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CHILDREN’S AND YOUNG ADULT LITERATURE AND REFERENCE TOOLS

Best Books Best Books for Middle Best Books for High
for Children School and Junior School Readers

Preschool through Grade 6 High Readers Grades 9–12

Tenth Edition | CATHERINE BARR Grades 6-9 Third Edition | CATHERINE BARR
AND JAMIE CAMPBELL NAIDOO
Third Edition | CATHERINE BARR

October 2013, 1,102pp, 7x10
December 2014, 1,869pp, 7x10 October 2013, 1,188pp, 7x10 Print: 978-1-59884-784-0
Print: 978-1-59884-781-9 Print: 978-1-59884-782-6 $90.00, £70.00, €82.00
$195.00, £150.00, €178.00
$90.00, £70.00, €82.00
“ The information provided in
Now in its tenth edition and with Not only is the scope of this Best Books for High School
annual updates posted online, this “ work comprehensive, but Readers would greatly assist a
comprehensive and trusted professional its information is also easily young adult librarian or media
resource helps librarians—and patrons accessible. . . . An invaluable specialist build or refine their
and teachers—identify and use the best resource for all those who make collection as well as help them
fiction and nonfiction books published purchasing decisions or compile provide reading suggestions to
for children in grades pre-K to six. reading lists in the area of their users. ”
young adult books.
FEATURES ” —ARBA, December 1, 2013
• Contains some 30,000 annotated —ARBA, December 1, 2013 This updated edition of Best Books
entries on recommended children’s Now thoroughly updated to include the for High School Readers, Grades 9–12
books for readers in pre-K through
grade six latest best books, this essential resource remains an indispensable resource
for middle school and junior high school for identifying the right book for
• Provides helpful indexes for easy
and quick access, including author/ libraries and public libraries supplies an individual high school student’s
illustrator, title, and subject/grade information on more than 11,000 in- preferences, needs, or interests, and
level print titles, most of which have been for creating reading lists for curricular
• Offers annual updates online to keep recommended in at least two reviewing and thematic library programs. It is
librarians abreast of current releases journals. It retains its simple, thematic also an essential tool for evaluating
• Draws recommendations for books organization that makes finding the and developing the library collection.
from a wide range of trusted review right book easy—for librarians, teachers, The entries provide annotations with
journals and parents alike. And its inclusion of succinct plot summaries, ISBNs, book
• Helps librarians build reading lists thousands of nonfiction titles helps length, price, reading level, and review
based on themes and genres today’s educators meet the Common citations; and indicate Lexile levels, as
Core standards. well as titles that are available in audio
format or as an eBook version.
FEATURES
• Indicates which books are also FEATURES
available in audio format and in • Supplies concise, lively annotations
eBook format—valuable information and review citations on everything
for collection development and from literary classics and non-fiction
reading specialists titles to graphic novels
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