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Sign up for the Teen Summer Reading Club - sign up using
your library card number and PIN code, gain access to one online game, add books to your reading log and submit book reviews. The more books you add to your reading log, the more games you have access to, as well as the opportunity to win different prizes!
This year's Teen Summer Reading Club theme is "Teen L.A.," so our Encino-Tarzana teen librarian, with help from some of the
other teen librarians from West Valley branches, designed and compiled a
list of teen books that are either set in Los Angeles or written by L.A.
area authors! Click Teen L.A. Reading List for a copy of the list.
*Encino-Tarzana Teens Blog!* -
Blog about, for and by the teens of the Encino-Tarzana Branch Library! The
website features teen events, teen book reviews, and also photos from some
of our past events for teens! The teen summer reading program is going to be
completely online so those details will be posted as soon as they are
released!
LAPL Teen Web - Links to great sites for:
LAPL databases-
(scroll down, they are in alpha order; most require a library card # for login)
- College Source Online -
Web-based national college catalog source.
- Literature Resource Center -
Now includes Twayne's Author Series, Scribner's Writers Series and MLA (Modern Language Association).
Covers more than 90,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists and other writers,
with in-depth coverage of 2,000 of the most-studied authors.
- Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center -
Pro and con arguments for a broad range of current social issues, providing facts, references,
articles from many resources, and links to appropriate web sites.
UC Open Access - FREE University of
California college prep courses.
Calisphere - Features digital
versions of primary source material culled from the University of California libraries and archives. Collection can be browsed alphabetically by topic
or by culture.
My First Paycheck - Employment help and job listings for
teens, which can be sorted by state.
College.gov- Put together by the Dept of Education, to
encourage teens to attend college and help them plan how they are going to do it!
A Selected List: Websites for Students What did students ever do without
the Web? Here's a GREAT guide to free sites on a variety of topics that crop up from grade school through college.
Source: David Colker in the Los Angeles Times.
ALA Best Books for Young Adults Organized by
year, the American Library Association's list comprises a wide range of genres and styles, including contemporary realistic fiction, nonfiction
that brings an awareness of the world we live in and its history, and fantastical stories told in both
narrative and graphic formats. Also try the Alex
Awards for the ten books written for adults that have special appeal to young adults.
Teen Zone:
Reading suggestions; college, homework, and health resources; pop culture (media and technology) from the Morton Grove
Public Library - - annotated and very helpful.
From the County of Los Angeles Public Library:
Teens Read includes
book suggestions and useful links. Book Lover's Central
has a section for teens with books organized by subject.
LAUSD Los Angeles Unified School District - calendars, information
for students and others.
The Voice of Youth Advocates has Top Shelf Fiction
for Middle School Readers. (The annotated suggestion list will open in Adobe Acrobat.)
Oprah's Reading List for teens, suggestions provided by The Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association.
For material to supplement your texts, try publisher's websites such as:
Pearson Prentice Hall. Click on a subject, then choose California
and the subject to see if your text is there. You might try
a self-quiz on Demand for your Economics class.
(Email the webmaster with sites from publishers of your other texts to include here.)
Richie's Picks Great books for
children and Young Adults.
Guys Read Books for Guys.
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