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Readers' Advisory: helping you answer the question, "What should I read next?"
General Resources
This is a great site that has tons of booklists. it is a good place to go to get ideas for what to read next
A great site for information on the latest fiction and finding everything written by a particular author.
A new site that allows you to search by the description of a cover, or something you remembered about the book such as "sparkly vampires" or "astronaut stranded on Mars".
If you've ever wondered, "What books comes next in this series?" this is the website for you!
Literature-map.com. Type an author's name into this site and it will build a map of similar authors whose works you might enjoy. It's cool! :)
Find books based on age, subject, or level. Make a book list, read reviews, and more!
Information on over 260,000 books including reading lists, reviews and read-a-like recommendations.
Provides books, booklists and resources for students, teachers, and parents on a variety of topics.
Book Lists
There are book lists created by topic in the "Kiosk" tab of the Insignia library system. If there is a list or topic you would like to see, just let Mrs. Howard know and she will create one! :)
There are book lists created by topic in the "Kiosk" tab of the Insignia library system. If there is a list or topic you would like to see, just let Mrs. Howard know and she will create one! :)
Free eBooks
Check these sites for access to free books you can read online.
Full texts of more than 12,000 books.
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Thousands of titles ranging from literary criticism to health, mathematics, sports, and religion. You may access the full text of these eBooks from your computer, or download titles to most popular portable devices.
Public Library Collection of books.
You can check out free eBooks using your public library card.
Google books is digitizing thousands of books and magazines for people to read for free.
Project Gutenberg offers over 59,000 free eBooks with no fee or registration.
Did you know that the Michigan eLibrary (MeL) has access to hundreds of magazines for free online?
Students - You can read things like Sports Illustrated, Teen Vogue, Teen Ink, Girls' Life, Scout Life, etc.
Teachers - You can search online magazines for nonfiction articles that might be of interest for your content/curriculum.
To access them...
1. Go to the Michigan eLibrary
2. Click on the eJournals link at the top of the page...
3. Once you are on the eJournals page, you can type in the name of the magazine you are looking for, or a topic into the search bar, or click on a topic to see what magazines they have.
4. Once you get your search results back, you can click on the title of the magazine you want to look at:
5. Then you can click on one of the sites that will take you to the articles (it will show you the date range of the magazines that are available).
6. Then you will see a list of the year that are available on the right hand side of the screen. Click on the year you want, then the issue you want and it will show you links for all the articles in that issue.
Come see me if you have any questions. :)
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