Novelist and Novelist K-8

A new work of fiction is published in the United States every 30 seconds!

Find new books to read or re-discover old favorites by letting the Novelist database guide you through the world of fiction.  Avid and casual readers alike will find new and exciting books to explore with these two reader’s advisory databases.

Novelist
(available remotely to Central, Branch, Dewitt, Fayetteville, Liverpool, Manlius and Salina Free library card holders)

What you'll find in the Novelist database:

• More than 147,000 Fiction Titles, searchable by keyword, author, genre or character or place name.
• More than 36,000 Subject Headings
• More than 225 Author Read-alikes, with new ones added monthly
• More than 300 Book Discussion Guides for Book Clubs
• More than 300 Annotated Thematic Bibliographies
• More than 500 Genre- and Theme-Based Lists (Explore Fiction)
• More than 350 different award lists (Best Fiction)
• More than 500 BookTalks
• More than 14,000 First Chapters
• 110,000 Annotations
• 100,000 Full-Text Searchable Reviews
• 110,000 Titles with Popularity Ranking
• Special search features
• ‘Find a Series’: displays complete lists of series titles in reading order
• ‘What We're Reading’: current reading lists and favorite author lists of nationally-known readers' advisors like Nancy Pearl, Joyce Saricks, Patrick Jones and many others.

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	Use this link if you are OUTSIDE Central or a Branch library

Novelist K-8
(available remotely to Central, City of Syracuse branch, and Salina Free library card holders)

What you'll find in the Novelist K-8 database:

• More than 55,000 Fiction Titles
• More than 36,000 Subject Headings
• More than 47,000 Annotations
• More than 200 Annotated Thematic Bibliographies
• More than 1,100 Genre- and Theme-Based Lists (Explore Fiction)
• More than 850 different award lists (Best Fiction)
• More than 500 BookTalks (Children's and Young Adult)
• More than 100 Picture Book Extenders
• Lexile Scores, offering readability measures to facilitate locating reading material that is geared to the user's reading ability, especially useful for challenging but not frustrating emerging readers
• On-Line Learning Center with Tutorials, Sample Searches and Printable Search Aids
• 27,000 Fiction Titles with Full-Text Searchable Reviews (over 50,000 total searchable reviews)from sources like School Library Journal and Booklist
• 43,000 Titles with Popularity Rating
• Special features including ‘Picture Book Extenders’that offers specific examples of the many ways in which picture books can be used by teachers and parents: as a comprehension tool, as enrichment to curricular content areas, and as a springboard to exciting and interesting activities that are suggested by a picture book's content.

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	Use this link if you are IN Central or a Branch library
	Use this link if you are OUTSIDE Central or a Branch library