Support Teen and Children’s Reading in GALILEO

Thursday is Support Teen Literature Day during National Library Week, but we are broadening the topic to support reading for all youth. How do you choose a good title to help your child or teen get interested in reading? Has your student read all of those books in that series and need a new series or a new author to read? Resources in GALILEO offer great tools for matching a reader with a book.

NoveList (for high school students) and NoveList K-8 (for elementary and middle school students) provide book and author recommendations for children and teens, as well as recommended books lists.

In addition to NoveList tools outlined in an earlier post, NoveList K-8 and NoveList both offer the option to limit results by grade level, as well as by Lexile score. Just click on Advanced Search and enter a topic or describe a plot (examples: humorous story about animals or middle school coping) and choose a grade level, age range, or both . In the list of the results look for Title Read-alikes, Author Read-alikes, and Series Read-alikes to broaden your search.

The recommended reading lists, accessible on the left side of the home page of NoveList and NoveList K-8, have been compiled by librarians and educators. Lists are available for many subjects and genres, including adventures stories, fantasy, mysteries, science fiction, and more. Note that when you change the age range, you’ll see different genres for that age.

Click on the More link at the top of the page to see other great resources, including an exhaustive book awards list and picture book extenders to help with story time ideas.

NoveList and NoveList K-8 are available to all participating GALILEO libraries.

Remote Access for Public Library Users
1) Log in via your PINES account, or
2) Try this! (geolocation) or
3) Contact your public library.