This great site from the New York Times includes teacher lesson plans, student activities, vocabulary quizzes. It lists a Word, Quote, and Web site of the day as well as a menu of web explorations.
 

Bookhive This is an excellent place to look for reviews of current titles in more than 20 categories.

B.J. Pinchback's Homework Helper is a powerful feature of Discovery School's Student Channel.  It lists over 625 educational sites on the web.  The Student Channel also offers favorites such as a dictionary, thesaurus, and puzzle maker.

Internet Public Library, one of our favorite sites, has a youth division which offers links to 12 different subjects areas.  Great for research and reports!

Do we Know Dewey?  Meet Melvil Dewey and learn about the Dewey Decimal System for arranging books in the library.

Book Cover Creator-  make and print several types of  book covers

How Much Dewey Do You Know- Test yourself with the Dewey number game-  choose from 3 levels.

Northland Public Library's web page.  Use your library card to access the Access PA Power Library!
 

National Geographic Explorer Here's an online version of the magazine for young people, with much to explore and discover. Selections include games, mysteries, online movies, and more.

The Library Spot is a fantastic web site that serves as a portal to reference and library web sites all over the world.

Fact Monster.com  This has an almanac, atlas, dictionary, encyclopedia from Information Please.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations  This 10th edition contains more than 11,000 quotations from classic literature.

CIA World Fact Book  Detailed and comprehensive profiles of countries throughout the world. 

Behind the name.com  Find out the meanings behind  your first name at this site.

Almanacs

InfoPlease Kids' Almanac.  Student versions of 10 content-area almanacs, with a dictionary, encyclopedia, and homework center.

Atlases

MapQuest.  Includes a comprehensive world atlas of printable maps for countries throughout the world.

Dictionaries

Dictionary.com a fast, easy to use dictionary and thesaurus.

Alpha Dictionary Language Directory-  links to online dictionaries in 300 languages from Abenaki to Yiddish.

Little Explorers Picture Dictionary - a wonderful picture dictionary with links.

Word Central has a great student dictionary and  a word of the day plus other activities.

Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary

Merriam-Webster's Visual Dictionary

Your Dictionary.  Access to multiple language dictionaries, specialty dictionaries including education and language tools. 

Encyclopedias

Columbia Encyclopedia   Containing nearly 51,000 entries.

Encyclopedia .com  a free encyclopedia limited  but more than 5,00 articles.

World Book Encyclopedia Online- remember you will need your user name and password to use this at home. Ask the librarian.