Week 5: NoveList Plus

NoveList Plus was a wonderful discovery!!!  In my exploration, I quickly discovered how easy and user friendly this database was.  First, I searched by author, my personal favorite, James Patterson, who crafts extremely compelling psychological suspense novels.  I then decided to delve deeper and searched using the Alex Cross series.  I loved the fact, one could easily figure out the order each of the 28 books came in the series.  The opportunity to delve deeper by using tabs to read reviews, the More About This Book, Lists and Articles, were also very helpful and may be beneficial to someone who might be on the fence about a particular book.  The Read-a-like column was also a great feature and will ease the pain for that student (or anyone) who just can't seem to find what they want to read.  The experience created such excitement, I decided to show it to a few teachers and weaved it into the fifth-grade library classes this week!  Using a whole group approach, and our Tanberg unit, it was wonderful to see the exitment and the large number of students so eager to suggest authors and series for direction in their next choices.  They loved it!  A big thanks to our media specialist who put NoveList on our library main page for easy access.  I plan to give students time to use this independently at the computers in the library.