diversity in collection development fair: urban fiction

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Diversity in Collection Development Fair:

Urban Fiction

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What are pre-teens reading?

What is Urban Fiction?

Urban Fiction is a popular yet controversial genre especially among young African-American and Hispanic patrons. The genre features characters living in large urban cities that are usually involved in drug dealing, gang violence, and/or prostitution.

http://www.libsuccess.org/Urban_Fiction/

Make sure your school has a written selection and reconsideration policy that addresses written challenges to books. If you don’t, you’re totally vulnerable.

http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/article/CA6632974.html

Chicago Public SchoolsCollection Development Policy for School Libraries

Found under ‘CPS Board Approves Library Collection Development Policy – Librarian Information’ http://policy.cps.k12.il.us/documents/604.7.pdf

Librarians should make purchasing decisions based ontheir knowledge of the following: Students Communities Collection needs Other criteria set forth in the CPS Collection Development

Policy for School Librarians

http://cpslibraries.wikispaces.com/Click on: ‘Urban Fiction’

Why Should Library Collections Contain Some Urban Fiction Titles?

Timeless themes such as peer pressure, violence, pregnancy, divorce, drugs and sex appear in the stories.

Students should be exposed to a variety of genres.

Many students can relate to the stories.

Attractive reads for reluctant readers.

Urban Fiction can reach a population of students that historically have not been serviced in the library.

My Bluford High Boys: How a book club for reluctant readers proved the naysayers wrong

by Sara Stevenson -- School Library Journal, 5/1/2009

Popular Urban FictionNovels And Series: Middle School

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Popular Urban FictionNovels And Series: High School

Adult Books that Teens are Reading

Where can I find more information about

Urban Fiction novels?

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