Excellent reading websites (Our Lady's High School LRC)

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Reviews	Book Groups	Authors	Graphic novels	Series	Book Awards

Review sites If the LRC doesn't have a book you find online, make sure you put in a request for it. Request forms are available at the issue desk. Back to the top	Cool Reads	Reviews by 10-15 year olds. Search by genre or title. 2500+ reviews.
	Kidsreads	News, reviews, interviews. Good section on series novels.
	Reading Matters	Try the Bookchooser questionnaire to get ideas plus loads of other reviews to check through. If you're really stuck, try the Lucky Dip.
	Literature Map	Type in an author's name and this site will suggest others you might like. "The closer two writers are, the more likely someone will like both of them. Click on a name to travel along." *Try it!*
	enCompass Culture	Lots of book suggestions arranged in different genres. Includes sections for children, 12-18 and adult readers.
	Achuka	Lists every recently published book and the site editor keeps a useful blog of up-to-date book news. Has a few interviews but no reviews. In particular look for the 'Teen/YA' section.
	Mrs Mad's Book-a-Rama	Lots of book reviews for all ages. Links for tons of authors as well.
	Channel 4 BookBox	Site includes a Writer's Toolkit, information on authors, recommended books plus some reading games.
Book Groups	Blue Peter Book Club	Book information, plus free downloads, advice on being a writer and archived online interviews.
Like the film? Try the book!	Based on the Book	Search for a film by title or year, or look for the book title or author.
Like the film? Try the book!	imdb	The Internet Movie Database. The best movie information on the whole internet.
Author sites If you have a favourite author site not listed here yet, please let me know. Back to the top	David Almond	Includes stuff Mr Almond wrote especially for his site.
	Malorie Blackman	This site includes a brilliant section on the O + X series
	Melvin Burgess	Find out Melvin thinks of his own books, along with interviews and articles.
	Gillian Cross	Usual stuff plus a guide to the text symbols used in Beware of the Demon Headmaster ((@))-((@))
	Roald Dahl	Loads of information with a funky intro!
	Terry Deary	Dare you enter Creep Street?
	Berlie Doherty	Stories and other work, FAQ, biography.
	Anthony Horowitz	Information about Horowitz's various books, including Alex Rider.
	Robin Jarvis	Scary looking site for all Robin Jarvis' books.
	Ursula K Le Guin	The usual interviews, biography and all about Earthsea.
	Garth Nix	Full of information about the Old Kingdom and Keys to the Kingdom books and new novel, The Ragwitch.
	Terry Pratchett	Ook!
	J K Rowling	Wonderful stuff! It's got the usual biography, news etc, but you can click on the cup of coffee and read through scences from Harry Potter that never made the books. Besides, her desk looks like mine.
	Philip Pullman	This includes detailed pictures of the illustrations from His Dark Materials (with short descriptions), book information and FAQ section.
	Darren Shan	Includes unpublished short stories, biography and a monthly bulletin. Usually stays up-to-date.
	J R R Tolkien	The Tolkien Society provides all of the up-to-date news for Tolkien fans.
Graphic Novels	No Flying No Tights	An excellent review site for graphic novels.
Graphic Novels	Grovel	Brilliant reviews. This UK site describes all of the latest graphic novel releases in Britain.
Novel/Series sites Back to the top	Alex Rider	Series about the teenage spy by Anthony Horowitz. Find more about Alex Rider on Anthony's site.
	Animorphs	Site includes a guide to the characters, games and a chance to download an Animorphs database.
	Artemis Fowl	Cool site includes an interview with Artemis as well as details about the book and their author. Look out for the Decoder game.
	Confessions of Georgia Nicolson	Excellent site includes a love-o-meter and information about the author, Louise Rennison.
	Harry Potter Lexicon	Excellent guide for all Potter-maniacs.
	Lord of the Rings	One of the best Middle-Earth sites available
	Bridge to the Stars (His Dark Materials)	These two sites were recommended by Philip Pullman himself! Each one contains a similar amount of news, reviews, information, more information and gossip.
	His Dark Materials
	Redwall	Author information, interviews, Redwall encyclopaedia.
	A Series of Unfortunate Events	The site includes information about the author, the illustrator, the books and the film. Includes lots of links to other Lemony Snickett sites.
	Children's Book Sequels	A huge list of series, with the books listed in the right order. Helps you find out what book to read next.
Book Awards Find some of the best reading around from the prizewinners listed on these websites. Back to the top	Booktrust Teenage Prize	Bookheads is the site for teenage fiction and information about the Booktrust Prize, awarded by teenagers.
	Carnegie/Greenaway CILIP Medals	The only prizes nominated and awarded by librarians! The Carnegie medal goes to the outstanding book of the year. The Kate Greenaway medal is for the best illustration
	Children's Laureate	Quentin Blake, Anne Fine, Michael Morpurgo and now Jacqueline Wilson. Use this site to find out what a Children's Laureate does.
	Catalyst Award	The award for North Lanarkshire pupils. Ask Mrs Macfadyen for information.
	Braw	Links to the Royal Mail Awards for Scottish Children's Books.
	Costa Book Awards	The biggest book prize in Britain. Previously the Whitbread Awards.