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Abe Award 2009 Contenders              Previous Years' Nominees: 2008  2007  2006  2005
The contest rules: 1) read four or more from the current list, 2) join the voting party for pizza in the library late February, and 3) win fabulous prizes!  Previous years' winners were Stephenie Meyer's Twilight, Dave Pelzer's A Child Called It, Jodi Picoult's My Sister's Keeper, and Scott Westerfeld's Uglies.

Bookmarks Magazine
This is the website for the bimonthly magazine (we subscribe to it, if you want to browse the old way!) that compiles book reviews from lots of different sources. You can search their database by the type of book you want.

Favorite Teenage Angst Books
This fun, interactive site reviews books in several categories, so you get to choose which type of books to read about.  Also, you can post your own book reviews!

Guys Read
Jon Scieszka's website has a search feature, lists of good books, and links to many authors guys like.

IPL's Teen Space for Reading and Writing
The Internet Public Library's space devoted to teenagers.  Recently updated, there are lots of cool resources here.

LibraryThing
Welcome to the largest book club in the world - build your own reading list and meet people with similar tastes in books, or just browse lists other people have made here.  Mrs. Bland's reading good books all the time - see her     book list and reviews.

 Literature Map
It's so fun it needs a better name!  This is a simple device to find other writers similar to ones you've loved before.  Type the name of one of your favorites and watch the recommended names spring and bounce away.

Novelist Plus
This database through EBSCO provides you with lots of ways to find a good book to read - fiction AND nonfiction!

Reading Rants
This website by a self-proclaimed teen literature freak has many original, off-the-wall lists.  A great source!

Teen Reads
Need a new book to read?  Try this website that has contests, author interviews, and tons of book summaries for the hottest new books.   

 

Find eBooks . . .

LibriVox
Listen to classic books - download the files to your mp3 player too!

Page by Page Books
Hundreds of classic books can be read online for free!

The Online Books Page
From the University of Pennsylvania, search for and read any of the 25,000 public domain books available here.

Google Book Search
Google is in the eBooks game too - search their digitized collection.

Project Gutenberg
Maybe the site that started it all, here is where you can quickly download popular public domain titles.

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