MARVEL! Maine's Virtual Library

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MAINE'S VIRTUAL LIBRARY

MARVEL! provides students, parents and teachers access to reputable resources through an easy to use extensive database. Whether you are doing research or looking for a new good book to read....MARVEL! can help you find what you are looking for.

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MARVEL! Maine's Virtual Library

SOME GREAT KID FRIENDLY LINKS YOU WILL FIND ON MARVEL!

BRITANNICA ONLINE SCHOOL EDITION K-12 is an online encyclopedia

with articles that can be searched by reading level and includes multimedia

resources. Features include U.S. States, Country Comparisons, Biography

resources, Current Events & News, and Browse Searching.

NOVELIST and NOVELIST K-8 give information on fiction books to read. They

include plots, discussion questions, author read-likes, genre book lists,

series titles, and thematic units for teachers. They can be searched in many

ways including title,author, subject, series, plot, publisher, and reviews.

KIDS SEARCH is designed for younger students. It has an easy-to-use interface

with appealing graphics and includes searchable full-text articles from more

than 50 of the most popular K-12 magazines.

MAINE NEWSTAND is a portal to the archives of newspaper articles printed

locally and throughout the state.

ANNALS OF AMERICAN HISTORY is a great resource of primary source materials for

student history projects. "Annals" contains more than 2,100 original full-text

source documents on American history from 1493 to the present. It includes

speeches, essays, biographies, landmark court decisions, poems, interviews and

editorials from more than 1,500 authors, and can be searched by topic or author.

LITERATURE RESOURCE CENTER is a tool for the literature students. Rich in

biographical, bibliographical and critical content, the Literature Resource

Center is a wonderful internet resource for information on literary figures

from all time periods writing in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, history

and journalism.

CONTEMPORARY AUTHORS provides a biographical and bibliographical guide to

authors living during the last 40 years.

HEALTH SOURCES: CONSUMER EDITION gives authoritative health information than

can sometimes get filtered out on the net.