Every day, secondary math teachers face classrooms containing students with a wide range of abilities, yet each child is expected to meet the same testing standards. Special education teachers are of
This readers' advisory and collection development guide identifies hundreds of books that can help children connect with books and develop into engaged readers. It enables children's librarians, collection development specialists in public libraries, as well as K–8 school librarians and teachers to choose from the best in traditional and modern children's titles.• Enables collection development specialists who are building a new collection or strengthening/augmenting an existing one to create balanced and enduring collections• Serves librarians seeking to increase their knowledge about children's classics and help young readers get more out of them• Helps teachers who are looking for ways to use literature in the classroom, as well as parents seeking books that are suited to their child's interests, needs, and problems
Now in its tenth edition and with annual updates posted online, this comprehensive and trusted professional resource helps librarians—and patrons and teachers—identify and use the best fiction and nonfiction books published for children grades pre-K to six.
Covering genres from actiodventure and fantasy to horror, science fiction, and superheroes, this guide maps the vast and expanding terrain of graphic novels, describing and organizing titles as well as providing information that will help librarians to build and balance their graphic novel collections and direct patrons to read-alikes.‧ Introduces users to approximately 1,000 currently popular graphic novels and manga‧ Organizes titles by genre, subgenre, and theme to facilitate finding read-alikes‧ Helps librarians build and balance their graphic novel collections
