Booktalks
Booktalking is one of the most effective way to get kids reading. Entice young readers to open a book … engage their interest … invite them into a story.
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!
NEW Video Booktalks
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A
Absolutely,
Positively Not Watch this video booktalk
Adaline
Falling Star
Aldabra,
the Tortoise Who Loved Shakespeare
All
Shook Up
All
the Stars in the Sky: The Santa Fe Trail, Diary of Florrie Mack Ryder,
The Santa Fe Trail, 1848
Allie Finkle's Rules for Girls: Moving Day
Amalee
The
Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips
Amelia’s
War
Amulet Book 1: The Stonekeeper
Any
Small Goodness: A Novel of the Barrio
Aquamarine
The Arrival Watch this video booktalk
At
Her Majesty’s Request
At
the Crossing Places
Avril
Crump and Her Amazing Clones
B
Back
to the Divide
Bad,
Badder, Baddest
Bat
6 Watch this video booktalk
Beast
(by Ally Keenen)
Behind
the Mountains
Being
Birdland
Birdwing
The
Black Belt Club #1: Seven Wheels of Power
Black
Hands, White Sails
Blade
of Fire
Blister
Blizzard!
The
Blue Roan Child
Bluish
The
Book of Everything
The
Book of Time
Born
Confused
Bounce
Breakfast
at Bloomingdale’s
The
Boy Who Dared Watch this video booktalk
Built
to Last
C
Call
Me Maria
Candy
Canned
Charlie
Bone and the Beast Watch this video booktalk
Charlie
Bone and the Castle of Mirrors
Charlie
Bone and the Invisible Boy
Chasing
Vermeer Watch this video booktalk
Children
of the Lamp Book One: The Akhenaten Adventure
Children
of the Lamp Book Two: The Blue Djinn of Babylon
Children
of the Lamp Book Three: The Cobra King of Kathmandu
Children
of the Lamp Book Four: The Day of the Djinn Warriors
Christmas
Doll, The
Clem’s
Chances
Click Watch this video booktalk
A
Coal Miner’s Bride
Crackback
Crashing
The
Cry of the Icemark
Crystal
Mask (Echorium Sequence)
A Curse Dark as Gold
D
The
Dark Hills Divide Watch this video booktalk
The
Darkest Evening
Darkside
Days
of Jubilee: The End of Slavery in the United States
Dear
America: Look to the Hills
Dear
Miss Breed
Deep Down Popular
Deliver
Us from Normal
Desperate
Journey
The
Devil’s Toenail
Dirty
Liar
The
Divine Wind: A Love Story
Does
My Head Look Big in This? Watch this video booktalk
A
Dog’s Life: The Autobiography of a Stray
Downtown
Boy
The
Dragon’s Son
Dragonsdale
Drawing
Lessons
E
Elijah
of Buxton Watch this video booktalk
Ellie
Chronicles Book 1: While I Live
Elvis and Olive
Enter
Three Witches
Encyclopedia
Horrifica
Escape
from Botany Bay
Esperanza
Rising Watch this video booktalk
Everybody's
Revolution
Evil
Star: Book Two of the Gatekeepers
F
Far
From Normal
Fat
Camp Commandos
Fat
Camp Commandos Go West
Fearless
Fight
Game
Fighting
Ruben Wolfe
Find
Where the Wind Goes
Fire
Star Watch this video booktalk
The
Fire Within
The
Firework-Maker’s Daughter
First
Person Fiction: Finding My Hat
The
Fish in Room 11
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
A
Friendship for Today Watch this video booktalk
G
Game
of Sunken Places, The
Geronimo
Getting
the Girl
Ghost
Cats
Ghost
Ship
Girl
in Blue
The
Girl with the Broken Wing
The
Great Brain Book: An Inside Look at the Inside of Your Head
The
Greatest: Muhammad Ali
Green
Angel
Greetings
From Planet Earth Watch this video booktalk
Gregor
and the Code of Claw
Gregor
and the Curse of the Warmbloods: Book Three in the Underland Chronicles
Gregor
and the Marks of Secret
Gregor
and the Prophecy of Bane: Book Two in the Underland Chronicles
Gregor
the Overlander: Book One in the Underland Chronicles Watch this video booktalk
Grey
Griffins 1: The Revenge of the Shadow King
Grey
Griffins 2: The Rise of the Black Wolf
Grey
Griffins 3: The Fall of the Templar
Griffin's Castle
H
Half-Human
Hard
Hit
Harlem
Summer Watch this video booktalk
Harry
Houdini
Harry
Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
The
Haunting of Alaizabel Cray
The
Heavenly Village
The
House on Falling Star Hill
Hidden
Roots
Hitler
Youth: Growing Up In Hitler’s Shadow
A
Hive for the Honeybee
A
Hole in the World
Home
at Last
Hope
in My Heart
Hotlanta
How I Saved My Father's Life (And Ruined Everything Else)
I
Ibby's Magic Weekend
Ice
Fire
I
Am the Great Horse
I
Don't Want to Be Crazy
I,
Freddy: Book One in the Golden Hamster Saga
In
the Shadow of the Ark
Indigo
Inkheart Watch this video booktalk
Inkspell
An
Innocent Soldier
Into the Mist
The
Invention of Hugo Cabret Watch this video booktalk
Island
of Hope: The Story of Ellis Island and the Journey to America
J
The
Jacob Ladder
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
K
Kensuke’s
Kingdom
The Key to Rondo
The
Keys to the Kingdom, Book 3: Drowned Wednesday
The
Keys to the Kingdom Book 4: Sir Thursday
The
Keys to the Kingdom Book 5: Lady Friday
Kidnapped
# 1: The Abduction
The
King of Slippery Falls
Kiss
Me Tomorrow
Kissing
the Rain
Kringle
L
The
Land of Elyon, Book 1: The Dark Hills Divide Watch this video booktalk
The
Land of Elyon Book 2: Beyond the Valley of the Thorns
The
Land of Elyon Book 3: The Tenth City
The
Last Book in the Universe Watch this video booktalk
Learning
the Game
The
Legend of the Wandering King
LightLand
Lights,
Camera, Amalee
A Little Friendly Advice
Little
Soldier
Lucas
Lucky
Lush
M
Magic Pickle and the Planet of the Grapes
Magic
Steps (Circle Opens #1)
The
Magician Trilogy Book One: The Snow Spider
The
Magician Trilogy Book Two: Emlyn’s Moon
The
Magician Trilogy Book Three: Chestnut Soldier
Main
Street #1: Welcome to Camden Falls Watch this video booktalk
Martyn
Pig
Medusa Jones
Message
in the Sky: Corey’s Underground Railroad Diary, Book Three
Midnight
for Charlie Bone
Midnight
Magic
Millicent
Min: Girl Genius Watch this video booktalk
Mirror,
Mirror: Twisted Tales
Montmorency
and the Assassins
Montmorency
on the Rocks: Doctor, Aristocrat, Murderer?
Montmorency:
Thief, Liar, Gentleman
Montmorency’s
Revenge
Moonlight
Man
Mosey
The
Mummy’s Mother
The
Murder of Bindy Mackenzie Watch this video booktalk
N
Never
Mind the Goldbergs
Nightrise:
Book 3 of The Gatekeepers
Nightsong
No
Man’s Land: A Young Soldier’s Story
Notes
from the Midnight Driver Watch this video booktalk
O
Officer
Buckle and Gloria
Oggie Cooder
On
Christmas Eve
One
Eye Laughing, the Other Weeping: The Diary of Julie Weiss, Vienna,
Austria to New York, 1938
Ordinary
Ghosts
Our
House
Out
of the Dust Watch this video booktalk
Out
Standing in My Field
P
P.S.
Longer Letter Later
Paint
the Wind Watch this video booktalk
Perfect
World
Perloo
the Bold
Peter
Raven Under Fire
The
Pity Party: 8th Grade In The Life Of Me, Cass
Plastic
Angel
Poison
Pray
Hard
Pure
Sunshine
R
Raven
of the Waves
Raven’s
Gate: Book One of the Gatekeepers
REM
World
Reincarnation
Riding
Freedom
The
Road of the Dead
Roanoke:
The Mystery of a Lost Colony
Rover
Saves Christmas
Rules Watch this video booktalk
Running
Back to Ludie
S
Safe
at Home
A
Sailor Returns
Samir
and Yonotan
Sandry’s
Book (Circle of Magic #1)
Saving
the Buffalo
Seeds
of Hope: The Gold Rush Diary of Susanna Fairchild, California Territory
The
Seeing Stone
Shadow
Life: A Portrait of Anne Frank and Her Family
Shatterglass
(The Circle Opens)
Sherlock
Holmes and the Baker Street Irregulars, Casebook No. One: The Fall
of the Amazing Zalindas
Shutting
Out the Sky: Life in the Tenements of New York
The
Singer of All Songs: Book One in the Chanters of Tremaris Trilogy
Sirena
Slam Dunk
The
Slightly True Story of Cedar B. Hartley,(Who Planned to Live an Unusual
Life)
Smiler’s
Bones
Snail
Mail No More
So
Totally Emily Ebers
Someday
Song
Quest (Echorium Sequence)
A
Special Fate
Spell
Book of Listen Taylor, The
Spellfall
Splintering
St.
Michael’s Scales
Stanford
Wong Flunks Big Time
The
Starving Times: Elizabeth’s Jamestown Colony Diary Book Two
Stay
Strong: Simple Life Lessons for Teens
Stay
True
Stick
and Whittle
Storm
Thief
The
Story of a Seagull and the Cat Who Taught Her to Fly
Sunrise Over Fallujah
Survival
In the Storm
Surviving
Aunt Marsha
Swindle
T
Talking
in the Dark
Tell
Me What You See
Ten
Ways to Make My Sister Disappear
The
Tenth Power: Book 3 in the Chanters of Tremaris Trilogy
The
Terrorist
Tomorrow,
When the War Began
Traitor
King
The
Truth Cookie
Tunnels Watch this video booktalk
Twice
Upon a Time: Rapunzel, the One with all the Hair (Twice Upon a Time)
Tyrell Watch this video booktalk
U
Ulysses
Moore and the Door to Time
Up
Before Daybreak: Cotton and People in America
V
Valley
of the Moon: The California Diary of Maria Rosalia Milagros
The
Valley of the Wolves
W
War
Horse
The
Waterless Sea: Book Two in the Chanters of Tremaris Trilogy
Waves
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
Wilderness
The
Will of the Empress Watch this video booktalk
The
Wright 3 Watch this video booktalk
Y
The
Year My Sister Got Lucky Watch this video booktalk
Z
Zen
Shorts Watch this video booktalk
