literature and other resources for young people.North Haven, Conn. : Linnet Professional Publications, 1998. A resource guide for teachers, librarians, and parents that lists bibliographic information for more than 150 children's and young adult books about the Civil War.

PRO 025.4 DEW

Dewey, Melvil, 1851-1931.

Abridged Dewey decimal classification

and relative index. Ed. 13. Albany, N.Y. : Forest Press,1997. An abridgment of the twenty-first unabridged edition of the Dewey Decimal classification system for organizing knowledge represented in any form, including books, documents, and electronic records.

PRO 025.4 SEA

Sears list of subject headings. 17th ed. New York : H.W. Wilson, 2000. Presents suggested headings appropriate for use in the catalogs of small and medium- sized libraries, and provides patterns and instructions for adding new headings as they are required. The seventeenth edition features a revision of headings for the native peoples of the Western

Hemisphere, as well as many new subdivisions.

PRO 025.5 LAN

Lane, Nancy D.

Techniques for student research : a comprehensive

guide to using the library. New York : Neal-Schuman

Publishers, c2000. Explains the basics of using printed and electronic reference sources to find short, factual answers to questions, emphasizing the principles of organization and searching techniques that apply to specific resources; tells how to formulate a search strategy; and provides a brief introduction to the Internet as a research tool.

PRO 025.5678 DRU

Druce, Arden.

Library lessons for grades 7-9. Rev. ed. Lanham,Md. : Scarecrow Press, 1997. Contains nineteen lessons and forty-five worksheets for teaching junior high school students library skills, including how to use card and computer catalogs, reference texts, and a vertical file.

PRO 027.8 HAR

Hartzell, Gary N., 1943-.

Building influence for the school

librarian. Worthington, Ohio : Linworth Pub., c1994.

PRO 155.5 CAR

Carlson, Dale Bick.

Where's your head? : psychology for

teenagers. 2nd ed. Madison, CT : Bick Pub. House, 1998. Discusses the entire range of human psychological

development while focusing on the mind, feelings, and

behaviors of teenagers and ways in which adolescents can

understand their personality formation.

PRO 306.874 WOL

Wolf, Anthony E.

"Get out of my life, but first could you drive

me and Cheryl to the mall?" : a parent's guide to the new teenager. 1st rev. ed. New York : Farrar, Straus and

Giroux, 2002. Presents advice on raising adolescents,

covering communication, trust, control, conflict, and such

issues as divorce, school, the Internet, sex, drugs and

drinking, and suicide.

PRO 346.7304 HOF

Hoffmann, Gretchen McCord.

and answers for librarians. New York : Neal-Schuman

Publishers, c2001. A guide to copyright as it applies to

the Internet, designed for librarians. Provides essential

background on copyright law, explains copyright's

applications to the Internet, and discusses specific library

applications.

PRO 346.7304 SIM

Simpson, Carol Mann, 1949-.

guide. 3rd ed. Worthington, Ohio : Linworth Pub., c2001.

Discusses the copyright law in relation to schools,

presenting an updated discussion on multi-media "fair use"

for schools, specific examples of school situations, and

various types of copyrights.

PRO 370.15 CAM

Campbell, Linda, 1948-.

Multiple intelligences and student

achievement : success stories from six schools. Alexandria,

VA : Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development,

c1999. Describes six schools who have used multiple

intelligences theory for five or more years and discusses

how it has helped improve student learning.

PRO 370.15 STE

Stevens, Judy, 1944-.

For the learners' sake : brain-based

instruction for the 21st century. Tucson, Ariz. : Zephyr

Press, c2001. Contains self-reflective activities designed

to help teachers apply the latest knowledge of the brain and

neurosciences to classroom projects and teachings.

PRO 371.1 BES

The best advice ever for teachers. Kansas City : Andrews McMeel

Pub., c2001. A collection of comments, quotes, meditations,

and bits of advice designed to inspire teachers.

PRO 371.102 BEA

Beane, Allan L., 1950-.

The bully free classroom : over 100 tips

and strategies for teachers K-8. Minneapolis, Minn. : Free

Spirit, c1999. Presents a collection of tips, strategies,

and activities designed to address and eliminate the problem

of bullying in elementary and middle schools; and includes

reproducible worksheets.

PRO 371.102 GIN

Ginsberg, Margery B., 1954-.

Creating highly motivating classrooms

for all students : a schoolwide approach to

powerful teaching with diverse learners. 1st ed. San

Francisco : Jossey-Bass, c2000. Gives practical advice to

teachers of culturally and ethnically diverse students to

help them cultivate their intrinsic desire to learn.

PRO 371.102 HEA

Heacox, Diane, 1949-.

Differentiating instruction in the regular

classroom : how to reach and teach all learners, grades

3-12. Minneapolis, MN

3-13. Free Spirit, c2002:. Describes a

variety of strategies educators can use to change the pace,

level, or type of instruction in order to reach and teach

all learners.

PRO 371.102 WON

Wong, Harry K., 1932-.

The first days of school : how to be an

effective teacher. 2nd ed. Mountain View, CA : H.K. Wong,

c1998. Offers advice on how to become an effective teacher

through the development of three characteristics--positive

expectations, classroom management, and lesson mastery--and

discusses the need for teachers to continue in personal

learning and growth to become a professional educator.

PRO 371.102 ZEM

Zemelman, Steven.

Best practice : new standards for teaching and

learning in America's schools. 2nd ed. Portsmouth, NH :

Heinemann, c1998. Draws from national reports, research

summaries, and professional position papers to provide

explanations of what constitutes instructional excellence in

the main school curriculum areas; and includes examples of

those standards at work in real classrooms at all grade

levels.

PRO 371.2 CUB

Cuban, Larry.

How can I fix it? : finding solutions and managing

dilemmas : an educator's road map. New York : Teachers

College Press, c2001. Describes strategies designed to help

educators deal with the complexities they encounter in their

day-to-day work, explaining how to frame problems and

dilemmas, and exploring the connections between problems and

dilemmas and planned changes. Includes case studies.

PRO 371.5 LAT

Lathrop, Ann.

Student cheating and plagiarism in the Internet

era : a wake-up call. Englewood, Colo. : Libraries

Unlimited, 2000. Offers ideas and strategies to educators

and parents for combating the increase in cheating and

plagiarizing that has accompanied access to the Internet,

discussing the extent of the problem, looking at high- and

low-tech defenses against cheating, and examining ways to

make it more difficult to cheat.

PRO 371.5 POS

Positive discipline : a teacher's A-Z guide. Rev. 2nd ed.

[Roseville, Calif.] : Prima Pub., c2001. Describes the

seventeen fundamental tools of positive discipline, and

features an A-to-Z list of discipline problems that occur in

most classrooms, each with a discussion of the issue,

suggestions for responding to the problem, and advice from

other teachers.

PRO 371.93 ARM

Armstrong, Thomas.

ADD/ADHD alternatives in the classroom.

Alexandria, VA : Association for Supervision and Curriculum

Development, c1999. Presents assumptions about attention

deficit disorder, or attention deficit hyperactivity

disorder; alternatives to the ADD/ADHD paradigm; and

strategies to empower children diagnosed with it instead of

control them.

PRO 372.13 DUN

Duncan, Donna.

I-Search, you search, we all learn to learn to

research : a how-to-do-it manual for teaching elementary

school students to solve information problems. New York :

Neal-Schuman Publishers, c2000. Examines the

problem-solving model children use with the I-Search

process, offering advice on how to pinpoint a search topic,

where to find answers, how to record and showcase

information, and how to assess results.

PRO 372.6 ARM

Armstrong, Thomas.

The multiple intelligences of reading and

writing : making the words come alive. Alexandria, Va. :

Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development,

c2002. Literacy, multiple intelligences, and the brain --

Coming to grips with the musculature of words -- Seeing the

visual basis of literacy -- Grooving with the rhythms of

language -- Calculating the logic of words -- Feeling the

emotional power of text -- Relating to the social context of

literacy -- Speaking out about the oral basis of reading and

writing.

PRO 372.64 MCC

McCarthy, Tara.

Teaching genre : exploring 9 types of literature

to develop lifelong readers and writers. New York :

Scholastic Professional Books, c1996. Presents teaching

activities and reproducible pages on nine genres or

subgenres of literature: poetry, biography, autobiography,

reports of information, realistic fiction in a modern

setting, historical fiction, folk literature, mystery,

modern fantasy and science fiction.

PRO 372.83 SAN

Sanderson, Jeannette.

Teaching with Dear America books. New

York : Scholastic, c2001. Explains how teachers can use the

books in the "Dear America" historical fiction series to

build important social studies and language art skills.

PRO 428 ATW

Atwell, Nancie.

In the middle : new understandings about

writing, reading, and learning. 2nd ed. Portsmouth, NH :

Boynton/Cook, c1998. The author describes what she has

learned about teaching, writing, and reading over

twenty-five years as an English teacher, focusing on her

experiences after she freed herself and students from a

regimented curriculum.

PRO 649 TRA

Tracy, Louise Felton.

Grounded for life?! : stop blowing your

fuse and start communicating with your teenager. 1st ed.

Seattle, Wash. : Parenting Press, c1994. A guide to help

parents bring about positive change in communicating with

the middle-school child.

PRO 649.125 POP

Popkin, Michael H..

Active parenting of teens : parent's guide.

Atlanta, Ga. : Active Parenting Pub., c1998. Provides

suggestions for parents of teenagers for dealing with the

problems of sexuality, drug use, and violence.

PRO 970.004 HIR

Hirschfelder, Arlene B.

Native Americans today : resources and

activities for educators, grades 4-8. Englewood, Colo. :

Teacher Ideas Press, 2000. Reproducible activities,

biographies of real people, and background information help

students learn about how Native Americans live.