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SUMMER READING Ideas from Manchester-Essex Middle School

Summer Volunteen Program

Teens needed: Manchester Arts and Crafts Festival at the Manchester Library

Following last year's fabulous act, the Manchester Public Library will participate in the annual Manchester Arts and Crafts Festival on Saturday, July 25th by exploring collage. Free up your creativity using recycled materials to make pictures, altered books or whatever you can imagine. Seeking teens to participate in planning and executing this program. Contact YA Librarian, Eileen Fitzgerald at efitzgerald at mvlc.org



Saturday, July 25, the Library joins the Manchester Arts & Crafts Festival with the Friends' Summer Book Sale, a YA Services Art Program, Explore Collage, and a display of MERHS Student Art with Art Teacher Marion Powers. 9 AM - 3 PM.  Don't miss this community celebration! 

 
 
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Early readers, chapter books, middle school, young adult, classics, Shakespeare.
Additional Websites
Suggested Summer Reading Lists for 2009 Summer Programs Link to Video of DDR and Guitar Hero

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iMac Internet Station with color printer & word processing, reserved for students

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Free printing and CD burning 

Teachers, please send class assignments so that the library can have the appropriate material on hand.  Phone 526-7711 & fax:  526-2018.  E-mail:  Homework at mvlc.org.

 

Eileen Fitzgerald, Young Adult Librarian

T@L?K!  (the Teen Advisory Board) for students  between the ages of 11 and 18.  Next meeting June 26, 11 AM. Contact 978-526-2016 or scollins at mvlc.org or efitzgerald at mvlc.org

Teen programs & services funded through a federal LSTA Grant and the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners (2008-09)

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Homework Resources

100 reference books available on-line;  includes citations.  Just enter your library card number. The GreenFILE, a bibliographic database of information about environmental concerns, Global warming, energy conservation, natural resources, and pollution. 
History - It's Happening!
A web site resource for middle and high school students to promote North America's history,

Consumer Health Complete Powered by Ebsco

Easy to use! BigChalk eLibrary is a full-text database of consumer-oriented magazines, books, newspapers, newswires, television and radio transcripts, photographs and maps. Key in your request in natural language, and you won't be disappointed.

Contemporary Literary Criticism

Gale Virtual Reference Library

Gale Academic One File

Biography Resource Center

Great Books for Kids

     
     
International Children's Digital Library
 

Great Books for Teens

     
     

 

On-line Gaming Sites

    

Search Engines & Directories

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More Websites by Subject

 

000 All Subjects  http://www.sparknotes.com/
011 BookList Teen Scene  Recommended for Teens
133 Salem Witch Trials: http://etext.Virginia.edu/salem/witchcraft
332 World Currency http://www.banknotes.com/
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United Nations Cyber School Bus http://www.un.org/cyberschoolbus/index.html
371 Test Preparation http://www.testprepreview.com/
500 The Why Files http://whyfiles.org/
510 Math.Com http://www.math.com/
510 Mathematics http://www.ams.org/
510 Math challenges for Families http://figurethis.org/
510 Percentage Tutorials  http://www.1728.com/percent.htm
510 Quick Math Solutions http://www.quickmath.com/
510 More Math Sites http://www.tc.cornell.edu/Edu/Mathscigateway/
513 Visual Fractions http://www.visualfractions.com/
512 Algebra http://www.algebra.com/
523.1 The Universe http://www.windows.ucar.edu/
529 Calendars & Time http://physics.nist.gov/genint/time/time.html
546.8 Science & Chemistry http://www.1001-periodic-table-quiz-questions.com
560 Museum of Paleontology http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/index.html
809 Literary Criticism http://www.novelguide.com/index.html
900 20th Century Year-by-Year  http://www.infoplease.com/millennium1.html
909 World History http://www.historylink101.com/
910 Antarctica www.exploratorium.edu/origins/antarctica/
920 Academy of Achievement - Biography http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/pagegen/index.html
940 Digital History  http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/do_history/index.cfm

 

940.53 WWII http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2children/
973 American Centuries www.americancenturies.mass.edu/home.html
973 Colonial Williamsburg  http://www.history.org/kids/index.cfm

 

973 Colonial America   http://earlyamerica.com/
973 American Revolution http://www.americanrevolution.org/home.html
974.41 Local History Link to on-line images of historical Manchester-by-the-Sea