Books
Don't know what to read next? Check out our booklists:
Are you reading a series and you're not sure what book comes next? Check out the amazing list from the Mid-Continent Public Library in Independence, Missouri.
Our own Fairfax County Public Library has a large number of booklists — Fantasy, Science Fiction, Graphic Novels, Realistic Fiction, and lots more. We can't borrow books from the public library for you, but there are three branches of the FCPL in our attendance area.
The Springfield (Mass.) City Library has dozens of booklists for teens, arranged by topic, such as Hispanic heritage, romance , skateboarding, "If You Liked 'A Child Called It,'" and many others. If you see something there that we don't have here, let us know.
Reading Rants is another site with lots of booklists and reviews. It's produced by Jennifer Hubert, a middle school librarian in New York City.
How do you pronounce that? Listen to recordings of authors and illustrators pronouncing their own names.
Do you like to read manga? The latest episodes of your favorite titles might be available on One Manga.
Book Blogs
The official website of Stephanie Meyer is not really a blog, but it does have lots of information about her books. It's updated frequently, so don't forget to check back.
Mitali's Fire Escape by Mitali Perkins, who was born in India but raised in the U.S. and is the author of Monsoon Summer. On her blog, she writes about living between two cultures, books, movies, and life in general.
Wands and Worlds is a fantasy and SciFi blog written by Sheila Ruth, a homeschooling parent in Baltimore.
The Children's Book Review Index includes links to reviews of picture books, as well as middle school and young adult books.
A Fuse #8 Production is produced by Elizabeth Bird, a librarian in the Donnell Central Children's Room at the New York Public Library. As she says on the blog, "Children's literature is not for the weak. It's a cutthroat business with lots of gnashes of the teeth."
Search Online
Database Search Page: Search all FCPS online resources.
ABC-CLIO: social studies, history, geography, biography.
Gale: search magazines, newspapers, encyclopedias, eBooks, Science Resource Center.
Grolier Online Passport: multimedia encyclopedia, geography, U.S. history.
Free E-Books
Project Gutenberg has more than 19,000 books in dozens of languages available for download in multiple formats. Read on your computer or download to your PDA or phone. Search by author or title, view lists of the most popular downloads.
The Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia has over 2,000 books for download, including classic British and American fiction, children's literature, Shakespeare, and the Bible.
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