The World's Best Thin Books
by Bodart, Joni RichardsEdition: Revised
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2000-05-01
Publisher(s): Scarecrow Pr
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Summary
This handy little gold mine describes 100 titles for middle and high school students that are readable, attention-grabbing, and are all less than 200 pages!
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgments for the Revised Edition | |
| Acknowledgments | |
| Introduction for Students | |
| Introduction for Librarians and Teachers | |
| How to Use This Book | |
| Key Terms and Abbreviations | |
| Thinnest | |
| The Ghosts of Departure Point | p. 3 |
| Gruel and Unusual Punishment | p. 4 |
| The Little Prince | p. 7 |
| The Night the White Deer Died | p. 8 |
| Save Queen of Sheba | p. 9 |
| Sing Down the Moon | p. 11 |
| Vision Quest | p. 13 |
| Weetzie Bat | p. 15 |
| Whichaway | p. 17 |
| The Winter Room | p. 19 |
| Witch Baby | p. 21 |
| Thinner | |
| Born into Light | p. 27 |
| The Cay | p. 29 |
| Close Enough to Touch | p. 30 |
| Cowboys Don't Cry | p. 32 |
| A Day No Pigs Would Die | p. 35 |
| Dear Lovey Hart, I Am Desperate | p. 37 |
| Devil's Race | p. 39 |
| Double Trouble | p. 41 |
| Harold and Maude | p. 43 |
| Heartbeat | p. 45 |
| I Heard the Owl Call My Name | p. 47 |
| If I Asked You, Would You Stay? | p. 49 |
| The Incredible Journey | p. 51 |
| A Kindness | p. 54 |
| The Leaving | p. 55 |
| Leroy and the Old Man | p. 57 |
| The Monument | p. 60 |
| Motown and Didi | p. 61 |
| My Daniel | p. 63 |
| No Dragons to Slay | p. 65 |
| Of Mice and Men | p. 67 |
| One Fat Summer | p. 70 |
| The Other Side of Dark | p. 72 |
| Sex Education: A Novel | p. 74 |
| Skinhead | p. 76 |
| Slake's Limbo | p. 78 |
| Snow Bound | p. 80 |
| Something Upstairs: A Tale of Ghosts | p. 82 |
| Strange Attractors | p. 84 |
| A Summer to Die | p. 86 |
| The Wild Children | p. 88 |
| Wolf of Shadows | p. 90 |
| Words by Heart | p. 92 |
| Thin | |
| The Accident | p. 97 |
| Ace Hits the Big Time | p. 99 |
| Canyons | p. 101 |
| The Contender | p. 103 |
| Don't Look Behind You | p. 105 |
| The Executioner | p. 107 |
| The Face on the Milk Carton | p. 109 |
| A Family Apart | p. 111 |
| Fell | p. 114 |
| The Girl in the Box | p. 115 |
| Hatchet | p. 117 |
| Here at the Scenic-Vu Motel | p. 119 |
| House of Stairs | p. 121 |
| I Know What You Did Last Summer | p. 123 |
| I Love You, Stupid! | p. 125 |
| Invincible Summer | p. 127 |
| Language of Goldfish | p. 129 |
| The Last Mission | p. 131 |
| Maniac Magee | p. 133 |
| Missing Since Monday | p. 135 |
| Nell's Quilt | p. 138 |
| The Outsiders | p. 139 |
| The Pigman | p. 142 |
| Plague Year | p. 144 |
| Playing Beatie Bow | p. 146 |
| Remembering the Good Times | p. 148 |
| Running Loose | p. 150 |
| The Shadow Brothers | p. 153 |
| The Silver Kiss | p. 155 |
| Simple Gifts | p. 156 |
| Taking Terri Mueller | p. 159 |
| Tex | p. 161 |
| Those Summer Girls I Never Met | p. 163 |
| A Very Touchy Subject | p. 164 |
| Voices After Midnight | p. 166 |
| The Year Without Michael | p. 168 |
| Tips for Writing Effective Book Reports | p. 173 |
| Tips for Writing Effective Booktalks | p. 175 |
| Recent Titles Popular with Teens | p. 179 |
| Thinnest | |
| Seedfolks | p. 179 |
| Whistle Me Home | p. 179 |
| Thinner | |
| Buried Onions | p. 180 |
| Clockwork | p. 181 |
| Heroes | p. 181 |
| No Man's Land | p. 182 |
| The Revelation of Saint Bruce | p. 182 |
| Toughing It | p. 183 |
| Vanishing | p. 184 |
| Thin | |
| Bad | p. 184 |
| Max the Mighty | p. 185 |
| The Music of Dolphins | p. 185 |
| The Sacrifice | p. 186 |
| The Terrorist | p. 186 |
| Author Index | p. 189 |
| Title Index | p. 193 |
| Curriculum Area Index | p. 195 |
| Genre Index | p. 201 |
| Readability Index | p. 205 |
| Subject Index | p. 207 |
| About the Author | p. 217 |
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