AVL Demonstration

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I chose to demonstrate the EBSCO History Reference Center - Ebook Collection. This resource allows you to search for ebooks on historical topics. Many ebooks are available in PDF format for easy reading. This reference not only provided with the text itself but the citation information for the work as well. I see this being an appropriate resource for students in grades 9-12 as the texts can be a bit complex. To this point, this database also provides the Lexile level of text in order to help students find books that fall within their Lexile band. I see this being a great resource for my AP U.S. History class to use during their summer reading assignments. I often assign presidential biographies for summer reading and have students write a 2-page overview of the president's administration. This would be a great tool for students to use during the summer because it would not require them to head out to bookstores or search Amazon for a book that costs money when they most likely will not read the book again.