Homework

Helpers:

• Novelist
  - your place to go when wondering what to read next.  Includes book club guides, author information, and award winners.

• Kids Search
  - makes it easy for students in elementary and middle schools to find the most useful information for their school assignments and general interests. Search many types of sources at one time- -magazines, newspapers, encyclopedias, dictionaries, photos, flags, and more.

• Student Research Center
   - A research resource for students in the upper grades.  Searches magazines, newspapers, books, biographies, radio & tv transcripts, photos, and more.

• Primary Search (Grades K-6)  - Search EBSCO Animals and the Funk & Wagnalls Encyclopedia

• Middle Search (Grades 4-10)
  - Search for full text articles in over 140 popular magazines, thousands of biographies and historical essays, and other sources.

• Secondary Search
  (Grades 7-12)  
  - Search for full text articles inmore than 500 popular, high school magazines and nearly 1,750 general reference publications with full text information dating as far back as 1975.

http://www.kidsreads.com/authors/authors.asp

http://www.ehhs.cmich.edu/~tbushey/author.html

http://www.cbcbooks.org/contacts/

http://www.childrenslit.com/childrenslit/mai.html

http://dir.yahoo.com/Arts/Humanities/Literature/Authors/Children_s/

http://i.allschoolguide.com/article/authors-and-illustrators-childrens-books

Research Your Family Heritage

http://www.studentsoftheworld.info/infopays/menu_XWE.html

http://www.faqs.org/docs/factbook/index.html

http://geography.about.com/library/maps/blindex.htm

http://maps.google.com

http://www.behindthename.com

http://www.searchforancestors.com/surnames/origin

http://genealogy.familyeducation.com/family-names

http://www.myheritage.com

http://www.ancestry.com

http://www.genealogy.com

http://delicious.com/CPL_general_genealogy  
(sites chosen by Cleveland Public Library)

Free Genealogy Charts and Forms
http://genealogy.about.com/od/free_charts

Census Bureau (U.S.)     http://www.census.gov 

http://www.kidsturncentral.com/links/genealogylinks.htm

http://www.worldgenweb.org/~wgw4kids/ 

http://www.cyndislist.com/kids.htm