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Frontlist Talking Points Ebk Pub Date: March 2018<br />

Animal Rights and Welfare Set, 5 vols. Print Pub Date: March 2018<br />

Print Price: $150/set<br />

eBook Price: $165/set<br />

5 volumes/128 pages per volume<br />

Full color<br />

Set ISBN: 9781410381095<br />

Set eISBN: 9781410381156<br />

Teaching Points<br />

Animal rights is an extremely high‐interest topic for<br />

students and is among the top 5 most‐searched topics in<br />

Gale’s OVIC database.<br />

Some animal rights activists argue that animals need to<br />

be given rights of personhood, so that they can have<br />

value as living beings and be considered more than<br />

property under the law.<br />

Opponents of granting rights of personhood to animals<br />

argue that doing so would pose a grave threat to the<br />

economy, the pet care industry, as well as to many<br />

cultural and religious institutions.<br />

Market Needs<br />

Some major social issues seem distant and hard to comprehend, but students of all ages have strong feelings about<br />

animals and the role they play in our world. Animal Rights and Welfare is a social issue students encounter when<br />

studying biological, agricultural, and environmental sciences, but also in English language arts, history, social studies, and<br />

civics classes. It's a common debate topic and a favorite subject for research papers.<br />

Engaging and timely topics provide ideal content for students to conduct research to “build and present knowledge” as<br />

recommended by common core ELA standards for writing (ELA‐Literacy.W.9‐10.7‐9 and W.11‐12.7‐9). In addition, this<br />

content supports Next Generation Science Standards emphasizing biodiversity, ecosystems, and other facets of life<br />

sciences and earth sciences.<br />

Animal rights related searches in OVIC (October 2015 – October 2016)<br />

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animal rights (#3 top search) ‐‐ 73,226 searches<br />

animal testing and animal experimentation ‐‐ 79,507 searches<br />

animal cruelty and animal abuse ‐‐ 13,897 searches<br />

hunting ‐‐ 17,620 searches<br />

zoos – 5,826 searches<br />

Public Market: 76% of surveyed K12 and public librarians indicated a strong interest in middle school level content on<br />

animal rights and welfare.<br />

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