What Should I Read Next?

For Ridgedale Local Schools Libraries

Locating the OPAC (Online Public Access Catalog)

Go to the Ridgedaleschools.orgClick on Click on Library in left column

Select High School or Elementary Online Catalog

Suppose you REALLYliked Hatchet by Gary Paulsen

Click on the cat’s paw. Cat Jr. is the an icon driven search.

Type in Hatchet in the search box

Searches can be sorted by author, new to old, title, etc.

Click on Title

Find Hatchet in the search results

Click on the title

Here you’ll see.

Brief Description.. A Look Inside. . . Full Description

Hatchet / Gary Paulsen.Paulsen, Gary.

After a plane crash, 13-year-old Brian spends 54 days in the Canadian wilderness, surviving with only the aid of a hatchet, and learning also to deal with his parents' divorce. A Newbery Honor Book; ALA Notable Children's Book; ALA Best of the Best for Young Adults; "Booklist" editors' Choice;

Physical Description : 195 p. cm.Reading Program : Accelerated Reader  MG Level : 5.7 

In Brief Description (left blue tab) you’ll find

Title

Author

Brief description of the story

Pages, book dimensions

Accelerated Reader levels

In Look Inside (middle tab)

A summary of the book

Newer books have book reviews from teacher and librarian book selection journals

Some entries include author biographies

Newer entries may also include excerpts or the entire first chapter

In Full Description you’ll also see

Full cataloging information,

ISBN

Publisher information

Subject heading

Series information

If you want to read more by Paulsen

Look in the box to the right. Below the word Keep

Click on Find more by this author

Items with the Same Author will appear in the box to the left.

Or click on Find more on these topics

This matches the subject headings in the catalog entry and finds other books with the same subject headings. In this case more books about survival or about divorce.

Nearby items on the shelf

This will show you what books are shelved around this book. This is more helpful with nonfiction books. Since you are not likely to know the titles of nonfiction books on a particular topic finding them by their subject matter is essential.

Back to the main page…Click on New Search.

Important: Using the Browser back button will interrupt your search

Reading Level Search

In the box to the right click on Reading level search. Here you'll find books by Lexile (click the button), Accelerated Reader and Reading Counts. This is a helpful tool but is not exact. You may need to fine tune your parameters since it may give you LOTS of results. Subject terms need to be very general-- dogs instead of Yorkshire terriers.

Visual search 4 kids

This will open a palette of pictures which illustrate book subjects found in your library only.

Click on animals.

Here you see a wide range of animal topics.

Great for the kid who can’t think what they want to read next.

What Others Are Reading

As books are checked out this area will show the top 20 titles, topics and authors that our students are reading. Also a great way for kids to find books to read.

More options

With teacher permission, students my borrow items from either the High school, or elementary library.

The catalogs may be accessed as an App. See Mrs. Miller.

E-books are available for download.

Recommended reading lists can be found at the bottom of the main page and those in our collection are indicated

Look up the sequel to a favorite book at http://www.mymcpl.org/cfapps/juvser/author.cfm

For Accelerated Reader levels Google search on AR Lookup

OrAsk a friend, a teacher or your Librarian what they enjoyed reading.

Happy Reading!!!

Mrs. Campbell, Elementary Librarian

Mrs. Miller,District Library Media Specialist