Booktalks

"Booktalking" is one of the most effective ways to get kids reading! Entice young readers to open a book…engage their interest…invite them into the story…with these booktalks by librarian and booktalking expert Joni R. Bodart.

You are free to use these booktalks in a live verbal presentation without express permission or acknowledgement. You may either quote them word-for-word, or excerpt or adapt them any way you like. Be creative — make these booktalks your own and add them to your repertoire!

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Absolutely, Positively Not Adaline Falling Star Aldabra, the Tortoise Who Loved Shakespeare All Shook Up: The Life and Death of Elvis Presley All the Stars in the Sky: The Santa Fe Trail, Diary of Florrie Mack Ryder, The Santa Fe Trail, 1848 Amalee Amelia's War Any Small Goodness: A Novel of the Barrio Aquamarine At Her Majesty's Request At the Crossing Places Avril Crump and Her Amazing Clones
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Back to the Divide Bad, Badder, Baddest Bandit's Moon Bat 6 Beast by Ally Kennan Behind the Mountains Birdland Birdwing Black Belt Club, The #1: Seven Wheels of Power Black Hands, White Sails Blister Blizzard! Blue Roan Child, The Bluish Born Confused Built to Last
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Call Me Maria Candy Charlie Bone & the Castle of Mirrors Charlie Bone and the Invisible Boy Chasing Vermeer Children of the Lamp: The Akhenaten Adventure Children of the Lamp Book Two: The Blue Djinn of Babylon Christmas Doll, The Clem's Chances Coal Miner's Bride, A Crackback Crashing Cry of the Icemark, The Crystal Mask (Echorium Sequence)
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Darkest Evening, The Days of Jubilee: The End of Slavery in the United States Dear America: Look to the Hills Dear Miss Breed Deliver Us from Normal Devil's Toenail, The Divine Wind, The: A Love Story A Dog’s Life: The Autobiography of a Stray Downtown Boy Dragon's Son, The Drawing Lessons
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Escape from Botany Bay Esperanza Rising Evil Star: Book Two of the Gatekeepers
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Fat Camp Commandos Fat Camp Commandos Go West Fighting Ruben Wolfe Find Where the Wind Goes Fire Within, The Firework-Maker's Daughter, The First Person Fiction: Finding My Hat Fish in Room 11, the Five Smooth Stones, Hope's Diary: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1776 Flight to Freedom For This Land, Meg's Prairie Diary, Book Two Forbidden Forest: The Story of Little John and Robin Hood Freedom's Wings: Corey's Diary, Kentucky to Ohio, 1857
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Game of Sunken Places, The Gathering the Dew Getting the Girl Ghost Cats Ghost Ship Girl in Blue The Girl with the Broken Wing Great Brain Book, the: An Inside Look At The Inside of Your Head Greatest: Muhammad Ali, the Green Angel Gregor and the Curse of the Warmbloods: Book Three in the Underland Chronicles Gregor and the Prophecy of Bane Gregor the Overlander
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Half-Human Hard Hit Harry Houdini Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone Haunting of Alaizabel Cray, The Heavenly Village, The The House on Falling Star Hill Hidden Roots Hitler Youth: Growing Up In Hitler's Shadow Hive for the Honeybee, A Hole in the World, A Home at Last Hope in My Heart
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I, Freddy: Book One in the Golden Hamster Saga I Am the Great Horse I Don’t Want to be Crazy In the Shadow of the Ark Indigo Inkheart Inkspell An Innocent Soldier Island of Hope: The Story of Ellis Island and the Journey to America
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Jacob Ladder, The Jackie's Nine: Jackie Robinson's Values to Live By Jinx on the Divide Johnny Hazzard Journal of Augustus Pelletier, The: The Lewis and Clark Expedition Journal of Ben Uchida, The, Citizen 13559, Mirror Lake Internment Camp, CA, 1942 Just Juice
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Kensuke's Kingdom Keys to the Kingdom, The Book 3: Drowned Wednesday Kidnapped # 1: The Abduction King of Slippery Falls, The Kiss Me Tomorrow Kissing the Rain Kringle
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Land of Elyon, The Book 1: The Dark Hills Divide Land of Elyon Book 2: Beyond the Valley of the Thorns Last Book in the Universe, The Learning the Game The Legend of the Wandering King LightLand Lights, Camera, Amalee Little Soldier Lucas Lucky
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Magic Steps (Circle Opens #1) Magician Trilogy Book One: The Snow Spider, The Martyn Pig Message in the Sky: Corey's Underground Railroad Diary, Book Three Midnight for Charlie Bone Midnight Magic Millicent Min: Girl Genius Mirror, Mirror: Twisted Tales Montmorency and the Assassins Montmorency on the Rocks: Doctor, Aristocrat, Murderer? Montmorency: Thief, Liar, Gentleman Moonlight Man Mosey Mummy's Mother, The
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Never Mind the Goldbergs No Man's Land: A Young Soldier's Story
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One Eye Laughing, the Other Weeping: The Diary of Julie Weiss, Vienna, Austria to New York, 1938 Our House Out of the Dust Out Standing in My Field
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P.S. Longer Letter Later Perfect World Perloo the Bold Peter Raven Under Fire Pity Party, The: 8th Grade In The Life Of Me, Cass Plastic Angel Pray Hard Pure Sunshine
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Raven of the Waves Raven's Gate: Book One of the Gatekeepers REM World Riding Freedom Rover Saves Christmas Running Back to Ludie
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Safe at Home Sailor Returns, A Samir and Yonotan Sandry's Book (Circle of Magic #1) Seeds of Hope: The Gold Rush Diary of Susanna Fairchild, California Territory Seeing Stone, The Shadow Life: A Portrait of Anne Frank and Her Family Shatterglass (The Circle Opens) Sherlock Holmes and the Baker Street Irregulars: The Fall of the Amazing Zalindas, Casebook No. 1 Shutting Out the Sky: Life in the Tenements of New York Singer of All Songs, The: Book One in the Chanters of Tremaris Trilogy Sirena Slightly True Story of Cedar B. Hartley, The (Who Planned to Live an Unusual Life) Smiler's Bones Snail Mail No More Someday Song Quest (Echorium Sequence) Special Fate, A Spellfall Splintering St. Michael's Scales Starving Times, The: Elizabeth's Jamestown Colony Diary Book Two Stay Strong: Simple Life Lessons for Teens Stay True Stick and Whittle Storm Thief Story of a Seagull and the Cat Who Taught Her to Fly, The Survival In the Storm Surviving Aunt Marsha
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Talking in the Dark Tell Me What You See Terrorist, The Thief Lord, The The Truth Cookie Tomorrow, When the War Began Twice Upon a Time: Rapunzel, the One with All the Hair
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Ulysses Moore: The Door to Time
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Valley of the Moon: The California Diary of Maria Rosalia Milagros
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Waterless Sea, The: Book Two in the Chanters of Tremaris Trilogy Westward to Home: Joshua's Oregon Trail Diary Book One Where Have All the Flowers Gone? The Diary of Molly MacKenzie Flaherty, Boston, Massachusetts, 1968 The Will of the Empress
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Zen Shorts
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