This supplement/newsletter contains booktalks, news, and other information of interest to librarians, teachers, and readers. Highlights include differences in successful booktalks for adults and for teenagers; booktalking during February as Black History Month; and reviews that focus on poetry and picture books for elementary students through…

Summarizes research on middle level schools and students that contributes to ongoing debates concerning grade span, school size, grouping of students, departmentalization, curriculum, instruction, advisory groups, interdisciplinary teaming, school-transition activities, extra-help programs, and student evaluation practices in the middle grades.…