At last!  A resource for booktalking contemporary multicultural fiction and history for young readers.

• Highlights authentic, award-winning, well-written fiction
• Offers a focus on contemporary multicultural fiction and history
• Helps the library and school serve, reach out to, and include underserved populations
• Provides Indexes for subject, title and author/illustrator/translator

Reach all students, not just some, using booktalks from this well-researched, easy-to-use elementary resource.  This collection of one hundred-one booktalks for young readers by authors of contemporary fiction and history can help schools achieve the goals of No Child Left Behind. Authors are African-, Cambodian-, Chinese-, Cuban-, East Indian-, Filipino-, Italian-, Japanese-, Jewish-, and Korean- American, Puerto Rican, American Indian, and mixed heritage. Encourage students to read often and to read well with these inclusive, ready-made booktalks.