Young Adult Links
YA Resource List
ABDO Digital Bookshelves offer tons of online books for free (through June). Organized by age level, subject, and genre.
- For Middle School: https://abdodigital.com/browse/?bb=grade&grade=mid
- For High School: https://abdodigital.com/?tk=840BC558E6676AB1F4C9FA29D8EC6D69
ABDO Core Library: http://abdocorelibrary.com/ for middle schoolers. Multimedia, booklinks, and downloadable activity pdfs. Promotes continued research and critical thinking.
Gale Cengage is offering open access to some of its resources to support preK – undergraduate learning. These are resources that we do not have as part of the statewide databases. Click here to see all the options!
- Gale In Context: High School – supports student papers, projects, and presentations while empowering the development of critical thinking and problem-solving skills with content aligned to national and state curriculum standards.
Guidelines for Online Readings: Simon & Schuster, HarperCollins, Macmillan, Little, Brown, Penguin Random House, and Scholastic
Book Movies! Watch marvelous, kid-made, 90-second renditions of the best books of the year in this year’s 90-Second Newbery Film Festival! Then make your own! https://90secondnewbery.com/
Dungeons and Dragon Fans: Remember, you can play this game online. For a refresher course, check out this website: https://dnd.wizards.com/articles/features/basicrules. And then this one: https://www.dndbeyond.com/
Search Engine:
Author talks
AdLit.org is a national multimedia project offering information and resources to the parents and educators of struggling adolescent readers and writers. AdLit.org is an educational initiative of WETA, the flagship public television and radio station in the nation’s capital, and is funded by Carnegie Corporation of New York and by the Ann B. and Thomas L. Friedman Family Foundation.
Watch AdLit.org’s exclusive video interviews with top Young Adult (YA) authors and illustrators to meet the characters behind their characters and hear the stories behind their stories. Learn about their childhoods, the teachers who influenced them, why they became writers, and lots of great details about their writing processes and works. Just a few of the authors represented are Laurie Halse Anderson, Kate DiCamillo, John Green, Neil Shusterman, Lois Lowry and M.T Anderson! And lots more.
REALLY FUN! AND challenging!
The Titanic Escape Room (more research based)
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Salem Witch Trials
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