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Books and Reading

 Bibliomania
 More than 2000 free texts, study guides and reference resources

Amazon.com
You may have ordered from the site, but learn to use it as a research tool.  The site's search engine is very user friendly (search by author, title, subject, keyword) and includes book lists and book reviews from reputable publications as well as readers.

Barnes and Noble - Use their website to locate and order books, and to find reviews and book information.  Also, remember, if you purchase something from their store for your classroom, you're entitled to a 20% educator's discount.

 

Banned Books: Censorship information and resources

American Library Association - The ALA web site contains a section dedicated to Banned Books Week and censorship issues in general.  It has a lot of information on historical censorship, court cases, lists of banned books, links to articles and more.

Banned Books Online
University of Pennsylvania special exhibit of books that have been the objects of  censorship
 

Book Awards and Recommendations

 Book lists from the Young Adult Library Service Association (ALA)
 Link to ALA site containing winners of the many prestigious ALA awards

Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers - A list compiled by ALA

 Book Browser
 Offers fiction reading lists, book reviews, forthcoming titles, author information and much
 more

 Lists of Best Books
 Links to recommendation sites including the NY Times bestsellers, Children's Book Award Winners and others

 NoveList
 Allows readers to use a favorite author or title as a template to locate other authors and
 titles of interest.

Nobel Prize for Literature
 Search by year or laureate

 The Pulitzer Prizes
 Search by year, category, title

 Reading Rants! Out of the Ordinary Teen Book lists!
 Designed for teens

Many of these links were found on the Illinois School Library Media Association web site.  To visit their site and find other reading resources, visit www.islma.org

Online Book Reviews/Criticism

 Internet Public Library Online Literary Criticism Collection - Contains 4689 critical and biographical web sites about authors and their works that can be browsed by author, title, or nationality and literary period

Literary Resources on the Net - Links to sites dealing especially with English and American literature

 Malaspina Great Books - Five Star Sites
 A five star site uses Internet capacities effectively and information there (or linked from
 there) appears to be reliable

 NovelGuide - Chapter by chapter summary of approximately 75 of the most studied novels; also
 includes character analysis and metaphor and theme analysis

SparkNotes.com - Provides chapter summaries, character development, and literary context for some of the
 most studied novels