Do:

•    Stock popular materials and replace them when they wear out or walk out

•    Have nonfiction, graphic novels, magazines and audiobooks in your YA collection

•    Read nonfiction, graphic novels, manga, magazines and adult fiction, and listen to audiobooks of all types, even if it is only in “10 Minutes”

•    Keep a journal to remember what you “read”

•    Suggest nonfiction, graphic novels, manga, audiobooks, and adult fiction

•    Be specific, not abstract when describing your suggestions

•    Admit your likes and dislikes when asked – be honest with your teens!

Don’t

•    EVER make any kind of judging statement when talking to teen readers

•    Suggest really old materials (as in I loved that when I was a teen)

•    Push your favorite books

•    Encourage teens to read “quality” books or “move them up” to better books

•    Tell teens only books (or fiction) count as really “reading”

•    Read only YA books

•    Forget the Rules of Leisure Reading