Booktalks

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

Now you can watch quick video versions of booktalks performed by Scholastic staff members. They're a fun, visual way to get your students excited about reading.

See the newest videos: Ways To Live Forever, Inkdeath, The Hunger Games, The Good Neighbors: Kin, and Top 8.

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Absolutely Maybe Absolutely, Positively Not Watch this video booktalk Adaline Falling Star After Ever After Airhead Watch this video booktalk Airhead #2: Being Nikki Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians Alcatraz Versus the Scrivner's Bones Aldabra, the Tortoise Who Loved Shakespeare Alec Flint, Super Sleuth Mystery #1: The Nina, the Pinta, and the Vanishing Treasure Watch this video booktalk All Shook Up: The Life and Death of Elvis Presley Watch this video booktalk All the Broken Pieces Watch this video booktalk All the Stars in the Sky: The Santa Fe Trail, Diary of Florrie Mack Ryder Allie Finkle's Rules for Girls: Moving Day Watch this video booktalk Allie Finkle's Rules for Girls: #2 The New Girl Watch this video booktalk Allie Finkle #3: Best Friends and Drama Queens Amalee The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips Amelia’s War Amulet Book 1: The Stonekeeper Watch this video booktalk 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
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Back to the Divide Bad, Badder, Baddest Bat 6 Watch this video booktalk Beast Behind the Mountains Being Birdland Birdwing The Black Belt Club #1: Seven Wheels of Power Black Hands, White Sails Black Rabbit Summer Watch this video booktalk Blister Blizzard! Blue Mountain Trouble The Blue Roan Child Bluish Bobby vs. Girls (Accidentally) Bone: Rose Book of Everything The Book of Time The Book of Time, Book Two: The Gate of Days Book of Tormod: A Templar's Apprentice Born Confused The Boy Who Dared Watch this video booktalk Bounce Box Out Watch this video booktalk Breakfast at Bloomingdale’s Built to Last
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The Calder Game Watch this video booktalk Call Me Maria Candy Canned Carlos Is Gonna Get It Catching Fire Charlie Bone and the Beast Watch this video booktalk Charlie Bone and the Castle of Mirrors Charlie Bone and the Invisible Boy Charlie Bone and the Shadow Chasing Lincoln's Killer: The Search for John Wilkes Booth Chasing Vermeer Watch this video booktalk Chanters of Tremaris Trilogy, Book 1: The Singer of All Songs Chanters of Tremaris Trilogy, Book 3: The Tenth Power 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 The Christmas Doll Clem’s Chances Click Watch this video booktalk A Coal Miner’s Bride Crackback Crashing Crossing to Paradise Watch this video booktalk Crystal Mask (Echorium Sequence) A Curse Dark as Gold Cyberia
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The Darkest Evening Darkside Darkside Book Two: Lifeblood Daughters of the Sea: Hannah Dawn 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 Destroy All Cars The Devil’s Toenail Dirty Liar Distant Waves 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 Dog Lost Watch this video booktalk Doom Machine Downtown Boy The Dragon’s Son Dragons of Wayward Crescent: Gruffen Dragonsdale Drawing Lessons Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie
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Elijah of Buxton Watch this video booktalk Ellie Chronicles Book 1: While I Live Elly: My True Story of the Holocaust Elvis and Olive Encyclopedia Horrifica Enter Three Witches Esperanza Rising Watch this video booktalk Everybody’s Revolution
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The Fall of the Amazing Zalindas, Sherlock Holmes and the Baker Street Irregulars: Casebook No. 1 Far From Normal Fat Camp Commandos Fat Camp Commandos Go West Fearless Fight Game Fighting Ruben Wolfe Find Where the Wind Goes The Fire Within Firefight 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 Forget Me Not: From the Life of Willa Havisham Freedom’s Wings: Corey’s Diary, Kentucky to Ohio, 1857 A Friendship for Today Watch this video booktalk Frontier Magic #1: Thirteenth Child
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The Game of Sunken Places Gatekeepers #1: Raven's Gate Gatekeepers #2: Evil Star Gatekeepers #3: Nightrise Gatekeepers #4: Necropolis Gentlemen Geronimo Getting the Girl Ghost Cats Ghost Ship Girl in Blue The Girl with the Broken Wing The Good Neighbors #1: Kin Watch this video booktalk The Greatest: Muhammad Ali Green Angel Green Witch Greetings From Planet Earth Watch this video booktalk Gregor and the Code of Claw Gregor and the Marks of Secret: Book Four in the Underland Chronicles Gregor the Overlander: Book One in the Underland Chronicles Watch this video booktalk Gregor and the Prophecy of Bane: Book Two in the Underland Chronicles Gregor and the Curse of the Warmbloods: Book Three in the Underland Chronicles 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 Gully's Travels Watch this video booktalk
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Half-Human Hard Hit Harlem Summer Watch this video booktalk Harry Houdini Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone The Haunting of Alaizabel Cray Heartsinger Here Lies Arthur Watch this video booktalk The Heavenly Village The House on Falling Star Hill Hidden Roots 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) How to Say Goodbye in Robot How to Steal a Car The Hunger Games Watch this video booktalk
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I, Freddy: Book One in the Golden Hamster Saga I Am the Great Horse Ibby’s Magic Weekend Ice Cream Con Icemark Chronicles #1: Cry of the Icemark Icemark Chronicles #2: Blade of Fire Icemark Chronicles #3: The Last Battle of the Icemark I Don’t Want to be Crazy Igraine the Brave In the Shadow of the Ark Indigo Inkdeath Watch this video booktalk Inkheart Watch this video booktalk Inkspell Watch this video booktalk An Innocent Soldier Into the Mist Into the Volcano The Invention of Hugo Cabret Watch this video booktalk Island of Hope: The Story of Ellis Island and the Journey to America
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The Jacob Ladder Jackie’s Nine: Jackie Robinson’s Values to Live By Watch this video booktalk Jinx on the Divide Johnny Hazzard The Journal of Augustus Pelletier, The Lewis and Clark Expedition The Journal of Ben Uchida, Citizen 13559, Mirror Lake Internment Camp, CA, 1942 Julia Gillian (And the Art of Knowing) Watch this video booktalk Julia Gillian (and the Quest for Joy) Julian Rodriguez Episode One: Trash Crisis on Earth Watch this video booktalk Just Juice
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Kendra Watch this video booktalk Kensuke’s Kingdom The Key to Rondo Keys to the Kingdom, Book 3: Drowned Wednesday Keys to the Kingdom, Book 4: Sir Thursday Keys to the Kingdom, Book 5: Lady Friday Keys to the Kingdom, Book 6: Superior Saturday The Keys to the Kingdom #7: Lord Sunday Kidnapped # 1: The Abduction The King of Slippery Falls Kiss Me Tomorrow Kissing the Rain Kringle
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The Lab Watch this video booktalk Land of Elyon, Book 1: The Dark Hills Divide Watch this video booktalk Land of Elyon Book 2: Beyond the Valley of the Thorns Land of Elyon Book 3: The Tenth City Land of Elyon Book 4: Stargazer The Last Book in the Universe Watch this video booktalk The Last Dragon Chronicles #1: The Fire Within The Last Dragon Chronicles #2: Icefire The Last Dragon Chronicles #3: Firestar Watch this video booktalk The Last Dragon Chronicles #4: The Fire Eternal Learning the Game The Legend of the Wandering King LightLand Lights, Camera, Amalee Lips Touch: Three Times A Little Friendly Advice Little Soldier Lucas Lucky Lush Lyonesse: The Well Between the Worlds Lyonesse Book II: Darksolstice
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Magic Pickle and the Planet of the Grapes Watch this video booktalk 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 3: Chestnut Soldier Malice Main Street #1: Welcome to Camden Falls Watch this video booktalk Map of the Known World Marcelo in the Real World Martyn Pig Medusa Jones Melting Stones 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 Missile Mouse: The Star Crusher Montmorency and the Assassins Montmorency on the Rocks: Doctor, Aristocrat, Murderer? Montmorency’s Revenge Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit Watch this video booktalk Moon and Sun #1: The Ruby Key Watch this video booktalk Moon and Sun #2: The Silver Door Moonlight Man Moribito II: The Guardian of the Darkeness Mosey Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg The Mummy’s Mother Murder at Midnight The Murder of Bindy Mackenzie Watch this video booktalk
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Never Mind the Goldbergs News for Dogs Nightsong No Man’s Land: A Young Soldier’s Story Notes From the Midnight Driver Watch this video booktalk
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Oggie Cooder On Christmas Eve One Eye Laughing, the Other Weeping: The Diary of Julie Weiss, Vienna, Austria to New York, 1938 Operation Yes Ordinary Ghosts Our House Out of the Dust Watch this video booktalk Out Standing in My Field
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Paint the Wind Watch this video booktalk Pancakes for Supper P.S. Longer Letter Later Pemba's Song 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 Princess Plot Pure Sunshine Purge
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Raider's Ransom Raven of the Waves REM World Remote Control Reincarnation Riding Freedom Rissa Bartholomew's Declaration of Independence Road of the Dead Roanoke: The Mystery of a Lost Colony Roar Rover Saves Christmas Ruined Rules Watch this video booktalk Running Back to Ludie
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Safe at Home A Sailor Returns Same Difference Samir and Yonotan Sandry’s Book (Circle of Magic #1) Sassy: Little Sister is Not My Name! Saving the Buffalo Scarlet Fever Sea Change The Season 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: The Fall of the Amazing Zalindas, Casebook No. 1 Shiver 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 Skeleton Creek Watch this video booktalk Skeleton Creek #2: Ghost in the Machine Slam Dunk The Slightly True Story of Cedar B. Hartley (Who Planned to Live an Unusual Life) Smiler’s Bones Smile Snail Mail No More So Totally Emily Ebers The Snow Spider, Book One in the Magician Trilogy Someday Song of the Sparrow Song Quest (Echorium Sequence) A Special Fate The Spell Book of Listen Taylor 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 The Stone Goddess Storm Thief The Story of a Seagull and the Cat Who Taught Her to Fly Suite Scarlett Watch this video booktalk Sunny Holiday Survival In the Storm Surviving Aunt Marsha Swindle
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Tales from Outer Suburbia Talking in the Dark A Taste for Rabbit Tell Me What You See Ten Things I Hate About Me Watch this video booktalk Ten Ways to Make My Sister Disappear Tentacles The Terrorist And Then Everything Unraveled The Thief Lord The Truth Cookie This Girl Isn't Shy, She's Spectacular! Tomorrow, When the War Began Traitor King Truce Tunnels Watch this video booktalk Tunnels #2: Deeper Tunnels #3: Freefall Twelve Long Months Twice Upon a Time: Rapunzel, the One with All the Hair Tyrell Watch this video booktalk
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War Horse Waves Ways to Live Forever Watch this video booktalk Westward to Home: Joshua’s Oregon Trail Diary Book One What I Saw and How I Lied Watch this video booktalk Where Have All the Flowers Gone? The Diary of Molly MacKenzie Flaherty, Boston, Massachusetts, 1968 Wherever Nina Lies Wilderness The Will of the Empress Watch this video booktalk Wish Wishworks Wolves of the Beyond #1: Lone Wolf The Wright 3 Watch this video booktalk
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The Year My Sister Got Lucky Watch this video booktalk
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Zen and the Art of Faking It Zen Shorts Watch this video booktalk Zoobreak
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