How to choose a "Just Right Book" according to the Belmont Librarian extraordinaire, Jane Corry...
Look at the cover.
Read the flap.
Open at random and read a page. See if you are intrigued.
Look at what authors wrote blurbs on the cover of a book you
liked, read something by them.
Get recommendations from trusted friends or relatives.
Read another book by an author you like.
Ask a librarian for suggestions, we love talking about books
(one you know or…)
Use a booklist.
Use a database.
Novelist
Goodreads
Read an award winner
OBOB,
ORCA,
Printz Award
Newbery Medal
Sibert Award (non-fiction)
Take a chance, they are free from the library and you don’t
have to finish a book just because you started it.
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