Showing posts with label genre. Show all posts
Showing posts with label genre. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 19, 2012

DYSTOPIA!

The success of the Hunger Games movie,the switch to genre-based fiction in the library, and our past One Book, One School choices has led to an increase interest in dystopian novels.

 Hoping to capitalize on student interest, some of the 8th grade language arts classes are doing a unit that includes reading some scifi/dystopia/post-apocalyptic literature.


 If you are looking for something to read, here are some of my favorite titles in those genres (linked to goodreads):
Enclave
Feed
Candor
Ender's Game
Matched
The Way We Fall
Little Brother
The Boy at the End of the World
Incarceron
Gone
The Eleventh Plague
Insignia
The Carbon Diaries 2015
The Giver
Legend
Shatter Me
Unravel Me
Yesterday
The Knife of Never Letting Go
Birthmarked



Monday, July 30, 2012

Genre-fying the School Library

Some Sports books
I've been talking to my twitter PLN and after much discussion, I've decided to re-organize the school library. Again.

As always, my goal is to make the library a space students and staff not only want to visit, but want to borrow materials from. I also want those materials to be as accessible as possible.

Last year we moved all the series books to one area in the library. I also order those books separately so that they have my special SER prefix instead of FIC.

This year I'm putting all the fiction, and some of the non-fiction, into genres! This will be similar to what you would you find in a bookstore but based on past student interactions.

We get lots of requests for mysteries, romance, sports, action, horror, and just general good books! We are keeping our good books table but will try to highlight a different genre each month!!

Since I started this over summer with very little help (thanks Jess!) there is still a lot of work to be done! Especially since I'm slow at this stuff - it took me a long time to decide on the genres then decide where things might go! I had Jess measure the shelf space too because that doesn't exist anywhere! No worries though, the library will still open in time! I'll just have the students help me along the way!

Not even 1/2 the books

Once upon a SER section



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