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Book Report Network
A network of Web sites for
readers of all ages that combines book reviews, author
information and other book-related content.
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BookSpot.com
A site that simplifies finding
the best book-related information on the Internet.
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Fantastic Fiction
Bibliographies for thousands
of authors and information on thousands of books.
Features new books, most popular books, lists of
books in series and much more.
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No Flying No Tights — Graphic Novel Reviews
A trio of Web sites for children, teens and adults, which
reviews graphic novels and suggests appropriateness for different
age groups.
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Oprah's Books
Information about the books featured in Oprah's Book Club,
seen on her show and discussed in O, the Oprah Magazine.
Includes a list of Oprah's favorite books and a Kids'
Reading List. Provides an
archive of all the Oprah's Book Club selections
since September 1996.
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Overbooked
Information on literary and genre
fiction and readable nonfiction. Features include
new books, themed book lists, book reviews, "best of"
lists and reader's advisory lists and links.
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What's Next
Use this handy resource
to find out all the titles of all the books
in a series.
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Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards
Honors authors and illustrators of children’s
and young adult books.
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Caldecott Medal
Awarded by the American Library Association
to the artist of the most distinguished American picture book for
children.
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Coretta Scott King Award
Awarded by the American Library Association
to authors and illustrators of African descent whose distinguished
books promote an understanding and appreciation of the "American
dream."
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Jefferson Cup
The Youth Services Forum of the Virginia
Library Association's award for an American biography, historical
fiction or history book for young people.
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Newbery Medal
Awarded by the American Library Association
to the author of the most distinguished contribution to American
literature for children.
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Printz Award
Awarded for a book that exemplifies literary
excellence in young adult literature.
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Pura Belpré Award
Presented to a Latino/Latina writer and
illustrator whose work best portrays the Latino cultural
experience in a work of literature for children and young
adults.
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Robert F. Sibert Medal
Awarded by the Association for Library
Service to Children to the author(s) and illustrator(s) of the
most distinguished informational book published in English during
the preceding year.
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Virginia Readers Choice
Awards are presented to noteworthy books in
the field of children's/young adult literature representing each of
the following reading levels: primary, elementary, middle and high
school.
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For lists of award winning titles with links to the library's holdings
and the ability to place holds, see the library's online
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For bestsellers lists with links to the library's holdings
and the ability to place holds, see the library's online
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The Book Group Corner
Bantam-Doubleday's "Readers'
Group Companions" include questions for discussion
and biographical information about the author.
Most of the guides also include additional features
such as suggestions for further reading, a discussion
of the book's historical context, an interview
with the author or other related material.
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The Books: Reading Group Guides
Book discussion guides from
Time Warner that include a chapter of each book.
Search by title, author or category.
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Books We Have Read and Loved
Brief summaries and
excerpts of books "for readers and book discussion
groups looking beyond the bestseller lists for
their reading selections." The site is a creation
of Reading Woman, a book club that has
been meeting "since Oprah was sixteen years old."
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CliffsNotes
View the full text of these
synopses of literature classics. Each title includes
a list of characters, chapter by chapter summaries,
character analysis and critical essays.
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LitLovers
An online community dedicated
to books and book clubs. Unique features include free
online literature courses, recipes to go with books
and ideas for children’s and teens' book groups.
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Random House Reading Group Guides
Questions for discussion,
author biographies, review excerpts and conversations
with authors on selected titles.
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Reading Group Choices
Dozens of selections
from a variety of publishers. Each discussion
guide includes a brief biography and topics
to consider.
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Reading Group Guides at HarperCollins
These guides from HarperCollins
Publishers include discussion questions, a brief
author biography, and a chapter excerpt.
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ReadingGroupGuides.com — Find a Guide
Browse by title or author,
or use one of many subject guides to find suggestions
for topics for book discussion groups.
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Book Page
New book reviews, author
interviews, and an archive of reviews going back to 1996.
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Book World
The Washington Post provides
book reviews, local literary news, online book
discussions and
Chapter One, the first chapters of selected
new books.
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BookBrowse.com
Browse for book reviews and
excerpts of books by author, title or genre. Includes
brief biographies of authors, interviews and reading
guides.
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Booklist
The American Library
Association's list of full-text reviews
of new and older books.
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The Complete Review
This site describes itself as "A
selectively comprehensive, objectively opinionated survey
of books old and new." For each of the wide variety of
books covered, the site includes basic information about
book and author, a graded review prepared by site editors,
and links to media reviews and related Web sites.
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New York Review of Books
Newest issue and archives
to search by title, author, reviewer, etc.
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The New York Times Sunday Book Review
Features include a searchable
database of book reviews back to 1996, and
First Chapters, selections from books reviewed
or listed on The New York Times' Best Sellers list.
Note: Free Registration is required.
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Abebooks
A multi-dealer, searchable site
for used books. Allows searching by publisher as well
as title and author.
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AddALL Book Searching and Price Comparison
The AddALL site allows
you to search several sites simultaneously for
either used or new books.
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Alibris
This site searches a
variety of book dealer holdings for used and
rare books.
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All Bookstores.com
Compare prices from
several new and used book sites. Approximate
shipping charges are included.
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Amazon.com
New and used books and textbooks.
Provides advanced search options.
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Barnes & Noble.com
New and used books and textbooks.
Search by title, author, keyword or ISBN.
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Bookfinder.com
Search this metasite
for new and used books by author, title or type
of book.
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Publishers' Catalogues
A directory of links to more than 7,700
publishers' catalogs from the
United
States and around the world, plus links to online bookstores
and international book fairs.
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American Folklore
Short entertaining stories
which include tall tales, folktales, ethnic tales
and famous characters.
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Children's Picture Book Database
This database allows
you to search through more than 4000 picture
books by subject keywords. An abstract describing
the book is included with each record. The database
is created and maintained by Miami University
of Ohio.
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Database of Award-Winning Children's Literature
Print out a custom list
based on criteria such as suggested reading
level, genre, format, gender of protagonist,
setting or historical period.
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Horn Book Magazine's Recommended Books
A collection of annotated
lists of literature for children and young adults,
including their popular list of
Children's Classics. Other interesting areas of
the Horn Book Web site are the sections
for teachers and parents, authors and illustrators,
news and current issues.
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International Children's Digital Library
A project of the University
of Maryland and the Internet Archives, the
International Children's Digital Library offers a
large number of full-text children's books, including
illustrations, in several languages. Enter the
library to browse by subject, geographical
setting or origin.
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Juvenile Series and Sequels
This site lists more
than 850 children's books that are part of a
series. Books can be searched by author, title,
series title or by subject, and are classified
by reading level as either juvenile easy, juvenile,
or young adult. The Web site is produced by
Mid-Continent Public Library, Missouri. Fairfax
County Public Library owns many, but not all,
titles.
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KidLinks — Books and Reading
Reading lists, organized
by type of book, include an image of each title
and a short summary. The site also offers lists
for beginning readers, books in series and
links to author Web sites.
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Kidsreads.com
Part of The Book Report
Network, this site for children's literature
includes book reviews, articles, author profiles
and interviews, information on series books,
synopses of new releases and literary games and
contests.
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Sidekicks — Graphic Novel Reviews for Kids
A Web site for children that lists
and reviews graphic novels, and suggests appropriateness
for different age groups.
Early Literacy is what
children know about reading and writing before
they can actually read and write. Below are
some Web sites for parents, caregivers and
educators to help children become aware of
early literacy and encourage reading before
they actually start school.
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For additional resources,
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Bartleby.com
Full-text access to a wide variety
of reference, verse, fiction, and nonfiction titles.
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Bibliomania.com
Thousands of e-books,
poems, articles, short stories and plays by
the world’s greatest authors; includes
important nonfiction texts, study guides and
teacher resources. All are free.
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Digital Book Index
Links to more than
105,000 titles of electronic books from more
than 1,800 publishers. At least 60,000 are
available for free. Search by author and/or
title, and browse by subject, author or
publisher. Note: Free registration is required.
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Online Books Page
An index linking to more
than 20,000 online text resources in English as
well as to works in other languages. Includes
archives of freely accessible serials (magazines,
journals, newsletters, etc.).
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Project Gutenberg
Links to the full text
of hundreds of books.
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The University of Virginia Electronic Text Library
Full-text books in
more than a dozen languages.
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Poetry
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Short Stories
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Fantasy
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Green Man Review
Reviews of fiction
and non-fiction books, films, recorded music
and live performances based on fantasy,
folklore and fairy tales.
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Horror
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Mystery
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Historical Mysteries
Search for historical
mysteries by time period or by author.
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Mysterious Home Page
A guide to mysteries
and crime fiction on the Internet.
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The Mystery Reader
Read the latest reviews
of mystery novels listed by category, or search
the archives for earlier reviews and links to
other Web sites.
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Stop, You're Killing Me!
A resource for mystery, crime,
thriller, spy and suspense readers. Includes author
and chronological series lists, read-alikes and indexes
by location, job, historical period and diversity.
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WhereDunnit.com
Find crime and mystery fiction
by location; choose from maps of the UK, US, Canada or
Europe.
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Romance
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All About Romance
“The back fence for
lovers of romance novels.” Reviews, articles,
message boards and the “who’s who and what’s
what in romance fiction today.”
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The Romance Reader
A site with "The
very latest news and views of romance novels."
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Science Fiction
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SF Site
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SFWA Reading Lists
Lists of tried and
true science fiction and fantasy novels
and short stories suggested by readers on
the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of
America Web site.
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Technovelgy.com
Science fiction
inventions and the authors and works
that introduced them. Search by category
of invention, author, title, date or
browse alphabetically.
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Westerns
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BookLoons' — Teens
Excerpts of new releases,
games and contests, as well as links to full-text
short stories, the complete works of Shakespeare,
fables, classics, jokes, folklore, myths and
more.
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No Flying No Tights — Graphic Novel Reviews
A Web site that reviews
graphic novels for teens, and contains a link to
The Lair, which reviews graphic novels with
more mature content.
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Reading Rants!
"Out of the ordinary teen
booklists." A source of up-to-date book reviews and
an interactive blog where teens can read reviews,
respond to them or write their own.
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Teenreads.com
Comprehensive site for teen
readers includes monthly reviews of books, manga
and paperbacks; The Ultimate Teen Reading List;
books into movies, reading group guides and more.
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YALSA Booklists
Young Adult Library Services
Association of the American Library Association
provides many lists of books recommended for teens
including Teens' Top Ten.
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