middle school libraries

Arranged thematically, offers state-of-the-art reading guide and selection tool for teen reading material, both fiction and nonfiction.

Lessons for teaching library media skills incorporating junior high and middle school subjects.

Offers librarians programming ideas designed to motivate middle school students and encourage lifelong learning.

Provides information for educators on how to start a READ 'n' FEED program in their junior high schools--an approach to reading in which students read a popular young adult novel and then meet in small groups over lunch or dinner to discuss the book. Includes plans for ten reading units.

Presents procedures for planning and evaluating a library media program and illustrates how the processes might work in a middle school setting.

A selection guide to help librarians, teachers, and patrons identify the best of the many books published each year for readers in middle school and junior high.

Over 600 annotations arranged alphabetically by author under broad topical categories.

Presents an integrated approach to the teaching of library and information skills to middle school students, identifying over forty-five sample learning situations, and including lesson plans, instructional units, and activity sheets.

Lessons for teaching library media skills incorporating junior high and middle school subjects.

Assists the librarian to devise integrated media skills lessons appropriate for grades 6 through 8.