Cover Story
Best Books 2012: The year’s outstanding titles for children and teens.
By SLJ Book Review Editors
Features
- SLJ’s Top 10 Apps
By Daryl Grabarek - SLJ’s Top 10 Graphic Novels
By the ‘Good Comics for Kids’ Bloggers - SLJ’s Top 10 DVDs
By Phyllis Mandell - SLJ’s Top 10 Tech
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Collection Building
- Healthy Lifestyles: A Balancing Act | Focus On
By Joanna K. Fabicon - Stories for Winter Nights | Listen In
By Sharon Grover and Lizette Hannegan
TechKnowledge
- The Unquiet Librarian’s New Role: Cleveland Public Library hires
Buffy Hamilton as its new ‘learning strategist’
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- Ebook toolkit: ABDO EBoost | Test Drive
By Jeffrey Hastings
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- Enter ‘Blended Funding’ | The Next Big Thing
By Christopher Harris
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- Assessment on the Go with Mobile Tools | Cool Tools
By Richard Byrne
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Columns
- Behind the Best: Or what it takes for 65 books to become SLJ’s top titles of the year | Editorial
By Rebecca T. Miller
- Getting High: These incredible stories will catapult kids to surprising new heights | Nonfiction Booktalker
By Kathleen Baxter
- The Public Library Connection: The new standards require that public and school librarians pull together | On Common Core
By Olga M. Nesi
- Quest to Learn: A collaborative effort to design engaging game-like learnng environments | Gaming Life
By Dan O’Keefe
Digital Resources
- Chelsea House Biographies Online | Digital Resources Review
By Jennifer Prince
Letters to SLJ: December 2012
Multimedia Reviews: December 2012
Reference Reviews: December 2012
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