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Adbooks is an e-mail list created to discuss books written for adolescent readers. Our members love to read and to talk about good books.

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Our online collection of Aesop's Fables includes a total of 655+ Fables, indexed in table format, with morals listed. There are many more on the way. Most were translated into English by Rev. George Fyler Townsend (1814-1900) and Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914

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Graphic novels are as disparate from books as is a play or a movie. It's a different experience entirely. Pictures carry another kind of information than words. What is most exciting is that a picture language and a word language can interweave, which can

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Hey there folks! Welcome to American Folklore. This folklore site contains retellings of American folktales, Native American myths and legends, tall tales, weather folklore and ghost stories from each and every one of the 50 United States. You can read a

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Anthology of Middle English Literature, from Chaucer to Malory. Works, biographies, essays and articles on featured authors. Also includes mystery and morality plays and Middle English Lyrics.

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The Online Books Page presents BANNED BOOKS ONLINE - Headings such as "Unfit for Schools and Minors" and "Suppressed or Censored by Legal Authorities" provide links to online texts as well as other censorship resources.

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This is a collection of reviews of great books for kids, ideas of ways to use them in the classroom and collections of books and activities about particular subjects, curriculum areas, themes and professional topics.

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Thanks to Alan Baragona's suggestions our site now has a new area, "Teaching Chaucer" (see the menu bar at the left). We've moved some things to it (the audio files and Dan Kline's Chaucer Pedagogy Page), included a link to the MetaMentors, and added a ne

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The Children's Book Council, Inc. is the nonprofit trade association of publishers and packagers of trade books and related materials for children and young adults

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CyberGuides are supplementary, standards-based, web-delivered units of instruction centered on core works of literature. Each CyberGuide contains a student and teacher edition, standards, a task and a process by which it may be completed, teacher-selecte

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Puffin's illustrated guide to the steps involved in making a book.

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Good reading - book lists, quizzes, and reviews, homework help, fun links, and Virginia and area links.

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The Literature, Life, and Times of Edgar Allan Poe... In Baltimore and Beyond. Through the activities on this site, you can introduce learners (or, be introduced, yourself) to the literature, life, and times of one of America's foremost writers. Here, you

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The Lewis Carroll Scrapbook at the Library of Congress is an original scrapbook that was kept by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson. Better known as Lewis Carroll, the Victorian-era children's author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Lookin

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You are the president of a fan club for your favorite author. Eager for literary discussion and insights into your author's works, you set up a mailing list and wait patiently for the flood of subscribers. After a week one member signs up. His first messa

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Picturing a Canadian Life: L.M. Montgomery's Personal Scrapbooks and Book Covers - L.M. Montgomery's novels are famous world-wide; most of the titles have remained in print since their first publication and many of them have been translated into ot

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THE collection of electronic texts. A good starting point for students to create their own hypertext version of the classics. (If you want to view/download novels or plays, make sure you have plenty of memory allotted to your browser.)

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Reading Rants! -- is no ordinary teen booklist! Go beyond Sweet Valley High and the Hardy Boys with some of the best reads for teens here! Reading Rants!

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The Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators - formed in 1971 by a group of Los Angeles based writers for children, is the only international organization to offer a variety of services to people who write, illustrate, or share a vital i

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Read this book review of "The Owl and the Pussycat" written by Edward Lear and illustrated by Jan Brett.

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Teen Read WeekT is a national literacy initiative aimed at teens, their parents, librarians and educators. It is celebrated each year during the third week of October.

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Author Interviews and reading lists of books we know that you'll love all are part of Teenreads.com along with contests, question of the month and a look at what other teens are reading.

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This is Favorite Teenage Angstbooks -- a special place on the Web where it's okay to have zits, daydream, feel secret stirrings within, and wonder what on earth will happen next in your life.

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Find teen poetry and creative writing, book, movie and music reviews by teens, and great book lists for your reading pleasure!

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Bertha Mahony founded The Horn Book in 1924 to herald the best in children's literature. More than eighty years later, we are still following her lead. The Horn Book Magazine and The Horn Book Guide are the most distinguished journals in the field of chil

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This site features 441 works of classical literature by 59 authors, including Aesop, Aeschylus, Homer, Ovid and Plato. Visitors can read classic works in their entirety, participate in discussions of the works and bone up on the authors themselves.

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Created by a team of teachers, a thematic exploration of Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell presented in both English and Spanish. The purpose of this site is to:

1)use historical fiction to engage students in California history
2)build s

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This website presents almost 200 poems, articles, and short stories and many graphics and photographs from The Magpie, literary magazine of Dewitt Clinton High School, encompassing the years 1929 to 1942. Have students catch a glimpse of student life i

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Described as a Pictorial Life of Jack London; it is just as much a tour of Jack London State Historic Park. Because this site is arranged in an odd manner, it's important to use the rather unobtrusive menus located at the top and the bottom of each page.

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These pages offer you information on everything you could possibly want to know about Treasure Island. Find out about the author, the characters of the book, tropical islands, pirates, buried treasure and lots more! On top of this you can contribute by se

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Treasures@Sea: Exploring the Ocean Through Literature - This extensive Web resource consists of Web-based learning activities that integrate language arts with oceanography. Each activity is based on one of seven books about the ocean and are written to b

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This site informs those who care about children and their literature about the best and the latest on the constellation of topics that will enable them to bring the literature and children together most successfully.

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This month's featured title: Title: Hole in My Life Author: Jack Gantos Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux Year: 2004