The Teen-Centered Writing Club: Bringing Teens and Words Together [Paperback]

Build your teen community with a program that's irresistiblea teen writing club. Teens have primal urges to create and to connect. Now you can tap into those urges with the help of this comprehensive, step-by-step guide to creating a teen writing club in the school or public library. Featuring creative writing activities, with detailed planning advice, coaching tips, and culminating in performance/publishing ideas, this book makes it easy for you to create a place where teen writers connect with one another through wordswritten, spoken, sung, or even howled. Grades 6-12Constance Hardestyis a YA programming and book club specialist with more than 20 years' experience working with teens and adults in educational and recreational settings. From writing workshops for middle schoolers to CE courses for educators, she focuses on connecting people with ideas through the written word. She is the co-author ofThe Teen-Centered Book Club(Libraries Unlimited, 2006). Her writing has received several awards from the American Booksellers Association, National Parenting Publications Awards, Associated Press, and others.

In this follow-up toThe Teen-Centered Book Club(2006), Hardesty provides a step-by-step guide to getting a teen-centered writing club up and running. . . . This would be a valuable resource for anyone interested in beginning a teen writing club or wishing to invigorate a current club. Booklist

Hardesty encourages librarians to listen to teens and assist them in their search for identity through the written word. . . . An essential resource for planning or presenting writing clubs.' School Library Journal

The purpose of this comprehensive guide is to provide librarians with the knowledge, skills, and confidence to create teen writing clubs in public and school libraries. The writing is clear and contemporary, supportive and knowledgeable. This guide fills a unique niche in young adult library programming anlƒ#