Author & Book Websites

There are so many authors out there! How do you pick?  Which one of their books will you choose.  Try one of these websites.

Click on Link Cornelia Funke talks about her books and writing.

(If you have a suggestion for an author you would like to share with others, please let Ms. Schuster know.)  Happy Reading!

Authors:

• Avi
• Gary Paulsen – Hatchet
• Jean Craighead George -My Side of the Mountain
• Lois Duncan
• Madeleine L’Engle – A Wrinkle in Time
• Mike Lupica – Heat
• Scott O’Dell – Island of the Blue Dolphins
• Rick Riordan- “Percy Jackson” Series
• Anthony Horowitz- “Alex Rider” Series
• Walter Dean Myers – Sunrise Over Fallujah, Monster
• Suzanne Collins- The Hunger Games series
  

Books:

• Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr
• Diary of a Wimpy Kid
• Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
• Harry Potter
• A Wrinkle in Time
• The 39 Clues books

Reading Links:

Mr. Schu Reads

Scholastic for Kids

Scholastic for Parents

You are What you Read

Book Award Sites
A lot of information out there. Check these sites out for finding more books, and add some spice to your reading adventures.

• Caldecott Medal Award- for most distinguished American picture book for children.
• Children's Book Awards- a list of different awards throughout the world
•  Coretta Scott King Award- given to African American authors and illustrator for outstanding inspirational and educational contributions
• Mark Twain Award Nominees (2011-2012)
• Newbery Medal Award- for most distinguished contribution to American literature for children.
• Pura Belpré Award for a Latino/Latina writer and illustrator whose work best portrays, affirms, and celebrates the Latino cultural experience in an outstanding work of literature for children and youth.
• Scott O'Dell Awards- for historical fiction
• Truman Award Nominees (2011-2012)
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Library Resources
Here are some helpful Library resources that you could use.  (Some of them even have activites to do and contests you can enter.)

Daniel Boone Regional Library

Teen Blog- Daniel Boone Regional Library

American Library Association