Reading Lists for College-bound Students


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"Get a head start on college success!"--Cover subtitle.




Reading Lists for College-Bound Students


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Gathers the reading lists of U.S. colleges, including the one hundred most recommended works, and explains how to prepare for college entrance tests and courses




Reading Lists for College-Bound Students


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Get a head start on college success with this must-have guide to the books that college and university professors think are important--and why. Includes an annotated list of the 100 books most often recommended by the leading schools.




Outstanding Books for the College Bound


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Connecting teens to books they’ll truly enjoy is the aim of every young adult librarian, and the completely revamped guide Outstanding Books for the College Bound will give teen services staff the leg up they need to make it happen. Listing nearly 200 books deemed outstanding for the college bound by the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA), this indispensable resource Examines how the previous lists in the series were developed, and explains the book’s new layout Features engaging, helpful book descriptions useful for readers’ advisory Offers programming tips and other ideas for ways the lists can be used at schools and public libraries Includes indexes searchable by topic, year, title, and authorMore than simply a vital collection development tool, this book can help librarians help young adults grow into the kind of independent readers and thinkers who will flourish at college.




Outstanding Books for the College Bound


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More than 1,000 books are organized into different genres -- the Arts, Biography, Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, and Book for the Time -- with an annotation and year of selection for each. A chronological section offers snapshots in history and shows the evolution of the list over the decades.