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BOOKS
Teenreads
http://www.teenreads.com/
Profiles of authors, reviews of books, message boards, and more.
Favorite Teenage Angst Books
http://www.grouchy.com/angst/
Lots of book reviews and links to other angst-friendly sites.
Young Adult Books By or About Native Americans
http://www.kstrom.net/isk/books/ya.html
Reviews of several fiction and non-fiction books about Native Americans. This is not necessarily a recommended reading list, as the site includes good and bad reviews.
Library Q
http://carbon.cudenver.edu/public/library/libq/childrens.html#YA
A comprehensive list of recommended books for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered youth.
AUTHORS
Young Adult Author links on Yahoo
http://dir.yahoo.com/Arts/Humanities/Literature/Authors/Young_Adult/
Here you can find links to the official sites and fan sites of a large number of Young Adult authors.
Index to Internet Sites of Authors and Illustrators
http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/biochildhome.htm
This is the Internet School Library Media Center's index to author and illustrator Internet sites. Here you can find a searchable index of authors and illustrators, a comprehensive list of biographies, an online calendar of author/illustrator appearances dates, and online interviews.
Authors & Illustrators on the Web
http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/authors.html
The websites listed on this site include authors' personal websites and websites maintained by fans, scholars, and readers. The sites are arranged in alphabetical order, and the site is easy to navigate.
The Literary Traveler
http://www.literarytraveler.com/
This is a commercial Web site that offers middle and high school students some great resources on famous writers and poets, such as Langston Hughes, Edgar Allan Poe, John Steinbeck, Federico Garcia Lorca, Beatrix Potter, and Jack Kerouac, among others.
WRITING
Speak Up Press
http://www.speakuppress.org/
Speak Up is a national, annual non-profit literary journal published in hard copy that provides a creative voice for young adults (ages 13-19 yrs.) through publication of their original fiction, non-fiction, poetry, plays, photography, and artwork. To find out more about submitting work you have
created, check out this site.
Teen Voices Online
http://www.teenvoices.com/
This is the online site of Teen Voices Magazine, a print magazine where you can get published! If you're under 18, you can submit your writing, your art, your Web site, or a description of your monthly activism project for publication in Teen Voices. Check out this for more information, and an address where you can submit your original work.
EZINES
What is a eZine? Well, it's a magazine, periodical, whatever you want to call it, except that it is online.
- Teen Ink
http://www.teenink.com/
An online magazine that consists solely of reader submissions.
- Yo!
http://www.youthoutlook.org/
YO! Youth Outlook is an award-winning literary monthly journal of youth life featuring in-depth reporting pieces and first-person essays, comic strips and poetry pages.
- Do Something!
http://www.dosomething.org/
This eZine takes you into this organization that encourages and supports teen involvement in the community.
AWARDS & LISTS
CLA: Book Awards
- Young Adult Canadian Book Award
http://www.cla.ca/awards/yawinners.htm
This award recognizes an author of an outstanding English language Canadian book which appeals to young adults between the ages of 13 and 18.
The Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature
http://www.ala.org
An annual award begun in Year 2000 presented by the Young Adult Library Services Association of the American Library Association for a book that exemplifies literary excellence in young adult literature.
Alex Awards
http://www.ala.org/yalsa/booklists/alex/
Each year a committee of librarians selects ten adult books that will appeal to young adult readers. Here you can find the current year's ten selected titles, in addition to the titles selected over the past four years.
Best Books for Young Adults
http://www.ala.org/yalsa/booklists/bbya/
This list presents books published in the past 16 months that are recommended reading for young adults 12 to 18. It is a general list of fiction and nonfiction titles selected for their proven or potential appeal to the personal reading tastes of the young adult. Here you can find the lists from 1996 to 2003.
Newbery Award
www.ala.org/ala/alsc/awardsscholarships/literaryawds/newberymedal/ newberymedal.htm
The Newbery Medal is awarded annually to the author of the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children. It was named for eighteenth-century British bookseller John
Newbery.
GRAPHIC NOVELS & COMIC BOOKS
Superhero Comics:
Anime and Manga (Japanese Animation):
- TokyoPop
http://www.tokyopop.com/
Here you can find Cowboy Bebop, Real Bout High School, Saint Tail, Sailor Moon, Kodocha, Skull Man, Angelic Layer, Mars, and much, much more!
- Viz Communications
http://www.viz.com/
Here you can find Dragonball, Dragonball Z, Ranma ½, Gundam Wing, Fushigi Yugi, and many more titles as well.
Other Sites About Comic Books and Graphic Novels:
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