Re: [LM_NET] Tar: your opinion

[Dawn Sardes <yayagoddess@SBCGLOBAL.NET>]

I was in this situation once.  Here's what I did & it worked out well.

I would divide the money into a 50/50 split between fiction and nonfiction.


For fiction
Pull, at random, some popular genre titles in Fantasy, romance, Sci-fi, survival, 
sports stories, coming of age, etc--just 2-3 for each type.

Check the circ stats.  See what is more popular in your school--what the kids are 
reading--and buy accordingly. Series are important--like the Spiderwick ones, what 
with the movie being out--if you don't have 'em, you need 'em.

Is your school culturally diverse?  There's a great series of African-American 
books called the Bluford Series--Middle school kids love it and if you buy direct 
from Townsend Press, they're only a buck a book. 

For nonfiction, allot 100 bucks to each dewey area.  Make a list of each book you 
buy and give it to the content teachers, (ex: give the 500's to your science and 
math teachers, the 300's and 900's to your social studies teachers, and so on)

If you don't need $100 bucks worth of books in one Dewey area, pick up a few 
professional resources for the teacher's professional collection (if there is one) 
or bump the money back to fiction.





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