Policy and Community Feedback - DELTA HIGH SCHOOL LIBRARY

DELTA HIGH SCHOOL LIBRARY

Delta High School Library Collection Development Policy
Support and enrich the curriculum and/or students’ personal interests and learning.
Meet high standards in literary, artistic, and aesthetic quality; technical aspects; and physical format.
Be appropriate for the subject area and for the age, emotional development, ability level, learning styles, and social, emotional, and intellectual development of the students for whom the materials are selected.
Incorporate accurate and authentic factual content from authoritative sources.
Earn favorable reviews in standard reviewing sources and/or favorable recommendations based on preview and examination of materials by professional personnel.
Exhibit a high degree of potential user appeal and interest.
Represent differing viewpoints on controversial issues.
Provide a global perspective and promote diversity by including materials by authors and illustrators of all cultures. Include a variety of resources in physical and virtual formats including print and non-print, such as electronic and multimedia (including subscription databases and other online products, e-books, educational games, and other forms of emerging technologies).
Demonstrate physical format, appearance, and durability suitable to their intended use.
Balance cost with need.
All materials shall be chosen for values of interest and enlightenment of all students of the Delta High School community. Materials shall not be excluded solely on the basis that they may contain potentially controversial material, such as that pertaining to race, nationality, or certain political, moral or religious views. Although the sensational and over-dramatic will be avoided, isolated incidents or profanity should not automatically disqualify material. There shall be the fullest practical provision made for materials presenting all points of view concerning the local, national and international problems and issues of our times.

Community Feedback Form

We value our community and any input that may be given for the review of books that are set for intended purchase.
If you want to have input on book purchases for the 2023/2024 school year, please fill out the Community Review Feedback Form above.

Following is a list of the books that may be purchased during the 2023/2024 school year at the Delta High School Library:

Bring Me Your Midnight by Rachel Griffin
Defiant by Brandon Sanderson
Blue Lock by Muneyuki Kaneshiro, Yusuke Nomura (Manga)
The Hunting Moon by Susan Dennard
The Forest Grimm by Kathryn Purdie
A Curse for True Love by Stephanie Garber
Enola Holmes and the Mark of the Mongoose by Nancy Springer
Michael Vey 9 by Richard Paul Evans
Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Chalice of the Gods by Rick Riordan
You: The Story: A Writer's Guide to Craft Through Memory by Ruta Sepetys
Not White Enough: The Long, Shameful Road to Japanese Internment by Lawrence Goldstone
One of Us is Back by Karen McManus
Borrow My Heart by Kasie West
Frontier Grit: The Unlikely True Stories of Daring Pioneer Women by Marianne Monson
Cloak of Scarlet by Melanie Dickerson
The Brothers Hawthorne by Jennifer Barnes
How To Money: Your Ultimate Visual Guide to the Basics of Finance by Jean Chatzky
Ruling Destiny by Alyson Noel
Swimming in a Sea of Stars by Julie Wright
The Isles of the Gods by Amie Kaufman
Guardians of Dawn by S. Jae-Jones
The Last Secret of the Secret Annex by Joop van Wijk-Voskuijl
Promposal by RaeChell Garrett