This collection provides leisure reading materials for junior high age patrons, offers teachers resources for classroom use, and offers a selection of materials that meet book report assignment needs. Students of children s literature can find a representation of core young adult literature. Senior high school patrons, in general, are reading in the Adult Fiction collection. Bibliographies from credible sources, such as ALA s Best Books for Young Adults and Best Nonfiction for Young Adults, are used extensively as collection development tools. I nfluencing Factors Patron requests are given serious consideration.
Available space determines further collection development.
Since teens prefer paperbacks, this format is primarily purchased. Soaring Eagle Award books, sponsored by the Wyoming Library Association and the Wyoming State Reading Council, are purchased in duplicate. Comic book formats are purchased to meet the requests for graphic novels that are well reviewed. Some titles already in the adult fiction collection are duplicated if there is a demand for the title and it is reviewed for young adults. Newbery titles are occasionally purchased, but no effort is made to provide all such titles since many are written for younger readers and all Newbery titles are available in the Junior Fiction collection.