this is a great collection of links to book sites - well worth exploring as is the 'teacher clicks' tab

this is the best overview of social bookmarking that I have yet seen - comprehensive but readable. Meant for students it could easily be used with teachers and would make an excellent professional development experience. It provides a well defined way in which researchers can effectively use social bookmarking and annotation by taking on specific roles.

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

very cool recaps of the usual novels covered in the high school ELA curriculum - could be very useful for motivating students.

Let's face it: the library, as a place, is dead," said Suzanne E. Thorin, dean of libraries at Syracuse University. "Kaput. Finito.

The Automatic Bibliography & Citation Maker

Max's Math Adventures challenge students answer questions using clues embedded in rhyming poems. Browse a list of different adventures with central skills and difficulty level indicated. Includes a teacher's guide, activity pages, printables, and audio.

Why read book blogs...."Book blogs have created community-a place where we adults who take children's literature seriously can discuss it seriously and at length, in a forum open to the whole Internet."

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

Here you will find original and classic children's audio stories. Every other week, The Story Home will offer a brand new story read to you by a very special storyteller named Alan, for FREE!

Debbie Reese's analysis of Peter Pan in Scarlet - which received a starred review in School Library Journal. She says and then proceeds to describe, "The worst parts for me, as I read this book, are McCaughrean's references to Indians:"

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