This book is a series of booklists for children, which include relevant information about the books, suggested grade levels, and short descriptions. The books are listed by categories (e.g., "animals," "biography," "humor," etc.). The short descriptions of each book familiarize parents with plot and contents.
Volume two continues the work covered in the 1980 volume. Comprises a bibliography with 195 entries, exhaustively annotated, of books published from 1980 to 1987. Titles are arranged alphabetically by author, title, reading level, and subject indexes. The books are for preschool through grade six children, and reading levels are designated as beginning, intermediate, or advanced.
One of the things many boys give up on their way to manhood is a love of reading. This thoughtfully compiled annotated bibliography gives parents, teachers, and librarians strategies to help prevent this. Titles are organized by reader age and genre. Each entry provides a bibliographic citation, suggested age range, and brief annotation. Odean urges adults to provide boys with literature that reflects the widest possible range of emotions and experiences, from swashbuckling adventure to peaceful daydreaming. A list of magazines for young readers acknowledges the importance of other reading material.
These books contain strong female characters, "girls and women who are creative, capable, articulate and intelligent, solving problems, facing challenges, resolving conflicts and going on quests. This resource book is divided by age group/difficulty level. They are not sidekicks or tokens waiting to be rescued; they are doing the rescuing." Nor are they waiting for a male to provide a happy ending; they are fashioning their own stories and their own endings.
This collection of books represents a large portion of the Western canon: Homer, the Athenian playwrights, the early Greek philosophers, Rome, early Christianity, Renaissance, Reformation, Enlightenment, early American political philosophy, and Victorian literature up until the end of the 20th century. This series provides extensive original documents on science, mathematics, government, philosophy, literature, and much more.
This annotated bibliography features 18 resources related to mathematics. All are relevant to motivation, although only about one-third focus exclusively on motivation. The list includes many books and articles. Online articles and discussion groups include links.
Using recommendations from librarians, teachers, book reviews, and their own experiences as mothers, the authors have compiled a list of classic and current titles from almost every genre that provides girls with positive role models.
This book by J. Halsted offers a list of recommended books for gifted students from preschool through high school. Books give important emotional and intellectual support for gifted children, many of whom face unique issues in their lives due to their special talents and abilities. The author describes how to use books as bibliotherapy to provide support, guidance, and insight. Now in it's second edition, this is an in valuable resource for parents looking for books to recommend to gifted readers not only to enjoy, but also to gain perspective on themselves and others. Click here to read a review of this book.
An online catalog of "positive and uplifting" reading material. Chinaberry offers items to support families in raising their children with love, honesty and joy to be reverent, loving caretakers of each other and of the earth.
Free Spirit produces award-winning gifted resources that help children and teens think for themselves, succeed in life, and make a difference in the world.
This website is the on-line catalogue for Great Potential Press (formerly Gifted Psychology Press), a company that specializes in books for parents, teachers, counselors and educators of gifted and talented children. The titles cover guiding gifted and talented children, creativity, college planning, self-esteem, legal issues, smart girls, mentorship, leadership development, parent advice, and more.
The Great Books Foundation offers people of all ages an exciting way to read and discuss outstanding works of literature. As a nonprofit educational organization, we publish reading series for children and adults and conduct training in the shared inquiry method throughout the United States and abroad.
This website offers an online bibliography containing 1,000 titles appropriate for K-12 students. Maintained by the Classical Christian Education Support Loop, this list was originally created by 25 homeschooling mothers.
Author Jacqueline Woodson writes stories for young adults and middle grades. Her latest book "Show Way", based on her own family history, tells the story of her maternal ancestors who were quilters, artists and freedom fighters.
A club where kids can talk about the books they like. Features reading lists for many ages, study guides and discussion questions
Hosted by the Learn in Freedom website, this page provides a comprehensive list of IQ and human intelligence.
This website offers a culturally diverse, selected, annotated reading list and resource guide for middle school teachers, librarians and students. The annotated list features recent books about girls' and women's lives in the areas of literature, social studies (Texas history, world history, and U.S. history), the arts, sciences and math. It centers around the importance of providing educators with materials that present girls and women as active contributors to literature, history, science, and culture and assist girls in developing confident visions for their many life roles.
The Children's Literature Web Guide is a website that gathers together and categorizes the growing number of Internet resources related to books for children and young adults. Much of the information that you can find through these pages is provided by others: fans, schools, libraries, and commercial enterprises in the book world.
This website offers a large collection of 3,077 free classic books online. Users can search for a book, read it online and even add personalized annotations to any of the books. The website is free however some functions require free registration.
The Database of Award-Winning Children's Literature (DAWCL) has more than 4,500 records from 56 awards across six English-speaking countries (United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, England, and Ireland). The user should be a librarian or a teacher intervening for a child-reader, although anyone may make use of it to find the best in children's literature including parents, book store personnel, and children and young adults.
Home Educator's Family Times is the homeschool publication for new or veteran homeschool families. The website offers a variety of homeschooling resources for parents, educators, and other professionals.
This website contains a recommended reading list for high school students in New York. The list contains Fiction, Non-fiction, Folklore, Fantasy and Science Fiction, Poetry, and Drama.
This is not meant to be an all inclusive or exclusive list, it is simply some often read and recommended titles.
This webpage is from Bow Elementary School's website and lists numerous recommended books for gifted children. The children's books are selections from Dr. Thomas Hebert's bibliography "The Right Books for Bright Children at the Right Times" and are listed by general grade levels and gender. Also provided is a list of numerous websites that may be of interest to gifted children and their families.
This websites provides the titles and authors of all the Newbery Medal and Newbery Honor Books since the inception of the Newbery Award in 1922. The Newbery Awards are presented annually to the author of the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children published in the United States in the preceding year.
This webpage offers a list of entomology books recommended by the San Diego Natural History Museum. Many of these books are available from the Museum store or from Amazon.com.
This website offers an extensive list of young adult books, including various current and previous award-winning titles. It also includes a link to “Outstanding Books for the College Bound” for children who read at an advanced level.
The mission of the Young Adult Library Services Association 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.