Library Materials and Services for Teen Girls (Libraries by Katie O'Dell

By Katie O'Dell

Libraries can outline their carrier targets to higher serve and empower youngster ladies. This booklet exhibits how one can make a distinction on your group by way of developing partnerships with corporations, providing developmentally applicable programming, and offering well timed reader's advisory prone adapted to this inhabitants. a quick historical past of woman energy, assortment improvement instructions, library programming principles, and matters relating to ladies and know-how, volunteering, collaboration, and outreach are supplied. An creation, epilogue, bibliography, and index entire the book.Make a distinction on your group: enhance your library providers to youngster ladies! This publication describes how libraries can outline their carrier targets to higher serve?€”and even empower?€”young ladies. writer O'Dell describes the best way to identify partnerships with agencies, supply developmentally applicable programming, and supply well timed reader's advisory services.Everything you want to comprehend is gifted the following: a brief background of lady energy, assortment improvement guidance, library programming principles, and matters concerning ladies and know-how, volunteering, collaboration, and outreach. An advent, epilogue, bibliography, and index entire the booklet.

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Pinkney, Andrea Davis. Let It Shine: Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters. New York: Harcourt/Gulliver Books, 2000. Ten extraordinary African American women who fought for their rights are profiled. Reich, Susanna. Clara Schumann: Piano Virtuoso. New York: Clarion Books, 1999. The story of Schumann, who made her professional debut at age nine and devoted her life to her music. Roehm, Michelle. Girls Who Rocked the World 2: From Harriet Tubman to Mia Hamm. Hillsboro, OR: Beyond Words, 2000. Famous women from a variety of fields are profiled in short, accessible entries.

New York: Scribner, 1997. Nineteen-year-old Abbie sets out to become a fashion designer, falls for the wrong guy, and finds the right friends to pull her through. Trice, Dawn Turner. Only Twice I've Wished for Heaven. New York: Crown, 1997. Tempestt rebels against the upscale Chicago neighborhood her family moves into and escapes outside the fence to the city streets to find life beyond country clubs. Vijayaraghavan, Vineeta. Motherland. New York: Soho, 2001. Maya, raised in America, is sent back to India for the summer.

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