WEBSITES FOR GREAT READING SUGGESTIONS FROM OTHER GROUPS AND ORGANIZATIONS:
Kit Lit Frenzy
The NonFiction Detectives
http://www.nonfictiondetectives.com/
New York Public Library
Mid-Continent Public Library
http://www.mymcpl.org/books-movies-music/juvenile-series
Seattle Public Library
http://www.spl.org/default.asp?pageID=audience_children_categorybrowser
Boston Public Library
http://www.bpl.org/kids/booksmags.htm
Windham, ME Public Library
http://www.windham.lib.me.us/croom.htm
Maine Student
Book Award Nominees (MSBA)
http://efolio.umeedu.maine.edu/~masl/msba/
Mackin’s Interactive Booktalk
http://www.mackinbooktalk.com/
Public Library of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County, NC
Curtis Memorial Library
http://www.curtislibrary.com/kids/kidsbooklists.html
American Library Association—includes Newbery, Caldecott, Best Books,
etc. lists
http://www.ala.org/ala/awards/books_media/index.cfm
http://www.brunswick.k12.me.us
(check out each school library’s web page, with reading lists)
Education World—summer reading lists from schools around the country
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/curr244.shtml
Novelist is a great list of reading suggestions…available
through the Curtis Library MARVEL connection. Go to the Curtis home page (www.curtislibrary.com) and click on
MARVEL; then, go down the list until you get to Novelist K-8 and click on that.
Booklist Editor’s Choice (BEC)
http://www.booklistonline.com/
Boston Globe-Horn
Book Awards (BGH)
http://www.hbook.com/bghb/current.asp
International Reading Association
http://www.reading.org/choices/choices_download.html
Carol Hurst’s Children’s Literature Site
http://www.carolhurst.com/index.html
Great Schools guide for Parents
http://www.greatschools.net/cgi-bin/showarticle/ME/44/improve
Raising Readers
http://www.raisingreaders.net/
KidsReads
http://www.kidsreads.com/index.asp
Jon Scieszka’s Guys Read
James Patterson’s Read Kiddo Read
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/u/read-kiddo-read-james-patterson/379001733/
Children’s Choice at Reading.org
http://www.reading.org/Libraries/awards/ChildrensChoices2012_web.pdf
http://www.reading.org/Resources/Booklists/ChildrensChoices.aspx
http://www.reading.org/downloads/choices/cc2008_bookmark.pdf
Bookwizard—find similar books to read on Scholastics webpage
http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/home.jsp
Reading is Fundamental
100 Great Children’s Books
(compiled by Scholastic Parent and Child Magazine)
