What happens when a parent becomes traumatically injured? In Our Daddy Is Invincible! Alexis and Eric find out that their Daddy was badly hurt, something they thought impossible. They are scared for him and wonder how his injuries will change their lives. They learn that his love for them continues to be strong and that life goes on. There are people to help in their daddy's recovery, new adventures to be found, and new ways to find enjoyment together as a family. Turn the pages of this beautifully illustrated, hope-filled book and discover the possibilities. Our Daddy Is Invincible! is based on the true story of a Wounded Warrior and American hero and his family. This best-selling educational and inspirational book is now available in paperback.

Our Daddy Is Invincible!

Children's Books

Shannon Maxwell

Growing Up & Facts of Life

VOYA Press

Dark Futures is the only guide you need to connect teens with dystopian, apocalyptic, and post-apocalyptic books and media. Complete with plot summaries, dystopian and apocalyptic elements, 30-second booktalks, read-alike lists, and recommended audiences, this guide offers books, graphic novels, and movies for teen audiences that love The Hunger Games. Great for reader's advisory, booktalking, and collection development, Dark Futures belongs in your reader's advisory collection.

Dark Futures: A VOYA Guide to Apocalyptic, Post-Apocalyptic, and Dystopian Books and Media

Brandy Danner

Teen & Young Adult

VOYA's Guide to Intellectual Freedom for Teens offers school and public librarians a solution to the challenge of book challenges. A thorough explanation of the reasons young adult books are challenged; a look at censorship from the point of view of the author, the teacher, the parent, the teen, and the librarian; an examination of the tools in place to protect the intellectual freedom of teens, and an overview of several of the librarians who fought for intellectual freedom. Along with this extensive information are activities, programs, collection development resources, and more ways for librarians to take a proactive approach to educating the community to prevent challenges from occurring.

VOYA's Guide to Intellectual Freedom for Teens

Politics & Social Sciences

Margaret Auguste

Social Sciences

Commando Classics will help the teacher and librarian work together to present classic literature to teens in an irresistible way, by using what they already know: graphic media, pop culture, and traditional literature. Mythology, American literature, British literature, and Shakespeare, the high school English classes many teens are prepared to resist, will find themselves intrigued when they discover that it is all in the plot, and classic plots and references are in books, movies, cartoons, and even music. In Commando Classics you will learn how to teach the classics to even the most reluctant students, gain and extensive arsenal of resources and references, and realize teachers and librarians make perfect allies.

Commando Classics A Field Manual for Helping Teens Understand (and Maybe Even Enjoy) Classic Literature

Literature & Fiction

Daria Plumb

History & Criticism

VOYA's Perfect Tens, 2000 to 2012 is an outstanding tool for collection development for young adult literature. It is a compilation of titles reviewed in VOYA magazine that received a perfect 5P and 5Q rating in the 21st century. VOYA's young adult book reviews have helped build young adult library collections since 1978. Many young adult librarians rely on VOYA's reviews as their main resource for book selection. VOYA's unique Q (quality) and P (popularity) rating system is a popular tool to help busy young adult librarians make their purchase and reading selections in school and public libraries. The Q rating is strictly a 1 to 5 rating with 1 being the worst and 5 being the best, while the P rating is more subjective to the segment of the teen audience the book is meant to target. Major book awards have been added to this list of titles. Among the awards are: Michael L. Printz, John Newbery, Coretta Scott King, Best Books for Young Adults, Quick Picks for Young Adults, Teens' Top Ten, Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults, Guardian Award, Carnegie Medal, Best Fiction for Young Adults, Mythopoeic Fantasy Award, USA Today Bestseller, Nonfiction Award, Morris Award, and the Edgar Award.

Voya's Perfect Tens, 2000 to 2012

VOYA's Five-Foot Bookshelf: Essential Books for Professionals Who Serve Teens, 2000 through 2012 represents the best resources for young adult librarianship in the twenty-first century. These titles impressed VOYA' s reviewers, and most became essential professional resources for VOYA readers. They are presented in this compilation with the full original reviews. Included are professional books for both public and school librarians addressing policy issues, evaluation, public relations, advocacy, intellectual freedom, youth participation, programming, new research findings, education, literacy, technology, and similar topics. Also included are books from other disciplines on adolescent development; current youth issues; racial, ethnic, and gender issues; teen culture; and youth development (including such topics as mentoring, dropout prevention, and delinquency prevention). The intent of this professional reading list is to "identify books that increase our understanding of teenagers and how to serve them, serve as an inspiration to youth workers, and/or add to our knowledge of the field." (VOYA October 1997, p. 225) These books are so essential that it would be difficult to serve teens without having read them. Useful for new or experienced young adult librarians, this compilation is what you need to build an excellent professional collection for practical application or research.

Voya's Five-Foot Bookshelf: Essential Books for Professionals Who Serve Teens, 2000 to 2012

From its inception in 1999, VOYA's YA Spaces of Your Dreams column has featured library spaces especially designed for teens to enjoy. With an insightful introduction by noted YA spaces expert Anthony Bernier, PhD, this compiled collection shows how libraries, small, medium, and large, have improved current space or created new space where teen collections can reside and where teens can learn, socialize, and create. Whether your budget is meager or lush, use this collection when planning YA space of your dreams.

VOYA's YA Spaces of Your Dreams Collection

Anthony Bernier

Dorothy Broderick was a seminal figure in the development of library services, particularly services to young adults and teens, in the second half of the twentieth century. She was an articulate advocate for intellectual freedom and fought against censorship. As editor-in-chief of Voice of Youth Advocates (VOYA) magazine, which she co-founded with Mary K Chelton, Broderick wrote compelling editorials, a mix of incisive analysis or arguments and trenchant commentary, often punctuated with subtle and not-so-subtle humor. The editorials are collected here for the first time, and are complimented by selected articles written by Dorothy for VOYA and other professional publications. Essays about Dorothy have been contributed by three leading professionals. Dr. Betty Turock addresses Broderick's longevity as a fearless, irresistible, and challenging teacher, chiefly of professional young adult librarians. Patty Campbell draws upon scores of letters and documents to create a portrait of Broderick as a challenging and humorous personality and defender of the intellectual freedom of youth and their access to library services. The book's editor, Dr. Anthony Bernier, introduces Broderick as a pivotal historical figure in youth services and LIS generally - one emerging out of LIS's historical commitments to institutional agendas and into a vision of the library as better connected to contemporary cultural affairs with commitments to the public's desires.

The Collected Wit and Wisdom of Dorothy M. Broderick: The VOYA Editorials and More

Sex in the Library is the ideal source for collection development of materials dealing with sex and sexuality for teens. Both public and school librarians will benefit from the guidance for establishing selection policies in this area and for sharing those policies with teachers, parents, administrators and teens. The book provides no-holds-barred and no-body-parts-left-out reviews of more than 100 books to be considered for collections. The reviews include ratings on sexual content, language, and violence as well as recommended age level and the use of "alert" words - words that often spark controversy. Readers also will appreciate as the ideas for educating students and adults about the mission statements of school and public libraries.

Sex in the Library: A Guide to Sexual Content in Teen Literature

Storms, Aarene

Heller, Mary Jo

The Tween Scene: A Year of Programs for 10- to 14-Year Olds is a treasure chest of programs, tips, and ideas for serving the tweens coming to your library. No longer children, while not yet teens, tweens need to have programs geared to their interests and age level. The authors tell you how to get started, how to publicize to tweens, and provide ice breakers to get tweens talking. Included are four programs for each month of the year. Each program description offers advertisement ideas, a guide for preparation, forms, room set-up suggestions, a complete outline for the program presentation, a list of materials used, a budget, and personal comments and suggestions from the authors' experiences. If you are thinking about initiating programming for tweens, or need fresh ideas for your group, this is the book you need. Includes many color illustrations and reproducibles.

The Tween Scene: A Year of Programs for 10- to 14-Year-Olds

Balducci, Tiffany

Wilkins-Bester, Brianne

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