Book Selection Resources for Students and Parents
2014-2015
1. Schools
a. OPAC (currently only available at school) – students can search for books by title,
author, subject, and lexile.
2. Public Libraries
a. SWAN is used by many libraries to allow patrons to search for books.
3. http://www.lexile.com/
Lexile.com allows one to search by lexile range for titles. It also allows one to find the
lexile of a specific title, or discover the lexile by registering and entering text.
4. www.Goodreads.com
Goodreads allows one to find other books similar to a specific book. If an account is
created, one can also track their books here to see what they have been reading.
5. www.alline.org/euro/ereading.html
Reading Resources interactive site geared for elementary students in grades 1 - 4.
Reading Resources Chart
Book Adventures
6. http://www.kidsreads.com/index.asp
KidsReads website shares reviews of “cool new books” and authors. The books are
categorized by age and by genre. There is a link for podcasts and another for book clubs.
The newsletter highlights the newest and best on the site.
7. www.rcyrba.org/
Rebecca Caudill Young Reader's Book Award. Parents and students may select from
previous years’ lists only, not current year’s list.
8. http://www.islma.org/books_and_reading.htm
Illinois School Library Media Association gives a variety of resources to assist in finding
quality, appropriate books.
9. http://readingandwritingproject.com/
The Reading & Writing Project includes book lists, classroom libraries and text sets for
students.
10. www.Amazon.com
Amazon.com contains editorial reviews, reviews written by other readers, biographical
information about authors, and suggestions of other books you might like (“frequently
bought together” or “customers who bought this item also bought.”
11. http://www.scholastic.com/parents/
Scholastic’s website for parents allows parents to enter the age of their child and get
book suggestions for family read-alouds, books for parents to read, as well as books and
activities for their children.
12. http://www.scholastic.com/kids/stacks/
http://www.scholastic.com/parents/play/
Scholastic Stacks and Scholastic Family Playground are the two Scholastic sites aimed
at the students. Stacks is for students aged 8-12 years and the Family Playground is for
students aged 3-7 years. Family Playground has games and stories and favorite websites
for some popular book series. Stacks has ideas of “cool books to check out” for a variety
of genres.
13. http://www.scholastic.com/bookwizard/
Scholastic’s Book Wizard allows you to search by lexile for a title, author, or keyword.
They also have some book trailers and featured authors.
14. http://www.scholastic.com/parents/resources/collection/parent-child-magazine
Parent and Child Magazine is Scholastic’s magazines for parents. It contains articles on
reading and book suggestions as well as other activities.
15. http://atn-reading-lists.wikispaces.com/
All Together Now is a collaborative website for librarians. The previous website
(http://www.nancykeane.com) contains some of the older lists. The “Read Alikes” lists
give suggestions for anyone who likes a specific book and is looking for other books like
it. There are many other lists for book ideas here also.
16. http://www.ala.org/alsc/awardsgrants/bookmedia/newberymedal/newberyhonors/ne
wberymedal
The Newbery Medal winners and honor books are listed by the American Library
Association on this website.