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A wealth of information is available for each of the 50 states including links to government agencies, general information about the states and to most newspapers in the states.
http://www.50states.com/
The Presidents is a supplement to the PBS television presntation of the same name. Complete with a teachers guide and resources this is a great source for teaching about the oval office in your classroom.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/presidents/indexjs.html
The Association provides many resources to support children's librarians and educators and to provide guidance for children and their families to the best resources available in print, nonprint, and emerging formats. Links include Born to Read, ALSC recommended booklists including a bibliography of books available with bilingual text, links to online children's libraries and literature and reading Web sites, as well as contact information for national organizations.
http://www.ala.org/ala/alsc/alscresources/resources.htm
Many of us were introduced to the horrors of the Holocaust through the eyes of this girl and her diary. Though she was only a teen when she wrote her story, the precociousness, charm, and sensitivity of a mature writer in the face of the atrocities she witnessed leapt from the pages to captivate millions of readers.
http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/af/htmlsite/index.html
Students, business teachers, and even librarians can benefit from this site as it offers a wide variety of resources for learning about technology and the Internet.
http://www.kn.sbc.com/wired/RoundWeb/
This site is sponsored by Oxford Dictionaries and contains a word of the day, quote of the day, section on better writing, and will answer grammar and spelling questions.
http://www.askoxford.com/
Awesome Library has organzied the web with 31,000 carefully reviewed resources,which include the top 5 percent in education.
http://www.awesomelibrary.org/
The Electronic Library Classroom 101. Class covers the history and workings of the Internet for librarians with little or no Net experience.
http://www.sc.edu/bck2skol/
Bibliomania has free texts, study guides and reference resources. Texts include classic literature, drama and poetery together with detailed study guides. The search tool searches the "full text" books.
http://www.bibliomania.com
This is a web-based bibliography tool that is fast and easy to use. Students can build a citation page is a snap with this tool.
http://www.bibme.org/
A searchable site with over 25,000 of the greatest lives--past and present. Find facts, dates, and other trivia associated with the lives of almost any famous person.
http://www.biography.com
"Book Adventure is a FREE reading motivation program for children in grades K-8. Children create their own book lists from over 6,000 recommended titles, take multiple choice quizzes on the books they've read offline, and earn points and prizes for their literary successes. Book Adventure was created by the Sylvan Learning Foundation and is a non-profit organization."
http://www.bookadventure.com/
This database, sponsored by the Barahona Center for the Study of Books in Spanish for Children and Adolescents, has over 3000 books in Spanish. This site also provides librarians and other interested parties information about workshops and other Spanish materials.
http://www.csusm.edu/csb/
"The Children’s Book Council (CBC) is a non-profit trade organization dedicated to encouraging literacy and the use and enjoyment of children’s books, and is the official sponsor of Young People’s Poetry Week and Children’s Book Week each year. The Council’s Members include U.S. publishers and packagers of trade books for children and young adults."
http://www.cbcbooks.org/
This collection of books currently contains about 2000 copies of antique children books which were published in the 19th and early 20 century. All can be download to your computer free of charge.
http://childrensbooksonline.org/