title: Light 'n Lively Reads for ESL, Adult, and Teen Readers: A Thematic Bibliography
author:  La Vergne Rosow 
description: <i>Light 'n Lively Reads</i> is chock-full of the substantive experience of its author as a teacher of reading and English as a second language. Rosow, "a lifelong advocate for adult literacy," has years of experience helping reluctant readers find good books. She shares these finds with us in this annotated bibliography.
zlib_text: _PRAISE FOR MEG ROSOFF’S_
  
   **THERE IS NO DOG**
  
  “It is not often that a book comes along that is both arch and thoughtful,
  silly and smart. And this one’s not quite like anything else out there.”
  
   _—Booklist_
  
  ![](Images/image00095.jpeg) “The premise here is startlingly original and as
  old as the ancient Greeks . . . cheeky and subversive fantasy fable.”
  
   _—Horn Book_
  
  ![](Images/image00093.jpeg) “Irreverent and funny, this book . . . earns its
  place among the sharpest-witted tours de force of recent memory.”
  
   _—Kirkus Reviews_
  
  ![](Images/image00089.jpeg) “. . . there’s no denying that Rosoff’s writing
  and sense of humor are a force of nature themselves.”
  
   _—Publishers Weekly_
  
  “Easy to read, thoroughly amusing, and thought-provoking, this title will
  appeal to teens who like their humor offbeat and irreverent.”
  
   _—School Library Journal_
  
  “Rosoff, author of several acclaimed YA novels . . . is an intriguing,
  iconoclastic writer who stretches the boundaries of YA fiction.”
  
   _—VO