Encourage elementary and middle school readers to read quality titles pertaining to subjects from across the curriculum This guide features recently published 1998 2001 fiction and nonfiction titles that are either award winners written by award winning authors positively reviewed in national reading advocacy journals or representative of an emerging trend in children s literature Each booktalk entry consists of bibliographic data a plot summary a short booktalk curriculum connections and identification of related books TOPICS INSIDE Relationships coming of age sports art music dance holidays adventure science math social studies and others