This page includes links to contests and online sites where students can publish their work.

This site contains a wealth of helpful information for researchers.

This site provides numerous articles about authors and their literary works.

This site will link you to libraries all over the world. You can access Presidential Libraries, Research Libraries, Academic Libraries, Film Libraries, Law Libraries, Medical Libraries, and more! In addition, you can find links to newspapers from around the world, virtual tours of museums, a reference desk, and other helpful links for the truly curious person!

This website, maintained by the University of California, Santa Barbara, will allow you to research almost any area of interest to you!

This is a comprehensive site for book lovers! At this site, you can accomplish the following tasks: get an idea for a good book to read; download a classic text; find lists of award-winning books, including winners of the Pulitzer Prize, the Nobel Prize, and the National Book Award; join an on-line book discussion; access interviews with authors; find answers for your questions about books.

This list, divided into five sections: fiction, biography, nonfiction, drama, and poetry, is revised every five years by a committee of the Young Adult Library Services Association of the American Library Association. In selecting these works for the list, the committee used a variety of criteria: readability, cultural and ethnic diversity, balance of points of view, contemporary and classical works, different genres, and availability.

Poems in this collection for high school students were selected by US Poet Laureate Billy Collins.

This site provides links to other sites of interest in the broad area of media literacy. You can follow links to the following topics: history of film, advertising in the media, violence in the media, journalism, pictures, and media literacy/studies.