Website focused on Readers Theatre. http://www.aaronshep.com/rt/

Interactive conference area, sticky-notes note board, reviews by kids. The books are divided by grade level and can be searched by title, author, publisher or any word. Can submit a book review. Suggests books for review. http://i-site.on.ca/BookNook.html

Aimed at children up to the age of fifteen. Plans are for the site to contain stories, cool links, reviews and a book pile of lists, but this is a new site and there is not much there yet. http://www.ncf.carleton.ca/~ak001/

Stories and art by students. Three issues are available on the website. http://schoolnet2.carleton.ca/english/arts/lit/c-voice/index.html

http://www.grouchy.com/angstbooks.html

Book reviews by kids, story hour -- online stories, Ask the Author (Lois Lowry, Katherine Paterson, Avi...), biographies and frequently asked questions. Weblink an internet newsletter for kids is also located at this site. http://www.ipl.org/youth

A site just getting started. Divided into sections for kids, teachers, authors and illustrators. Will contain stories and reviews -- much of it written by kids. Includes a full length time travel novel. The site also accepts literary and artistic submissions from children preschool through highschool. http://isit.com/kidlit

Chat area, message center, online stories by kids, interactive cumulative story (write the next paragraph), find a pen pal. http://www.kidpub.org/kidpub Student Review

This section of Teen Territory at the Arlington Virginia public library is a good example of such a site with summer reading contests, recommended books, and reviews written by teens. Picks by the teen advisory board and book reviews written by young adults make this site very student centered. http://www.co.arlington.va.us/lib/teen/readem.htm

Author spotlight. Kidviews -- students can submit and read selected reviews by other students. On-line interactive wacky web tales. This site is sponsored by Houghton Mifflin, so it does have commercial aspects. http://www.eduplace.com/rdg/

Journal devoted to stories and art by children. Beautifully done. Only one issue available at the website without paying to be a subscriber, but if this issue is typical of the quality it may be worth paying for. http://www.stonesoup.com/

http://www.storyweb.com/cgi-bin/bestguml/homepage/

This section of the IPL contains book reviews by kids, story hours, online stories, an "Ask the Author" section in which children can submit questions to celebrated authors such as Lois Lowry and Katherine Paterson, and biographies of authors and illustrators. The site is interactive and student centered and can further motivate readers to explore literature in interesting ways. "Weblink" an internet newsletter for kids is also located at this site. http://www.ipl.org/youth

*Biography Writing with Pat and Fred McKissack

From the writing with writers homepage at Scholastic this is truely one of the more cutting edge ideas from a publishing house. Students can actually learn about the writing process from authors they have read and enjoyed. In Biography Writing with Pat and Fred McKissack the student learns how to research and write a biographical sketch. Children can complete the workshop on their own but a teacher's guide is also provided which does a great job of relating the workshop to standards, in providing detailed ideas on how to integrate the workshop into the classroom, the site even explains how to vary the plan depending on whether you have one computer for the entire classroom, several computers, a lab, or no computers at all. Either way a certificate signed by the McKissacks can be downloaded and presented to students when they finish the workshop. http://teacher.scholastic.com/writewit/biograph/index.htm 

http://www.suite101.com/welcome.cfm/childrens_writing

An interactive literature and writing project for junior high students and preservice English teachers  http://www-dept.usm.edu/~connect/connec.html

A site run by inkspot for writers under 18 http://www.inkspot.com/young/

http://teacher.scholastic.com/writewit/folk/index.htm

http://www.inkspot.com/illus/

http://teacher.scholastic.com/writewit/diary/index.htm

http://teacher.scholastic.com/writewit/myth/index.htm

http://teacher.scholastic.com/writewit/mystery/index.htm

http://teacher.scholastic.com/writewit/poetwit/index.htm

http://teacher.scholastic.com/writewit/poet/index.htm

http://www.inkspot.com/ss/genres/child.html

Guidelines for using story writing and enactment with children. Based on the writings of Vivian Gussin Paley. The page was created by Tom Drummond of North Seattle Community College and is part of the early childhood education program website. http://nsccux.sccd.ctc.edu/~eceprog/wrtng.html 

http://teacher.scholastic.com/writewit/bookrev/index.htm