Links to useful sites

Don't know what to read?  Why not try these sites for ideas
and then check to see if the LRC has the book you want. 
Remember you can request any books we don't have, just fill in a request slip.

www.scottishbooktrust.com/children-and-young-people/books/stories  -  for all readers and writers- new stories by top writers, podcasts and a writing competition.

www.fictionconnection.com -  good for senior pupils.

www.highlandschools-virtualib.org.uk/reading_webs.htm - great web-site created
by Highland Council.
Useful for all reading ages.  A good place to start.
www.highlandschools-virtualib.org.uk/powereaders/ - for lower secondary.
www.highlandschools-virtualib.org.uk/keep_reading/ - for middle secondary
and Intermediates 1 and 2.
www.highlandschools-virtualib.org.uk/hsenglish/ - for Higher and Advanced Higher
Contemporary English Literature.
www.wiredshire.org.uk/higherstill/index.asp - Aberdeenshire Council's
website for Higher Still English.
www.cool-reads.co.uk - books for 10 - 15 year old readers by 10 -15 year old reviewers.
www.mrsmad.com - all the best books for children and young adults, parents,
teachers and librarians, with reviews and ratings, games, stories and jokes. 
www.kidsreads.com

For teenagers
www.youngpicador.com

www.spinebreakers.co.uk  -  Any story-surfing, web-exploring, word-loving, day dreaming, reader/writer/artist/thinker aged 13-18

Author sites
www.roalddahl.org
www.annefine.co.uk
www.nicolamorgan.co.uk
www.contemporarywriters.com/ -  This is a searchable database which contains
up-to-date profiles of some of the UK and Commonwealth's most important
living writers - biographies, bibliographies, critical reviews, prizes and photographs.
www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/gfi/story/index.shtml#authors
www.ukchildrensbooks.co.uk/
www.zamorian.com
www.4ureaders.net/welcomev2/
                                                                                                                                       
Book organisations
www.scottishbooktrust.com/

Links to on-line games which complement children's books series.
www.unfortunateevents.com

Other useful links

Local information

www.scotsborders.gov.uk/outabout/aboutborders   includes links to information
on the Borders  -  census,employment,population,statistics
www.scran.ac.uk  -  a  very useful learning resource with 336,500 images, movies and sounds from museums, galleries, archives and the media. For the username and password ask the LRC Staff.                                                                                                                  

Newspapers

www.onlinenewspapers.com
www.thescotsman.co.uk
www.telegraph.co.uk
www.borderstoday.co.uk - Southern Reporter and other Borders titles.
www.scotborders.gov.uk/libraries/hist/newspapers.htm - newspaper archives
available at Scottish Borders Archive and Local History Centre in Selkirk.
www.peeblesshirenews.com
www.onlinenewspapers.com  (includes foreign language newspapers)

Revision
http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/education/bitesize/

Homework
http://www.4learning.co.uk/apps/homework/index.jsp

English
http://www.spl.org.uk/ - Scottish Poetry Library.
http://www.spl.org.uk/youngpeople/ - Young Scottish Poetry Library.
With over 20 000 books of poetry and on poets, 50 poetry journals, a press
archive and an audio section, a visit to the library is a must if
you are studying poetry at school.
www.pushkinprizes.net  win a creative writing competition
www.poetryarchive.org

Careers
www.careers-scotland.org.uk

Links to non-BBC educational websites

http://www.goethe.de/glasgow/   (Info on German courses)

If you know of any other great sites let Mrs Fry know
so that they can be added to this list.