Excerpt from Books for High Schools
This list complements the List of books for elementary and rural schools, and a few titles of especial interest to high school students have been repeated.
Arrangement. The list is arranged by class, thus bringing books of a similar nature and use together. In each class the books are listed by author (black face type) and title and each item is numbered consecutively. Library usage has been followed in the form of entry and in capitalization.
Index. A full author, title and subject index is given at the end. so that a book may be found easily.
Selection of titles. In the preparation of the list, an attempt has been made to include books useful in all different types of high schools. The titles have been chosen to supplement the teaching in the schools and to provide some interesting outside reading for the high school boys and girls. The books for recreative reading have been chosen with view to interesting the boys and girls in reading, in owning books themselves and in the use of the public library.
Editions. Standard editions have been listed, and wherever possible, those of moderate cost. To meet the Requests of some of the larger high schools, some expensive books have been included, but practically the same material is also represented in less expensive form.
Attractive editions of the classics and of standard fiction have been added, when these are obtainable. Many high school libraries find these useful in interesting the students. They arc usually kept in the library as a reference collection and cheaper editions provided for home use.
Vocational guidance. To meet the demands of the newer work ill English in the field of vocational guidance, many books have been included in the classes 170, 607, 920-921, and in each class where such books might be included. Leavitt - Examples in industrial education gives the outline for this work as carried on in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Prices. Only the publishers" list prices arc given.
Reductions from these prices may be obtained from a number of reliable book dealers.
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