How to Gauge Age-Appropriate Reading

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Tuesday, April 21, 2015 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM EDT

Making book recommendations is a skill unto itself, but before you can even begin to pull titles for some of your younger customers, it is helpful to determine what level they are reading at and what types of books are most appropriate.  This session will focus on practices educators, librarians, and literacy experts employ to gauge this information, as well as successful bookseller tactics for steering kids and their parents toward books for which they may be better suited.

  • Summer Dawn Laurie, Books Inc. (San Francisco, CA)
  • Claudia Maceo, The Twig Book Shop (San Antonio, TX)
  • Lesley Farmer, Librarianship Professor at California State University, Long Beach
  • Judy Bulow, Tattered Cover Book Store (Denver, CO) (moderator)
     

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