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This selective list of books recommended for young people in grades 9 through 12 is invaluable for collection development and maintenance, reader's advisory, and curriculum support in the high school library. More than 40,500 entries in the WilsonWeb online version and over 6,200 works in the print format for fiction and nonfiction works, as well as recommended CD-ROMs, offer an abundance of choices, including listings of review sources and other 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.

Selected and recommended by specialists in library service to young adults in senior high schools and public libraries across the United States, the books listed encompass a wide variety of topics for youth, ranging from material on Native Americans and rainforest ecology to health issues. The collection also includes curriculum-related material in social studies and the sciences; drama, novels, and short story collections; biographies; and books for the librarian or media specialist.

About Bowker's Book Analysis System™

Online: an annual subscription on WilsonWeb

Senior High Core Collection on WilsonWeb brings you all the rich content available in the print edition, but with the convenience of enhanced online search capabilities. Search more than 40,500 titles in one easy-to-use database. New coverage of biographies, art, sports, Islam, the Middle East, cultural diversity, and other contemporary topics.

Search by:

• Keyword

• Publication Year

• Title

• ISBN

• Subject

• ISSN

• Publisher

• Document Type: Books, Book Chapter, CD-ROM

• Author

• Dewey Decimal Classification Number

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

• Limit any search to just fiction, nonfiction, or biography.

• Resources in four levels of recommendation: Short List (highly recommended titles); Core Collection; Supplementary titles; or Archival materials (older titles).

• What's New Query: Find what's been added to the database in the last week, month, year, or since the last time you looked.

• Set Email Alerts to library users and staff, indicating new materials on their topics of interest.

• 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.

• Includes part-by-part entries for anthologies, collections, and other books.

• Search Senior High Core Collection simultaneously with other Wilson Core Collections or other Wilson databases like Readers’ Guide.

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

Online Format: Annual subscription on WilsonWeb. Contact us for pricing and to request a free trial.

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SAVE 50% on the print edition when you subscribe to Senior High Core Collection on WilsonWeb.

Print Format: 4-year service

New Edition Available October 2007!

Features annotations for more than 6,200 works in the main volume (2007), and more than 2,400 new titles in three annual supplements published 2008 through 2010. New coverage of biographies, art, sports, Islam, the Middle East, cultural diversity, and other contemporary topics keeps your library's collection as current as today's headlines. Most highly recommended ("Short List") titles are clearly marked, allowing you to make the most of the expert insight that went into the making of Senior High Core Collection: A Selection Guide.

Each volume includes the following:

• Special focus on graphic novels, primary source materials, nonbook materials, and periodicals.

• Analytic entries for items in collections and anthologies.

• A valuable working tool for collection development and curriculum support.

• Reader's Advisory

◘ $245
◘ $280 (outside the U.S. and Canada)
◘ ISBN (13) 978-0-8242-1086-1
◘ Hardcover volume: 2007, 1,234 pages
◘ Paperback supplements: 2008, 2009, 2010, each approximately 170 pages.