Teen Lit Sites
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Reading Lists
Take a look at all of the possibilities these lists offer. Read the reviews of books and poetry to see what books you would like to take a closer look at.
American Library Association Book Awards
Here you will find lists of award winning books for different interests and age groups.
Authors on the Web.com
Websites built by authors on the web.
Book Browser.com has now joined with Barnes and Noble, so this is a commercial site. But, it still is organized for browsing books. Check out the links on the left for ideas.
College Bound Reading List
This is a comprehensive list of books to read if you are going to college compiled by Arrowhead Library System.
The Grouchy Café presents favorite teenage angst books. This site includes cool books that might be of interest to you and includes Zines to check out. Plus, there are writing ideas and lots more. Find out what's there for you.
Historical Fiction book lists
Internet Public Library TeenSpace
This site is great for everything. For the purposes of this page of reading, click on Good Reads or scroll down to Reading and Writing to link to another entire page of great reading topics.
New York Public Library: Teen Link
This is a wonderful deep site. Check out the sidebar on the left for links to books and authors.
PUSH
PUSH is dedicated to new authors and new voices. These writers tell it like it really is. No preaching. No false endings. No stereotypes or contrivance. Just an honest dose of reality. These books are funny, observant, heartbreaking, and heartstopping.
Just like life.
This site has lots of reviews of teenagers' favorite books. There is also a place for you to write your comments.
*Reading Rants!: Lout of the Ordinary Teen Booklists
This is an excellent site with lists of books by genre or interest area. Many of the books reviewed are out of the ordinary. Enjoy!
California Department of Education: Recommended Literature K-12
This site offers is a collection of outstanding literature for children and adolescents. These recommended titles reflect the quality and the complexity of the types of material students should be reading at school and outside of class.
Teenlink: New York Public Library
This site also includes an anthology of writing by teens on the Web. You, too, can publish your writing here. Besides reading other teens' writing, this site includes reviews and help with keeping up with the latest things to do, places to go and answers to your questions.
TeenLit.com
TeenLit.com is a private not-for-profit web site currently funded and administered by two secondary teachers in Southeast Michigan. The sole purpose of TeenLit.com is to promote Teen Literacy by providing a forum for teen writers to publish and discuss their writing, review and discuss books they read, and to provide a resource for their teachers.
Young Adult Librarian's Help Homepage
Young adults will love this site for all it has to offer. Follow the links to find great information about genres, books and authors.
Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA)
These are lists of the best books for young adults for each year.
Comics
Friends of Lulu is a national nonprofit organization whose purpose is to promote and encourage female readership and participation in the comic book industry.
The Home of Comics on the Web
Comic Book Awards Almanac
A very handy compilation of comic book award nominees and winners, including the Eisner, Harvey, and Ignatz Awards, the Comics Buyers Guide Fan Awards, and others.
The Comics Journal is a magazine that covers the comics medium from an arts-first perspective. They are owned and operated by Fantagraphics Books, a leading publisher of alternative comic books (such as ACME Novelty Library and Eightball), collections and new work from underground comix pioneers (R. Crumb, Spain Rodriguez), and classic comic strip reprint volumes (Little Orphan Annie, Pogo).
Mangamaniacs
If you love Manga, this is the site for you. The goal for MangaManiacs.org is to create a website you can visit for all your manga information needs. It includes information about new managa' series coming out in the United States, synopsis and reviews, and articles.
Poetry
EServer Poetry Collection
Searchable archive of online texts from a wide range of recognized poets, both
historical and contemporary.
Poetry 180
A poem a day for American high schools
This is the site for the Academy of American Poets.
Official non-profit organization overseeing the international coalition of poetry slams.
Poetry Society of America
Check out the PSA resources for poetry journals.
Zines
EText Archives
The definitive e-zine resource
John Labovitz's E-Zine List
This is a list of electronic 'zines around the world, accessible via the Web, FTP, email, and other services searchable by titles and keywords.
This site shows you how to make a zine and it has lots of links to zines.
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Update: August 25, 2006