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The 54 books annotated below were selected as the best of the year from the 5700 books reviewed in SLJ's pages in 2009. We think children and teens will find them enlightening, entertaining, or evocative.

William's blog - starting at 14, rather than accept his fate, William started borrowing books from a small community lending library located at his former primary school. He borrowed an 8th grade American textbook called Using Energy, which depicted wind turbines on its cover. He decided to build a windmill to power his family's home and obviate the need for kerosene, which provided only smoky, flickering, distant and expensive light after dark.

Links to online stories and reading activities for teachers and kids

Collection mapping is the process of examining the quantity and quality of your collection and identifying its strengths and weaknesses.

great resources about Diigo

Shin-chi's Canoe, a picture book about a little boy leaving home for a residential school, has won the $25,000 TD Canadian Children's Literature Award.

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?"

Life magazine's collection of photos

The Unquiet Library Celebrated the National Day of Writing and Teen Read Week with our first ever virtual author visit via Skype!  Our special guest was the amazing Sara Zarr, National Book Award finalist and author of Story of a Girl, Sweethearts, and her latest book, Once Was Lost.

examples of school library web sites and who they demonstrate effective practice in a school library program

Unveiling the beauty of statistics for a fact based world view - great visual data for many issues around the world

a high school replaces textbooks...

a one page guide to using Netvibes as your rss reader

For those wondering whether an eReader is the ideal gift for their nearest and dearest bibliophile, or considering whether to make the upgrade to a book 2.0 themselves, fear not: Know Your Money is here to referee the smackdown between these two publishing pugilists.

this looks great!

workshop on Social Bookmarking

tons of great links to information about graphic novels

An interesting take on weeding.... I've discovered that, whether our expertise is paleontology or board books, most of what holds us back from weeding is psychological. I'm reminded of that first step in most recovery programs: "We admitted we were powerless over [blank]-that our lives had become unmanageable." So, here's a program for people whose collections have become unmanageable-and it's only eight steps.

50 Educational Apps for the iPod Touch

a cool interactive site about animal digestion... have fun!