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800-899 Literature

Literature | General Collections | American Literature | Poetry | English Literature

  

800s: Literature

Book Page

Book Page is a nationally distributed monthly book review Magazine. Search their comprehensive archives for thousands of reviews.

Book Wire

BookWire is the internet resource dedicated to new titles, new authors, and the general scoop on the book industry! Use this site to search book reviews, read about the latest releases, watch author video clips, and learn about upcoming book events.

 
Use the Creative Writing Prompts and creative writing ideas to create stories, poems and other creative pieces from your imagination. The writing prompts can even help you come up with creative content for blogs and blog stories.
Fantasy and Science Fiction

The University of Michigan provides this Fantasy and Science Fiction site which contains a multitude of links to science fiction and fantasy reading lists.

Lit 2 Go

Lit2Go is a free online collection of stories and poems in Mp3 (audiobook) format. You can: Download the files to your Mp3 player and listen on the go, Listen to the Mp3 files on your computer, View the text on a webpage and read along as you listen, or print out the stories and poems to make your own book.

Mystery Reader

The Mystery Reader gives you lists of mystery genres such as the romantic or cozy mystery, tips on new books, interviews with authors and more. It is an excellent site for the mystery lover.

The Readers Circle
The Reader's Circle is a free online directory for book clubs and reading groups. Anyone may post a listing or search for a group by zip code - all for free. Three basic types of books are featured: Academic Reader's Circles, Civic Reader's Circles, and Social Reader's Circles.
Romance Reader
The Romance Reader offers popular romance reviews and includes interviews with authors.
Teen Reads

Teen Reads is a cool, fun site, with lots of reviews, a message board, and a newsletter for teens.

YALSA's Best Books for Young Adults

The YALSA Best Books for Young Adults site offers the annual lists of the best books from 1996-2010 recommended by the Young Adult Library Services Association.

YALSA's Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers

The YALSA’s Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Readers lists titles recommended for reluctant readers ages 12-18. It includes lists from 1996-2010.

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808: General Collections
Automatic Citation Generator

Amacite is a free citation generator that assists you in automatically generating APA, MLA and Chicago style citations by looking up book information such as authors, publishing year and company from a title or ISBN by querying the Amazon Products API.

 
Bookhive is a guide to children's literature and books containing recommended books. You can listen to an oral story or submit your own story to this site.
 
Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site is a collection of reviews of great books for kids, ideas of ways to use them in the classroom and collections of books and activities about particular subjects, curriculum areas, themes and professional topics.
 
Children's Literature Web Guide gives links to resources related to books for young adults and children. Links include stories, authors, awards, organizations, folklore, myths and legends, booklists, and poetry.
Citation Machne

Citation Machine provides an interactive tool to help create reference citations for research papers. It includes various print and electronic resources.

Fiction Writing
Fiction Writing contains a huge listing of writing resources for students from About.com
 
Guys Read was begun to motivate boys to read. It is a great resource for teachers, parents, and students in search of "boy-friendly" titles. It contains lots of great links.
 
Explore the fun - read 324 free children's books online at International Children's Digital Library.
 
Learn more about authors and their works at the Literary Criticism site.
 
Create your own poems by dragging words around at the Magnetic Poetry site.
National Gallery of Writing

The National Gallery of Writing is a digital archive of compositions accessible to all through a free, searchable website. This is a living archive of thousands of examples of writing from across the United States. The National Council of Teachers of English have collected writing from adults and students to put in the gallery.

 
Noodle Quest is a free service that offers automated search engine strategy development.
 
Poetry Express offers activities, tips, and techniques for new or experienced poets.
Read the Words

Read the Words creates an easy to use platform that allows users alternative methods to process written information.

Write Rhymes

Write Rhymes allows the user to write a poem or a rap and look up the rhyming words as they type. If you are stuck on a word, you can option-click on a word to find a rhyme for it.

Writing.com

Writing.com is a comprehensive writing resource for the aspiring author.

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810s: American Literature

Author Links is Yahoo's links to authors.
Eragon is an interactive site that explores the fantasy world of Eragon. It includes a pronunciation glossary, activities, and news about forthcoming books by Christopher Paolini.
Jump aboard the Hogwart Express to come on a fantastic adventure at the official JK Rowling Website. See what's on my desk. Read all about me, JK Rowling
At the Jean Craighead George site you will learn about this author who wrote "My Side of the Mountain" and "Julie of the Wolves".
Into the Wardrobe: C.S. Lewis is the site devoted to C.S. Lewis and his writings.

Biographical information on Gary Paulsen and information about his books can be found at this site.

The Official Web site of Mark Twain includes a biography, a writings section, photographs, quotes, fast facts, downloads, a web store and more.

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811: American Poetry
Instant Poetry Forms

At Instant Poetry Forms you choose your poetry form from the list of links and then just add words to make the poem your own.

 
The Semantic Rhyming Dictionary allows you to enter a word to find its perfect rhymes, partial rhymes, homophones, semantic siblings, synonyms, definition, related words, and pictures. The site also includes a thesaurus and links to other reference tools.

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820s: English Literature

Discover the works, life and times, theatre, criticism, renaissance, sources, best sites and more surrounding this amazing author at the Mr. William Shakespeare & the Internet site.
Representative Poetry On-line includes 1,650 poems in English by about 260 poets from the early medieval period to the beginning of the 20th century.

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Updated: October 7, 2011