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Language Arts
Authors
-- Databases
Twayne's Authors Series ![[NOVEL logo]](LA_files/image003.jpg){kind=small}
Twayne
World, US, and English Authors each contains the full text of 200 frequently
used Twayne Literary Masters books on individual World, US, or English authors,
for a total of 600 individual full-text titles.
Grolier
Online
THREE
online encyclopedias! Over 100,000 articles -- maps, flags, timelines and
more!
Student Resource Center Junior Includes 82,000
biographies, 15,000 maps and photos, 16,000 timeline event descriptions, 41,000
source documents, including diary entries & letters, and much more.
Gale Virtual Reference Library
Gale Virtual Reference Library is a database
of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary
research.
Authors
-- Quotes
Brainyquote Online database with a collection of quotes by author and subject.
Authors
-- Weblinks
Yahoo Links to information
about young adult authors.
Scholastic Biographies
and interviews with the best-loved authors in children's literature.
Kidsreads Author information including interviews.
Internet Public Library: Authors Your favorite authors and their
answers to kid's questions. Includes FAQ's.
Internet Public Library:
Biographies
Clicking on a
name in the colorful boxes below will take you to a completed page which
includes biographical information, a photo and Frequently Asked Questions
(FAQ's) with answers from that author or illustrator.
A&E's
Biography
Our new
expanded biography database puts over 25,000 of the greatest names, past and
present, at your fingertips. Enter a name in the box to discover who they were,
what they did, and why.
Authors on the Web
This page is an attempt to bring together literary author biographies
available on the World Wide Web. The biographies vary in quality, timeliness,
length, and authority.
Homer
Junior High Library Information Center
Reference
Resources -- Authors
|
Title |
Call
# |
|
World Authors Series |
REF
809 |
|
Junior Authors & Illustrators
Series |
REF
809 |
|
Twentieth Century Authors |
REF
809 |
|
Writer's for Young Adults |
REF
809 |
|
Current Biography |
REF
920.03 |
|
Authors & Artists for Young
Adults |
REF
920.03 |
|
Prominent Women of the Twentieth
Century |
REF
920.72 |
|
Notable Black American Women |
REF
920.72 |
Biographical
Links
General
A&E's
Biography
Our new
expanded biography database puts over 25,000 of the greatest names, past and
present, at your fingertips. Enter a name in the box to discover who they were,
what they did, and why.
Bartleby.com From the Columbia Encyclopedia,
6th edition. Over 17,000 up-to-date biographical entries are
classified under 140 categories such as fields of science or national histories
and literatures.
Grolier
Online
THREE
online encyclopedias! Over 100,000 articles -- maps, flags, timelines and
more!
General -- Women
4,000 Years of Women in Science:
Biography Index
Biographies of Women
Mathematicians
Distinguished Women of Past and
Present
National Museum of Women in the
Arts
Artists
Authors
Scholastic Biographies
and interviews with the best-loved authors in children's literature.
Kidsreads Author information including interviews.
Internet Public Library: Authors Your favorite authors and their
answers to kid's questions. Includes FAQ's.
Internet Public Library: Biographies Clicking on a name in the
colorful boxes below will take you to a completed page which includes
biographical information, a photo and Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ's) with
answers from that author or illustrator.
Authors on the Web This page is an attempt to bring
together literary author biographies available on the World Wide Web. The
biographies vary in quality, timeliness, length, and authority.
Explorers
Discoverer’s Web Alphabetical
list of links to explorers and discoverers.
Zoom Explorers Click on
first letter of an explorer’s last name for a short description of their
travels.
Inventors
Kid Info...Inventors &
Inventions
Sites that
contain information about Present and Past Inventors and Inventions
Black History Month
Black History Month Many
links on a variety of the topics related to Black History
Grolier
Online
THREE
online encyclopedias! Over 100,000 articles -- maps, flags, timelines and
more!
Harlem
Renaissance
background
information
Internet Use: Explorers
John Cabot
John Cabot page
@ Zoom Explorers
John Cabot page @ All About Explorers.com
Christopher Columbus
Christopher
Columbus page @ Zoom Explorers
Christopher Columbus page @ All About
Explorers.com
Ferdinand Magellan
Ferdinand
Magellan page @ Zoom Explorers
Ferdinand Magellan page @ All About
Explorers.com
Francisco Pizarro
Francisco
Pizarro page @ Zoom Explorers
Francisco Pizarro page @ All About
Explorers.com
Internet
Use: Evaluation Tutorial
Website Evaluation Tutorial from Vaughan Memorial Library, Acadia
University
Internet
Use: Websites to Evaluate
Group
1:
Group
2:
Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus
The
Outsiders Project
-- America in the 1960's
Timelines
and links pages for all kinds of 1960's events:
1960-1969 World History An excellent description
of events of the 1960's by year with hypertext links from infoplease.
U.S. History > 1960's A yahoo guide to 1960's events.
The Sixties A timeline of the key events of
the 1960's.
A Biography of America A links page about 1960's
topics from Annenberg Media and PBS.
Decade 1960-1969 Links from the University of
Missouri and eMINTS.
Specific
topics of the 1960's:
The Changes in Racism from
1960-1969
Student Movements in the Sixties From the Internet Public
Library; read all the way to the bottom for more links.
YWCA Women's
History Essay Contest
4,000 Years of Women in Science:
Biography Index
Biographies of Women
Mathematicians
Distinguished Women of Past and
Present
The Nobel Prize Internet Archive
Grolier
Online
THREE
online encyclopedias! Over 100,000 articles -- maps, flags, timelines and
more!
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