Watervliet Public Library

Join our YA Book Club!!
We meet every other Saturday at 12:00 pm at the Library.
Pizza and beverages are provided. (please bring $1 for pizza)
The members of the group select the books to read, so bring recommendations!!!
Please join us for the following books:
October 31 - The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
TBA - Life as We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer

Suggested Titles at the Watervliet Public Library
Suggested Picture Book Titles

Once upon a Banana by Jennifer Armstrong E ARM	The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle E CARLE
Does a Kangaroo Have a Mother, Too? by Eric Carle E CARLE	Library Lion by Michelle Knudsen E KNU
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom by Bill Martin E MARTIN	Make way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskey E MCCLOSKEY
Blueberries for Sal by Robert McCloskey E MCCLOSKEY	The Little Engine that Could by Watty Piper E PIPER
Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak E SENDAK	Just a Dream by Chris Van Allsburg E VAN ALLSBURG
Two Bad Ants by Chris Van Allsburg E VAN ALLSBURG	Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale by Mo Willems E WILLEMS
Goodnight, Moon by Margaret Wise Brown E BRO	Heckedy Peg by Audrey Wood J 398.2 WOOD
Lon Po Po: A Red-Riding Hood Story from China by Ed Young J 398.2 YOU

Suggested Juvenile Fiction Titles

Crispin by Avi J FIC AVI	Tangerine by Edward Bloor JPB BLOOR
Double Fudge by Judy Blume J FIC BLUME	Al Capone Does my Shirt by Gennifer Choldenko JPB CHOLDENKO
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl JPB DAH	The City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau JPB DUP
Inkheart by Cornelia Caroline Funke J FIC FUNKE	Among the Hidden by Margaret Peterson Haddix JPB HADDIX
Bluish by Virginia Hamilton J FIC HAMILTON	Shug by Jenny Han J FIC HAN
Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse J FIC HESSE	Hoot by Carle Hiaasen J FIC HIA
Rumble fish by S.E. Hinton JPB HINTON	Number the Stars by Lois Lowry J FIC LOWRY
Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell J FIC O'DELL	Charlotte's Web by E.B. White JPB WHITE
Amalee by Dar Williams J FIC WILLIAMS	The Devil's Arithmetic by Jane Yolen JPB YOLEN

Suggested Young Adult Fiction Titles

Fever, 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson YA AND	The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne YA FIC BOYNE
3 Willows: The Sisterhood Grows by Ann Brashares YA FIC BRASHARES	The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants by Anne Brashares YA FIC BRA
The Sledding Hill by Chris Crutcher YA FIC CRU	That Summer by Sarah Dessen YA FIC DESSEN
The Truth About Forever by Sarah Dessen YA FIC DESSEN	A Northern Light by Jennifer Donnelly YA FIC DONNELLY
An Abundance of Katherines by John Green YA FIC GREEN	Invisible by Peter Hautman YA FIC HAU
Dunk by David Lubar YA FIC LUBAR	My Butt, the Earth, and Other Round Things by Carolyn Mackler YA FIC MACKLER
The Afterlife by Gary Soto YA FIC SOTO	The Rules of Survival by Nancy Werlin YA FIC WER

More Reading Lists:

For Children:
Public Library of Charlotte & Mecklenberg County Book Hive
http://www.plcmc.org/bookhive/books/

For Teenagers:
Reading Rants! Out of the Ordinary Teen Booklists!
http://www.readingrants.org/

Guys Read
http://www.guysread.com/

Teen Reads
http://www.teenreads.com/

Monster Librarian
http://www.monsterlibrarian.com/horrorfictionlistya.htm

Homework Help

Links to websites that can help you with your homework!
KidsClick! (web search for kids by librarians)
Yahooligans! The Web Guide for Kids
Great Websites for Kids (American Library Association)
BJ Pinchbeck's Homework Helper

Databases provided by UHLS:
(To use these databases, you will need to have your library card handy - you will be asked to enter your barcode, which can be found on the back of your library card)

For Kids & Teens
Kids Search (EBSCO)	Kids Search, an interface to the Primary Search database, is designed for K-5 students. It contains full text for over 50 popular, elementary school magazines, over 100 student pamphlets, an encyclopedia and a dictionary.
Primary Search (EBSCO)	Contains full- text of 57 popular, basic school magazines plus almanacs, an encyclopedia, and a dictionary. Indexing and abstracting for 80+ titles. Full- text is also available for over 100 student pamphlets. Full text articles are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles). For a more graphical interface, see Searchasaurus. (Supported by the NOVEL project.)
Searchasaurus (EBSCO)	Searchasaurus is a colorful interface to Primary Search. Designed specifically for elementary school libraries, it contains full-text for more than 50 popular, elementary school magazines. Full-text is also available for over 100 student pamphlets, an encyclopedia and a dictionary. Full-text articles are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles). (Supported by the NOVEL project.)
Twayne's Author Series	Contains the full text of the Twayne Literary Masters books which provide biographical and literarary criticism information on a wide variety of World, US, or English authors. (Supported by the NOVEL project.)

For a complete list of databases provided by UHLS, please click here.

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