http://www.ebscohost.com/novelist/
ISBN: http://support.ebsco.com/novelist/training.php
Publisher: Ebscohost
Reading Level: Grades 8th and above.
Summary:
NoveList and NoveList K-8 Plus, specifically, are databases made up of fiction and nonfiction titles for children, teens, and adults. Teens can go to this site through the LAPL (Los Angeles Public Library) website in order to research or find books to read. There are sections for read-alikes and recommended reads, as well as series of articles from learning about ethnicities to dealing with conspiracies and the government, which could prove extremely helpful for assignments. The recommended reads can be broken into Adult, Teen, and Children ages 0-8 and then 9-12. There’s also an area for award- winning books and links to such sites as the Carnegie Medal and the YALSA Notable Book List. Although this site is primarily for librarians, teachers, and parents to use in order help them teach a book, teens could also use it as a resource tool for book reports and in their own quest to find books they might be interested in.
NoveList and NoveList K-8 Plus, specifically, are databases made up of fiction and nonfiction titles for children, teens, and adults. Teens can go to this site through the LAPL (Los Angeles Public Library) website in order to research or find books to read. There are sections for read-alikes and recommended reads, as well as series of articles from learning about ethnicities to dealing with conspiracies and the government, which could prove extremely helpful for assignments. The recommended reads can be broken into Adult, Teen, and Children ages 0-8 and then 9-12. There’s also an area for award- winning books and links to such sites as the Carnegie Medal and the YALSA Notable Book List. Although this site is primarily for librarians, teachers, and parents to use in order help them teach a book, teens could also use it as a resource tool for book reports and in their own quest to find books they might be interested in.
Critical Evaluation:
Although there are many websites that parents, teachers, and librarians can point teens toward in helping them with research projects, the Ebsco websites may be the best available. One new area which will help teens immensely is called “Beyond subject headings: Adding appeal,” adding terms such as tone and the different writing styles that students may use. Lists of particular storylines, pace, tone, and writing styles can be found here as well. Such summaries are particularly useful in both school and personal settings. For the former, researching may be facilitated and focused in ways that no other resource could achieve. For the latter, simply being able to make more mature decisions about their responses to literature is an important step for teen readers to make. It is how they learn the more substantive methods of analysis and interpretation where literature is not merely for entertainment, but also for actual enlightenment. In the end, they might even be able to teach their own parents and teachers something they were not aware of before.
Reader’s Annotation:
A website dedicated to research of fiction and non-fiction materials. From read-alikes to research articles, this website can be used as a jumping off point of a research paper.
A website dedicated to research of fiction and non-fiction materials. From read-alikes to research articles, this website can be used as a jumping off point of a research paper.
Author Biography:
Per their website, “EBSCOhost databases and discovery technologies are the most-used, premium online information resources for tens of thousands of institutions worldwide, representing millions of end-users.” (Retrieved from http://www.ebscohost.com/).
A subset of the website is the Student Research Center which gives teens a chance to search the database for magazines, books, newspapers, films, and video, to name only a few, that can help them with article citations as well as all the dictionaries and encyclopedias which can be found on-line.
Genre: Database for fiction and nonfiction books.
Curriculum Ties: From English to Civics and Government, this website can help a student research for a paper in basically any class they might be taking.
Booktalking Ideas:
Discuss what type of genres one can find in this website,
and how they can be broken down into sub-genres.
and how they can be broken down into sub-genres.
Reading Level/Interest Age:
Children starting to write papers when they are as young as in middle school
could use this website with ease.
could use this website with ease.
Read-Alikes:
EBSCOhost databases with their array of information in fields from medical
to government to information on colleges and universities.
to government to information on colleges and universities.
Challenge Issue:
Other than parents’ objecting if particular books make the database, a librarian could argue that they carry all types of books for the myriad of children who pass through the various branches of the Los Angeles Public Library system.
Reason to include in blog: Looking around my local public library search engines that both teens and adults can access, I came across this website and found it immensely helpful in finding books for the particular genre I was looking for. The search engine and weblinks are easy to find and navigate, making it an excellent website candidate for teens to use for their research.
References:
Ebsco. (2011). In Ebsco Publishing. Retrieved from http://www.ebscohost.com/
NovelList (n.d.). NovelList Support Center.
Retrieved from http://support.ebsco.com/novelist/beyondsubjectheadings.php
Retrieved from http://support.ebsco.com/novelist/beyondsubjectheadings.php
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