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Limitless Libraries is a partnership between Nashville Public Library (NPL) and Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools (MNPS). Students can borrow materials from the public library and get them delivered to their school. Learn more.
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"It's a new school year for Kit, Alita, and Josh. The three friends learn that their school is getting a brand-new library-and a brand-new baby dragon to help the library grow. They're overjoyed to look after the precious dragon egg until it hatches--it's like all their Christmases and Diwalis and birthdays have come at once! But when the egg is stolen, Kit and her friends are faced with a group of evil wizards who want to change the magical world...
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"Now in its third edition, this essential resource supplies information on more than 11,000 in-print titles--most of which have been recommended in at least two reviewing journals--suitable for high school and public libraries. With its simple, thematic organization and user-friendly subject terms, it makes finding the right book easy--for librarians, teachers, and parents alike. And its inclusion of thousands of non-fiction titles helps today's educators...
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"Providing media specialists, teachers, teacher helpers, and parents with guidance to using beginning chapter books in encouraging first and second graders to read independently, this book contains in-depth lesson plans for 35 early chapter books. Providing complete bibliographic information, each lesson also features complete overviews of setting, characters, plot, solution and book summary."--BOOK JACKET.
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"Now in its third edition, this essential resource for middle school and junior high school libraries and public libraries supplies information on more than 11,000 in-print titles, most of which have been recommended in at least two reviewing journals. It retains its simple, thematic organization that makes finding the right book easy--for librarians, teachers, and parents alike. And its inclusion of thousands of nonfiction titles helps today's educators...
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"If you can follow a cookbook, you can use these simple "recipes" - calculations, formulas, and measurements - to come up with statistics for analysis and management of your collection. Using measures of timeliness, relevancy, use percentages, user profiles, and comparisons, you can determine in quantitative ways the quality of your library's collection. From there, you can communicate its value to your customers and that's the name of the game!"...
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Challenges or questions regarding the content in children's books are very common, but rarely do they result in book banning. No public or school library is immune to those who want to deny children's access to certain books and materials. Scales has compiled a tool to help librarians, teachers, and young readers become aware of the social issues that are most often at the center of the majority of book challenges for children.