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﻿ Book Selection Tips:

 * 1) Browse the genre displays and fiction shelves @ North.
 * 2) Ask a family member, teacher, librarian, bookseller, or friend for a recommendation.
 * 3) Browse book stores and local libraries.
 * 4) Look at lists:
 * Best sellers
 * Award winners
 * Classics (Penguin Classics, Oxford World's Classics and Modern Library catalogues)
 * Book clubs
 * Summer reading
 * 1) Look for titles written by a favorite author.
 * 2) Interested?
 * Look at front and back cover
 * Read reviews
 * Read excerpts
 * Inside of book jacket
 * The page 69 test

Search Library Catalogs:

 * [|WCSD Library Catalog]
 * Login using your WITS username and password.
 * Search by:
 * Keyword
 * Title
 * Author
 * <span style="0in: 0in 0in 0pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tabstops: list .5in;">Subject
 * Search genres such as //Historical Fiction//.
 * <span style="0in: 0in 0in 0pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tabstops: list 1.0in;">Look for subject headings from books you read and enjoyed.
 * Read reviews written by other students.
 * Click on image for editorial reviews and excerpts.


 * [|Buffalo & Erie County Public Library Catalog]

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 * [|Library WITS Page]
 * Under //Reading//, select //What to Read. Browse links.//
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">Mrs. Grossman's Favorite Lists:
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">[|YALSA's Alex Awards] The Alex Awards are given annually to ten books written for adults that have special appeal to young adults.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">[|Best Books for Young Adults]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">[|Outstanding Books for the College Bound]
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">[|Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">[|YALSA's Teens' Top Ten]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">[|Great Graphic Novels for Teens]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">[|Guys Read: A Literacy Initiative for Boys. By Jon Scieszka]

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">View/Listen to Book Talks & Trailors:

 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">[|(Audio) Booktalks Quick and Simple]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">[|Nancy Keane's Booktalks -- Quick and Simple]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">[|Digital Booktalk (University of Central Florida)]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">[|Book Screening]

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Look for Editorial Reviews in:

 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">[|Amazon.com]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">[|Barnes&Noble]

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Search for Book Reviews in Databases:

 * <span style="background-color: #0000ff; color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">﻿ <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">[|ProQuest]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">Ask Mrs. G for a Username and Password. - To locate book reviews, conduct an "Advanced" search. Search for the author and/or title in the "Citation and abstract fields." In a separate text box, use the pull down menu to select "Document type." Click on "Browse document types" and select "Book review." Limit results to "Full text documents only." Click on the "Search" button)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">[|Novelist Plus]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">From the Buffalo & Erie County Library's Research Section, click on Research Databases, enter your library card number, and scroll down and click on Novelist Plus.

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">More Book Reviews:

 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;"><span style="background-color: #0000ff; color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">﻿ [|BookPage]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">[|BookSpot]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">[|Chapter One] (...allows you to read the first chapters of selected new books reviewed by The Washington Post)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">[|Favorite Teenage Angst Books: Book Reviews]

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">Created by Mrs. Grossman, 1/5/2011