Publisher's' Weekly takes on the question that is often on my mind as a 7-12 librarian. How do we draw lines between books intended for middle school kids and those for high school kids.? I suppose even more importantly, we sometimes question whether or not we should even draw these lines. Much needs to be considered in school library land: community expectations, parent expectations, teacher expectations, student expectations. We are often dancing on that fine line as we try to meet the reading needs of our wide variety of students. Librarians of a more public library leaning often gasp and wonder if we school libraries are censoring our. Our world is and must be different in the public school system. I confess that I rely just a bit on reading programs to steer my younger kids toward age appropriate titles. I am relieved at some level to read that book store folks think seriously about this issue as well.

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