Core Reference List

Which titles are the most popular and essential reference print items in your library?  In ours, they seem to be:

1) Hip Hop Rhyming Dictionary by Kevin M. Mitchell

2) Pocket Oxford American Dictionary (Paperback) by Oxford University Press

3) Scholastic Pocket Thesaurus by John K. Bollard

4) The Occupational Outlook Handbook

5) College Board’s College Handbook

6) College Board’s Book of Majors 2013

7) DK’s Spanish-English Visual Bilingual Dictionary (other languages in this series are popular as well)

8) The Ultimate Scholarship Book by Gen and Kelly Tanabe

--Passages Academy Library Team

Core Biography List

Which are the most popular and essential biographies, memoirs, and autobiographies in your collection?  Here are Passages Academy Libraries':

1) Yummy by Greg Neri, Illustrated by Randy DuBurke  (n.b. This hybrid volume contains an acknowledged element of fiction)

 

2) A Child Called It by Dave Pelzer

3) The Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told to Alex Haley by Malcolm X, Alex Haley and Attallah Shabazz

 

4) Life in Prison by Stanley Tookie Williams (n.b. Currently only available in a hardbound version)

5) Saddleback's Hip-Hop Biography series titles Drake, Nikki Minaj, Beyonce

6) LeBron James: King of Shots by Anne E. Hill

7) The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank and Anne Frank: Her Life in Words and Pictures

8) A Question of Freedom by Dwayne Betts

9) Fist Stick Knife Gun by Geoffrey Canada, illustrated by Jamar Nicholas

10) Burned Alive by Souad

 

11) DK Biography: Barack Obama by Stephen Krensky

---Passages Academy Library Team