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Finding A Good Book
There are many sites available through the internet that will give you lists of young adult books suitable for our Reading 2000 project. Of course, the Eisenhower School Library and Wyckoff Public Library have many books available and have computerized card catalogs through which you may search. But if you feel like surfing the net, here are some sites which may prove helpful. Once you locate a title of interest, you can check the school library or public library to locate this book.
http://www.st-charles.lib.il.us/low/ygadread.htm - St. Charles Public Library, St. Charles Illinois. Recommended Young Adult Reading List
http://www.amazon.com - once you're in this massive site, go to "books" and then to "teen" within the book category. You will get suggestions for the "hottest" book titles, the bestsellers for 1999 and a breakdown of books by genres.
http://www.uk.bol.com - this is a United Kingdom web site which will give you ideas. Since the Harry Potter books are written by an English author, you might want to check this site out to find out other outstanding writers. When you go to this web site, search by subject and then click on to the Children and Teenagers category. Once there, they have a great site called "cool books your teenager will read."
http://www.bookbrowser.com/ReadingList - this is a general site that allows you to search in many ways. You can find books in a series; books that are similar to ones you have already read; popular genres such as science fiction, fantasy and detective stories. It will also give reviews of books so you can make thoughtful decisions ahead of time.
http://www.ala.org - this is perhaps the most scholarly site for books as it is part of the American Library Association. When you go to this site, you will want to connect to "Booklist", their magazine of book reviews, and once on this page, click into the "young adult" book section. However, some of these books are reviewed prior to being published so you may have to wait if for it to be published. But many times the wait can be very much worth the while.
http://www.bookpage.com - BookPage is a monthly book review distributed nationwide by more than 2,000 bookstores and libraries. This is a monthly magazine which does not allow a search by subject. However it will search teenage stories.
http://www.bookspot.com/ - This is a comprehensive site which gives you access to young adult books through their home page. There are also links to the Carnegie Public Library in Pittsburgh and the Salt Lake Library in Utah.
Young Adult Book Sites
http://www.bookwire.com/ BookWire is the book industry's online information source. BookWire's content includes timely book news, features, reviews, guides to literary events, author interviews, thousands of annotated links to book-related sites, and more. This site also leads you to the famous multi-volume set of Books in Print which allows you to search by subject, author or title.
http://www.kidsreads.com/ This is a wonderful and colorful sights which focuses on children and reading from ages 6 to 12. There are many wonderful links including information on authors. If you find this site a little too young for your taste then visit its parent site...http://www.bookreporter.com - this the the main site which includes "kidreads.com." However it may be a little more difficult to use since it covers books for readers of all ages. However there are some interesting feature to this site such as exploring books of the century and a listing of books that have been made into movies.
http://www.publishersweekly.com - Though this is usually a site for people in the publishing business, it will give other people a look into what's recently been published or about to be published. They do have a "children's " section off the home page menu. If you want to see what was hot this year in fiction, this would be a very up-to-date site.
http://www.imcpl.lib.in.us - This is a user friendly site for the Indianapolis-Marion County Public Library. Once here, you can go to a subject list and find "kidwaves" which is the page that gives you all sorts of information for students, parents and teachers on books in their library and elsewhere. They have a great section on puzzles and games on the web.
http://www.ipl.org - This is simply known as the "Internet Public Library" and has a wonderful web site to search for books called the teen division. Besides giving information on books, they have helpful hints for writing research reports and searching for careers.
Other Public Library Web sites to check out:
Lake Oswego (Ore.) Public Library, http://www.ci.oswego.or.us/library/kids1_in.htm
Miami-Dade Library System, http://cga.mdpls.lib.fl.us/children.htm
Monroe County (Bloomington, Ind.) Public Library, http://www.monroe.lib.in.us/childrens/childrens_dept.html
Sacramento Public Library, http://www.sna.com/saclib/kids.htm
Shrewsbury (Mass.) Public Library, http://www.ci.shrewsbury.ma.us/libtop.htm
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