Description

For libraries serving readers in grades five through nine, this catalog provides indispensable help with collection development and maintenance, curriculum support, selection and purchasing, readers' advisory, and general reference. Here are thousands of entries for nonfiction works, fiction and collections for children and adolescents, plus review sources and other professional aids for librarians and school media specialists. The Catalog also includes entries for recommended electronic resources. Entries provide complete bibliographic data, price, subject headings, a descriptive annotation, and evaluative quotations from a review when available.

Features and benefits

• Selected and recommended by specialists in library service to young people, listed books encompass a wide variety of topics for youth. Among nonfiction entries, special importance is given to works devoted to technology, personal values, and current social and political issues, with special emphasis on ethnic diversity. Topics of particular importance are the World Wide Web, virtual reality and other new technologies, environmental problems, animal ecology, and the protection of endangered species.
• Fiction entries encompass a broad spectrum of literary works that are of interest to young readers and many that are frequently part of the school curriculum-classics as well as contemporary fiction and genre literature.
• Among works for the librarian and media specialist are bibliographies, professional journals, and other resources for the selection and evaluation of print and non-print materials and the use of the Internet in instruction. The CD-ROM section is devoted primarily to reference works and interactive educational materials in support of the curriculum in science, social studies, geography, and mathematics.
• An online subscription to Middle and Junior High School Library Catalog brings you all the rich content available in the print edition, but with the convenience of enhanced online search capabilities. Search 7,798 entries (including 2,485 analytical entries for parts of collections or anthologies) in one easy-to-use database.
• Entries link to additional review excerpts from Wilson's Book Review Digest database.
• Now updated quarterly on the new WilsonWeb-no need to wait for annual printed updates to get the latest information on new books.

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