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ALAN Review
Assembly on Literature for Adolescents National Council provides exciting and
informative links in many areas of young adult literature.
Index
to Internet Sites: Children's and Young Adult's Authors and Illustrators
This site, sponsored by the Internet School Library Media Center, offers links
to biographies, interviews, birthday information and name pronunciation guides.
The site is arranged by reading level, with links by author name.
LibraryPlanet.com
"This project deals
with the award origins, criteria, medal descriptions, and award books for Newbery
and Caldecott Awards. In addition, we give more information in WWW for those
people who are interested in these award books and other kids information."
Literature:
Contemporary
This page from About.com contains
the latest works in young adult literature (YAL) as well as links to other Web
sites pertaining to YAL. Subjects include authors, award winners, classics,
multicultural, new releases, nonfiction, recommended reads and reviews. This
site also provides links to books on specific subjects such as health, sports,
poetry, dating, humor, multicultural, and mysteries.
Missouri
Authors Directory
"The Missouri Authors Directory--a project of the Missouri
Center for the Book--has been several years in the making and will be updated
monthly. This directory includes information on nearly 500 authors currently
living and writing in Missouri." It is possible to perform a keyword search;
search by audience, county of residence; or genre to locate information about
Missouri authors. The entries include the previously listed searchable fields
along with a listing of their publications and contact information.
Overbooked
(Book Links)
Directed at teens and older readers, this page offers links to Web sites
dealing with young adult (YA) literature. These pages include reading lists,
award winners, journals, and links to YA authors. Overbooked (Book Links) is
a volunteer project undertaken by the Chesterfield County (VA) Public Library.
Recommended
Teen Reading
This page features recommended reading lists on a variety of topics for young
adults as well as award winning reads. The page is provided by the St. Charles
Public Library in Illinois.
Teenreads.com
View short biographies of many young adult (YA) authors and a listing of
their works at this Web site. The features link connects to male and female
YA authors of the 20th century as well as the Caldecott/ Newbery Award and Coretta
Scott King Award for the current year. Award winners for the past year are also
posted. The main page features recent YA novels and a search engine to help
find a specific author or title.
Children
and Young Adults
The Michigan Electronic Library provides this page of links to author sites,
yearly best book sites, book review sites and other young adult literature pages
on the Internet.
Web
Watch: Focus on Young Adult Literature
Reading Online provides this page
which includes links to other young adult literature pages on the Internet. All
links are annotated.
Young
Adult Librarian's Help/Homepage
"The Young Adult Librarian's Help/Homepage is designed to gather resources
on and off the Web to help librarians serving teens." This page has information
in the following categories: journals, organizations and associations, young
adult literature, online resources, electronic discussion lists, publishers
and distributors and Web sites for teens.
Young
Adult Library Services Association (YALSA)
YALSA is provided by the American Library Association. This page provides
professional resources, sites for young adults, awards, booklists and conferences.
A good page for someone seeking information on young adult literature, such
as booklists, awards and projects, conferences and events, professional resources,
young adult Web sites and state and local young adult news.
Young
Adult Literature: Middle & Secondary English-Language Arts
This page provides "resources to support the curriculum in English
and Language Arts for K-12 educators." There are numerous links that provide
information. This is an excellent page to find resources such as general education
and literature sites, African American and Asian American history and literature,
American Literature, book reviews, feminism, historical fiction, Shakespeare,
short stories and traditional and world literature. This page is supported by
the Internet School Library
Media Center.
Young
Adult Literature Trivia -- Young Adult Protagonists on the Move
A brief trivia quiz is provided regarding young adults and conflict along with
the answers to the quiz.
All quoted material is from the respective source.
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