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It's no wonder that genre blends are some of most popular books for children and teens. When you mash up two different traditional genres, it's like doubling what makes each one pleasurable on its own. This guide, the first of its kind, will help public and school librarians, teachers, and collections staff identify genre blends for readers' advisory, curriculum development, or creating core collections. Profiling more than 200 titles, inside its pages you'll
Pauline Dewan is a liaison librarian at the Brantford, Ontario campus of Wilfrid Laurier University. Co-author of Connecting Children with Classics: A Reader-Centered Approach to Selecting and Promoting Great Literature, she has also written two books about children's literature and a number of articles about reading for pleasure. Dewan served for five years on the Reader's Advisory Committee of the Ontario Library Association. She won the 2015 RUSA Press Award for her article, "Reading Matters in the Academic Library: Taking the Lead from Public Librarians." She received her MLIS from the University of Western Ontario and her doctorate in English from York University (Toronto).
Meagan Lacy is chief librarian at Stella & Charles Guttman Community College, CUNY. In addition to coauthoring Connecting Children with Classics (2018) with Pauline Dewan, she received the Emerging Scholar Award for her article "Portraits of Children of Alcoholics: Stories that Hope to Hope," published in Children's Literature in Education. She received her MLIS at the University of Washington and her MA in English at Indiana University at Indianapolis. She is currently completing her MFA in creative writing at City College, CUNY.
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