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Older Students and Literacy

305Related Website Resources

Favorite Teenage Angst Books
http://grouchy.com/angst

This interactive site provides blurbs about books on topics such as fitting in, mixed up families, pressure, trouble, and healing. Teens are invited to post reviews.

Booklist Magazine's Book Lists
http://www.ala.org/booklist/v97/002.html

This digital counterpart of the American Library Association's Booklist magazine lists over 100 recommended nonfiction and fiction titles for young, middle, and older readers. This link takes you to the book lists for 2001.

Genrefluent
http://www.genrefluent.com

This site is a storehouse of information on teen books. Booklists and book notes cover topics such as science fiction, fantasy, horror, mysteries, and romance.

Reading Rants
http://tln.lib.mi.us/~amutch/jen/

This site offers an "out of the ordinary booklist for teens … who need a good read, but are wondering if there's life out there after Judy Blume and Gary Paulsen."

TeenHoopla
http://www.ala.org/teenhoopla

Sponsored by the American Library Association, this internet guide for teens provides book reviews, and lets older students share books and book-related Web sites.

TeenLit.com
http://www.teenlit.com

This private, not-for profit Web site funded and administered by two secondary school teachers in southeast Michigan, promotes teen literacy by "providing a forum for teen writers to publish and discuss their writing, review and discuss books they read, and to provide a resource for teenagers."

Young Adult Library Services Association
http://www.ala.org/yalsa

The mission of the Young Adult Services Division of the ALA is to "advocate, promote, and strengthen service to young adults as part of the continuum of total library service, and to support those who provide service to this population."

 

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