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Free literature available to download online. Project is donation funded.

Hundreds of searchable full text works of writing available to download for free or peruse for full or partial review.

A collection of classic books, poems, speeches and plays that are downloadable e-text of the work.

This site provides a great list of multicultural literature works at a middle school and high school level. It also provides advice on how to structure lesson plans for these books.

A complete website of all aspects of history, including wars, people profiles, etc.

This site contains vast resources for Social Studies, government, U.S. history, countries and regions. 

Book lists by the dozens! Authors, banned books, etc.

Book reviews and contributions

The Center works to promote the use of literature in the education and lives of children and young adults by providing workshops for teachers and librarians, and sponsoring talks by authors and illustrators which are open to the public.

This page contains links to sites specifically devoted to young adult literature and middle / high school age readers.  

This site contains book talks and reviews and web links for adolescent literature.

On these pages you will find short summaries and reviews of more than thirty high-quality young-adult novels, which mostly are suitable for use in the English literature classroom. There are also many other useful resources for teachers, parents and readers alike that hopefully will help a little to promote the teaching of these books. I hope you will find some inspiration here.

This site is great for foreign language translations. It's easy to use and can translate Spanish, German, French, and of course, English. For those times when you don't need a complete translation, but the conversion of just a few words or phrases.

Great site provided by the Arizona Daily Star newspaper.  This site gives a whole host of links to other sties that have poetry, adolescent literature, fables and fairy tales, myths and legends. It also gives links to children's magazines and to adolescent journals.

A long list of new books, mostly fiction, that teens have read and reviewed. A service of St. Louis Country Library

Booklists compiled by New York public library's young adult librarians. A range of booklists on special topics.

You can enter information on what books you like, and Alexandria Library will suggest other books for you. Books tend to be in Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Classics.

Great site for young adolescent literature. Has links to other sites such as Newberry Award winners, teacher resources for lesson planning, and banned books.

A wonderful site with tons of resources, including lesson plans, games, magazines and articles, do it yourself rubrics and many other items that can aid in the classroom.

This is a useful site which has tons of lesson plans for teacher to use, plus links to sites with resource information for teachers.

This site contains complete texts online, links to websites for authors and other helps. There have been times when this site has been a great help in reviewing a book I had already returned to the library.

This is a great resource for teachers to do monthly book orders with their class. This site also has links to resources, teaching plans, reading programs, authors and books.

Good site for adolescent books, poetry. Has a variety of great links including Newberry Award books, a poetry site that send daily poetry by email to subscriber, short synopsis on all genres of adolescent literature, and al ink to amazon.com to order these products.

Awesome site containing multitudes of lesson plans for K-12 in a wide variety of subject areas.  Lesson plans are complete with handouts, articles and everything you need to use them. Also available in print format for easy printing.

Like the title says: All Shakespeare. A great source for play summaries, analysis, and approaches.  Very user friendly for teachers and students alike.

Good resource for teachers of language arts. The NCTE publishes monthly journals targeted toward specific grade levels as well as numerous books related to English pedagogy. If you decide to become a member, student membership fees are available. Besides, it looks good on a resume.

Dodgeville Middle School Library Media Center (LMC)  6th Grade Language Arts - Mrs. Dolphin, Instructor - Room 339 7th Grade Language Arts - Mrs. Hottmann, Instructor - Room 326 8th Grade Language Arts  It looks like a lot of work and research has gone into this site. IT provides, among other things, author homepages, which could be an invaluable resource.

Literature Composition Foreign Language Journalism Speech & Debate  Read through the biographies of the men who sign An amazing site that provides links to many great sites on the web for further exploration of literature, composition, as well as many other disciplines.

This is another site that is packed with a lot of work, including power point presentations for many areas. One presentation that I looked at was for persuasive writing. Well worth the time to take a look and may also prove to be a great tool for teaching.

A good link on the topic we've checked out ourselves English Reading Writing Literacy Research Reports -- This is a great place to start with articles about teaching language arts. It provides many links well worth exploring. One can also go back to its homepage and learn much about teaching middle school.

Here are some web sites related to their teaching: African American History Ancient Egypt The Wonders of Africa Homelessness Native Americans This is a site well worth looking at, especially if you are trying to integrate social studies and language arts. They have worked hard to provide many links that would be invaluable resources for the areas listed above.

Great site for researching authors who produce adolescent literature.

Gives a good account of biographies of different authors.