Resources

9_11_08 Using Young Adult Literature to Enhance Comprehension in the Content Areas

9_18_08 Mulitcultural Literature To celebrate and recognize the contributions of myriad authors and artists, we use celebratory months such as Black History Month, Women's History Month, and Hispanic Heritage Month to expose our students to works about or from other cultures.

We close the library to study hall students for the day (we are open before and after school for them) and invite teachers to bring their classes down to complete activities/lessons we have created or that they create. We set up displays of books throughout the library creating "centers" for exploration.

Attached below are examples of the lessons we use during those events:

We love to showcase our collection and expose our students to wonderful art and literature that they otherwise may not experience.

Book Awards

PERIODICALS/JOURNALS /MAGAZINES Bookbird
 * Young Adult Literature Resources**
 * Print Resources**

Booklist

Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books

Children's Literature Association Quarterly

Children's Literature in Education

Children's Literature Review

Choice

English Journal

Horn Book

Journal of Youth Services in Libraries

Library Journal

The Lion and the Unicorn

Publishers Weekly

The School Librarian

School Library Journal: SLJ

Signal: Approaches to Children's Books

Teacher Librarian (formerly Emergency Librarian)

VOYA: Voice of Youth Advocates

The Web: Wonderfully Exciting Books

Wilson Library Bulletin

The ALAN Review (Assembly on Literature for Adolescents) http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/ALAN/
 * Electronic Resources**

Animation World Magazine http://www.awn.com/mag/index.php3

Booklist http://www.ala.org/booklist/

Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books http://www.lis.uiuc.edu/puboff/bccb/

Canadian Children's Literature (CCL) http://ccl.uwinnipeg.ca/

Children's Book Insider: The Newsletter for Children's Writers & Illustrators http://www.write4kids.com/aboutcbi.html

Circle Time E-Zine http://www.circletime.com/

CM Magazine: Canadian Review of Materials http://www.umanitoba.ca/cm/index.html

Collecting Children's Books http://www.rarebooks.org/RingChildrens.htm

Electronic Learning (from the editors of Instructor) http://www.scholastic.com/EL/

English Journal electronic journal articles in Periodical Abstracts

Horn Book Magazine electronic journal articles in Periodical Abstracts (1988+) and Horn Book Magazine http://www.hbook.com/mag.shtml

The Internet Book Information Center http://www.internetbookinfo.com/

Journal of Youth Services in Libraries http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/JYSL/jysl.html

Library Journal Digital http://www.ljdigital.com/

The Lion and the Unicorn electronic journal on EJC (June, 1995+)

The Looking Glass: New Perspectives on Children's Books http://erp.fis.utoronto.ca/~easun//looking_glass/

Merlyn's Pen http://www.merlynspen.com/

Midlink Magazine http://longwood.cs.ucf.edu/~MidLink/index.html digital magazine by & for kids 8-18

Notes from the Windowsill: An Independent, Electronic Journal of Book Reviews (Wendy E. Betts, ed.) http://www.armory.com/~web/notes.html

Parents and Children Together Online http://www.indiana.edu/~eric_rec/fl/pcto/menu.html

PublishersWeekly.com http://www.publishersweekly.com/

Reading Online (International Reading Association) http://www.readingonline.org/

School Library Journal Online http://www.slj.com/

Science Fiction Weekly http://www.scifi.com/sfw/

The Scoop - Children's Book News http://www.friend.ly.net/scoop/

Stone Soup Magazine http://www.stonesoup.com/

Time for Kids http://pathfinder.com/TFK/

ViewPoint: On Books for Young Adults http://www.edfac.unimelb.edu.au/LLAE/viewpoint/volume5/index.htm

Women Writers: A Literary Magazine for and by Women Writers http://www.womenwriters.net/