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This genre guide to graphic novel reading interests helps librarians and teachers choose titles appropriate for children and 'tweens. Librarians and teachers know how important graphic novels can be in engaging young readers and even getting reluctant readers interested in books. Graphic Novels for Young Readers: A Genre Guide for Ages 4-14 identifies and describes the growing number of graphic novels that are suitable for and popular with readers ages 6-14. Taking a genre approach, the book organizes approximately 400 titles, most of them published in the last five years, according to genre, subgenre, and theme. It describes series and lists bibliographic information for each title. Also included are subjects and read-alikes, as well as designations of awards. A great readers' advisory tool, this guide can also be used for collection development in school and public libraries.

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This newest addition to the Genreflecting Advisory series offers ample confirmation that graphic novels are becoming staples of library collections. School and public libraries will find it helpful to have this baseline guidance for both collection development and reader's advisory. - Booklist Librarians looking to beef up their graphic-novel collections will do well to get their hands on this valuable volume... A thorough, well-organized, one-stop shop for quality graphic novels. - School Library Journal

<p> Librarians looking to beef up their graphic-novel collections will do well to get their hands on this valuable volume. ... A thorough, well-organized, one-stop shop for quality graphic novels. - <p>School Library Journal

Librarians looking to beef up their graphic-novel collections will do well to get their hands on this valuable volume. . . . A thorough, well-organized, one-stop shop for quality graphic novels. - School Library Journal This newest addition to the Genreflecting Advisory series offers ample confirmation that graphic novels are becoming staples of library collections. School and public libraries will find it helpful to have this baseline guidance for both collection development and reader's advisory. - Booklist

Librarians looking to beef up their graphic-novel collections will do well to get their hands on this valuable volume... A thorough, well-organized, one-stop shop for quality graphic novels. - School Library Journal This newest addition to the Genreflecting Advisory series offers ample confirmation that graphic novels are becoming staples of library collections. School and public libraries will find it helpful to have this baseline guidance for both collection development and reader's advisory. - Booklist

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Nathan Herald is a professional writer and editorial consultant.

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