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General Resources and Educational Sites-
American Library Association This site provides suggested reading lists for children and adults, sells books and posters, and provides other resources for and about your local library. Click to find lists of notable children's books, award winning books and more.
Book Adventure This site offers lists of books by skill level and offers review questions as well.
California Department of Education Recommended Reading Lists This site provides a list of recommmended books for children, sorted by genre.
Colorado Virtual Library View resources for kids, teachers and more at this online library for the state of Colorado. The site offers extensive resources for kids on the history of Colorado as well as access to digital collections, historic newspapers, geospacial data and lots more.
Colorado Literacy Connection Links to various literacy resources nationwide including an online kids' "Teach-in", Checkpoints for reading, Colorin' Colorado, FamilyEducation. com, First Book, Public Library Association's Preschool Literacy Initiative and several others.
Distributed Proofreaders Volunteer to proofread an e-book being uploaded for public distribution. Become a part of sharing great books with the world. (This could also be a great way to work on your child's proofreading skills, depending on the appropriateness of the selection.)
ERIC Education Resources Information Center, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences. Free bibliographic records of education literature plus some full texts.
Find It in A Library
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Houghton Mifflin Company Teacher’s Resources (Added 5/08) This publisher has put together worksheets, web links, and other teaching suggestions for several of its most popular children’s books and you can find them all listed at this website. Activities will vary depending on the target age group of the selected book.
Internet Public Library This site provides "an annotated collection of high quality internet resources" listed by topic.
Just One More Book This site offers regular podcasts about children’s books. In addition to the podcasts, you can also access recorded interviews with a number of children’s authors and find several book reviews on this site.
Juvenile Series and Sequels List from Mid-Continent Public Library- A listing of over 23,000 titles for children and young adults sorted by series.
Kids @ Random (Added 5/08) Random House’s website for it’s young readers features activities and mini-sites dedicated to some favorite Random House characters such as the Berenstain Bears, Thomas the Tank Engine, and the characters created by Richard Scarry and Sesame Street. Additional sites provide resources for teens and teachers.
Penguin Group Teachers Guides This website offers teacher’s guides for several classic titles that are published by Penguin Group.
Weber Public Library This site offers reading lists by age and also lists books by various categories, including award winners.
Free Digital and Audio Books-
Americana Phonic This sites audiocasts focus on important documents from America's history. The site also provides links to a variety of other useful resources, including additional sites for obtaining audio recordings.
Audio Books for Free This site lists a variety of audio books, avaiable free and sorted by category. A special section featureschildren's books only.
Bartleby This is the website of an internet publisher of literature, reference and verse. The site offers unlimited access to books and information on the web free of charge. Also on the site see a daily biography, definition, quotation and poem. You can purchase books at Bartleby or download the e-books free.
Bibliomania This site offers free online literature, with more than 2000 classics. Also on the site find study guides, search reference books, classic non-fiction, religious texts and more.
Children's Books Forever! Hans Wilhelm is making several formerly out of print books available in full color printable form via the internet. The Tyrone the Horrible series is featured, as well as a dinosaur book and several other titles.
Children's Library Access out of print or copyright free classic books online! Read the entire text with pictures on your PC. Books in many different languages are available.
Classic Book Library Access a limited selection of children's classics preserved on the internet. Other topic areas include History, Science, Science Fiction, Romance, Historical Fiction and Mystery writings.
Curriculum Improvement Project Parallel Alternative Strategies for Students
This site offers access to several PASS books designed to present information to students in an easy to understand format for quick delivery of needed information. Available subject areas include English, Foreign Language, Language Arts, Mathematics, Physical Education and Health, Science, and Social Studies. Select books may be downloaded directly from the website.
DailyLit (New Link - 10/2007)
Subscribe to this service and receive a daily e-mail containing an installment of your selected reading. Some titles are available free, while others are available only via a paid subscription. Several classics are available free!
Free Christian books and resources online:
Freeload Press
Download a selection of digitized textbooks free of charge at this website. Registration is required and most titles are college or advanced-placement level texts. The site is supported by on page advertisements and advertisements embedded into the textbooks.
Gutenberg Project
Download a CD or DVD containing selections made by Gutenberg or create your own custom CD of free e-books from this site. The site allows you to search by category, or author or keyword. The site also offers some digitized sheet music.
LibriVox LibriVox offers free audiobooks recorded by volunteers.
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Literal Systems This site provides a limited selection of audio books, most are classics.
Literature.org Access full unabridged texts of classic works of English literature. Titles are indexed by author.
The Baldwin Project This site offers online access to several classics, including Margaret Pumphrey’s Stories of the Pilgrims. The list of titles totals 416 books as of April 2007. Many of the titles are also offered for sale in printed form.
The Online Book Page Search this site and take advantage of the many links to find additional sites for free online books.
Turning the Pages Online Gallery View digitized copies of several rare books, including the original Lewis Carroll's Alice and the Lindisfarne Gospels.
Wowio
This site offers free copyrighted materials for download. Book selections include historical and children’s titles as well as other works of non-fiction and fiction. Registration is required. If you decide to sign up, please use the HWTK e-mail address as your e-mail referral ID (mom “at” HWTK.net). Thanks!
Book Reviews-
Book Angles
This site states that it provides “book reviews with a traditional family-values” angle. 141 book reviews were available on the site as of May 2007. The site also provides a list of additional resources for those seeking a Christian perspective on issues surrounding popular books. The site is maintained by Home Sweet Home Press and does carry some advertising content.
Children’s Literature
This website offers thousands of reviews of children’s books to paid subscribers. Non-subscribers can view the following features: Each month the site publishes interviews with children’s authors and illustrators. The site also offers teaching materials for several books and collections of book reviews based on selected themes.
Organizational Resources-
GuruLib This is a free web service to assist you in organizing your home library. This service allows you to create virtual shelves and list your books by location. The system also allows you to track books loaned to others and catalog documents
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Library Elf You can sign up to use this site to track your outstanding book loans from several libraries.
Library Thing This is a very cool site for booklovers that is till in beta testing. Enter your books by title or ISBN and you can store your collection list online.
Individual Author Sites
Book Series and Individual Book Sites
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