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LITERATURE REFERENCE TOOLS

Genreflecting Advisory Series

SERIES EDITOR: DIANA TIXIER HERALD

Significantly expanded and updated, the titles in this highly acclaimed series are designed to help you quickly locate the kind of fiction your
library patrons are looking for. Each title includes the latest reads and reading trends within a genre and identifies subgenres, similar titles,
read-alikes, and relevant online resources.

NEW Genreflecting Encountering

Graphic Novels A Guide to Popular Enchantment
Reading Interests A Guide to Speculative
A Guide to Comic Books, Seventh Edition Fiction for Teens
Manga, and More CYNTHIA ORR AND

Second Edition DIANA TIXIER HERALD, EDITORS Second Edition
SUSAN FICHTELBERG
MICHAEL PAWUK
AND DAVID S. SERCHAY

April 2013, 622pp, 7x10
Hardcover: 978-1-59884-840-3 September 2015, 392pp, 7x10
$75.00, £58.00, €69.00 Print: 978-1-61069-113-0
May 2017, 719pp, 7x10 eBook: 978-1-61069-461-2 $55.00, £43.00, €50.00
Print: 978-1-59884-700-0 Paperback: 978-1-59884-841-0 eBook: 978-1-4408-3451-6
$65.00, £50.00, €60.00 $65.00, £50.00, €60.00
eBook: 978-1-4408-5136-0
“ Encountering Enchantment: A

Covering genres from action/adventure “ Current library workers in Guide to Speculative Fiction for
Teens is a valuable resource
and fantasy to horror, science fiction, and RA as well as today’s library for librarians serving teens, and
superheroes, this guide maps the vast students will benefit from all is recommended for libraries
and expanding terrain of graphic novels, that this book provides. ” looking for high quality and
describing and organizing titles as well —Library Journal, September 15, 2013 easy to use print guides.
as providing information that will help ”
librarians to build and balance their graphic The gold standard for readers’ —VOYA, March 1, 2016
novel collections and direct patrons to advisory, this book represents an The most current and complete guide
read-alikes. essential resource for LIS students and to a favorite teen genre, this book maps
practicing librarians who want to better
FEATURES: understand readers, reading interests, current releases along with perennial
• Introduces users to approximately 1,000 and fiction and nonfiction genres. favorites, describing and categorizing
currently popular graphic novels and fantasy, paranormal, and science fiction
manga FEATURES: titles published since 2006.
• Organizes titles by genre, subgenre, and • Provides an outstanding introduction FEATURES
theme to facilitate finding read-alikes to readers’ advisory service, updated
to reflect changing trends in popular • Encompasses a wide selection of
• Helps librarians build and balance their reading speculative fiction genres to suit a
graphic novel collections broad spectrum of readers in grades
• Helps readers’ advisors identify read-
alikes for patrons’ favorite titles 6–12
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