Lists-Awards, Books, Movies

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Lists--Awards, Books, Movies,

Best, Worst, and In between

These links are essentially guides to good reading, viewing, listening, thinking, imagining, playing, learning, and cautionary tales.

Books & Reading

Teen Reads: An excellent site containing lists, reviews, author pages and interviews, opinion polls and great links to other sites teens would enjoy browsing.

Reading Rants: Out of the ordinary Teen Booklists.

What Should I Read Next: Enter a book you like and the site will analyze its database of real readers' favorite books (over 20,000 and growing) to suggest what you could read next.

Favorite Teenage Angst: A celebration of teenage angst and personal discovery. Here, you'll learn about great books for teens, meet interesting authors and other creative folks, and honor the joys and struggles of your teenage years.

Flamingnet: This website is for students between 8 and 16 years old, their parents, grandparents, teachers, and librarians who are looking for books to recommend to or buy for their children, grandchildren, or students.

No Flying, No Tights: The latest rage in Young Adult fiction is the graphic novel. This site has reviews for teens. There is also Sidekicks: a site devoted to all those kids’ graphic novels out there. On the other end of the spectrum is The Lair, featuring graphic novels for older teens and adults.

Booklists from ALA: includes best books, quick picks, outstanding books for the college bound, popular paperbacks and award winners

Books in Series: An extensive list of series books suggesting the order in which to read them from Monroe County Library in Indiana. It currently contains over 20,000 books in series titles that are classified into three audiences and is organized by series titles, book title, author and subject:

More Books in Series: Another great site for finding books in a series.

Seattle Public Library Book Lists for Teens: Many lists for different levels, interests, genres.

ATN Booklists: A wonderful site containing close to 1,000 lists including a READ ALIKE list that is second to none.

100 Best Novels of the 20^th Century—Modern Library & 100 Best Non-Fiction Books of the 20th Century—Modern Library A respected publisher’s list of important English language novels and non-fiction published in the 20^th century.

Battle of the Books: The official site of Battle of the Books list from the Alaska Association of School Librarians.

Kid's Click: a great list of authors, titles, genre lists, quotations and other fun sites.

Bookspot: a wonderful site full of lists of all kinds including award winning books, genre lists (poetry, mystery, romance, etc), authors, discussion groups, book reviews. An excellent resource.

Cynthia Leitich Smith Children's Literature Resources: Wonderful lists with an emphasis on multiculturalism.

Virtual YA Index: Links to public libraries with young adult web pages.

Pulitzer Prizes: Winners and nominees in a searchable archive, history of the awards, other info.

Oprah’s Book Club: Oprah’s selections vary from classic to current, but are always intriguing.

National Book Awards: One of the most prestigious awards in fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and young people’s literature.

Nobel Prizes: International winners in physics, chemistry, medicine, literature, economics, and peace.

New York Times Bestsellers: Keep up on the top selling books. A premier listing.

100 Worst Books of the 20th Century: A personal listing, but fun to check out. Categorized by theme (e.g. Evil, Obnoxious, Delusional, Useless, Your Worst Nightmare, Trash, etc.).

Movies, DVDs, Videos

Selected DVDs and Videos for Young Adults Helpful annual lists for teachers, parents, librarians—anyone who works with young adults.

Internet Movie Database (IMDb) Reviews, opinion, trivia, news, connections to other movie info. Enormous database.

Rogert Ebert’s Movie Reviews Ebert’s views, reviews, ratings, and All-Time Great Movies list are worth attention from moviegoers.

American Film Institute News, trivia, reviews, ratings. The 100 Years series is of special interest.

Jeeem’s Cinepad A personal web site with “100 Most Acclaimed Films” from several sources. Trivia, fun stuff.

Oscars Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences awards database plus other info.

Audiobooks

Audiobooks for Young Adults Annual lists selected from previous two years of spoken word releases.