offered as a gift. ~ Kate DiCamillo

Motivating Pre-Teen Girls to Read

Can you suggest some books for a pre-teen girl who hates to read? She doesn’t read as fast as her classmates, so she prefers not to read at all.

One of the best things to do is to find out her interests and then find as many books as you can about those interests. Whether it be vampires, poetry, craft books, anything that is interesting.

Middle school boy looking at graphic novel in the library
Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory

Motivating Reluctant Adolescent Readers

How can you motivate adolescents who have never turned on to the magic of reading? Tutoring teenagers is as much about building self-confidence as teaching skills. Low self-image and feelings of powerlessness trouble many unmotivated adolescents.

AdLit.org

Movie Read-Alikes from YALSA

If the teens in your life love movies, check out this list of read-alikes for blockbusters like The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.
moxie
Jennifer Mathieu

Moxie: A Novel

Genre:
Fiction
Age Level:
YA

Vivian Carter is tired…tired of disrespect, bump and grabs, and a principal who turns a blind eye to football players who treat girls inappropriately. When Vivvy finds an old shoebox full of evidence from her mom’s feminist exploits as a teen, she is inspired to start her own Moxie girl rebellion.

Muddle Earth
Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell

Muddle Earth

Genre:
Fairy Tales, Folktales and Myths, Fantasy, Fiction
Age Level:
Middle Grade

With a bit of a nod to J.R.R. Tolkein’s The Lord of the Rings, Muddle Earth follows the quest of Joe, an ordinary boy from Earth who has been summoned to Muddle Earth by the wizard Randalf to fight evil in this realm where things are quite muddled and anything can happen — from stampeding silverware to exploding gas frogs.