1.
Readlemania!
Booktalking YA with
John, Paul, Ringo, and George

2.
What is a music-
themed booktalk?
-- “Mediate” by INXS (rhymes with –ate)
-- “Mean” by Taylor Swift (bullying)
-- “Blaze of Glory” by Bon Jovi (outlaws)
-- “A Hard Rain’s Gonna Fall” by Edie Brickell (bad
weather)
-- “I Saw Red” by Warrant (the color red)
(these & more examples on Lessons tab of my blog)

3.
Will post this presentation to
my blog this afternoon:
Mrs. ReaderPants blog:
www.readerpants.net

4.
“A Little Help From My Friends”
(Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, 1967)
“What would you think if I sang out of tune,
Would you stand up and walk out on me.
Lend me your ears and I'll sing you a song,
And I'll try not to sing out of key.”

5.
Flora & Ulysses
(Kate DiCamillo)
• Light fantasy
• Text with graphic
cartoon sequences
• Vocabulary-building
• ES, MS

6.
“Across the Universe”
(Let It Be, 1970)
Words are flowing out
like endless rain
into a paper cup
They slither wildly
as they slip away
across the universe

7.
These Broken Stars
(Amie Kaufman/Meagan Spooner)
• Titanic in space
• Lilac & Tarver are the
only 2 survivors…
• Out in December
• HS, upper-MS

8.
Alienated
(Melissa Landers)
• Pub date=Feb. 4, 2014
• Foreign exchange
program for aliens to live
on Earth with human
families
• Romantic comedy
• HS

9.
The 5th Wave
(Rick Yancey)
• One of my top 3 favorites
of 2013
• Unpredictable, tons of
action, survival against all
odds
• Compare with King’s The
Stand
• Upper-MS, HS (violence,
language)

10.
“Revolution”
(The Beatles White Album, 1968)
You say you want a revolution
Well you know
We all want to change the world
You tell me that it's evolution
Well you know
We all want to change the world

11.
Never Fade
(Alexandra Bracken)
• Sequel to The Darkest Minds
• Starts out a little slow, but
once the action starts, it’s
unputdownable!
• Continues story from end of
TDM; same characters with
some new ones
• Main concern for MS is
language and extreme
violence
• October 15 release

12.
“Do You Want To Know A Secret”
(Please, Please Me, 1963)
Listen
Do you want to know a secret
Do you promise not to tell, whoa oh, oh
Closer
Let me whisper in your ear
Say the words you long to hear

13.
Red
(Alison Cherry)
• Stepford Wives meets
Mean Girls
• Felicity=Strawberry
• Pageant lifestyle,
prejudice, being yourself
• Great for upper-MS, HS
• Oct. 8 release

14.
“A Hard Day’s Night”
(A Hard Day’s Night, 1964)
It's been a hard day's night
And I've been working like a dog
It's been a hard day's night
I should be sleeping like a log

15.
Taste Test
(Kelly Fiore)
• Teen version of Master
Chef
• Nora, Christian
• Sabotage, mystery, lots
of recipes
• Great for MS, HS

16.
“The Long and Winding Road”
(Let It Be, 1970)
The long and winding road
that leads to your door
will never disappear
I've seen that road before
It always leads me here
Lead me to your door

17.
A Tale of Two Centuries
(Rachel Harris)
• Alessandra, Cat,
Austin, Lucas,
Lorenzo
• Time travel to/from
Renaissance Italy
• Great for MS, HS

18.
“When I’m 64”
(Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, 1967)
When I get older losing my hair
Many years from now
Will you still be sending me a valentine
Birthday greetings, bottle of wine?
If I'd been out till quarter to three
Would you lock the door?
Will you still need me, will you still feed me
When I'm sixty-four?

19.
Pivot Point
(Kasie West)
• Time travel, sort of…
• Para life vs. norm life—
alternating chapters
• Addie, Laila, Trevor,
Duke
• Great for MS, HS

20.
“Beautiful Boy”
(John Lennon, Double Fantasy, 1980)
Close your eyes
Have no fear
The monster's gone
He's on the run and your
daddy's here

21.
Of Beast and Beauty
(Stacey Jay)
• Beauty and the Beast
spin-off
• Awesome right from
beginning
• Blind protagonist
• Isra and Gem
• MS, HS

22.
“Here Comes the Sun”
(Abbey Road, 1969)
Little darling,
I feel that ice is slowly melting
Little darling,
it seems like years since it's been clear
Here comes the sun,
here comes the sun,
And I say it's all right

23.
Cruel Beauty
(Rosamund Hodge)
• Beauty and the Beast spin-
off
• January 2014 release
• Reminds me of Grave
Mercy
• Mythology references
• Light/dark imagery
• Google character names!!!
• HS

24.
“Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds”
(Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, 1967)
Follow her down to a bridge by a fountain
Where rocking horse people
eat marshmallow pies
Everyone smiles as you drift
past the flowers
That grow so incredibly high

25.
Lord of Opium
(Nancy Farmer)
• Sequel to The House of
the Scorpion
• Mixed reviews
• Lots of action, stress,
political problems
• Little bit of romance
• MS, HS (lots of drug
references)

26.
“Can’t Buy Me Love”
(Hard Day’s Night, 1964)
Cos I don't care
too much for money,
and money can't buy me love

27.
This Is What Happy Looks Like
(Jennifer E. Smith)
• Cute romance for fans
of The Statistical
Probability of Love at
First Sight
• Graham & Ellie—
accidental emails
• MS, HS

28.
“Yesterday”
(Help!, 1965)
Yesterday,
all my troubles seemed so far away
Now it looks as though
they're here to stay
Oh, I believe in yesterday

29.
All Our Yesterdays
(Cristin Terrill)
• Time travel done right!
• Reminds me of The
Butterfly Effect (film,
2004) and Stead’s When
You Reach Me
• One of my faves of 2013
• Upper-MS, HS

30.
Leigh Collazo
Ed Willkie Middle School
Eagle Mountain-Saginaw ISD
lcollazo@ems-isd.net
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