Websites

• Guys Read, www.guysread.com.  This site had really well done book lists by topic! 
• Boys Read, www.boysread.org. This has great parent tips for reading! 
• American Library Association, http://www.ala.org/. This site is full of great links. 
• Read Kiddo Read, www.readkiddoread.com. This is an awesome website!  I love the layout! The books are leveled initially so it would be easy to find the right difficultly of book.  I also love how each book has a parent rating as well as an educator rating.
• Getting Boys to Read, http://www.gettingboystoread.com/.  This is an interesting site with a wide variety of information about boys and reading. I like that it has book suggestions along with strategies to use to help boys read (like incorporating movement).
• The Best Childrens Books, http://www.the-best-childrens-books.org/.   This site was suggested by another parent as a good resource for finding books.  It was created by teachers.

Books with multicultural and ethnic prizes

• American Indian Youth Literature Award: www.ailanet.org/activities/youthlitaward.htm           
• Asian Pacific American Awards for Literature: www.apalaweb.org/awards/literature-awards/past-literature-awardwinners            
• Before Columbus Foundation American Book Award: www.bookweb.org/btw/awards/The-American-Book-Awards---Before-Columbus-Foundation.html           
• Coretta Scott King Book Award:www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/rts/emiert/cskbookawards/index.cfm            
• Lee & Low Books. New Voices Award:  www.leeandlow.com/p/new_voices_award.mhtml          
• Pura Belpré Award: http://ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/alsc/awardsgrants/bookmedia/belpremedal/index.cfm          
• Skipping Stones Honor Awards: http://nameorg.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/2011Skippingstones-2011-awards.pdf            
• Tomás Rivera Mexican American Children’s Book Award: http://riverabookaward.info            
• The Américas Book Award for Children’s and Young Adult Literature: www4.uwm.edu/clacs/aa/index.cfmYork, Sherry. 2005.         
• Rainbow Books:  http://glbtrt.ala.org/rainbowbooks/

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  I hope you found the new literacy resources to be helpful.  If you could please take a minute to answer a very brief survey about the literacy pages on the school website it would be very useful.  I will use this information to make changes to the website, as well as a write-up for my reading practicum course requirements.  If you have addition comments or questions about literacy, also feel free to email me, Nicole Hunt, nhunt@pps.net.

  Follow this link: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/2DKZFLN 

  Thanks!