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Dakota Co. Public	MnLiNK Electronic Library for MN
Childrens Books On-Line	netLibrary (eBooks)
Internet Public Library	Library of Congress American Memory
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Reference Connections

Groliers On-line (@TL) Grolier Home Access for TL Students	World Book Online	Infotrack for Kid's Kids Info Bits
NetTreker	Country Reports	Helps with homework, projects & tests Answers.com
Exploring Nature Educational Resource A Natural Science Resource	Kids Click!
TL Biography Links	TL Dictionary Links	TL Graphics/HTML links
TL Map Links	TeachingBooks.Net	FactHound Monthly Research Question
Edunet Connect	Ask Jeeves for Kids	InfoPlease for Students
Open Directory Project	Animal Diversity Web	World Almanac for Kids

Author and Illustrator Connections

TL Picture Book Authors & Illustrators	TL Chapter Book Authors & Illustrators
Metronet's Minnesota Authors and Illustrators	Children Literature Web Guide - Authors and Illustrators

Book Character Connections

Animorphs	Clifford	Junie B Jones
Arthur by PBS	Clifford by PBS	Little Critter
Arthur by Random House	Curious George by PBS	Harry Potter Home Page by Scholastic
Berenstain Bears by Random House	Dr. Seuss's Seussville	Harry Potter at Bloomsbury
Berenstain Bear Country	Franklin the Turtle	Surfnet's Harry Potter Links
Buster by PBS
Captain Underpants	Hank the Cowdog	Harry Potter's Official WB Movie Site

Book Award Connections

Maud Hart Lovelace Book Award	Caldecott Medal	Pura Belpré Medal
(The Betsy-Tacy Homepage)	Newbery Medal	Mildred L. Batchelder Award
(The Betsy-Tacy Society)	Coretta Scott King Award	Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal
Children's Choice Awards	Dr. Seuss Award	Sibert Informational Book Medal

More Book Connections

Juvenile Series and Sequels
http://www.mcpl.lib.mo.us/readers/series/juv/
The 'Juvenile Series and Sequels' database currently contains over 20,000 books
in series titles that are classified into three audiences:
Young Adult – for high school-aged readers
Juvenile – appropriate for grade school through junior high-aged readers
Juvenile Easy – for young readers just beginning to read

Guys Read

The mission of the www.guysread.com website is to offer leadership, practical solutions, a forum, and support to get guys reading.

Annual National Book Festival
The Library of Congress and Laura Bush welcome you to the Annual National Book Festival. 2005 is fifth annual celebration of books and the joy of reading has something for anyone who has ever picked up a book and entered a new world, learned an amazing lesson or discovered a previously unknown fact.

BookHive is a web site designed for children ages birth through twelve, their parents, teachers or anyone interested in reading about children's books. Providing reader's advisory service, this site contains hundreds of recommended book reviews in a variety of reading levels and interest areas. Parents may find special "parental notes" attached to some reviews that provide additional information about the book. Users can search for books by author, title, reading level, interest area, number of pages, and even favorite illustrator. Catch the latest buzz on books at the BookHive: Your Guide to Children's Literature & Books .

StoryPlace, an interactive web site, came about to provide children with the virtual experience of going to the library and participating in the same types of activities the library offers. In the summer of 1999, a team of Children's Librarians and Specialists got together with in-house web developers to begin development on this exciting site. In the Spring of 2000, StoryPlace premiered with it's first section, the Pre-School Library, completed.

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