Re: LM_NET Digest - 24 Jun 1998 - Special issue

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 Subject: Hit: Middle School Magazines

 1.   I work in a K-8 school.  My kids really enjoy Field & Stream, Sports
Illustrated
 for Kids, Disney Adventures, and Seventeen.  However, I am thinking of
changing from  Seventeen to Teen because some of the articles and/or features
in Seventeen are geared  for older teens! I also subscribe to U.S. World News
but this goes virtually unread  except by me!  National Geographic is also a
good choice.

 2. Have you looked at the new Teen People?  Pretty cool. Does your population
have  much interest in skateboarding or snowboarding?  Transworld
Skateboarding and  Transworld Snowboarding each have few articles but some
pretty nifty extreme
 photography and the kids who are not your usual library fans will line up for
them.
 There's a new magazine for girls called Jane that you might look at. Better
for middle  school than Seventeen or Glamour, I think.

 3.  Get at least 2 subscriptions to Sports Illustrated for Kids.

 4. I can tell you which magazines are most popular at my 7-8 building.
  Nintendo Power          Game Pro                 Dirt Wheels
 16                      Teen                     Teen Beat
 Sports Illustrated      Beckett Baseball        Beckett Basketball
 Dirt Bike               Volleyball Monthly      Seventeen
 Radio Control Car Action                        People
 BMX Plus                Road and Track            Hot Rod
 Horse and Rider         (Transworld) Skateboarding

 Not to be sexist, but as you can see, boys TEND to be bigger magazine readers
than  girls. Many of my "non-readers" or reluctant readers will go for the
magazines
 voraciously.  I know they do a lot of picture-looking, but they also read ...
 articles, captions, whatever.

 5. I buy several magazines and the kids really like Dog Fancy, Teen,
Seventeen, Dirt  Bike, and Transworld (skateboard--check out a copy first).
They also like Calliope  and Kaliedescope (history magazines).

 6. Try Sports Illustrated for Kids, Dirt Bike, Teen, and Inside Stuff (about
the NBA).
 Those are the most popular at my school.

 7. I am in a 5-12 grade library.  For pleasure reading, I would recommend the
 following from my current holdings:
          3-2-1 Contact (math, science, technology, puzzles)
         Dirt Bike
         Field & Stream
         Hot Rod
         Motor Trend
         National Geographic
         National Geographic World
         National Wildlife
         Outdoor Life
         People Weekly
         Seventeen
         Sports Illustrated
         Sports Illustrated for Kids
         Teen
         Women's Sports and Fitness

 I am adding Disney Adventures for the 1998-99 school year and also
considering the
 following: ESPN Magazine, Teen People, Sports Illustrated for Women

 I could probably keep two subscriptions of Sports Illustrated for Kids and
Sports
 Illustrated and meet most of our students' pleasure reading needs, but try to
 represent a balance of leisure reading interests in our selections.  I do
select most
 of our titles based on whether they can be researched through the Abridged
Reader's
 Guide or one of our online databases, such as SIRS Discoverer. Of course, I
also have
 a $1200 magazine budget and 6 more grade levels in my facility.


 8. The boys at our school like sporting news, sports illustrated, car and
driver,
 outside and lacrosse.

 9 Teen People always gets looked at.

 10. Seventeen and Teen are hard to keep as is BMX for the boys.

 11. My students have enjoyed Nickelodeon and National Geographic World plus
Sports
 Illustrated for Kids...we also get Boys Life and Girls Life...Transworld
Skateboarding
 is another big hit.

 I have tried to stay away from Teen or Seventeen or All About You...they
contain a lot
 of suggestive type material and advertising.

 12. These are the magazines we have:
        Teen
        YM
        Sports Illustrated for Kids
        Zoobooks
        Zillions
        Ebony
        Stone Soup
        Cobblestone
        Cricket (donated)
        Popular Science (donated)
        El Sol
        Que Tal
        Ahora

 13. For sure, sports magazines like Sports Illustrated  or Sport Magazine.  I
don't
 get the teen magazines like Teen or Seventeen or YM but the girls do ask for
them.

 14.  I am sending out my list of magazines sent out earlier today except I
will prefix
 it with the popular ones.
  Boys are easier:
         Beckett's (Sports trading cards) 3 or 4 separate editions(football,
 basketball, baseball for sure)  I dropped the one we were subscribing to
because of
 popularity problems.
         ESPN Sports  (new in april published every two weeks)
         Sports illustrated for Kids
         Sports Illustrated
         Hot Rod
   For Girls:
         New Moon for Girls
         Teen
         Teen People ???
       Let me know of other titles, especially for girls.
       There is a Sports Illustrated for Girls or Women now, but I don't know
 the exact title.

     Our subscription list for next year at a small (200 students 6,7,8)school
include:
              Audubon
              Consumer Reports
              Career World
              Current Health
              Discover
              E Magazine
              Field and Stream
              Hot rod
              Life
              National Geographic
              New Moon for Girls
              Newsweek
              Outdoor Life
              Popular Mechanics
              Popular Science
              Science News
              Sports Illustrated
              Sports Illustrated for Kids
              Teen
              Time
              U.S. News and World Report
              For the teachers:  Oasis
                                 Challenge

 15. Our school has a large number of boys who refused to read all magazines
and
 complained that the library had nothing for them until I ordered what they
 suggested...we  now get (gag!) "Bowhunter" "Off-Road" "Dirtbike" and others
of their
 ilk...the guys love them...I can't remember just all of the titles...just go
to the
 grocery store and look for those "manly-type" things...  My principal raised
his
 eyebrows when I initially ordered them but has since agreed that I was right.

 ...we are a very rural area.  Many of our students' families live off the
 land...fishing, farming. You've never lived until you've tried to shelve
Bowhunter,
 Cogniz, or Surfing magazine while students crawl all over you as each tries
to get the
 magazine first!


 --
 Brooke E. Anderson, Library Media Specialist    740-453-0711
 Roosevelt Middle School                         brookea@clover.net
 1275 Roosevelt Ave
 Zanesville Ohio 43701

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 Date:    Wed, 24 Jun 1998 11:35:38 -0400
 From:    Brooke Anderson <brookea@CLOVER.NET>
 Subject: Followup: Middle School Magazines

 After further studying the suggestions I received for middle school
magazines, one
 thing caught my attention.

 I find it interesting that several people remarked that they didn't buy Teen,
 Seventeen, and similar titles because of questionable or suggestive content
and
 advertising.

 But no one mentioned that they didn't buy Sports Illustrated, Hot Rod,
hunting
 magazines, etc., because of swimsuit issues, cigarette and/or alcohol
advertising,
 classified ads for mail order knives, etc.

 Are we promoting a double standard here?
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