Patrick Jones

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• Patrick Jones
• www.connectingya.com

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WHAT will reluctant readers read? (Twenty four
carets)

• Books realistic teen fiction

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Young adults like fiction that

• 1. Show YAs being independent from adults.
• 2. Reassure YAs they are "normal".
• 3. Present role models.
• 4. Demonstrate problem solving in action.
• 5. Allow to feel like winners/overcoming
  odds.
• 6. Display relationships of all sorts.
• 7. Capture intensity and uncertainty of
  their life.
• 8. Help develop of socially responsible
  behavior
• 9. Explore lives of other teenagers.
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WHAT will reluctant readers read? (Twenty four
carets)

• Books genre teen fiction.

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WHAT will reluctant readers read? (Twenty four
carets)

• Books fiction just for reluctant readers.

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WHAT will reluctant readers read? (Twenty four
carets)

• Books series fiction .

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WHAT will reluctant readers read? (Twenty four
carets)

• Books adult fiction.

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WHAT will reluctant readers read? (Twenty four
carets)

• Books urban fiction.
• www.streetfiction.org

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WHAT will reluctant readers read? (Twenty four
carets)

• Books short fiction.

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WHAT will reluctant readers read? (Twenty four
carets)

• Books childrens books

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WHAT will reluctant readers read? (Twenty four
carets)

• Books nonfiction (general).

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WHAT will reluctant readers read? (Twenty four
carets)

• Books nonfiction biography.

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WHAT will reluctant readers read? (Twenty four
carets)

• Books nonfiction illustration heavy books

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WHAT will reluctant readers read? (Twenty four
carets)

• Books nonfiction informational books in series

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WHAT will reluctant readers read? (Twenty four
carets)

• Books nonfiction pop goes the culture

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WHAT will reluctant readers read? (Twenty four
carets)

• Books graphic novels.

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WHAT will reluctant readers read? (Twenty four
carets)

• Books - collected comics.

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WHAT will reluctant readers read? (Twenty four
carets)

• Books Manga.

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WHAT will reluctant readers read? (Twenty four
carets)

• Books poetry

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WHAT will reluctant readers read? (Twenty four
carets)

• Magazines

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WHAT will reluctant readers read? (Twenty four
carets)

• Newspapers

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WHAT will reluctant readers read? (Twenty four
carets)

• Tabloids

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WHAT will reluctant readers read? (Twenty four
carets)

• Comic Books

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Comic Books

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WHAT will reluctant readers read? (Twenty four
carets)

• Text on a computer

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WHAT will reluctant readers read? (Twenty four
carets)

• Audio books

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WHAT will reluctant readers read? (Twenty four
carets)

• DVDs / movies

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Connecting Young Adults and LibrariesPatrick
Joneshttp//www.connectingya.com

• Consulting, training, and coaching for providing
  powerful youth services including library card
  campaigns and web projects
• patrick_at_connectingYA.com