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General Sources
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English
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Science
Excellent resource – magazines, newspapers
Journals, encyclopedia. Offers correct information written by knowledge authors.
www.kyvl.org
Discovery education – print, video, music, multimedia – this is for students and faculty.
http://streaming.discoveryeducation.com/
requires username and password
Statistical Abstracts based on census figures – all types of information pertaining to anything about people in the United States http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/
Portals of the world – information
pertaining to all the countries of the world http://www.loc.gov/rr/international/portals.html
Information please
Atlas, Encyclopedia, dictionary, thesaurus,
timelines, countries, quizzes for fun,
information about countries of the world
all types of information.
www.informationplease.com
Information on all disciplines – on-line library
http://www.ipl.org/div/subject/
Studying for the Driver’s Permit
Kentucky Drivers Manual on the internet
http://www.dmv.org/ky-kentucky/driver-handbook.php
Citing sources
Information must be cited whenever you write a paper.
Feature Article,Report/ Research Paper
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/557/01/
On-line books
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/lists.html
Gutenberg’s on-line library of books
http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/authors/a#a102
Galileo
http://galileo.rice.edu/
Human Genome Project
Information pertaining to all aspects of human genetics research
http://www.ornl.gov/sci/techresources/Human_Genome/faq/faqs1.shtml
Articles pertaining to applied, earth, life, physical, space and other sciences.
http://www.free.ed.gov/resource.cfm?resource_id=1865&subject_id=155&toplvl=47
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Ways to Live Forever/By Sally Nicholls
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Scholastic, 2008.Eleven-year-old Sam McQueen, who has leukemia, writes a book during the last three months of his life, in which he tells about what he would like to accomplish, how he feels, and things that have happened to him.
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Horse of her Own/By Annie Wedekind
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Feiwal & Friends, 2008.
At summer camp Jane feels like an outsider among the cliquish rich girls who board their horses at Sunny Acres farm, and when the horse she has been riding is sold to another camper, she feels even worse until her teacher asks her to help train a beautiful but skittish new horse, and the experience brings out the best in her. |
Every Soul a Star/By Wendy Mass
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Little, Brown, 2008.
Ally, Bree, and Jack meet at the one place the Great Eclipse can be seen in totality, each carrying the burden of different personal problems, which become dim when compared to the task they embark upon and the friendship they find. |
The Graveyard Book/By Neil Gaiman
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HarperCollins, 2008.
After the grisly murder of his entire family, a toddler wanders into a graveyard where the ghosts and other supernatural residents agree to raise him as one of their own. |
The Great Wide Sea/By M. H. Herlong
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Peguin, 2008.
Still mourning the death of their mother, three brothers go with their father on an extended sailing trip off the Florida Keys and have a harrowing adventure at sea. |
Knucklehead/By Jon Scieszka
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Peguin, 2008.
How did Jon Scieszka get so funny? He grew up as one of six brothers with Catholic school, lots of comic books, lazy summers at the lake with time to kill, babysitting misadventures, TV shows, and jokes told at family dinner. |
Savvy/By Ingrid Law
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Penguin, 2008.
Recounts the adventures of Mibs Beaumont, whose thirteenth birthday has revealed her "savvy"--A magical power unique to each member of her family--just as her father is injured in a terrible accident. |
SCAT/By Carl Hiaasen
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Random House, 2009.
Nick and his friend Marta decide to investigate when a mysterious fire starts near a Florida wildlife preserve and an unpopular teacher goes missing. |
Trials of Kate Hope/By Wick Downing
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Houghton Mifflin, 2008.
At the young age of fourteen, Kate Hope is licensed to practice law in the state of Colorado in 1973, and with the help of her lawyer grandfather, and memories of her dead father, also a lawyer, she tries the case of a dog that is slated to be destroyed for attacking a baby. |
Trouble/By Gary D. Schmidt
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Houghton Mifflin, 2008.
Fourteen-year-old Henry, wishing to honor his brother Franklin's dying wish, sets out to hike Maine's Mount Katahdin with his best friend and dog. But fate adds another companion--the Cambodian refugee accused of fatally injuring Franklin--and reveals troubles that predate the accident. |
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