9 Core Collections Middle & Junior High Core Collection (13th Edition, 2018) is a guide to over 11,000 fiction and nonfiction books recommended for children and young adolescents, grades five through nine. This volume is designed to address the unique needs of younger adolescent readers and help school media specialists and young adult librarians locate highly recommended titles to strengthen their collection. NEW & EXPANDED COVERAGE This new edition covers thousands of titles not previously included. It provides immediate access to the Most Highly Recommended and Core Collection level titles for middle school students and teachers. In addition, particular attention has been paid to developing areas of computers, math, and the sciences. For many years, librarians have relied on Middle & Junior High Core Collection to help build their collection and for many other important uses: • Purchasing & Title Selection. With easy access to price, ISBN, and publisher information, selecting and ordering titles is quick and easy. • User Service & Readers’ Advisory. Every title in this Core Collection is a recommended work of its kind and can be given with confidence to a student or teacher who expresses a need based on topic or genre. • Curriculum Support. The indexing, annotations, and grade level designations are incredibly helpful in identifying materials for classroom use. • Collection Development & Maintenance. This Core Collection identifies titles that are recommended to add to, or keep in, a collection. This helpful insight helps facilitate decisions to rebind, replace, or discard items. • Professional Development. This edition features library science titles specifically addressing collection development for this age group. BIBLIOGRAPHIC & CATALOGING DATA, DESCRIPTIONS & REVIEWS Individual entries provide a wealth of much-needed information at a glance. • Complete Bibliographic & Cataloging Data • Price, ISBN, and Publisher Data make purchasing titles quick and easy • Suggested Subject headings, Grade Level & Dewey Classification • Content Descriptions & Quotations from Select Reviews are incredibly useful when evaluating books for selection and in determining which is best suited for the individual reader. • Additional notes describe sequels and companion volumes, editions available, awards, and publication history. • Starred listings highlight over 2,400 “Most Highly Recommended” titles EASY-TO-USE ARRANGEMENT • Nonfiction provides immediate access to over 6,500 nonfiction titles, arranged by Dewey Decimal Classification. • Fiction, arranged by author, recommends nearly 4,200 of the best fiction for young adolescent readers. This volume now includes graphic novels too! • Story Collections, arranged by author, highlights over 100 of the best story collections for students in grades five through nine. IN-DEPTH INDEXING An in-depth Author, Title, and Subject Index provides users with thousands of ways to navigate this rich collection of recommended titles. Whether searching by author, title, or one of the hundreds of subject areas found in the index, librarians can easily locate titles that will round out their collection. The Middle & Junior High Core Collection is an essential resource for library and media specialists looking to enhance and enrich their collection with the most important and highly recommended titles currently available. No library media specialist should be without the helpful collection development and curriculum support guidance that this collection can provide. Middle & Junior High Core Collection 13th Edition JANUARY 2018 One Volume; 2,500 pages ISBN: 978-1-68217-238-4 List Price: $295 “Easier to use than ever… a superb ‘go to’ resource for library and media specialists.” –Midwest Book Review New Edition! MIDDLE AND JUNIOR HIGH CORE COLLECTION TWELFTH EDITION Fic—Fic daughter relationship -- Fiction ISBN 978-0-545-16559-4; 0-545-16559-8 LC 2009-28016 Twelve-year-old Livie is living with a secret and it’s crushing her. She knows she is responsible for her mother’s coma, but she can’t tell anyone. It’s up to her to find a way to wake her momma up. “Little explores the extremes of childhood guilt and its consequences in this harsh yet well-crafted story about fully drawn people. The bayou, with its rich culture, is an atmo- spheric character that overlays the story with mystery and dread.” Booklist The time of the fireflies; Kimberley Griffiths Little. Scholastic Press 2014 368 p. (jacketed hard- cover) $18.99 Grades: 5 6 7 8 Fic 1. Mystery fiction 2. Family secrets -- Fiction 3. Secrets -- Fiction 4. Fireflies -- Fiction 5. Louisiana -- Fiction 6. Family life -- Fiction 7. Time travel -- Fiction 8. Family problems -- Fiction ISBN 0545165636; 9780545165631 LC 2013027396 In this middle grades book by Kimberley Griffiths Little, “When Larissa Renaud starts receiving eerie phone calls on a disconnected old phone in her family’s antique shop, she knows she’s in for a strange summer. A series of clues leads her to the muddy river banks. . . . It soon becomes clear that it is up to Larissa to prevent history from repeating itself and a fatal tragedy from striking the people she loves.” (Pub- lisher’s note) “Twelve-year-old Larissa’s parents own Bayou Bridge Antiques, which features a wall of old phones. When one of Littman, Sarah Backlash; Sarah Darer Littman. First edition Scholastic Press 2015 325 p. $17.99 Grades: 7 8 9 Fic 1. Bullies -- Fiction 2. Sisters -- Fiction 3. Suicide -- Fiction 4. Neighbors -- Fiction 5. Friendship -- Fiction 6. Family life -- Fiction 7. Cyberbullying -- Fiction 8. Bullying -- Fiction ISBN 0545651263; 9780545651264; 9780545651271; 9780545755023 LC 2014020226 In this book, by Sarah Darer Littman, “Lara just got told off on Facebook. She thought that Christian liked her, that he was finally going to ask her to his school’s homecom- ing dance. It’s been a long time since Lara’s felt this bad, this depressed. . . . Bree used to be BBFs with overweight, depressed Lara in middle school, but constantly listening to Lara’s problems got to be too much. Bree’s secretly glad that Christian’s pointed out Lara’s flaws to the world.” (Pub- lisher’s note) “The depression and bullying are handled realisti- cally without sugarcoating, and fortunately, consequenc- es are applied. An excellent choice for any antibullying campaign.” Booklist Life, after; [by] Sarah Darer Littman. Scholastic Press 2010 281p $17.99 Grades: 7 8 9 10 11 12 Fic 1. Argentina -- Fiction 2. Terrorism -- Fiction 3. Immigrants -- Fiction ISBN 978-0-545-15144-3; 0-545-15144-9 After a terrorist attack kills Dani’s aunt and unborn cous- H.W. Wilson 844.630.6369 www.hwwilsoninprint.com