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| Young Adult Literature Web Sites |
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| Busy
Teachers' WebSite This site is designed to: provide teachers
with direct source materials, lesson plans/ classroom
activities with a minimum of site-to-site linking, and
provide an enjoyable and rewarding experience for the
teacher who is learning to use the Internet. This site
is mostly a list of web sites of information useful
to teachers. |
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| Carol
Hurst’s Children’s Literature Site With a focus on K-9 levels, author and consultant Hurst
and her daughter Rebecca Otis have compiled information
including book reviews, curriculum recommendations and
relevant journal articles to help guide those interested
in the topic. |
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| Children’s
Literature Web Guide The Children's Literature Web Guide is an attempt to
gather together and categorize the growing number of
Internet resources related to books for Children and
Young Adults. Others provide much of the information
found through these pages: fans, schools, libraries,
and commercial enterprises involved in the book world." |
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| Internet
School Library Media Center General Children's and Young
Adult Literature Sites Resources to support the curriculum in English and Language
Arts for K-12 educators. This includes many annotated
bibliographies |
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| Kay
E. Vandergrift’s Young Adult Literature This website contains much information about working
with young adult literature, as opposed to book reviews.
Bibliographies are provided for those interested in
learning more about working with youth literature, understanding
youth problems and concerns and bibliographies of books
relating to certain topics and links to related websites.
Vandergrift also has a comparable website devoted to
children’s literature. |
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| KCPL
KidLinks Authors & Illustrators
Compiled by the Kansas City Public Library, this is
a large list of links to information about children’s
authors and illustrators, including many links to individual
authors’ homepages. |
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| Michigan
Electronic Library Education Resources The Michigan Electronic Library has compiled many links
to resources for teachers. From this master list of
sites you can link to Lesson Plan Collections, English/Communication
Arts, as well and numerous links for general teaching
information. |
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| Newbery
Award Official Site The Newbery Medal was named for eighteenth-century British
bookseller John Newbery. It is awarded annually by the
Association for Library Service to Children, a division
of the American Library Association, to the author of
the most distinguished contribution to American literature
for children. |
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| Schools
of California Online Resources for Education Developed by the San Diego County Office of Education,
this web site was established to assist teachers in
teaching literature to children, K-12. Included are
many lesson plans, internet projects for students, tutorials
for students and teachers, information from various
reading institutes, an activity bank both for teachers
and students and information about assessment and information
for parents. Very complete. |
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| Teachnet.Com Teachnet.Com was started in August 1995 by the husband/wife
team of Lee Shiney (graphic designer and writer) and
Lajean Shiney (4th-5th grade). Teachnet.Com includes
lesson ideas, how to information for bulletin boards,
classroom management plus an email newsletter, Postings
and email listserv. |
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| YALSA
Booklists The Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA),
a division of the American Library Association (ALA),
has compiled booklists appropriate for young adults.
YALSA’s mission includes advocacy for young adults in
libraries. Their website also contains many links appropriate
to this age group. |
