Library & Information Science,
Course 262: Resources for Young Adults.
Dr. David Loertscher
w6 people.html
Good Web Sites to Find Biographies
• 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)
• To find even shorter biographical information linked to books for purchase from Barnes & Noble about the person, try Biographical Dictionary.
• For in-depth searching for materials about multicultural individuals, try the Ethnic Studies at USC.
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)
• Teen People: Readers' Choice Awards 1998 (Teen People Magazine, Feb. 1999) (w6h.html)
Sports
• Sports in Print (fact and fiction) (w6a)• Annotated bibliography (w6i.pdf): Sullivan, Edward T. "Nothing but Net: Basketball Books for Young Adults," The ALAN Review, Spring, 1997, p. 53-56. - The best of the best from a heavily used public library collection.
• 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.
• National Basketball Association
• Womens National Basketball Association
• Baseball Stars - Major, Minor, all leagues
• LCS Hockey site is chuck full of states and player histories, or try NHL.COM for the official legue 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.
Nobel Prize Winners
• Nobel Prize Winners in all categories (phylsics, chemistry, literature, medicien, peace, and economics.
Women
• Ladies' Home Journal 100 Most Important Women of the 20th Century (w6j.html)
British Royal Family
• The official web site includes gossip, official announcements, history, and candid pictures.
American Presidents and First Ladies
• 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.• 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.