HIT:Opposing Viewpoints series

[Emily Graham <egraham@midcoast.com>]

Hello!
I've gotten quite a number of reponses to my question about Opposing
Viewpoints.  As I predicted, the response was overwhelmingly positive.
The highlights were for their use for 11-12 graders' debates and term
papers.   The series was praised for showing all sides of the issue and
encouraging critical thinking.

The concerns came mainly in the books' reading level (best for 9-12 if
not 11-12), that they were over the heads of younger students.  On the
flipside of that was one comment that their sources (articles from Time
magazine, etc) were not as academic as one might hope.

The junior series did not get as much in the way of praise, some were
happy with them, but others did not think they were of the same quality.

We put in an order for many books from the series this afternoon, it was
nice to be able to show the principal some praise from other librarians
on the series in order to justify the large chunk of our budget that we
will be spending on this series!

Thanks once again!!

-Emily Graham, Librarian
North Haven Community School
North Haven, Maine
egraham@midcoast.com

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