Librarians will find this resource useful both for setting up lessons and inquiries into the topics listed and as a model for helping students to research other topics….Selverstone's guide is a sound purchase for school librarians and for public libraries serving high school populations.

VOYA

Selverstone gives sound advice for advocating inquiry-based research, especially for hot topics that are most interesting to students. She advises library media specialists on what constitutes controversial topics, how to collaborate with teachers to foster critical thinking, and how to gain administrative support for this kind of program research….[t]he philosophies and ideas presented make this book an ideal purchase to promote and foster collaboration with the school communities in which many of us work.

School Library Journal