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Books & Reading

• Book Divas - online book club
• Award Winning Books for Teens - Find the winners of the Printz Award, the National Book Award for Young People, the Pura Belpre Award and the Coretta Scott King Award here.
• Reader's Club - Send in a review of your favorite book, add your comment to someone else's.
• Reading Rants: Out of the Ordinary Teen Booklists  - from Jennifer Hubert
• Wocky Jivvy Poetry
• YA Literature

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College and Careers

• Campus Tours takes you on a virtual tours of thousands of U.S. colleges
• Embark provides an interactive college search and much more.
• FAFSA on the Web - Fill out your FAFSA forms online
• FastWeb will help you find financial aid information and more...
• Free Scholarships
• The Scholarship Page -- just what it says!

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Entertainment

• Behind the Name - The history of first names
• BrainBashers - Brain teasers and puzzles
• Coolrobots - Build your own 'bot
• Daily Horoscopes
• Funbrain.com - Relax with these fun games
• Game Revolution - Video game reviews, tips and more.
• The History of Comics
• Hollywood.Com - Movie openings, new video releases, reviews and more.
• MTV and VH1 - music television for all ages. 
• Network TV - ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox, WB - Find info on your favorite shows, play games, enter contests and more...

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Focus on Teens

• American Red Cross Volunteer Opportunities
• Blue Jean Online - where young women unite to change the world -
  Submit your reviews, writings, crafts, photography or artwork!
• SafeTeens
• Summer On Campus - for kids 8-18
• Victory Over Violence - Take the Peace Pledge
• Voices of Youth - Sponsored by UNICEF, global issues by international youth
• Youth Info - the latest information on America's adolescents from the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services

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Homework Help

Make sure to check out the subject areas on the main Virtual Reference Desk page.

• Ask Dr. Math
• B.J. Pinchbeck's Homework Helper
• Discovery School
• Exploratorium - Science, with hands on activities
• How Stuff Works - From toilets to DNA, MP3 files to cell phones...
• Schoolwork Ugh!
• Teenspace - Study skills and research papers
• Web Math
  

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Self Help

• Consumer Education for Teens - Credit cards? Buying a car? Get rich quick schemes? Be a smart consumer
• Go Ask Alice - Frank, objective health information
• Gottaquit - Stop smoking now!
• KidsHealth - For teens, kids, and their parents
• Not Me, Not Now - a multi-faceted abstinence-only campaign to reduce teen pregnancy in Monroe County
• Student Counseling Virtual Pamphlet Collection - Access to pamphlets on health, emotional, and educational concerns from many college counseling centers
• Teen Growth, The Teen Resource for Advice - Family oriented advice on physical and emotional health