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Reading Teacher, 1980
Annotates books selected by children from across the United States as their favorites from among 500 children's trade books published in 1979. Books are categorized as beginning independent reading books; books for younger, for middle grade, and for older readers; and informational books. One regional choice (a book popular with Missouri children)…
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Adolescents, Annotated Bibliographies, Books
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Ganitskaya, I. I. – International Library Review, 1982
Describes some innovations in the organization of children's and school libraries in the USSR which were facilitated by the Public Law of 1973. (LLS)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Childhood Interests, Childrens Literature, Elementary Secondary Education
Stoll, Donald R., Ed. – 1997
Noting that many kids' and teens' magazines are not available at newsstands or bookstores, this book describes and provides ordering information for more than 200 such magazines. The magazines described cover almost every conceivable interest of children and teens in the United States and in many other countries. After a foreword by Jim Trelease…
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Adolescents, Childhood Interests, Childrens Literature
Beels, Jessica, Ed. – 1994
This publication serves as a companion volume to the 1994 KIDS COUNT Data Book. The two books represent different ways of portraying the status and prospects of children in the United States today. While the Data Book profiles quantitative measures of children's lives, this volume features interviews of kids from across the country who describe…
Descriptors: Adolescents, At Risk Persons, Child Behavior, Child Health
Perkinson, Kathryn – 1992
Focusing on the cooperative role of parents and public libraries in stimulating reading interests in children of all ages, this booklet addresses the following issues: (1) getting children interested in reading (reading aloud to children; encouraging children to read to you; starting a home library; showing children that you enjoy reading;…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adults, Childhood Interests, Disabilities
International Federation of Library Associations, The Hague (Netherlands). – 1987
Four of the 17 papers in this collection focus on library services for children; the remaining 12 are concerned with public libraries. The papers on children's libraries appear first on this list: (1) "A Study of Integrated Services" (Selma K. Richardson, United States); (2) "Partnership and Prosper: A Broader View of Children's…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adult Education, Centralization, Childhood Interests
Balding, John – 1994
The Schools Health Education Unit (SHEU) supports and promotes effective health education in primary and secondary schools in the United Kingdom. This book lists the results taken from "The Health Related Behaviour Questionnaire" collected from 29,074 participants (14,757 boys and 14,317 girls) between the ages of 11 and 16, from 171…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Athletics, Child Behavior, Child Health
Begay, Shirley M.; And Others – 1983
A bilingual (Navajo-English) book from the Navajo Curriculum Center, on the Kinaalda, the Navajo girls' puberty ceremony, is intended for Navajo students at the secondary and junior college level and contains a section introducing the ceremony and sections on early life experiences and the initiation into womanhood. All text in the three sections…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, American Indian Culture, American Indian Education