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On December 30, 2010, Amazon.com finally enabled users to share Kindle ebooks with each other. Learn how to lend a Kindle book to another Kindle owner.

Welcome to the world of Diigo, one of the leading Top 10 research tools. Diigo is a cloud based information management system that helps you organize relevant facts you find online.

A boardbook about pow wows.

some great reviews

Most trailers were created by teachers, students or librarians, but a few of the trailers were created by publishers, or authors.  The most important thing to note is that all of them are here for you to use, so feel free! 

Take a look at these author websites to learn more about well-known writers of books for school-age kids

SpineOut is a new exciting online magazine for Young Adults, brought to you by the Good Reading team. It's a special place for Young Adults (YA's) to express their ideas and thoughts and to share their creativity in words, art, film or music.

Another best book of 2010. 

"But the physical book is going the way of the vinyl record, and the roll of film and the phone with cord. If you're sad about that, be happy for the forests. Frankly, about the only downside I can see to the e-book is that, if you drop your e-reader in the bathtub, it won't dry out."

Just as true audiophiles still use vinyl, true bibliophile will stand by the paper book. There will be a place for the paper book with collectors and connoisseurs and therefore the opportunity for those in the hoi ploi to discover the delights of such rich and traditional materials. The book is not dead it will go back to its medieval roots of exclusivity.

Barb - I do agree with you. There will always be the Jean Luc Picards who prefer the printed book. I just think that we cannot equate the demise of the paper book with the demise or reading and the love of story. No matter the format of the text these things will never die.

he Canadiana Discovery Portal is your best source for Canada's documentary heritage, providing access to a huge assortment of historical artifacts from across the country.

a collection of link to ebooks and about ebooks

Canada Year Book is Statistics Canada's premier reference on our country's society and economy.

This is a link you will want to add to your library pages.

"And they fall into the kind of love that isn't love at first sight or like the end of the world. But it's a love that any of you who have ever been in serious ga-ga with someone will recognize immediately: first love. "

"I like to think of my new Giants of Science books as the "anti-Eureka" series. These are biographies of real human beings that show how scientific discovery is never a revelation arriving in a single, mind-blowing flash."

this is an amazing series that would fit in well with our curriculum

Social media and young adult literature - an amazing collection of resources

check this out for links to add to your library pages - especially the FB pages - they are quite amazing