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Middle School |
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Recommended
Web Sites for Middle School
Selected and Annotated by Jennifer Hubert Swan, Middle School Librarian
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ANAS MATH LINKS
Ask
Dr. Math
A site for all grades. Students can write-in math questions or
search the library of previously-asked questions for puzzlers and
general math information.
The Math Forum Student
Center
A general math information site for students. It provides links,
games, projects, references and is organized by grade level.
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Reading Rants! Out of the Ordinary Booklists
for Teens
http://tln.lib.mi.us/~amutch/jen
Quirky booklists penned by Middle School Librarian Jen Hubert. Check out"Best
Rrriot Grrl Reads," "Boy Meets Book," or "Inquiring
Minds Want to Know: Unusual Biographies for Teens," among many others.
TeenReads
http://www.teenreads.com/
Reviews of newer books for teens, with an index of all the titles ever
reviewed on the site, and lots of young adult author interviews.
Favorite Teenage Angst Books
http://www.grouchy.com/angst/index.html
Web freelancer Cathy Young's lists of moody teenage books. She encourages
teens to write in their comments about her choices and what they are reading.
Amazon.com's Teen Page
Browse "Subjects" and
choose "Teens."
Books are arranged in teen-friendly subject categories, and contain reviews
from professional review sources like Booklist, Horn Book, and School Library
Journal.
TeenHoopla
http://www.ala.org/teenhoopla
A cool site for teens sponsored by the American Library Association that
has chat forums about current events, a book review section where teens
can read or write their own reviews, and an assortment of homework links
that includes sites on math, science, literature, history and biographies.
Virtual Reference Desk
http://www.refdesk.com/
A reference library at our fingertips--all kinds of almanac, dictionary
and encyclopedia resources, plus current events, newspapers, weather, moon
phases and more!
The Book Spot
http://www.bookspot.com/youngadult.htm
Provides recommended reading lists for teens and links to other web sites
about books.
New York Public Library TeenLink
http://www2.nypl.org/home/branch/teen/index.html
A comprehensive site that includes homework help, "weird and wacky" fun
sites, and "Wordsmiths: Teen Voices @TeenLinks", a web anthology
of writing by teenagers, where teens can read poems by other teens or submit
their own works.
Librarian's Index to the Internet
http://www.lii.org
"Searchable annotated subject directory of more than 8,200 Internet
resources selected and annotated by librarians for their usefulness to public
libraries. It's meant to be used by both librarians and non-librarians as
a reliable and efficient guide to described and evaluated Internet sources."--from
the Librarian's Index to the Internet
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