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This website goes great with the introduction of the novel, Underground to Canada.

booktalks on different reading/age/grade levels and genres..

From writing graphic novels to creating math comics, bring your class assignments, student projects, and course materials alive with 21st century approaches to communication. Regardless of whether you prefer Mac or Windows, you'll learn to use free online tools as well as inexpensive software to produce graphic novels, illuminated term papers, visual science reports, photo essays, and other engaging alternatives to traditional reports and student products. These concrete products reflect student understanding and provide an alternative to traditional forms of assessment

do we always have to have a laptop or a computer - maybe there are times when mobile devices work just as well

This is the correct web address. Sorry.

This is a really good site that I found while reading "When Kids Can't read" by Kylene Beers. It has good author biographies as well as books for teens, obviously. Click on the 'links' tab and there are some other really neat things. the address is really authors4teens.com, the books4teens goes to a different page. Sorry.

tons of great links to information about graphic novels

a small but growing collection of digital book talks - trailers of popular and classic young adult novels.

This site provides the tools for you to build up an argument or description of an event, person or historical period by placing items in a virtual box. What items, for example, would you put in a box to describe your life; the life of a Victorian Servant or Roman soldier; or to show that slavery was wrong and unnecessary? You can display anything from a text file to a movie.

Life magazine's collection of photos

What a great way to read a book..... As our English 10 class picked up their Kite Runner books for the first time this semester, I mentioned that we had a "friend in Afghanistan" who was eagerly awaiting their questions and comments. About five hands went up immediately. "Who is it?" "How do you know him?" And of course, "Why does he care about our class?"

this is a list of authors who offer free 20-minute Q and A sessions with classes and book clubs that have finished reading one of their books.

an amazing collection of resources about graphic novels - wow!