Please create and add sections as you wish.  Add the most recent item to the top of each section. Include the citation,  a brief annotation of the item's value, your name as contributior, and the date you added it. Draw a line between each subtopic and  bullet each individual entry within the section

• U.S. Presidents & First Ladies ap.grolier.com/

•  Women of NASA quest.arc.nasa.gov/women/TODTWD97/profiles.html

Ly Tran, December 2006

• Myers, W. D. (1999). At her Majesty’s request: An African princess in Victorian England. New York: Scholastic Press.

Meyers tells the story of Sarah, an African princess, who is rescued by a British naval officer in West Africa after her parents are murdered by enemy warriors and presented to Queen Victoria of England.  The book is based on the original letters she wrote over one hundred years ago and is filled with historic documents and photos. This format makes Sarah’s biography absolutely intriguing as she negotiates the cultural differences and challenges of the change juxtaposed with the majesty of royal living.

Michelle Bone 7/24/2006

• Biographic sketches of scientists from the SJSU Virtual Museum http://www2.sjsu.edu/depts/Museum/aamenu.html

•  ALA publishes guides to biographical web sites in their 700+ Great Sites list.

   

• To find short biographical sketches of over 20,000 people past and present, check A&E's Biography Database (a commercial site)

   

• Nobel Prize Winners in all categories (phylsics, chemistry, literature, medicien, peace, and economics.

   

• The official web site of the British Royal Family includes gossip, official announcements, history, and candid pictures.

   

• The White House web site contains a great deal of information about current government plus biographical sketches of all the American presidents and their wives.

Richie Partington 16 June 2006

Sports

• National Football League

• U. S. Soccer  - This link includes links to:
  • Men's National Team
  • Women's National Team
  • Youth National Teams

Paula Miller, August 9, 2006

• National Basketball Association

• Womens National Basketball Association

• Baseball Stars - Major, Minor, all leagues

• Sullivan, E. (1997). Nothing but net: Basketball books for young adults. The ALAN Review, 24(3) 53-56. The best of the best from a heavily used public library collection.

Richie Partington 16 June 2006

Older materials

Good Web Sites to Find Biographies

• To find even shorter biographical information linked to books for purchase from Barnes & Noble about the person, try Biographical Dictionary.

Books - General Sources

• Reference Book: Biography Today: Profiles of People of Interest to Young Readers. Omnigraphics, Annual. Compilation of biographies containing a sketch, picture, and other resources to check. A mini-Current Biography with an easier reading level.

Sources on Heroes and celebrities

• Heroes vs. celebrities (w6c.html)

• Teen People: Readers' Choice Awards 1998 (Teen People Magazine, Feb. 1999) (w6h.html)

Sports

• Sports in Print (fact and fiction) (w6a.html)

• Annotated bibliography (w6i.pdf): • website: Snowboarding Online helps select a snowboard, product reviews, tour updates, business news, bios of professional snowboarders, a chat room, message boards, and a photo search engine. (recommended by Yahoo magazine)

• website: Fox Sports

• website: ESPN website

• website: CNN/SI - CNN/Sports Illustrated home page

• website: CBS Sportsline home page and its fast text edition.

 

• Try NHL.COM for the official hockey league page. Also try the Women's Hockey web page for Olympics news. Or, try SLAM! Junior Hockey for a view of Canada kids leagues. etc.

• Check out sport stars web pages. For example:

• Tiger Woods - golf star

• Check each of the major sports associations for biographies of their players.

 

Women

• Ladies' Home Journal 100 Most Important Women of the 20th Century (w6j.html)

British Royal Family

American Presidents and First Ladies

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• The Internet Public Library's POTUS site is a collection of information about United States Presidents. It includes election results, cabinet members, and other presidential facts.

Authors for Teens

• Book: Ehrlich, Amy, ed. When I Was Your Age: Original Stories About Growing Up. Candlewick Press, 1996. Short biographical stories written by Mary Pope Osborne, Laurence Yep, James Howe, Katherine Paterson, Walter Dean Myuers, Susan Cooper, Nicholasa Mohr, Reeve Lindbergh, Avi, Francesca Lia Block.

• Book: Hipple, Ted, ed. Writers for Young Adults. Scribner's, 1997. - A three-volume set containing biographical sketches, sources, and writings of authors such as Avi, Jan Bennet, Francesca Lia Block, Judy Blume, etc. Expensive but good.

• Book: Drew, Bernard A. The 100 Most Popular Young Adult Authors: Biogrphical Sketches and Bibliographies. Libraries Unlimited, 1996. Interesting sketches plus writings and sources for further information.

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•  Book: Lives and Works: Young Adult Authors.  Vols 1-8.  Danbury, Conn.: Grolier Educational, c1999.  Presents information about the lives and works of 250 writers of literatures for young people.

Posted by  Lori chan.  08/01/07  

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