For the Love of Books: A Guide to Help Teachers Connect Middle Grades Readers with Literature

This book includes in-depth descriptions of young adolescent novels organized by theme and useful teaching ideas. The themes are clustered in the following categories:

• Against the Tide - novels about standing up and speaking out
• A Tangle of Emotions - novels about family relations
• When Danger Threatens - novels about survival
• Beyond Stereotypes - novels about growing up in other cultures
• No Longer Strangers - novels about strangers
• Bruised and Outside - novels about the homeless

from the foreword.