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For libraries serving readers in grades five through nine, Middle and Junior High Core Collection, provides indispensable help with collection development and maintenance, curriculum support, readers' advisory, and general reference. You will find 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. Entries provide complete bibliographic data, price, subject headings, a descriptive annotation, and evaluative quotations from a review when available. The Catalog also includes entries for recommended electronic resources.

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. 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, journals, and other resources for the selection and evaluation of print and non-print materials and the use of the Internet in instruction.

New features in Middle and Junior High Core Collection include coverage of electronic resources focused on reference works and interactive educational materials that support the curriculum; and lists of the most highly recommended professional journals for teachers and librarians and magazines for young readers.

"This work is highly recommended, especially in budget-conscious institutions that want the most for their money." — American Reference Books Annual (2008)

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An online subscription to Middle and Junior High Core Collection brings you all the rich content available in the print edition, with the convenience of enhanced online search capabilities. Search over 9,000 entries (including over 3,000 analytical entries for parts of collections or anthologies) in one easy-to-use database. 

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Additional features, available exclusively in the online version, make Middle and Junior High Core Collection even more valuable for collection development and curriculum support:

• Entries link to additional review excerpts from Wilson’s Book Review Digest Plus database

• Retrieve records in machine-readable MARC format.

• Instantly check your library’s holdings via a link to your OPAC.

• Search descriptive and critical annotations for specific words.

• Search simultaneously with other Wilson Core Collections or other Wilson databases, including Readers’ Guide.

• Now updated continuously on WilsonWeb—no need to wait for annual printed updates to get the latest information on new books.

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Order now and you receive the hardcover main volume (2005) now. The paper supplements for 2006, 2007, and 2008 will be sent to you each year for the next 3 years.

The main volume (2005) of Middle and Junior High School Library Catalog, 9th Edition, brings you entries for more than 6,000 books, plus over 3,000 analytic entries for stories, plays, and other items from anthologies and composite works. Some 2,400 new titles will be listed in annual paperbound supplements published 2006 through 2008. Each volume includes the following: