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Please post valuable web resources you have discovered here. For uniformity, please us the following posting format:

Title of the Web site (Bold) URL / web address Summary of the site content and application. Submitted by: Your Name

[|http://freeplaymusic.com] Copyright free music Do not use personal music from CD's or downloads if you plan to publish on the internet.
 * Free Music for Podcasts**

[|http://www.googlelittrips.org] Allows students to experience literature in a new and different way.
 * Google Lit Trips**

http://www.psla.org/ The Pennsylvania School Librarians Association provides school librarians/media specialists with educational opportunities and current information through publications, workshops, seminars and conferences. The association's Web site allows you to search within the site and features easy access to important booklist sites such as: PA Young Reader's Choice Awards, PA Young Adult Top Forty lists, and TriState Young Adult Review Committee's Books of Note. Submitted by: Dawn McGee
 * PSLA Web site: Pennsylvania School Librarians Association** [|PSLA]

[|Abby (the) Librarian] - YA & children's book reviews by a school librarian [|book, book, book] - YA & children's book reviews by a school librarian [|books together] - YA & children's book reviews [|BooksForKidsBlog] - YA & children's book reviews by a retired school librarian [|Booktopia] - YA & children's book reviews by a school librarian [|Jen Robinson's Book Page] - YA & children's book reviews [|Reading Rants!] - YA book reviews - "out of the ordinary teen booklists" [|Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast] - YA & children's book reviews [|Shelf Elf: read, write, rave.] - YA & children's book reviews [|The Miss Rumphius Effect] - YA & children's book reviews and general literature information [|The Picnic Basket] - YA & children's book reviews [|The Reading Zone] - YA & children's book reviews [|Welcome to my Tweendom] - YA book reviews by a school librarian [|YA Fabulous!] - YA book reviews Submitted by: Carey Stolber
 * Interesting YA Blogs**

http://drscavanaugh.org/booktalk/making_a_video_book_talk_PhotoStory.htm Submitted by: Dawn McGee
 * Making a Video Book Talk with Micrososft PhotoStory**

=__Great Resources for English Teachers:__=

[|The Five Paragraph Essay]
Submitted by: Dawn McGee on behalf of Paul

[Margaret A. Edwards Award Trivia Game|PowerPoint Quiz]
 * Margaret Edwards Award**

http://www.teachingbooks.net/pronunciations.cgi media type="file" key="Laurie_Halse_Anderson.mp3" media type="file" key="Francisco_Jimenez.mp3" media type="file" key="Carl_Hiaasen.mp3"
 * TeachingBooks.net: Author Name Pronunciation Guide**

=Library of Congress= http://www.loc.gov/index.html Resourses for kids, families, teachers. Extremely helpful for cataloging class for any who haven't taken this library class yet. This was a great help in locating some resourses for the curriculum unit. J. Ventresca

=**Teacher Tube, Teach the World**= http://www.teachertube.com/index.php Similar to utube but kid safe. Search for videos from photosynthesis, a book talk on twilight and just fun stuff for kids of all ages to look at. J. Ventresca