"Lotsa Lists" of great places to go on the web!
Please note: these links will navigate you away from WTPL's website.
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Fan sites and official sites about your favorite books, authors, and series!
Avi: lists & describes all of the books written by Young Adult and Children's author Avi.
The Chronicles of Narnia Movies: explore the land of Narnia and find out extras about the movie The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe and the NEW Prince Caspian movie.
Cornelia Funke: author of the Thief Lord, Dragon Rider, Ink Heart, and others.
Gail Carson Levine: author of The Two Princesses of Bamarre, Ella Enchanted, Dave at Night, Fairest, and others.
Jerry Spinelli: author of Star Girl, Loser, Maniac Magee, Wringer, and lots of others.
Lois Lowry: author of The Giver, Number the Stars, Messenger, and more!
Warriors: A site about the series by Erin Hunter.
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Bored?
Here are some fun sites to fix that!
Astroempires: massively multiplayer games online. Astro Empires is a free real-time Space Strategy Game with with thousands of players where you can build bases, spaceships, research new technologies, form alliances, fight epic Battles, and more.
Bored.com: Online games & other stuff to keep you entertained.
Christmas & Winter Events: Find Christmas tree and winter events near you! Cut your own tree and other fun winter activities such as sleigh rides, hayrides and wagon rides!
*Fictional Countries in Pop Culture: Here's a nice little test of your pop culture knowledge: see if you can identify the book, TV show or movie that that the fictional countries described here came from.
Free Clip Art: graphics, clip art, and animations free to use for your school projects.
Food Time Line:
"Ever wonder what foods the Vikings ate when they set off to explore the new world? How Thomas Jefferson made his ice cream? What the pioneers cooked along the Oregon Trail? Who invented the potato chip...and why?" (foodtimeline)
*The Learn List: "a super simple resource that aims to gather the best tutorial and book links from all over the web" on the topics of Flash, Photoshop, PHP, CSS,
XML, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, Actionscript, and Fireworks. None of the links or books are annotated, so you'll just need to click and sample.
Puzzlemaker: make your own crossword puzzles, word searches, and other puzzles.
*Statetris: Test your geography skills and manual dexterity by playing Tetris with US
states instead of blocks.
*Visuwords online graphical dictionary This is fascinating, a kind of visual thesaurus. Type in a word and an
animation displays a mouseover definition and a kind of neural network of
associations and related concepts. "Book," for example, is part of a
conceptual universe including account books and ledgers, notebooks,
sketch books, coffee table books, paperbacks, holy books, etc.
Pumpkin Patches & More Pumpkin Patches, Corn Mazes and More! Where you can find a pumpkin patch, corn maze, pumpkin festivals, hayrides and other Fall and Halloween fun near you!
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Google searches may help you find a lot of stuff, but did you know different search engines will give you different results? Try a few of these out to help you find what you're looking for!
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Go to our Homework Help page for links to useful sites for homework and school.
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